Carlson, Scott H., and J. Michael Wyss. Hepatic denervation does not affect plasma vasopressin response to intragastric hypertonic saline in conscious rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E161–E167, 1999.—Peripheral osmoreceptors monitor dietary NaCl and modify central nervous system and renal sympathetic nervous system activity accordingly. Experimental evidence suggests that the...

Mizuta, Yohei, Toku Takahashi, and Chung Owyang. Nitrergic regulation of colonic transit in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 40): G275–G279, 1999.— Nitric oxide has been shown to be an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian colon, although its role in colonic transit remains unclear. We investigated the effect of the nitric oxide biosynthesis inhibitor NG-nitro-L-ar...

Xu, Chuanli, Yanjie Lu, Guanghua Tang, and Rui Wang. Expression of voltage-dependent K1 channel genes in mesenteric artery smooth muscle cells. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 40): G1055–G1063, 1999.— Molecular basis of native voltage-dependent K1 (Kv) channels in smooth muscle cells (SMCs) from rat mesenteric arteries was investigated. The whole cell patch-clamp study reveale...

F. MARK H. JEFFREY,1 ALEXANDER RESHETOV,3 CHARLES J. STOREY,1 RUI A. CARVALHO,1 A. DEAN SHERRY,1,4 AND CRAIG R. MALLOY1,2 1Department of Radiology, The Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers Magnetic Resonance Center, 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235-9085; 3Intel, Santa C...

WIM DERAVE,1,2 STEN LUND,3 GEOFFREY D. HOLMAN,4 JØRGEN WOJTASZEWSKI,1 OLUF PEDERSEN,5 AND ERIK A. RICHTER1 1Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen; 5Steno Diabetes Center and Hagedorn Research Institute, 2820 Gentofte, Copenhagen; 3Medical Research Laboratory, Aarhus Kommunehospital, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark; 2Department of Movement and ...

Ouellette, Andre J. Mucosal Immunity and Inflammation. IV. Paneth cell antimicrobial peptides and the biology of the mucosal barrier. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 40): G257–G261, 1999.—The hypothesis that epithelial cells release preformed antibiotic peptides as components of mucosal innate immunity has gained experimental support in recent years. In the mammalian small int...

Goodwin, Gary W., and Heinrich Taegtmeyer. Regulation of fatty acid oxidation of the heart by MCD and ACC during contractile stimulation. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E772–E777, 1999.—We tested the hypothesis that the level of malonyl-CoA, as well as the corresponding rate of total fatty acid oxidation of the heart, is regulated by the opposing actions of acetyl-CoA carboxylase ...

Hamdy, Shaheen, David J. Mikulis, Adrian Crawley, Shuwen Xue, Helena Lau, Stanley Henry, and Nicholas E. Diamant. Cortical activation during human volitional swallowing: an event-related fMRI study. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 40): G219–G225, 1999.—Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides a safe, noninvasive method for studying task-related cortical neuronal a...

NANCY L. GELARDI,1,2 ROBERT E. RAPOZA,1 JOSEPH F. RENZULLI,1 AND RICHARD M. COWETT1,2,3 1Department of Pediatrics, Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 02905-2401; 2Robert Schwartz MD Center for Metabolism and Nutrition, and the Division of Neonatology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland 44109-1998; and 3Department of Neonatology, The Childr...