BACKGROUND Increases in pregnancy complication rates and use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) have been demonstrated in female urologists and orthopaedic surgeons when compared with the general US population. To determine if childbearing differences exist across specialties, we evaluated female surgeons in all fields, particularly with regard to fertility. STUDY DESIGN An anonymous, ...

Mongan, Paul D., John L. Fontana, Rouyan Chen, and Rolf Bünger. Intravenous pyruvate prolongs survival during hemorrhagic shock in swine. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H2253–H2263, 1999.—Pyruvate improves cellular and organ function during hypoxia and ischemia and stabilizes the NADH redox state and cytosolic ATP phosphorylation potential. In this in vivo study, we evaluated th...

Shirasaka, Tetsuro, Masamitsu Nakazato, Shigeru Matsukura, Mayumi Takasaki, and Hiroshi Kannan. Sympathetic and cardiovascular actions of orexins in conscious rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1780–R1785, 1999.—The novel hypothalamic peptides orexin-A and orexin-B are known to induce feeding behavior when administered intracerebroventricularly, but little is...

Butler, Karyn L., Alice H. Huang, and Judith K. Gwathmey. AT1-receptor blockade enhances ischemic preconditioning in hypertrophied rat myocardium. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H2482–H2487, 1999.—The purpose of this study was to determine whether ischemic preconditioning protects contractile function in hypertrophied rat myocardium from ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. Male s...

Wood, Philip G., Olga V. Lopatko, Sandra Orgeig, Jonathan R. Codd, and Christopher B. Daniels. Control of pulmonary surfactant secretion from type II pneumocytes isolated from the lizard Pogona vitticeps. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1705–R1711, 1999.—Pulmonary surfactant, a mixture consisting of lipids and proteins and secreted by type II cells, functions to...

Silver, I., B. Li, J. Szalai, and M. Johnston. Relationship between intracranial pressure and cervical lymphatic pressure and flow rates in sheep. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1712–R1717, 1999.— Previous reports from our group demonstrated that about one-half of the total volume of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) removed from the cranial vault in sheep is transport...

Soriano-Garcı́a, Juan F., Mònica Torras-Llort, Miquel Moretó, and Ruth Ferrer. Regulation of L-methionine and L-lysine uptake in chicken jejunal brush-border membrane by dietary methionine. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1654–R1661, 1999.—In the chicken intestine, L-methionine is transported by systems that are specific for neutral amino acids (Land B-like) and ...

Moore, Craig A., Jeffrey D. Kittilson, Melissa M. Ehrman, and MarkA. Sheridan. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) possess two somatostatin mRNAs that are differentially expressed. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1553–R1561, 1999.— Previously, we isolated a 624-bp cDNA encoding for a 115amino acid preprosomatostatin containing [Tyr7,Gly10]somatostatin (SS)-14 (n...

Wang, WenHui. Regulation of the ROMK channel: interaction of the ROMK with associate proteins. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F826–F831, 1999.—The ROMK channel plays an important role in K recycling in the thick ascending limb (TAL) and K secretion in the cortical collecting duct (CCD). A large body of evidence indicates that the ROMK channel is a key component of the native K secreto...