Choudhry, Mashkoor A., Philip E. Hockberger, and Mohammed M. Sayeed. PGE2 suppresses mitogen-induced Ca21 mobilization in T cells. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1741–R1748, 1999.—PGE2mediated suppression of T cell proliferation during sepsis could result from altered Ca21 signaling. The present study evaluated the effects of PGE2 on Ca21 release from intracell...

Firth, Bruce T., Ingrid Belan, David J. Kennaway, and Robert W. Moyer. Thermocyclic entrainment of lizard blood plasma melatonin rhythms in constant and cyclic photic environments. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1620–R1626, 1999.—We assessed how chronic exposure to 6-h cryophase temperatures of 15°C in an otherwise 33°C environment entrains the rhythm of blood ...

Tanhehco, Elaine J., Koji Yasojima, Patrick L. McGeer, Ruth A. Washington, Kenneth S. Kilgore, Jonathon W. Homeister, and Benedict R. Lucchesi. Preconditioning reduces tissue complement gene expression in the rabbit isolated heart. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H2373–H2380, 1999.—Both preconditioning and inhibition of complement activation have been shown to ameliorate myocardi...

Kind, Karen L., Peter M. Clifton, Arkadi I. Katsman, Maria Tsiounis, Jeffrey S. Robinson, and JulieA. Owens. Restricted fetal growth and the response to dietary cholesterol in the guinea pig. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1675–R1682, 1999.— Epidemiological studies suggest that retarded growth before birth is associated with increased plasma total and lowdensit...

OBJECTIVE To compare sperm characteristics among: patients undergoing infertility evaluation, patients with male factor infertility (MFI), healthy sperm donors, and men with proven fertility; to examine the overlap of sperm characteristics in all four of these groups; and to identify good discriminators of fertility versus infertility among sperm characteristics. DESIGN Retrospective study. ...

OBJECTIVE Obstetrics and gynecology (ob/gyn) is fraught with bioethical issues, the professional significance of which may vary based on clinical experience. Our objective was to utilize our novel ethics curriculum to identify ethics and professionalism issues highlighted by ob/gyn learners and to compare responses between learner levels to further inform curricular development. STUDY DESIGN ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate postoperative blunt adhesiolysis after sharp adhesiolysis for the treatment of intrauterine adhesions. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of 24 patients treated with primary hysteroscopic adhesiolysis followed by hormone therapy and serial flexible office hysteroscopy (Canadian Task Force Classification II-3). SETTING University-affiliated community hospital. PATIENT(S) T...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects and safeness of combined hysterolaparoscopy on evaluation the causes of infertility. METHODS This retrospective study was conducted at the Department of Gynecology (The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China) from January 2011 to April 2014. Patients aged 21-43 years with infertility were included in this study. The ...

Eads, Brian D., and Steven C. Hand. Regulatory features of transcription in isolated mitochondria from Artemia franciscana embryos. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1588–R1597, 1999.—Optimal conditions were developed for an in organello transcriptional run-on assay using mitochondria isolated from Artemia franciscana embryos to investigate potential regulatory fe...

Heunks, Leo M. A., Jose Viña, Cees L. A. Van Herwaarden, Hans T. M. Folgering, Amparo Gimeno, and P. N. Richard Dekhuijzen. Xanthine oxidase is involved in exercise-induced oxidative stress in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1697–R1704, 1999.—In the present study, we hypothesized that exhaustive exercise in patients with ch...