Doolen, Suzanne, Diana N. Krause, and Sue P. Duckles. Estradiol modulates vascular response to melatonin in rat caudal artery. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1281–H1288, 1999.—The purpose of this study was to determine whether estrogen modulates the function of vascular melatonin receptors. We used the rat caudal artery and found that the contractile effects of melatonin were i...

Ma, Thomas Y., Don Nguyen, Vuong Bui, Hanh Nguyen, and Neil Hoa. Ethanol modulation of intestinal epithelial tight junction barrier. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G965–G974, 1999.—Previous studies have shown that high concentrations of ethanol ($40%) cause functional damage of the gastrointestinal epithelial barrier by direct cytotoxic effect on the epithelial cells. Th...

Foreman, R. D., R. W. Blair, H. R. Holmes, and J. A. Armour. Correlation of ventricular mechanosensory neurite activity with myocardial sensory field deformation. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R979–R989, 1999.—The mechanosensory activity generated by ventricular epicardial sensory neurites associated with afferent axons in thoracic sympathetic nerves was correl...

BACKGROUND Hypertension is the leading cardiovascular risk factor globally as well as in Malaysia. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and the socio demographic determinants of hypertension among Malaysian adults. METHOD The analytic sample consisted of 11,288 adults aged ≥ 30 years recruited at baseline in 2007-2011 from the REDISCOVER Study which is an...

Adams, G. R., S. A. McCue, M. Zeng, and K. M. Baldwin. Time course of myosin heavy chain transitions in neonatal rats: importance of innervation and thyroid state. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R954–R961, 1999.—During the postnatal period, rat limb muscles adapt to weight bearing via the replacement of embryonic (Emb) and neonatal (Neo) myosin heavy chains (MHC...

Standley, Paul R., Tamar J. Obards, and Cherie L. Martina. Cyclic stretch regulates autocrine IGF-I in vascular smooth muscle cells: implications in vascular hyperplasia. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E697–E705, 1999.—Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) subjected to acute or chronic stretch display enhanced growth rates in vitro and in vivo. Clinical examples of vascular hyperpla...

Niizeki, Kyuichi, and Yoshimi Miyamoto. Phasedependent heartbeat modulation by muscle contractions during dynamic handgrip in humans. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1331–H1338, 1999.—The influence of cardiac phase on the response of the cardiac pacemaker to dynamic hand contraction in eight healthy young men was studied to determine whether heart rate response to muscle contrac...

Franchini, Lucia F., and Laura Vivas. Distribution of Fos immunoreactivity in rat brain after sodium consumption induced by peritoneal dialysis. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1180–R1187, 1999.— Fos immunoreactivity was used to map the neuronal population groups activated after sodium ingestion induced by peritoneal dialysis (PD) in rats. Oxytocin immunoreactiv...

Schemmer, Peter, Blair U. Bradford, Michelle L. Rose, Hartwig Bunzendahl, James A. Raleigh, John J. Lemasters, and Ronald G. Thurman. Intravenous glycine improves survival in rat liver transplantation. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G924–G932, 1999.—In situ manipulation by touching, retracting, and moving liver lobes gently during harvest dramatically reduces survival af...

Masada, Kimiya, Takahiro Nagayama, Akio Hosokawa, Makoto Yoshida, Mizue Suzuki-Kusaba, Hiroaki Hisa, Tomohiko Kimura, and Susumu Satoh. Effects of adrenomedullin and PAMP on adrenal catecholamine release in dogs. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1118–R1124, 1999.—We examined the effects of proadrenomedullin-derived peptides on the release of adrenal catecholamine...