Liu, Gele, Leonard Kleine, Rania Nasrallah, and Richard L. Hébert. Bradykinin inhibits ceramide production and activates phospholipase D in rabbit cortical collecting duct cells. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Renal Physiol. 45): F589–F598, 1999.—Recent reports suggest that inflammatory cytokines, growth factors, and vasoconstrictor peptides induce sphingomyelinase (SMase) activity. This results in the h...

Leclercq-Meyer, Viviane, Marcel M. Kadiata, and Willy J. Malaisse. Stimulation by 2-deoxy-D-glucose tetraacetates of hormonal secretion from the perfused rat pancreas. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E689– E696, 1999.—The effects of aand b-2-deoxy-D-glucose tetraacetate (1.7 and 8.5 mM) on insulin, somatostatin, and glucagon secretion from isolated rat pancreases perfused in the pr...

Wiest, Reiner, Vijay Shah, William C. Sessa, and Roberto J. Groszmann. NO overproduction by eNOS precedes hyperdynamic splanchnic circulation in portal hypertensive rats. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G1043–G1051, 1999.—Chronic high blood flow and the hyperdynamic circulatory syndrome in portal hypertension are associated with endothelial constitutive nitric oxide (NO) ...

Peng, Y., O. W. Moe, T.-S. Chu, P. A. Preisig, M. Yanagisawa, and R. J. Alpern. ETB receptor activation leads to activation and phosphorylation of NHE3. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Cell Physiol. 45): C938–C945, 1999.—In OKP cells expressing ETB endothelin receptors, activation of Na1/H1 antiporter activity by endothelin-1 (ET-1) was resistant to low concentrations of ethylisopropyl amiloride, indicati...

J. M. ANDREWS,1 H. NATHAN,2 C. H. MALBERT,3 M. A. M. T. VERHAGEN,4 M. GABB,5 G. S. HEBBARD,1 D. KILPATRICK,6 S. MACDONALD,2 C. K. RAYNER,1 S. DORAN,1 T. OMARI,7 E. O’YOUNG,2 C. FRISBY,2 R. J. FRASER,1 M. SCHOEMAN,2 M. HOROWITZ,1 AND J. DENT2 Departments of 1Medicine, 2Gastrointestinal Medicine, and 5Radiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and 7Department of Gastroenterology, Women’s and Children’s ...

Simmons, James G., Jolanta B. Pucilowska, and P. Kay Lund. Autocrine and paracrine actions of intestinal fibroblast-derived insulin-like growth factors. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G817–G827, 1999.— Paracrine and autocrine actions of the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are inferred by local expression within the bowel. CCD-18Co cells, IEC-6 cells, and immunoneutral...

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...