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...

Sato, Koichi, David M. Rodman, and Ivan F. McMurtry. Hypoxia inhibits increased ETB receptor-mediated NO synthesis in hypertensive rat lungs. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 20): L511–L581, 1999.—Although hypertensive lungs of chronically hypoxic rats express increased levels of nitric oxide (NO) synthases (NOSs) and produce increased amounts of NO-containing compounds (NOx) durin...

Wetter, Thomas J., Annie C. Gazdag, David J. Dean, and Gregory D. Cartee. Effect of calorie restriction on in vivo glucose metabolism by individual tissues in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E728–E738, 1999.—We evaluated the effects of 8 mo of calorie restriction [CR: 60% of ad libitum (AL) food intake] on glucose uptake by 14 tissues in unanesthetized, adult (12 mo) F3443BN ...

Weiner, I. David, Amy E. Frank, and Charles S. Wingo. Apical proton secretion by the inner stripe of the outer medullary collecting duct. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Renal Physiol. 45): F606–F613, 1999.—The inner stripe of outer medullary collecting duct (OMCDis) is unique among collecting duct segments because both intercalated cells and principal cells secrete protons and reabsorb luminal bicarbonat...

Jensen, Michael E., and Edward J. Messina. C-peptide induces a concentration-dependent dilation of skeletal muscle arterioles only in presence of insulin. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1223–H1228, 1999.—In this study we tested the hypothesis that C-peptide alone or in conjunction with insulin may cause a dilation of skeletal muscle arterioles. First-order arterioles (88 μm) is...