ITE JOURNAL / AUGUST 2001 BACKGROUND High speeds and rapidly increasing vehicle volumes characterize many of America’s rural, two-lane highways. These features, combined with midto shortradius horizontal curves and limited sight distances, can create hazardous road conditions for the motoring public. These highways may or may not exhibit high accident numbers or rates but are often described by...

Analysis and determination of crystal orientation exposed surface facets remain a challenge in nanomaterial science. In this work, we show that polarized non-polarized Raman spectroscopy can be useful tools to determine plane conveniently applied spatial dimensions limited only by the diffraction limit excitation laser. The methodology is exemplified for wurtzite structured ZnO. Three different...

Mundinger, Thomas O., and Gerald J. Taborsky, Jr. Differential action of hepatic sympathetic neuropeptides: metabolic action of galanin, vascular action of NPY. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 278: E390–E397, 2000.—Activation of hepatic nerves increases both hepatic glucose production (HGP) and hepatic arterial vasoconstriction, the latter best described by a decrease of hepatic arterial con...

Ma, L., W. P. Wang, J. Y. C. Chow, S. T. Yuen, and C. H. Cho. Reduction of EGF is associated with the delay of ulcer healing by cigarette smoking. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 278: G10–G17, 2000.—Cigarette smoking is associated with peptic ulcer diseases. Smokers have lower levels of salivary epidermal growth factor (EGF) than nonsmokers. We investigated whether reduction of EGF...

Battish, Raman, Gao-Yuan Cao, Richard B. Lynn, Sushanta Chakder, and Satish Rattan. Heme oxygenase-2 distribution in anorectum: colocalization with neuronal nitric oxide synthase. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 278: G148–G155, 2000.—Recent investigations have suggested carbon monoxide (CO) as a putative messenger molecule. Although several studies have implicated the heme oxygenas...

In this article we have summarized the status of the system SANC version 0.41. We have implemented theoretical predictions for many high energy interactions of fundamental particles at the one-loop precision level for up to 4-particle processes. In the present part of our SANC description we place emphasis on an extensive discussion of an important first step of calculations of the one-loop amp...

Kaur, Baljeet S., Rodica Ouatu-Lascar, M. Bishr Omary, and George Triadafilopoulos. Bile salts induce or blunt cell proliferation in Barrett’s esophagus in an aciddependent fashion. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 278: G1000–G1009, 2000.— Barrett’s esophagus (BE) results from acid and bile reflux and predisposes to cancer. We investigated the effect of bile salts, with or without acid, ...

Banks, William A., Cecilia M. Clever, and Catherine L. Farrell. Partial saturation and regional variation in the blood-to-brain transport of leptin in normal weight mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 278: E1158–E1165, 2000.— Impaired blood-brain barrier transport of leptin into the arcuate nucleus has been suggested to underlie obesity in humans and outbred aging mice. Here, we used a brain pe...

Gillingham, Melanie B., Elizabeth M. Dahly, Hannah V. Carey, Melanee D. Clark, Karen R.. Kritsch, and Denise M. Ney. Differential jejunal and colonic adaptation due to resection and IGF-I in parenterally fed rats. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 278: G700–G709, 2000.— Patients with severe short-bowel syndrome (SBS) often require long-term total parenteral nutrition (TPN) to maintain the...

HINDRIK MULDER,1,2 SAMUEL GEBRE-MEDHIN,3,4 CHRISTER BETSHOLTZ,4 FRANK SUNDLER,2 AND BO AHRÉN5 1Section for Molecular Signaling, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund; 2Section for Neuroendocrine Cell Biology, Department of Physiological Sciences, Lund University, SE-221 85 Lund; 3Section for Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Department of Physiological Scien...