Pinsky, David J., Walif Aji, Matthias Szabolcs, Eleni S. Athan, Youping Liu, Yi Ming Yang, Richard P. Kline, Kim E. Olson, and Paul J. Cannon. Nitric oxide triggers programmed cell death (apoptosis) of adult rat ventricular myocytes in culture. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1189–H1199, 1999.—Excessive nitric oxide (NO) production within the heart is implicated in the pathogene...

Nagayama, Takahiro, Takayuki Matsumoto, Makoto Yoshida, Mizue Suzuki-Kusaba, Hiroaki Hisa, Tomohiko Kimura, and Susumu Satoh. Role of cholinergic receptors in adrenal catecholamine secretion in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1057–R1062, 1999.—We investigated the role of nicotinic and muscarinic receptors in secretion of catechol...

Boutellier, Sandra, Thomas A. Lutz, Matthias Volkert, and Erwin Scharrer. 2-Mercaptoacetate, an inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation, decreases the membrane potential in rat liver in vivo. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R301–R305, 1999.—In former work, intraperitoneal injection of 2-mercaptoacetate (MA), an inhibitor of fatty acid oxidation, increased food intake i...

Nelson, Dwight E., and Joseph S. Takahashi. Integration and saturation within the circadian photic entrainment pathway of hamsters. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1351–R1361, 1999.—The sensitivity of the visual pathway that subserves circadian entrainment was measured in hamsters after prior stimulation and using trains of multiple pulses. Immediately after sub...

Burness, Gary P., Scot C. Leary, Peter W. Hochachka, and Christopher D. Moyes. Allometric scaling of RNA, DNA, and enzyme levels: an intraspecific study. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1164–R1170, 1999.—The activities of oxidative and glycolytic enzymes show body size-dependent relationships across a wide variety of taxa; however, the mechanistic basis remains ...

Merrill, David C., Jeffrey L. Segar, Oliva J. McWeeny, and Jean E. Robillard. Sympathetic responses to cardiopulmonary vagal afferent stimulation during development. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1311–H1316, 1999.—Previous work in our laboratory has demonstrated impairment of cardiopulmonary reflex control of renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) during the newborn period. T...

CHEN-LI CHENG,1,2 JIANG-CHUAN LIU,3 SUN-YRAN CHANG,2 CHENG-PING MA,2 AND WILLIAM C. DE GROAT4 1Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407; 2Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei 100; 3Department of Biology and Anatomy, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 100, Taiwan, Republic of China; and 4Departme...

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...

Stauss, Harald M., Jens-Ulrich Stegmann, Pontus B. Persson and Heinz-Joachim Häbler. Frequency response characteristics of sympathetic transmission to skin vascular smooth muscles in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R591–R600, 1999.—Sympathetic modulation of cutaneous vasomotor waves in humans is most effective at frequencies up to 0.1 Hz. In contrast, sympa...

Howlett, Susan E., Wei Xiong, Cindy L. Mapplebeck, and Gregory R. Ferrier. Role of voltage-sensitive release mechanism in depression of cardiac contraction in myopathic hamsters. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1690–H1700, 1999.—We investigated excitation-contraction (EC) coupling in isolated ventricular myocytes from prehypertrophic cardiomyopathic (CM) hamster hearts. Conventi...