Li, P., T.-M. Chang, D. Coy, and W. Y. Chey. Inhibition of gastric acid secretion in rat stomach by PACAP is mediated by secretin, somatostatin, and PGE2. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 278: G121–G127, 2000.—Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), existing in two variants, PACAP-27 and PACAP-38, is found in the enteric nervous system and regulates function of t...

Mathew, Rajamma, Newton Y.-T. Fan, Ning Yuan, Praveen N. Chander, Michael H. Gewitz, and Charles T. Stier, Jr. Inhibition of NOS enhances pulmonary vascular changes in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am. J. Physiol. Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 278: L81–L89, 2000.—To determine the effects of chronic nitric oxide (NO) blockade on the pulmonary vasculature, 58-day-old spontaneously hype...

Inheritance of paternal genetic information requires proper sperm development and DNA packaging. A proteomic analysis of sperm chromatin in Caenorhabditis elegans has identified conserved proteins that are important for the transmission of sperm DNA and for male fertility. Published: 1 December 2006 Genome Biology 2006, 7:124 (doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-12-244) The electronic version of this article...

Heart, Emma, Woo S. Choi, and Chin K. Sung. Glucosamine-induced insulin resistance in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 278: E103–E112, 2000.—To study molecular mechanisms for glucosamine-induced insulin resistance, we induced complete and reversible insulin resistance in 3T3-L1 adipocytes with glucosamine in a doseand time-dependent manner (maximal effects at 50 mM glucosam...

Panchenko, Maria V., Harrison W. Farber, and Joseph H. Korn. Induction of heme oxygenase-1 by hypoxia and free radicals in human dermal fibroblasts. Am. J. Physiol. Cell Physiol. 278: C92–C101, 2000.—Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) catalyzes the rate-limiting step in heme catabolism and presumably is involved in cellular iron homeostasis. It is induced by a variety of cellular stresses, including oxyge...

Angiostrongylosis, a cardiopulmonary disease caused by infection with the metastrongyloid nematode parasite Angiostrongylus vasorum, may lead to serious morbidity, and it continues to be a major health problem for dogs worldwide. This disease spreads to dogs by the ingestion of third-stage larval stage (L3) via the consumption of an intermediate or a paratenic host. The geographic distribution ...

The Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Toledo has been blessed to have had two pioneers in the specialty of anesthesia as faculty members. John (Tom) T. Martin, M.D. was the second Chairman of the Department and a world expert who literally wrote the book on Positioning in Anesthesia and Surgery and associated nerve injuries. He was a prolific writer authoring or co-authoring 48 ...

Volume 20, Issue 4, January 2005

1.1 Administrative details • Instructors: Aditya Gopalan ([email protected]), Parimal Parag ([email protected]) • Teaching assistant: Raghava GD ([email protected]) • Grading policy: Homework assignments (including programming exercises): 30%, Scribing lectures: 10%, Midterm exam: 20%, Final exam: 40% • Course webpage: www.ece.iisc.ernet.in/∼parimal/estimation.html • Sc...