Anwar, M. A., M. Schwab, L. Poston, and P. W. Nathanielsz. Betamethasone-mediated vascular dysfunction and changes in hematological profile in the ovine fetus. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1137–H1143, 1999.—Glucocorticoid administration to fetal sheep induces a sustained systemic blood pressure rise and an associated increase in femoral vascular resistance. We utilized a smal...

JIN KIM,1 WAN-YOUNG KIM,1 KI-HWAN HAN,1 MARK A. KNEPPER,2 SØREN NIELSEN,3 AND KIRSTEN M. MADSEN4 1Department of Anatomy, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, Korea; 2Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0951; 3Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhu...

Campos, R. R., and R. M. McAllen. Cardiac inotropic, chronotropic, and dromotropic actions of subretrofacial neurons of cat RVLM. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1102–R1111, 1999.—The cardiac actions of microinjecting sodium glutamate (0.5–2 nmol) among sympathetic premotor neurons of the subretrofacial nucleus in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) were st...

Houpt, T. Richard, Hosook Yang-Preyer, Jessica Geyer, and Moria L. Norris. A rapid feedback signal is not always necessary for termination of a drinking bout. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1156–R1163, 1999.—When a pig is deprived of drinking water, a deficit of body water develops that is corrected when the pig drinks to satiation. If food is available during ...

Challet, Etienne, Susan Losee-Olson, and Fred W. Turek. Reduced glucose availability attenuates circadian responses to light in mice. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1063–R1070, 1999.—To test whether circadian responses to light are modulated by decreased glucose availability, we analyzed photic phase resetting of the circadian rhythm of locomotor activity in mi...

Fleet, James C., and Richard J. Wood. Specific 1,25(OH)2D3-mediated regulation of transcellular calcium transport in Caco-2 cells. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 39): G958–G964, 1999.—Calcium transport in the apical-to-basolateral (A-to-B) or B-to-A direction was examined in cells treated with 10 nM 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3, calcitriol] for up to 72 h. Net A-to-B...

Robertson, J. Gray, David A. Belford, and F. John Ballard. Clearance of IGFs and insulin from wounds: effect of IGF-binding protein interactions. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E663–E671, 1999.—We have examined the role binding proteins have in regulating the clearance of exogenous growth factors from wounds. Hunt-Schilling chambers were subcutaneously implanted in rats, and the c...

Reed, Jacquelyn A., Machiko Ikegami, Eli R. Cianciolo, Wei Lu, Patricia S. Cho, William Hull, Alan H. Jobe, and JeffreyA. Whitsett. Aerosolized GM-CSF ameliorates pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in GM-CSF-deficient mice. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 20): L556–L563, 1999.—Surfactant proteins and phospholipids accumulate in the alveolar spaces and lung tissues of mice deficient in...

Brito, M. N., N. A. Brito, S. R. C. Brito, M. A. F. Moura, N. H. Kawashita, I. C. Kettelhut, and R. H. Migliorini. Brown adipose tissue triacylglycerol synthesis in rats adapted to a high-protein, carbohydrate-free diet. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1003–R1009, 1999.—Adaptation of rats to a high-protein, carbohydratefree (HP) diet induced a marked reduction o...