Stutzin, Andrés, Rubén Torres, Macarena Oporto, Patricio Pacheco, Ana Luisa Eguiguren, L. Pablo Cid, and Francisco V. Sepúlveda. Separate taurine and chloride efflux pathways activated during regulatory volume decrease. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C392–C402, 1999.—Organic osmolyte and halide permeability pathways activated in epithelial HeLa cells by cell swelling were studied by ra...

Hassid, Aviv, Shile Huang, and Jian Yao. Role of PTP-1B in aortic smooth muscle cell motility and tyrosine phosphorylation of focal adhesion proteins. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H192–H198, 1999.—Recent studies have focused attention on the role of protein tyrosine kinases in vascular smooth muscle cell biology, but similar information regarding protein tyrosine phosphatases ...

Dechent, P., P. J. W. Pouwels, B. Wilken, F. Hanefeld, and J. Frahm. Increase of total creatine in human brain after oral supplementation of creatine-monohydrate. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R698–R704, 1999.—The effect of oral creatine supplementation on brain metabolite concentrations was investigated in gray matter, white matter, cerebellum, and thalamus of...

Bahar, Sonya, Christopher T. Gunter, Cheryl Wu, Scott D. Kennedy, and Philip A. Knauf. Persistence of external chloride and DIDS binding after chemical modification of Glu-681 in human band 3. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C791–C799, 1999.—Although its primary function is monovalent anion exchange, the band 3 protein also cotransports divalent anions together with protons at low pH. T...

Parfenova, Helena, John Haffner, and Charles W. Leffler. Phosphorylation-dependent stimulation of prostanoid synthesis by nigericin in cerebral endothelial cells. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C728–C738, 1999.— Nigericin decreases intracellular pH (pHi) and stimulates prostanoid (PG) synthesis in endothelial cells from cerebral microvessels of newborn pigs. Nigericin-induced PG produc...

Wood, Philip G., Olga V. Lopatko, Sandra Orgeig, Jonathan R. Codd, and Christopher B. Daniels. Control of pulmonary surfactant secretion from type II pneumocytes isolated from the lizard Pogona vitticeps. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1705–R1711, 1999.—Pulmonary surfactant, a mixture consisting of lipids and proteins and secreted by type II cells, functions to...

Silver, I., B. Li, J. Szalai, and M. Johnston. Relationship between intracranial pressure and cervical lymphatic pressure and flow rates in sheep. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1712–R1717, 1999.— Previous reports from our group demonstrated that about one-half of the total volume of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) removed from the cranial vault in sheep is transport...

Hecht, Gail, and Athanasia Koutsouris. Myosin regulation of NKCC1: effects on cAMP-mediated Cl2 secretion in intestinal epithelia. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C441–C447, 1999.—The basally located actin cytoskeleton has been demonstrated previously to regulate Cl2 secretion from intestinal epithelia via its effects on the Na1-K1-2Cl2 cotransporter (NKCC1). In nontransporting epitheli...

Harada, Etsumori, Megumi Mitani, and Takashi Takeuchi. Potentiation of carbachol-induced amylase release by propionate in guinea pig and vole pancreatic acini. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R767–R775, 1999.—The action of propionate, one of the major end products of microbial fermentation in herbivores was investigated in isolated, perifused pancreatic acini of ...

Teff, Karen L., and Raymond R. Townsend. Early phase insulin infusion and muscarinic blockade in obese and lean subjects. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R198–R208, 1999.—The effect of early phase insulin on postprandial levels of insulin, C-peptide, glucose, and glucagon was investigated in lean (n 5 10) and obese (n 5 12) subjects. Subjects underwent four condi...