DOUGLAS N. HENRY,1,2 JULIA V. BUSIK,1 FRANK C. BROSIUS III,3 AND CHARLES W. HEILIG4 1Department of Physiology, 2Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1101; 3Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan Medical School and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hos...

Soriano-Garcı́a, Juan F., Mònica Torras-Llort, Miquel Moretó, and Ruth Ferrer. Regulation of L-methionine and L-lysine uptake in chicken jejunal brush-border membrane by dietary methionine. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1654–R1661, 1999.—In the chicken intestine, L-methionine is transported by systems that are specific for neutral amino acids (Land B-like) and ...

Moore, Craig A., Jeffrey D. Kittilson, Melissa M. Ehrman, and MarkA. Sheridan. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) possess two somatostatin mRNAs that are differentially expressed. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1553–R1561, 1999.— Previously, we isolated a 624-bp cDNA encoding for a 115amino acid preprosomatostatin containing [Tyr7,Gly10]somatostatin (SS)-14 (n...

Andrés, Rosa, Octavi Martı́, and Antonio Armario. Direct evidence of acute stress-induced facilitation of ACTH response to subsequent stress in rats. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R863–R868, 1999.—To determine the role of glucocorticoids in the appearance of the facilitatory effect of stress on the ACTH response to a subsequent stress, sham-operated (Sham) rats ...

Gardi, J., F. Obál, Jr., J. Fang, J. Zhang, and J. M. Krueger. Diurnal variations and sleep deprivation-induced changes in rat hypothalamic GHRH and somatostatin contents. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1339–R1344, 1999.—Previous reports indicate that hypothalamic growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) promotes sleep and is involved in sleep regulation. The ai...

Wang, WenHui. Regulation of the ROMK channel: interaction of the ROMK with associate proteins. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Renal Physiol. 46): F826–F831, 1999.—The ROMK channel plays an important role in K recycling in the thick ascending limb (TAL) and K secretion in the cortical collecting duct (CCD). A large body of evidence indicates that the ROMK channel is a key component of the native K secreto...

Clancy, J. S., H. Takeshima, S. L. Hamilton, and M. B. Reid. Contractile function is unaltered in diaphragm from mice lacking calcium release channel isoform 3. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R1205–R1209, 1999.—Skeletal muscle expresses at least two isoforms of the calcium release channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (RyR1 and RyR3). Whereas the function of RyR...

Stepan, Vinzenz M., Dieter F. Krametter, Masashi Matsushima, Andrea Todisco, John Delvalle, and Chris J. Dickinson. Glycine-extended gastrin regulates HEK cell growth. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R572–R581, 1999.—Posttranslational processing of progastrin to a carboxy terminally amidated form (G-NH2) is essential for its effect on gastric acid secretion and o...

Gyenge, C. C., B. D. Bowen, R. K. Reed, and J. L. Bert. Transport of fluid and solutes in the body. I. Formulation of a mathematical model. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1215–H1227, 1999.—A compartmental model of shortterm whole body fluid, protein, and ion distribution and transport is formulated. The model comprises four compartments: a vascular and an interstitial compartme...

Hu, Ying-Li, Song Li, John Y.-J. Shyy, and Shu Chien. Sustained JNK activation induces endothelial apoptosis: studies with colchicine and shear stress. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H1593–H1599, 1999.—The disruption of microtubules by treating bovine aortic endothelial cells with 1027–1025 M colchicine caused apoptosis, as evidenced by DNA laddering and TdT-mediated dUTP nick e...