Annals ofMedical Physiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 38 - February 15, 2005

Outstanding

Chloride-dependent calcium transients induced by angiotensin II in vascular smooth muscle cells

Regulation of body fat content?

Beneficial effects of GH/IGF-1 on skeletal muscle atrophy and function in experimental heart failure

Suppression of mitochondria-dependent neutrophil apoptosis with thermal injury

CELLULAR METABOLISM

Metabolic organization in vascular smooth muscle: distribution and localization of caveolin-1 and phosphofructokinase

Editorial focus

Regulation of body fat content?

What do "eating peptides" really control? Potent stimulation of food acquisition by AgRP

Persistent photoperiodic effects on immunological responsiveness: shedding light on immunity

Linkage between insulin and the free radical theory of aging

GROWTH, DIFFERENTIATION, AND APOPTOSIS

Suppression of mitochondria-dependent neutrophil apoptosis with thermal injury

MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

Coexpression of complementary fragments of ClC-5 and restoration of chloride channel function in a Dent's disease mutation

The influence of Lyn kinase on Na,K-ATPase in porcine lens epithelium

Skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum glycogen status influences Ca2+ uptake supported by endogenously synthesized ATP

Hydrogen peroxide and ADP-ribose induce TRPM2-mediated calcium influx and cation currents in microglia

Characterization of Cos-7 cells overexpressing the rat secretory pathway Ca2+-ATPase

MUSCLE CELL BIOLOGY AND CELL MOTILITY

Serine protease activation of near-silent epithelial Na+ channels

Mutations that affect flightin expression in Drosophila alter the viscoelastic properties of flight muscle fibers

Beneficial effects of GH/IGF-1 on skeletal muscle atrophy and function in experimental heart failure

PROTEIN AND VESICLE TRAFFICKING, CYTOSKELETON

Rho-kinase-mediated Ca2+-independent contraction in rat embryo fibroblasts

Actin reorganization and morphological changes in human neutrophils stimulated by TNF, GM-CSF, and G-CSF: the role of MAP kinases

RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

Conformational coupling of DHPR and RyR1 in skeletal myotubes is influenced by long-range allosterism: evidence for a negative regulatory module

p38 MAP kinase-mediated negative inotropic effect of HIV gp120 on cardiac myocytes

The Ca2+-sensing receptor couples to G12/13 to activate phospholipase D in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells

Differential Ca2+ signaling by thrombin and protease-activated receptor-1-activating peptide in human brain microvascular endothelial cells

Ca2+ influx through 1S DHPR may play a role in regulating Ca2+ release from RyR1 in skeletal muscle

Involvement of PKC and PKD in pulmonary microvascular endothelial cell hyperpermeability

Discrete but simultaneous release of adenine nucleotides and serotonin from mouse megakaryocytes as detected with patch- and carbon-fiber electrodes

Effects of p38MAPK isoforms on renal mesangial cell inducible nitric oxide synthase expression

PI3K induced actin filament remodeling through Akt and p70S6K1: implication of essential role in cell migration

Vascular Biology

Chloride-dependent calcium transients induced by angiotensin II in vascular smooth muscle cells