Annals ofMedical Physiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 44 - September 15, 2005

Outstanding

Interleukin-6-induced JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in endothelial cells is suppressed by hemodynamic flow

Hypothesis: one rate-limiting step controls the magnitude of both phases of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion

Endothelial progenitor cells for postnatal vasculogenesis

Real-time imaging of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- coactivator-1 promoter activity in skeletal muscles of living mice

Editorial focus

Dick Murphy: three decades as the touchstone of smooth muscle physiology. Focus on "Cooperative attachment of cross bridges predicts regulation of smooth muscle force by myosin phosphorylation"

Rounding up the usual suspects in atherosclerosis. Focus on "Growth factors induce monocyte binding to vascular smooth muscle"

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX, CELL INTERACTIONS:

Growth factors induce monocyte binding to vascular smooth muscle cells: implications for monocyte retention in atherosclerosis

GROWTH, DIFFERENTIATION, AND APOPTOSIS

The 1.4-MDa apoptosome is a critical intermediate in apoptosome maturation

MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

Overexpression of human KCNA5 increases IK(V) and enhances apoptosis

Dibasic phosphorylation sites in the R domain of CFTR have stimulatory and inhibitory effects on channel activation

Structural domains involved in substrate selectivity in two neutral amino acid transporters

Expression and localization of rat NBC4c in liver and renal uroepithelium

Calcium-dependent regulation of calcium efflux by the cardiac sodium/calcium exchanger

MUSCLE CELL BIOLOGY AND CELL MOTILITY

Fiber type and temperature dependence of inorganic phosphate: implications for fatigue

Protective role of extracellular chloride in fatigue of isolated mammalian skeletal muscle

Real-time imaging of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- coactivator-1 promoter activity in skeletal muscles of living mice

PROTEIN AND VESICLE TRAFFICKING, CYTOSKELETON

Cytoskeletal mechanics in adherent human airway smooth muscle cells: probe specificity and scaling of protein-protein dynamics

RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

Adrenergic modulation of splenic macrophage cytokine release in polymicrobial sepsis

Autocrine effects of IGF-I-induced VEGF and IGFBP-3 secretion in retinal pigment epithelial cell line ARPE-19

Signal transduction of betacellulin in growth and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells

Review

Hypothesis: one rate-limiting step controls the magnitude of both phases of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion

Endothelial progenitor cells for postnatal vasculogenesis

Functional expression of heterologous proteins in yeast: insights into Ca2+ signaling and Ca2+-transporting ATPases

Translacional physiology

Cooperative attachment of cross bridges predicts regulation of smooth muscle force by myosin phosphorylation

Vascular Biology

Interleukin-6-induced JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in endothelial cells is suppressed by hemodynamic flow