Annals ofMedical Physiology

Volume: 6 - Number: 53 - June 15, 2006

Outstanding

Mechanotransduction by integrin is essential for IL-6 secretion from endothelial cells in response to uniaxial continuous stretch

Editorial Perspectives in cell physiology: a new category of manuscript

Is prostate-specific membrane antigen a multifunctional protein?

The end of "naïve reductionism": rise of systems biology or renaissance of physiology?

CELLULAR METABOLISM

Transgenic prolactin–/– mice: effect of trauma-hemorrhage on splenocyte functions

Iron alters glutamate secretion by regulating cytosolic aconitase activity

Lipopolysaccharide induces 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein gene expression in THP-1 cells via a NF-B and C/EBP-mediated mechanism

Editorial

Editorial Perspectives in cell physiology: a new category of manuscript

GROWTH, DIFFERENTIATION, AND APOPTOSIS

Antimitogenic effect of green tea (–)-epigallocatechin gallate on 3T3-L1 preadipocytes depends on the ERK and Cdk2 pathways

MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS

Protein kinase C mediates the inhibitory effect of substance P on HCO3– secretion from guinea pig pancreatic ducts

Zip3 plays a major role in zinc uptake into mammary epithelial cells and is regulated by prolactin

Regulation of the immunoexpression of aquaporin 9 by ovarian hormones in the rat oviductal epithelium

Phenotype analysis of aquaporin-8 null mice

METHODS IN CELL PHYSIOLOGY

V-ATPase B1-subunit promoter drives expression of EGFP in intercalated cells of kidney, clear cells of epididymis and airway cells of lung in transgenic mice

Call for Papers Microarray-based comparison of three amplification methods for nanogram amounts of total RNA

MUSCLE CELL BIOLOGY AND CELL MOTILITY

Id2 and p53 participate in apoptosis during unloading-induced muscle atrophy

Activation of the Arp2/3 complex by N-WASp is required for actin polymerization and contraction in smooth muscle

PERSPECTIVES IN CELL PHYSIOLOGY

The end of "naïve reductionism": rise of systems biology or renaissance of physiology?

RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

Oligomycin inhibits HIF-1 expression in hypoxic tumor cells

Activation of p38 MAPK by extracellular pressure mediates the stimulation of macrophage phagocytosis by pressure

Review

Is prostate-specific membrane antigen a multifunctional protein?

Translacional physiology

Increased cholesterol decreases uterine activity: functional effects of cholesterol alteration in pregnant rat myometrium

Vascular Biology

Mechanotransduction by integrin is essential for IL-6 secretion from endothelial cells in response to uniaxial continuous stretch

Activation of PI3-kinase/PKB contributes to delay in neutrophil apoptosis after thermal injury