Annals ofMedical Physiology

Volume: 7 - Number: 78 - October 15, 2007

Outstanding

Lateral ventricular ghrelin and fourth ventricular ghrelin induce similar increases in food intake and patterns of hypothalamic gene expression

Peripheral metabolic responses to prolonged weight reduction that promote rapid, efficient regain in obesity-prone rats

Treatment of rats with calpain inhibitors prevents sepsis-induced muscle proteolysis independent of atrogin-1/MAFbx and MuRF1 expression

Measurement of activation energy and oxidative phosphorylation onset kinetics in isolated muscle fibers in the absence of cross-bridge cycling

APPETITE, OBESITY, DIGESTION, AND METABOLISM

Esophageal-gastric relaxation reflex in rat: dual control of peripheral nitrergic and cholinergic transmission

Lateral ventricular ghrelin and fourth ventricular ghrelin induce similar increases in food intake and patterns of hypothalamic gene expression

Peripheral metabolic responses to prolonged weight reduction that promote rapid, efficient regain in obesity-prone rats

Treatment of rats with calpain inhibitors prevents sepsis-induced muscle proteolysis independent of atrogin-1/MAFbx and MuRF1 expression

Comparative and evolutionary physiology

Impact of state of arousal and stress neuropeptides on urodynamic function in freely moving rats

Developmental physiology and pregnancy

IGF-I and insulin receptor signal transduction in trout muscle cells

Ventilatory response to hyperoxia in newborn mice heterozygous for the transcription factor Phox2b

Environmental, exercise and respiratory physiology

Measurement of activation energy and oxidative phosphorylation onset kinetics in isolated muscle fibers in the absence of cross-bridge cycling

Perinatal photoperiod organizes adult immune responses in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)

Inflammation and cytokines

Editorial Focus Inward rectifier currents in pericytes

Neurohumoral control of cardiovascular function

Inverse regulation of preproendothelin-1 and endothelin-converting enzyme-1 genes in cardiac cells by mechanical load

Orexin neuron-mediated skeletal muscle vasodilation and shift of baroreflex during defense response in mice

Renal hemodynamics and cardiorrenal integration

Renal mitochondrial dysfunction in spontaneously hypertensive rats is attenuated by losartan but not by amlodipine

Vasa recta pericytes express a strong inward rectifier K+ conductance

Water and electrolyte homeostasis

Antidipsogenic effects of a TRPV4 agonist, 4-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate, injected into the cerebroventricle

Temporal differences in bladder dysfunction caused by diabetes, diuresis, and treated diabetes in mice

Water ingestion by rats fed a high-salt diet may be mediated, in part, by visceral osmoreceptors