Annals ofClinical Investigation

Volume: 2 - Number: 13 - October 1, 2002

Outstanding

Articles

Airway responses to chronic ozone exposure are partially mediated through mast cells

Methods for averaging irregular respiratory flow profiles in awake humans

Chronic tobacco smoke exposure increases airway sensitivity to capsaicin in awake guinea pigs

Developmental study of cytochrome oxidase activity in the brain stem respiratory nuclei of postnatal rats

Prolonged exercise suppresses antigen-specific cytokine response to upper respiratory infection

Adrenergic airway vascular smooth muscle responsiveness in healthy and asthmatic subjects

Reserve capacity for ATP consumption during isometric contraction in human skeletal muscle fibers

Validity of two-component models for estimating body fat of black men

Effect of high transcapillary pressures on capillary ultrastructure and permeability coefficients in dog lung

Dual assessment of airway area profile and respiratory input impedance from a single transient wave

Muscle sympathetic nerve responses to physiological changes in prostaglandin production in humans

Fiber type and metabolic dependence of T2 increases in stimulated rat muscles

Effects of 2 G on adiposity, leptin, lipoprotein lipase, and uncoupling protein-1 in lean and obese Zucker rats

Cerebral gas embolism absorption during hyperbaric therapy: theory

Effect of carbohydrate ingestion on glucose kinetics during exercise in the heat

Role of nitric oxide in the airway response to exercise in healthy and asthmatic subjects

Reflex cardiovascular responses originating in exercising muscles of mice

Airway resistance and tissue elastance from input or transfer impedance in bronchoconstricted monkeys

Computational modeling of RBC and neutrophil transit through the pulmonary capillaries

Weight-bearing exercise and markers of bone turnover in female athletes

Enhanced synthesis of albumin and fibrinogen at high altitude

Steady-state measurement of NO and CO lung diffusing capacity on moderate exercise in men

Special Articles

Plasticity in Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth Muscle: Selected Contribution: Effect of the aldehyde acrolein on acetylcholine-induced membrane current in airway smooth muscle cells

Plasticity in Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth Muscle: Selected Contribution: Plasticity of airway smooth muscle stiffness and extensibility: role of length-adaptive mechanisms

Plasticity in Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth Muscle: Selected Contribution: Effect of chronic passive length change on airway smooth muscle length-tension relationship

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Plasticity in Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth Muscle: Invited Review: Redox modulation of skeletal muscle contraction: what we know and what we don't