News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society最新文献
Andreas Zakrzewicz, Timothy W Secomb, Axel R Pries
{"title":"Angioadaptation: keeping the vascular system in shape.","authors":"Andreas Zakrzewicz, Timothy W Secomb, Axel R Pries","doi":"10.1152/nips.01395.2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/nips.01395.2001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The development and maintenance of the vascular system requires not only the formation of new vessels (vasculogenesis, angiogenesis) but also the continuous adjustment of vessel and network structures in response to functional needs. This \"angioadaptation\" depends on the interplay of vascular responses to growth factors, to the metabolic status of the tissue, and to hemodynamic forces exerted by the flowing blood.</p>","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"17 ","pages":"197-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1152/nips.01395.2001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22009194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agrin in the developing CNS: new roles for a synapse organizer.","authors":"Stephan Kröger, Jörn E Schröder","doi":"10.1152/nips.01390.2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/nips.01390.2002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The heparan sulfate proteoglycan agrin is responsible for the formation, maintenance, and regeneration of the neuromuscular junction. In the central nervous system, agrin is widely expressed and concentrated at interneuronal synapses, but its function during synaptogenesis remains controversial. Instead, evidence for additional functions of agrin during axonal growth, establishment of the blood-brain barrier, and Alzheimer's disease is accumulating.</p>","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"17 ","pages":"207-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1152/nips.01390.2002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22009196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who discovered the Frank-Starling mechanism?","authors":"Heinz-Gerd Zimmer","doi":"10.1152/nips.01383.2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/nips.01383.2002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1866 at Carl Ludwig's Physiological Institute at Leipzig, Elias Cyon described the influence of diastolic filling of the isolated perfused frog heart on ejection volume. A study performed at the institute of the effect of filling pressure on contraction amplitude was published in 1869 by Joseph Coats, based on a recording made by Henry P. Bowditch.</p>","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"17 ","pages":"181-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1152/nips.01383.2002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22009191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cholinergic control of heart rate by nitric oxide is site specific.","authors":"Neil Herring, Edward J F Danson, David J Paterson","doi":"10.1152/nips.01386.2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/nips.01386.2002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parasympathetic control of heart rate involves the exocytotic release of acetylcholine and muscarinic receptor regulation of pacemaking currents. Endogenous nitric oxide can potentially regulate all of these processes; however, recent work suggests that the main functional role of nitric oxide lies in the modulation of acetylcholine release.</p>","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"17 ","pages":"202-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1152/nips.01386.2002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22009195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caspar Rüegg, Claudia Veigel, Justin E Molloy, Stephan Schmitz, John C Sparrow, Rainer H A Fink
{"title":"Molecular motors: force and movement generated by single myosin II molecules.","authors":"Caspar Rüegg, Claudia Veigel, Justin E Molloy, Stephan Schmitz, John C Sparrow, Rainer H A Fink","doi":"10.1152/nips.01389.2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/nips.01389.2002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Muscle myosin II is an ATP-driven, actin-based molecular motor. Recent developments in optical tweezers technology have made it possible to study movement and force production on the single-molecule level and to find out how different myosin isoforms may have adapted to their specific physiological roles.</p>","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"17 ","pages":"213-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1152/nips.01389.2002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22009197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laminin binding conveys mechanosensing in endothelial cells.","authors":"T. Gloe, U. Pohl","doi":"10.1152/NIPS.01381.2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/NIPS.01381.2001","url":null,"abstract":"In endothelial cells, forces like shear stress are transferred to focal adhesion sites and activate in concert with matrix receptor kinases, leading to an initiation of signaling cascades. The laminin binding protein is one of these matrix receptors and is critically involved in sensing and quantification of shear stress.","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"166-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83001394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central synaptic integration: linear after all?","authors":"C. Stricker","doi":"10.1152/NIPS.01379.2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/NIPS.01379.2001","url":null,"abstract":"Unitary synaptic currents in hippocampus show small variability. Experimental evidence suggests that the neuron is endowed with mechanisms to reduce location-dependent differences in amplitude and time course of synaptic events, contributing to small variability. These mechanisms may allow the neuron to count individual quanta and thereby linearize integration of unitary events.","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"138-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88713882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mechanism(s) of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction: potassium channels, redox O(2) sensors, and controversies.","authors":"S. Archer, E. Michelakis","doi":"10.1152/NIPS.01388.2002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/NIPS.01388.2002","url":null,"abstract":"Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction matches perfusion to ventilation and optimizes systemic oxygenation. Alterations in PO(2) are sensed by a vascular redox O(2) sensor in the pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell, probably within the mitochondria. This creates a signal that modulates redox-sensitive K(+) channels, thereby controlling membrane potential, Ca(2+) entry, and tone.","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"30 1","pages":"131-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85102059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac Ca(2+) regulation and the tuna fish sandwich.","authors":"S. O'Neill","doi":"10.1152/NIPS.01375.2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/NIPS.01375.2001","url":null,"abstract":"Following myocardial ischemia and reperfusion, there is a risk of fatal arrhythmias that result from damage to cellular Ca(2+) homeostasis mechanisms. n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids seem to protect against these arrhythmias by mechanisms involving the sarcoplasmic reticulum and the sarcolemma.","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"34 1","pages":"162-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82702983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Pryce, D. Rüedi-Bettschen, A. Dettling, J. Feldon,
{"title":"Early life stress: long-term physiological impact in rodents and primates.","authors":"C. Pryce, D. Rüedi-Bettschen, A. Dettling, J. Feldon,","doi":"10.1152/NIPS.01367.2001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1152/NIPS.01367.2001","url":null,"abstract":"Rat, monkey, and human infants have evolved to expect certain patterns of care. Spontaneous or experimental deviations of care from the norm result in infant stress responses. Hyperactivity of immature stress systems such as the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the limbic-sympatho-adrenomedullary axis can alter their subsequent reactivity across the life span.","PeriodicalId":82140,"journal":{"name":"News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society","volume":"2008 1","pages":"150-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88201711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}