PERSPECTIVES IN CELL PHYSIOLOGY:

Kevin Strange

Authorship: why not just toss a coin?
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C567-C575, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00208.2008 [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITORIAL FOCUS:

Kathleen J. Sweadner

A third mode of ouabain signaling. Focus on "Regulation of ERK1/2 by ouabain and Na-K-ATPase-dependent energy utilization and AMPK activation in parotid acinar cells"
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C588-C589, 2008. First published August 6, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00388.2008 [Full Text] [PDF]  

MEMBRANE TRANSPORTERS, ION CHANNELS, AND PUMPS:

JJ Layne, ME Werner, DC Hill-Eubanks, and MT Nelson

NFATc3 regulates BK channel function in murine urinary bladder smooth muscle
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C611-C623, 2008. First published June 25, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00435.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsushi Yonezawa, Satohiro Masuda, Toshiya Katsura, and Ken-ichi Inui

Identification and functional characterization of a novel human and rat riboflavin transporter, RFT1
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C632-C641, 2008. First published July 16, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00019.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures and Tables]  

Robin H. Shutt and Susan E. Howlett

Hypothermia increases the gain of excitation-contraction coupling in guinea pig ventricular myocytes
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C692-C700, 2008. First published July 9, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00287.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mizue Moriya, Yi-Hsuan Ho, Anne Grana, Linh Nguyen, Arrissa Alvarez, Rita Jamil, M. Leigh Ackland, Agnes Michalczyk, Pia Hamer, Danny Ramos, Stephen Kim, Julian F. B. Mercer, and Maria C. Linder

Copper is taken up efficiently from albumin and ₂-macroglobulin by cultured human cells by more than one mechanism
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C708-C721, 2008. First published June 25, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00029.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jayasheel O. Eshcol, Anne Marie S. Harding, Tomonori Hattori, Vivian Costa, Michael J. Welsh, and Christopher J. Benson

Acid-sensing ion channel 3 (ASIC3) cell surface expression is modulated by PSD-95 within lipid rafts
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C732-C739, 2008. First published June 25, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00514.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William Silverman, Silviu Locovei, and Gerhard Dahl

Probenecid, a gout remedy, inhibits pannexin 1 channels
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C761-C767, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00227.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pierre Bissonnette, Karim Lahjouji, Michael J. Coady, and Jean-Yves Lapointe

Effects of hyperosmolarity on the Na⁺-myo-inositol cotransporter SMIT2 stably transfected in the Madin-Darby canine kidney cell line
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C791-C799, 2008. First published July 23, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00390.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Siying Ye, Daniel P. MacEachran, Joshua W. Hamilton, George A. O'Toole, and Bruce A. Stanton

Chemotoxicity of doxorubicin and surface expression of P-glycoprotein (MDR1) is regulated by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxin Cif
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C807-C818, 2008. First published July 23, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00234.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Veedamali S. Subramanian, Jack C. Reidling, and Hamid M. Said

Differentiation-dependent regulation of the intestinal folate uptake process: studies with Caco-2 cells and native mouse intestine
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C828-C835, 2008. First published July 23, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00249.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MUSCLE CELL BIOLOGY AND CELL MOTILITY:

Renaud Léguillette, Nedjma B. Zitouni, Karuthapillai Govindaraju, Laura M. Fong, and Anne-Marie Lauzon

Affinity for MgADP and force of unbinding from actin of myosin purified from tonic and phasic smooth muscle
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C653-C660, 2008. First published July 9, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00100.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lars Larsson, Xin Wang, Fushun Yu, Peter Höök, Kristian Borg, Stephen M. Chong, and J.-P. Jin

Adaptation by alternative RNA splicing of slow troponin T isoforms in type 1 but not type 2 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C722-C731, 2008. First published June 25, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00110.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hak Rim Kim, Cynthia Gallant, Paul C. Leavis, Susan J. Gunst, and Kathleen G. Morgan

Cytoskeletal remodeling in differentiated vascular smooth muscle is actin isoform dependent and stimulus dependent
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C768-C778, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00174.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:

Stephen P. Soltoff and Lee Hedden

Regulation of ERK1/2 by ouabain and Na-K-ATPase-dependent energy utilization and AMPK activation in parotid acinar cells
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C590-C599, 2008. First published July 16, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00140.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Iglesias, S. Locovei, A. Roque, A. P. Alberto, G. Dahl, D. C. Spray, and E. Scemes

P2X₇ receptor-Pannexin1 complex: pharmacology and signaling
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C752-C760, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00228.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures]  

Carolyn L. Buller, Robert D. Loberg, Ming-Hui Fan, Qihong Zhu, James L. Park, Eileen Vesely, Ken Inoki, Kun-Liang Guan, and Frank C. Brosius, III

A GSK-3/TSC2/mTOR pathway regulates glucose uptake and GLUT1 glucose transporter expression
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C836-C843, 2008. First published July 23, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00554.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

VASCULAR BIOLOGY:

Eric Ispanovic, Damiano Serio, and Tara L. Haas

Cdc42 and RhoA have opposing roles in regulating membrane type 1-matrix metalloproteinase localization and matrix metalloproteinase-2 activation
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C600-C610, 2008. First published June 18, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00460.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jia Sun, Raina Devi Ramnath, Ramasamy Tamizhselvi, and Madhav Bhatia

Neurokinin A engages neurokinin-1 receptor to induce NF-B-dependent gene expression in murine macrophages: implications of ERK1/2 and PI 3-kinase/Akt pathways
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C679-C691, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00042.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roberto Berra-Romani, Amparo Mazzocco-Spezzia, Maria V. Pulina, and Vera A. Golovina

Ca²⁺ handling is altered when arterial myocytes progress from a contractile to a proliferative phenotype in culture
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C779-C790, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00173.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tongzheng Liu, Yongcheng Huang, Rostislav I. Likhotvorik, Lakhu Keshvara, and Dale G. Hoyt

Protein Never in Mitosis Gene A Interacting-1 (PIN1) regulates degradation of inducible nitric oxide synthase in endothelial cells
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C819-C827, 2008. First published July 23, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00366.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GROWTH, DIFFERENTIATION, AND APOPTOSIS:

Joanne T. M. Tan, Susan V. McLennan, William W. Song, Lisa W.-Y. Lo, James G. Bonner, Paul F. Williams, and Stephen M. Twigg

Connective tissue growth factor inhibits adipocyte differentiation
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C740-C751, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00333.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PROTEIN AND VESICLE TRAFFICKING, CYTOSKELETON:

Hamed Nazzari, Damiano Angoli, Sarah S. Chow, Gina Whitaker, Leisha Leclair, Evan McDonald, Vincenzo Macri, Kristin Zahynacz, Valerie Walker, and Eric A. Accili

Regulation of cell surface expression of functional pacemaker channels by a motif in the B-helix of the cyclic nucleotide-binding domain
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C642-C652, 2008. First published July 9, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00062.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ming-Jiun Yu, Trairak Pisitkun, Guanghui Wang, Juan F. Aranda, Patricia A. Gonzales, Dmitry Tchapyjnikov, Rong-Fong Shen, Miguel A. Alonso, and Mark A. Knepper

Large-scale quantitative LC-MS/MS analysis of detergent-resistant membrane proteins from rat renal collecting duct
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C661-C678, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.90650.2007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures and Tables]  

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX, CELL INTERACTIONS:

Shile Liang and Cheng Dong

Integrin VLA-4 enhances sialyl-Lewis^x/a-negative melanoma adhesion to and extravasation through the endothelium under low flow conditions
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C701-C707, 2008. First published July 16, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00245.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tadayuki Oshima, Hiroto Miwa, and Takashi Joh

Aspirin induces gastric epithelial barrier dysfunction by activating p38 MAPK via claudin-7
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C800-C806, 2008. First published July 30, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00157.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NERVOUS SYSTEM CELL BIOLOGY:

Jernej Jorgacevski, Matjaz Stenovec, Marko Kreft, Aleksandar Bajic, Bostjan Rituper, Nina Vardjan, Stanko Stojilkovic, and Robert Zorec

Hypotonicity and peptide discharge from a single vesicle
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C624-C631, 2008. First published July 16, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00303.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Graham Kemp

Physiological implications of linear kinetics of mitochondrial respiration in vitro
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C844-C846, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00264.2008 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wayne T. Willis, Brian Glancy, and Thomas J. Barstow

Reply to "Letter to the editor: ‘Physiological implications of linear kinetics of mitochondrial respiration in vitro’"
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C847-C848, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00389.2008 [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Susan J. Gunst and Wenwu Zhang

Actin cytoskeletal dynamics in smooth muscle: a new paradigm for the regulation of smooth muscle contraction
Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 295: C576-C587, 2008. First published July 2, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00253.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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