1. News about the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS)

   • K. Thurau

   Editorial Pages: 223 - 224

2. Effects of chronic hypoxia and endurance training on muscle capillarity in rats

   • André Xavier Bigard
   • Annie Brunet
   • Hugues Monod

   OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 229

3. Lactate dehydrogenase activity and isoform distribution in normal and hypertrophic smooth muscle tissue from the rat

   • Ulf Malmqvist
   • Anders Arner
   • Bengt Uvelius

   OriginalPaper Pages: 230 - 234

4. Glomerular ultrafiltration in rabbits with superficial glomeruli

   • K. M. Denton
   • W. P. Anderson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 242

5. Localization of dopamine-1 receptors along the microdissected rat nephron

   • Fumi Takemoto
   • Takeo Satoh
   • Adrian I. Katz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 248

6. Glucose transporters do not serve as water channels in renal and intestinal epithelia

   • Jacqueline A. Dempster
   • Alfred N. van Hoek
   • Carel H. van Os

   OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 255

7. Functional asymmetry of phosphate transport and its regulation in opossum kidney cells: phosphate “adaptation”

   • Stephan J. Reshkin
   • Judith Forgo
   • Heini Murer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 256 - 262

8. Effect of steroids on γ-aminobutyrate-induced currents in cultured rat astrocytes

   • A. Chvátal
   • H. Kettenmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 266

9. The inhibitory action of caffeine on calcium currents in isolated intestinal smooth muscle cells

   • A. V. Zholos
   • L. V. Baidan
   • M. F. Shuba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 273

10. Actions of lead on transmitter release at mouse motor nerve terminals

    • Yong-Xiang Wang
    • David M. J. Quastel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 274 - 280

11. Dihydropyridines interact with calcium-independent potassium currents in embryonic mammalian sensory neurons

    • J. Valmier
    • S. Richard
    • M. Baldy-Moulinier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 287

12. Postsynaptic inhibition by adenosine in hippocampal CA3 neurons: Co²⁺-sensitive activation of an inwardly rectifying K⁺ conductance

    • C. Alzheimer
    • G. ten Bruggencate

    OriginalPaper Pages: 288 - 295

13. Effects of intracellular Ca²⁺ chelating compounds on inward currents caused by Ca²⁺ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum in guinea-pig atrial myocytes

    • P. Lipp
    • L. Pott

    OriginalPaper Pages: 296 - 303

14. Exercise-induced muscle damage in the rat: the effect of vitamin E deficiency

    • G. J. Amelink
    • W. A. A. van der Wal
    • P. R. Bär

    OriginalPaper Pages: 304 - 309

15. Combined inhibitory actions of acidosis and phosphate on maximum force production in rat skinned cardiac muscle

    • Jonathan C. Kentish

    OriginalPaper Pages: 310 - 318

16. Adaptation of rat extensor digitorum longus to overload and increased activity

    • Rolf Frischknecht
    • Gerta Vrbová

    OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 326

17. Vasopressin stimulation of NaCl transport in the medullary thick ascending limb of Henle's loop is decreased in aging mice

    • A. Di Stefano
    • M. Wittner
    • B. Corman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 331

18. Effects of Ca²⁺ removal and of tetraethylammonium on membrane currents induced by carbachol in isolated cells from the rat parotid gland

    • Toshio Shigetomi
    • Tsunetoshi Hayashi
    • Tadao Tomita

    OriginalPaper Pages: 332 - 337

19. Microfluorimetric imaging study of the mechanism of activation of the Na⁺/H⁺ antiport by muscarinic agonist in rat mandibular acinar cells

    • M. Okada
    • Y. Saito
    • A. Nishiyama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 338 - 348

20. A simple method for monitoring changes in cell height using fluorescent microbeads and an Ussing-type chamber for the inverted microscope

    • William E. Crowe
    • Nancy K. Wills

    OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 357

21. K⁺ and Cl⁻ currents in freshly isolated rat osteoclasts

    • Stephen M. Sims
    • Melanie E. M. Kelly
    • S. Jeffrey Dixon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 358 - 370

22. The activation of Ca²⁺-dependent K⁺ conductance by adrenaline in mouse peritoneal macrophages

    • N. Hara
    • M. Ichinose
    • T. Maeno

    OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 379

23. Interleukin-2 lengthens extrajunctional acetylcholine receptor channel open time in mammalian muscle cells

    • P. Lorenzon
    • F. Ruzzier
    • F. Eusebi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 380 - 385

24. Electrophysiological properties of membrane currents in single myometrial cells isolated from pregnant rats

    • Hiroshi Miyoshi
    • Takeshi Urabe
    • Atsushi Fujiwara

    OriginalPaper Pages: 386 - 393

25. Influence of noradrenergic input into the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus on fever in the guinea-pig

    • Michael Unger
    • Gesa Merker
    • Eugen Zeisberger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 394 - 400

26. A new non-voltage-dependent, epithelial-like Na⁺ channel in vascular smooth muscle cells

    • Catherine Van Renterghem
    • Michel Lazdunski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 408

27. Monitoring exocytosis from single mast cells by fast voltammetry

    • Peter E. R. Tatham
    • Michael R. Duchen
    • Julian Millar

    Instruments and Techniques Pages: 409 - 414

28. The catalytic subunit of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase directly inhibits sodium channel activities in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes

    • A. Sunami
    • Z. Fan
    • M. Hiraoka

    Short Communication Pages: 415 - 417

29. Alkaline stress transforms Madin-Darby canine kidney cells

    • Hans Oberleithner
    • Hans-Jürgen Westphale
    • Birgit Gaßner

    Short Communication Pages: 418 - 420

30. Inwardly rectifying currents in human term placental cells

    • T. Yamamoto
    • G. Bkaily
    • S. Belisle

    Short Communication Pages: 421 - 423

31. Abstracts of the Società Italiana di Fisiologia of the XVII Riunione Primaverile, (Spring Meeting), 19–21 April 1990, Firenze, Italy

    Abstract Pages: R43 - R66