Ranidae

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Alternative explanation for the apparent "two-step" binding kinetics of high-affinity racemic antagonist radioligands. 
  • Anomalous equilibrium binding properties of high-affinity racemic radioligands. 
  • Association of sequestered beta-adrenergic receptors with the plasma membrane: a novel mechanism for receptor down regulation. 
  • Carbohydrate recognition systems in amphibians: primitive alpha 2-macroglobulin receptors. 
  • Cisplatin-induced changes in sodium, chloride, and urea transport by the frog skin. 
  • Correlation of beta-adrenergic receptor-stimulated [3H]GDP release and adenylate cyclase activation. Differences between frog and turkey erythrocyte membranes. 
  • Cross-talk between cellular signalling pathways suggested by phorbol-ester-induced adenylate cyclase phosphorylation. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Desensitization of the beta-adrenergic receptor of frog erythrocytes. Recovery and characterization of the down-regulated receptors in sequestered vesicles. 
  • Differential effects of cholera toxin on guanine nucleotide regulation of beta-adrenergic agonist high affinity binding and adenylate cyclase activation in frog erythrocyte membranes. 
  • Distinction between cholecystokinin-like and gastrin-like biological activities extracted from gastrointestinal tissues of some lower vertebrates. 
  • Evidence that a beta-adrenergic receptor-associated guanine nucleotide regulatory protein conveys guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate)- dependent adenylate cyclase activity. 
  • Getting under—and through—the skin: ecological genomics of chytridiomycosis infection in frogs. 
  • Identification of a synaptic vesicle-specific membrane protein with a wide distribution in neuronal and neurosecretory tissue. 
  • Isolation and characterization of the beta-adrenergic receptor of frog erythrocytes and development of potential affinity ligands. 
  • Isolation, rapid freezing, and freeze-fracture methods for frog retinal photoreceptors. 
  • Molecular pharmacology of adenylate cyclase-coupled alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors. 
  • Morphologic demonstration of clathrin-coated pits in frog and turkey erythrocytes. 
  • Muscle-spring dynamics in time-limited, elastic movements. 
  • Photoaffinity labeling of the beta-adrenergic receptor. 
  • Population genetics of a polyploid: is there hybridization between lineages of Hyla versicolor? 
  • Potent beta-adrenergic antagonist possessing chemically reactive group. 
  • Purification of the beta-adrenergic receptor. Identification of the hormone binding subunit. 
  • Structural interpretation of the birefringence gradient in retinal rod outer segments. 
  • The Gordon Wilson lecture. Adrenergic receptors: regulation at the biochemical, physiological and clinical levels. 
  • The outer segment serves as a default destination for the trafficking of membrane proteins in photoreceptors. 
  • Thyroid hormone modulation of agonist--beta-adrenergic receptor interactions in the rat heart. 
  • Tropomyosin. Does resolution lead to reconciliation? 
  • Type I and type II keratins have evolved from lower eukaryotes to form the epidermal intermediate filaments in mammalian skin. 
  • Use of cell fusion techniques to probe the mechanism of catecholamine-induced desensitization of adenylate cyclase in frog erythrocytes. 
  • cGMP binding sites on photoreceptor phosphodiesterase: role in feedback regulation of visual transduction. 
  • cGMP suppresses GTPase activity of a portion of transducin equimolar to phosphodiesterase in frog rod outer segments. Light-induced cGMP decreases as a putative feedback mechanism of the photoresponse. 
  • gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)- and barbiturate-mediated 36Cl- uptake in rat brain synaptoneurosomes: evidence for rapid desensitization of the GABA receptor-coupled chloride ion channel.