CELL AND MOLECULAR RESPONSES TO STRESS

1. Ischemic tolerance in the brain, pp. 1-12
Michael Bell¹, Kelly Drew², Mark Smith³, and John Hallenbeck^4
1 Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC; ² Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; ³ Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; ⁴ Stroke Branch, NINDS, Bethesda, Maryland

2. Regulation of gene expression by hypoxia in lung alveolar epithelial cells, pp. 13-26
Christine Clerici, Tokujiro Uchida, Carole Planès, Michael Matthay¹
Faculté de Médecine Xavier Bichat, Paris, France and ¹ University of California, San Francisco

3. A profile of the metabolic responses to anoxia in marine invertebrates, 27-46
Kevin Larade and Kenneth B. Storey
Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

4. The role of adenosine in tissue protection during ischemia-reperfusion, 47-59
Gail W. Sullivan and Joel M. Linden
Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia

5. NF-kB function in inflammation, cellular stress and disease, pp. 61-73
Neil R. Chapman¹, Sonia Rocha¹, Ian M. Adcock² and Neil D. Perkins^1
1 School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee
² National Heart and Lung Institute, London, United Kingdom

6. MAPping stress survival in yeasts: from the cell surface to the nucleus, pp. 75-90
Aaron Ngocky Nguyen and Kazuhiro Shiozaki
Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

7. Calcium signaling mediated by cyclic ADP-ribose and NAADP: roles in cellular response to stress, pp. 91-104
Hon Cheung Lee
Department of Pharmacology,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

8. The cellular and molecular basis of the detection of pain, pp. 105-119
Jennifer K. Bonnington, David R. Robinson, Vittorio Vellani and Peter A. McNaughton
Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

9. Acquired freezing tolerance in higher plants: the sensing and molecular responses to low nonfreezing temperatures, pp. 121-137
Zhanguo Xin
USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Lubbock, Texas, USA

10. Sensing and responses to low temperature in cyanobacteria, pp. 139-153
Dmitry A. Los¹ and Norio Murata^2
1 Institute of Plant Physiology, Moscow, Russia
² National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan

11. Dehydrins, pp. 155-171
Jan Svensson¹, Abdelbagi M. Ismail², Tapio E. Palva¹ and Timothy J. Close^3
1Department of BiosciencesUniversity of Helsinki, Finland; ²International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines; ³Department of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA,

12. Dual role of membranes in heat stress: as thermosensors they modulate the expression of stress genes and, by interacting with stress proteins, re-organize their own lipid order and functionality, pp. 173-187
László Vígh¹ and Bruno Maresca^2
1Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
²University of Salerno, Faculty of Pharmacy, Fisciano-Salerno, Italy

13. Cellular adaptation to amino acid availability: mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene expression and protein metabolism, pp. 189-206
Sylvie Mordier, Alain Bruhat, Julien Averous and Pierre Fafournoux
INRA de Theix, Saint Genes Champanelle, France

14. Amino acid-dependent signal transduction, pp. 207-219
Peter F. Dubbelhuis and Alfred J. Meijer
Department of Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

15. Signal transduction pathways involved in the regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes, pp. 221-231
Vidya Hebbar and A.-N. Tony Kong
Department of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

16. Biological action of infrared radiation, pp. 233-242
Lee Laurent-Applegate and Stéphanie Roques
University Hospital-Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

17. Energy sensing and photostasis in photoautotrophs, pp. 243-255
Norman P.A. Huner¹, Alexander G. Ivanov¹, Kenneth E. Wilson², Ewa Miskiewicz¹, Marianna Krol¹, and Gunnar Öquist^3
1 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; ² Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; ³ Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

18. The uncoupling proteins family: from thermogenesis to the regulation of ROS, pp. 257-268
Marie-Clotilde Alves-Guerra¹, Claire Pecqueur¹, Alison Shaw², Elodie Couplan¹, Maria Del Mar Gonzalez Barroso¹, Daniel Ricquier¹, Frédéric Bouillaud¹ and Bruno Miroux^1
1CEREMOD, Meudon, France and ²EMBL, Heidelberg Germany

19. Regulation of proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of brown adipocytes: Signal transduction pathways involved, pp. 269-282
Almudena Porras* and Manuel Benito.
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular II, Universidad Complutensede Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain.

20. Control analysis of metabolic depression, pp. 283-296
R. Keira Curtis, Tammie Bishop and Martin Brand
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, UK

21. Evolution of physiological adaptation, pp. 297-314
Douglas L. Crawford
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri

22. Dynamic use of cDNA arrays: heterologous probing for gene discovery and exploration of animal adaptations in stressful environments, pp. 315-325
Sean F. Eddy and Kenneth B. Storey
Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa