ELSEVIER Biochemical Pharmacology 65 (2003) 2101-2114 www.elsevier.com/locate/biochempharm Contents of Volume 65 1 January 2003 89 The antioxidant activity of caroverine Natalia Udilova, Andrey V. Kozlov, Werner Bieberschulte, Klemens Frei, Commentary Klaus Ehrenberger and Hans Nohl Small molecule antagonists of proteins Thomas R. Gadek and John B. Nicholas Antioxidant and pro-oxidant properties of pyrrolo- quinoline quinone (PQQ): implications for its func- Rapid Communication tion in biological systems U50,488 inhibits HIV-1 Tat-induced monocyte Kai He, Hitoshi Nukada, Teiji Urakami and chemoattractant protein-! (CCL2) production by Michael P. Murphy human astrocytes Wen S. Sheng, Shuxian Hu, James R. Lokensgard and Reversal of P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resis- tance by ginsenoside Rg; Phillip K. Peterson Seung-Whan Kim, Hyog-young Kwon, Dong-Whan Chi, Jai-Heon Shim, Jong-Dae Park, MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY You-Hui Lee, Suhkneung Pyo and Dong-Kwon Rhee Altered lymphocyte catecholamine reactivity in mice Inhibition of acetylcholine-mediated effects by subjected to chronic mild stress borneol Valeria Ayelli Edgar, Dafne Magali Silberman, Tae-Ju Park, Yong-Soo Park, Tae-Gyun Lee, Graciela A. Cremaschi, Luis M. Zieher and Hyunjung Ha and Kyong-Tai Kim Ana Maria Genaro Modulation by caspases of tumor necrosis factor- Plasma stability of two glycosyl indolocarbazole anti- stimulated c-Jun N-terminal kinase activation but tumor agents not nuclear factor-KB signaling Jean-Francois Goossens, Jéréme Kluza, Hervé Vezin, Alison F. Littlejohn, Steven J. Tucker, Mustapha Kouach, Gilbert Briand, Brigitte Baldeyrou, Ahmed A.A. Mohamed, Stephen McKay, Nicole Wattez and Christian Bailly Matt J. Helms, Peter Vandenabeele and David J. MacEwan Potent inhibitory effect of naturally occurring flavo- noids quercetin and kaempferol on in vitro osteoclas- Evaluation of oxidative stress during apoptosis and tic bone resorption necrosis caused by b-galactosamine in rat liver Alice Wattel, Said Kamel, Romuald Mentavervi, Fang Sun, Eri Hamagawa, Chihiro Tsutsui, Florence Lorget, Christophe Prouillet, Jean-Pierre Petit, Naomi Sakaguchi, Yuri Kakuta, Sadako Tokumaru and Patrice Fardelonne and Michel Brazier Shosuke Kojo Reactive oxygen species are involved in the stimula- tion of the mitochondrial permeability transition by CCHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC INHIBITORS dihydrolipoate Preclinical factors influencing the relative contribu- Sarune Morkunaite-Haimi, Alexey G. Kruglov, tions of Phase I and II enzymes to the metabolism of Vera V. Teplova, Klaus Stolze, Lars Gille, the experimental anti-cancer drug 5,6-dimethyl- Hans Nohl and Nils-Erik L. Saris xanthenone-4-acetic acid Sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate mediates electron Shufeng Zhou, Philip Kestell, Bruce C. Baguley transfer reaction in rat heart mitochondria and James W. Paxton Guangyin Zhou, Wen Jiang, Yan Zhao, Guangén Ma, 121 Influence of p53 and p21 WAFI expression on sensitivity Wenjuan Xin, Junjie Yin and Baolu Zhao of cancer cells to cladribine doi: 10.1016/S0006-2952(03)00323-X Contents of Volume 65 Carlos Maria Galmarini, Nathalie Voorzanger, José Manuel Garcia-Martinez, Juan Angel Fresno Vara, Nicole Falette, Lars Jordheim, Emeline Cros, Pedro Lastres, Carmelo Bernabéu, Pablo Ortiz Betés and Alain Puisieux and Charles Dumontet Jorge Martin-Perez The effects of cladribine and fludarabine on DNA NEUROSCIENCI methylation in K562 cells Dorota Wyczechowska and Neuronal death signaling by B-bungarotoxin through Krystyna Fabianowska-Majewska the activation of the N-methyl-b-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and L-type calcium channel . ; ree The involvement of diadenosine 5’,5/”-P',P*-tetra- Wen-Pei Tseng and Shoei-Yn Lin-Shiau phosphate in cell cycle arrest and regulation of apop- COSIS PHARMACOLOGY Amalia A. Vartanian, H. Suzuki and Andrey I. Poletaes Pharmacology of vanilloids at recombinant and endo- 237 Down-regulation of deoxycytidine kinase in human genous rat vanilloid receptors leukemic cell lines resistant to cladribine and clofar- Vera Ralevic, Jeffrey C. Jerman, abine and increased ribonucleotide reductase activity Stephen J. Brough, John B. Davis, contributes to fludarabine resistance Julie Egerton and Darren Smart Emma Mansson, Emma Flordal, Jan Liliemark, Tatiana Spasokoukotskaja, Howard Elford, Svetlana Lagercrantz, Staffan Eriksson and 15 January 2003 Freidoun Albertioni Development of insulin resistance and reversal by thiazolidinediones in C2C12 skeletal muscle cells Commentary Naresh Kumar and Chinmoy S. Dey Advances in the pathophysiology of constitutive and inducible cyclooxygenases: two enzymes in the spot- Effects of glycolipids from spinach on mammalian light DNA polymerases Luca Parente and Mauro Perretti Chikako Murakami, Taeko Kumagai, Takahiko Hada, Ui Kanekazu, Satoshi Nakazawa, Shinji Kamisuki, Naoki Maeda, Xianai Xu, Hiromi Yoshida, Fumio Sugawara, Kengo Sakaguchi and Yoshiyuki Mizushina Pyridoxal isonicotinoy! hydrazone analogs induce apoptosis in hematopoietic cells due to their iron- Vitamin E activates gene expression via the pregnane chelating properties X receptor Joan L. Buss, Jiri Neuzil, Nina Gellert, Nico Landes, Paul Pfluger, Dirk Kluth, Marc Birringer, Christian Weber and Prem Ponka Ralph Riihl, Gaby-Fleur Bél, Hansruedi Glatt and Regina Brigelius-Flohé Oversulfation of fucoidan enhances its anti-angio- genic and antitumor activities Satoru Koyanagi, Noboru Tanigawa, Hiroo Nakagawa, (CHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC INHIBITORS Shinji Soeda and Hiroshi Shimeno DNA repair mechanisms involved in gemcitabine Human mitochondrial and cytosolic branched-chain cytotoxicity and in the interaction between gemcita- aminotransferases are cysteine S-conjugate B-lyases, bine and cisplatin but turnover leads to inactivation Mirjam Crul, Robert C.A.M. van Waardenburg, Arthur J.L. Cooper, Sam A. Bruschi, Myra Conway and Suzanne Bocxe, Maria A.J. van Eijndhoven, Susan M. Hutson Dick Pluim, Jos H. Beijnen and Jan H.M. Schellens Yessotoxin, a novel phycotoxin, activates phospho- diesterase activity. Effect of yessotoxin on cAMP HorMONES AND GROWTH FACTORS levels in human lymphocytes Cooperative enhancement of insulinotropic action of Amparo Alfonso, Laura de la Rosa, Mercedes R. Vieytes, GLP-1 by acetylcholine uncovers paradoxical inhibi- Takeshi Yasumoto and Luis M. Botana tory effect of beta cell muscarinic receptor activation Effect of metamizol on promyelocytic and terminally on adenylate cyclase activity differentiated granulocytic cells. Comparative Jodo C. Miguel, Yasser H.A. Abdel-Wahab, analysis with acetylsalicylic acid and diclofenac Brian D. Green, Paulo C.F. Mathias and Peter R. Flatt Contents of Volume 65 Effects of high glucose on cytokine-induced nerve Joan L. Buss, Emmanuele Arduini, growth factor (NGF) expression in rat renal mesan- Kyle C. Shephard and Prem Ponka gial cells Relevance of mitogen activated protein kinase Klaus Heese, Karl-Friedrich Beck, (MAPK) and _p hosphotidylinositol-3-kinase/protein Meik Helmut Behrens, Katharina Pliss, kinase B (PI3K/PKB) pathways to induction of apop- Wolfgang Fierlbeck, Andrea Huwiler, Heiko Miihl, tosis by curcumin in breast cells Helmut Geiger, Uwe Otten and Josef Pfeilschifter Matthew S. Squires, E. Ann Hudson, Lynne Howells, Stewart Sale, Catherine E. Houghton, J. Louise Jones, INFLAMMATION AND IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY Louise H. Fox, Martin Dickens, Sally A. Prigent and Margaret M. Manson Inhibition of cytokine production by the herbicide atrazine. Search for nuclear receptor targets Effects of rhein on human articular chondrocytes in Sabrina Devos, Karolien De Bosscher, alginate beads Bart Staels, Ellinor Bauer, Frank Roels, Christelle Sanchez, Marianne Mathy-Hartert, WimVanden Berghe, Guy Haegeman, Michelle A. Deberg, Herve Ficheux, Robert Hooghe and Elisabeth L. Hooghe-Peters Jean-Yves L. Reginster and Yves E. Henrotin The Cl/-HCO; exchanger slows the recovery of 1 February 2003 acute pH, changes in rat mast cells Natalia Vilariio, Laura A. de la Rosa, Mercedes R. Vieytes and Luis M. Botana Commentary Endothelium-dependent and -independent relaxa- Anthrax toxin receptor proteins tion and VASP serines 157/239 phosphorylation by cyclic nucleotide-elevating vasodilators in rat aorta Kenneth A. Bradley and John A.T. Young Andreas Schafer, Mick Burkhardt, Tobias Vollkommer, Johann Bauersachs, Thomas Miinzel, Ulrich Walter and Rapid Communication Albert Smolenski Potent inhibition of human _ folylpolyglutamate synthetase by a phosphinic acid mimic of the tetra- B-Amyloid aggregation induced by human acetylcho- hedral reaction intermediate linesterase: inhibition studies John J. McGuire, William H. Haile, Nadya Valiaeva, Manuela Bartolini, Carlo Bertucci, Vanni Cavrini and David Bartley, Jianxia Guo and James K. Coward Vincenza Andrisano Glucosidation of hyodeoxycholic acid by UDP- MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY glucuronosyltransferase 2B7 Peter Mackenzie, Joanna M. Little and Bullatacin, a potent antitumor Annonaceous aceto- Anna Radominska-Pandya genin, induces apoptosis through a reduction of intra- cellular cAMP and cGMP levels in human hepatoma (CHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC [INHIBITORS 2.2.15 cells Hui-Fen Chiu, Tsai-Tung Chih, Yun-Mei Hsian, Apoptosis and TRAF-1 cleavage in Epstein-Barr Chih-Hua Tseng, Ming-Jung Wu and Yang-Chang Wu virus-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells treated with doxorubicin combined with a farnesyl-transfer- Dihydropyridines as inhibitors of capacitative cal- ase inhibitor cium entry in leukemic HL-60 cells Jean-Michel Vicat, Hector Ardila-Osorio, Jacquie L. Harper, Carol §. Camerini-Otero, An-Hu Li, Abdelmajid Khabir, Marie-Christine Brezak, Soon-Ai Kim, Kenneth A. Jacobson and John W. Daly Isabelle Viossat, Philip Kasprzyk, Rachid Jlidi, Cholesteryl-hemisuccinate-induced apoptosis of pro- Paule Opolon, Tadamassa Ooka, Grégoire Prevost, myelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells through a cyclos- Dolly P. Huang and Pierre Busson porin A-insensitive mechanism NEUROSCIENCE Katsuhiko Yamada, Kayo Arita, Hirotsugu Kobuchi, Shinji Yamamoto, Tamotsu Yoshioka, Hiroshi Tamai and Affinity of cyamemazine, an anxiolytic antipsychotic Kozo Utsumi drug, for human recombinant dopamine vs. serotonin receptor subtypes Lipophilicity of analogs of pyridoxal isonicotinoy] hydrazone (PIH) determines the efflux of iron com- Ahcéne Hameg, Franck Bayle, Philippe Nuss, plexes and toxicity in K562 cells Philippe Dupuis, Ricardo P. Garay and Michel Dib Contents of Volume 65 GENE EXPRESS 915 Interactions of peroxynitrite and other nitrating sub- stances with human platelets: the role of glutathione 441 Effect of genotype on steady-state CYPIAI gene and peroxynitrite permeability expression in human peripheral lymphocytes Maria Lufrano and Michael Balazy Seymour Garte, Sabya Ganguly and Emanuela Taioli Differential allosteric modulation by amiloride analo- S 4 gues of agonist and antagonist binding at A, and A; adenosine receptors Probing the binding of the flavonoid, quercetin to human serum albumin by circular dichroism, electro- Zhan-Guo Gao, Neli Melman, Andreas Erdmann, nic absorption spectroscopy and molecular modelling Seong Gon Kim, Christa E. Miiller, methods Adriaan P. IJzerman and Kenneth A. Jacobson Ferenc Zsila, Zsolt Bikdadi and Miklos Simonyi Impaired receptor-mediated endocytosis by the asia- loglycoprotein receptor in ethanol-fed mice: implica- INFLAMMATION AND IMMUNOPI tions for studying the role of this receptor in alcoholic Suppression of tumor necrosis factor-% and inducible apoptosis nitric oxide synthase gene expression by THI 52, a Shana R. Dalton, Robert L. Wiegert, Cheryl R. Baldwin, new synthetic naphthyl-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid Karen M. Kassel and Carol A. Casey Young J. Kang, Bog K. Lee, Young S. Lee, Han G. Seo, Uroporphyrin accumulation in hepatoma cells Min K. Park, Hyo J. Kim, Hyang S. Pyo, expressing human or mouse CYPIA2: relation to Won S. Chong, Hye J. Jung, Hye S. Yun-Choi, the role of CYP1A2 in human porphyria cutanea Duck H. Lee and Ki C. Chang tarda Dimethylsphingosine increases cytosolic calcium and Ralph C. Nichols, Sandra Cooper, Heidi W. Trask, intracellular pH in human T lymphocytes Nadia Gorman, Timothy P. Dalton, Daniel W. Nebert, A. Alfonso, L.A. De la Rosa, M.R. Vieytes Jacqueline F. Sinclair and Peter R. Sinclair and | M Botana The voltage- and time-dependent blocking effect of trifluoperazine on T lymphocyte Kv1.3 channels G > I h I IN Nl RENA PH Andrzej Teisseyre and Krystyna Michalak 479 Metabolism of quercetin-7- and quercetin-3-glucuro- nides by an in vitro hepatic model: the role of human Selective activation of deoxycytidine kinase by thy- B-glucuronidase, sulfotransferase, catechol-O- midine-5’-thiosulphate and release by deoxycytidine methyltransferase and multi-resistant protein 2 in human lymphocytes (MRP2) in flavonoid metabolism Gergely Keszler, Karoly Szikla, Zygmunt Kazimierczuk, Karen A. O’Leary, Andrea J. Day, Paul W. Needs, Tatjana Spasokoukotskaja, Maria Sasvari-Szekely and Fred A. Mellon, Nora M. O'Brien and Gary Williamson Maria Staub Activation of deoxycytidine kinase by UV-C-irradia- 15 February 2003 tion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia B-lymphocytes Eric Van Den Neste, Caroline Smal, Sabine Cardoen, Anne Delacauw, Joélle Frankard, Augustin Ferrant, Commentary Georges Van den Berghe and Francoise Bontemps Use of the A , adenosine receptor as a physiological Effect of arvanil (N-arachidonoyl-vanillyl-amine), a immunosuppressor and to engineer inflammation m nonpungent anandamide—capsaicin hybrid, on ion VIVO currents in NG108-15 neuronal cells Michail V Sitkousky Yuk-Keung Lo, Hung-Ting Chiang and Sheng-Nan Wu Mo_Le R AND CELLULAR PHARMA\ ( Diminished production of nitric oxide synthase cofac- Apoptosis induction by the dual-action DNA- and tor tetrahydrobiopterin by rosiglitazone in adipocytes protein-reactive antitumor drug irofulven is largely Philippe Linscheid, Ulrich Keller, Nenad Blau, Bcl-2-independent Dominik J. Schaer and Beat Miiller Maryanne C.S. Herzig, Alex V. Trevino, Huiyun Liang, Richard Salinas, Stephen J. Waters, Inhibition of ATP-sensitive K -channels by a sulfo- nylurea analogue with a phosphate group John R. MacDonald, Barbara A. Woynarowska and Jan M. Woynarowski Katja Hastedt and Uwe Panten Contents of Volume6 5 CHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC INHIBITORS Timothy W. Noblitt, John M. Richardson, Ho Yeong Song and John E. Hale Structure activity analysis of the pro-apoptotic, anti- tumor effect of nitrostyrene adducts and related com- pounds CA‘ RD.¥ IOVASCULA. R — AND — PULMONARY> P5 HARMACOLO- GY Sylvia Kaap, Iris Quentin, Dereje Tamiru, Delphinidin inhibits endothelial cell proliferation Mohammed Shaheen, Kurt Eger and and cell cycle progression through a_ transient Hans Jiirgen Steinfelder activation of ERK-1/-2 Sophie Martin, Laure Favot, Rachel Matz, NEUROSCIENC! Claire Lugnier and Ramaroson Andriantsitohaina Antioxidants significantly affect the formation of dif- ferent classes of isoprostanes and neuroprostanes in GASTROINTESTINAL AND RENAL PHARMACOLOGY rat cerebral synaptosomes Osthole prevents anti-Fas antibody-induced hepatitis Thomas J. Montine, Kathleen S$. Montine, in mice by affecting the caspase-3-mediated apoptotic Erin E. Reich, Erin S. Terry, Ned A. Porter and pathway Jason D. Morrow Toshihiro Okamoto, Toru Kawasaki and Okio Hino Modulation of ["H] TBOB binding to the rodent GABA 4 receptor by simple disaccharides Indomethacin-induced free radical-mediated changes in the intestinal brush border membranes N. Rezai, C. Duggan, D. Cairns, G. Lees and P.L. Chazot Jayasree Basivireddy, Molly Jacob, Prabhu Ramamoorthy, Anna B. Pulimood and Effects of zinc ion on type A monoamine oxidase in Kunissery A. Balasubramanian monkey brain mitochondria Toru Egashira, Fusako Takayama and Kumiko Sakai Corrigendum Corrigendum to “The involvement of L-y-glutamyl-L- HORMONES AND GROWTI cysteinyl-glycine (glutathione/GSH) in the mechan- Insulin and estrogen receptor ligand influence the ism of redox signaling mediating MAPK! *®_depen- FGF-2 activities in MCF-7 breast cancer cells dent regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine production”. [Biochem. Pharma. 63 (2002) 305-320] Martine Garnier, Claire Giamarchi, Isabelle Delrieu, Marie-Christine Rio, Patrick Chinestra, Francis Bayard, iTh n i Haddad Marc Poirot and Jean-Charles Faye 1 March 2003 GENE EXPRESSION AND DEVELOPMENT Ethanol consumption decreases the synthesis of the mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor II Commentary receptor but does not decrease its messenger RNA “Multivalent” saccharides: development of new James Haorah, Richard G. MacDonald, Julie A. Stoner approaches for inhibiting the effects of glycosphingo- and Terrence M. Donohue Jr lipid-binding pathogens Cara-Lynne Schengrund ND IMMUNOPHARMACOL( Suppression of human monocyte interleukin-1B MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY production by ajulemic acid, a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid Daidzein enhances osteoblast growth that may be mediated by increased bone morphogenetic protein Robert B. Zurier, Ronald G. Rossetti, (BMP) production Sumner H. Burstein and Bonnie Bidinger Tie-Liu Jia, Hong-Zhong Wang, Li-Ping Xie, Decoy receptor 3 (DcR3) is proteolytically processed Xue-Yan Wang and Rong-Qing Zhang to a metabolic fragment having differential activities against Fas ligand and LIGHT Transcriptional suppression of the adrenal cortical peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor gene and Victor J. Wroblewski, Derrick R. Witcher, Gerald W. Becker, Kelly A. Davis, Shenshen Dou, inhibition of steroid synthesis by ginkgolide B Radmila Micanovic, Christy M. Newton, Hakima Amri, Katy Drieu and Vassilios Papadopoulos Contents of Volume 65 Melatonin differentially modulates the expression (CHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC INHIBITOI and function of the hMT, and hMT melatonin Cellular transformation of the investigational new receptors upon prolonged withdrawal anticancer drug NB1011, a phosphoramidate of 5- Monica I. Masana, Paula A. Witt-Enderby and (2-bromovinyl)-2’-deoxyuridine, results in modifica- Margarita L Dubocovich tion of cellular proteins not DNA Protein glutathiolation in human blood Maria V. Sergeeva and Brian E. Cathers Wayne A. Kleinman, Despina Komninou, An oxidative mechanism of interferon induced prim- Yvonne Leutzinger, Stephen Colosimo, Julie Cox, ing of the Fas pathway in Fanconi anemia cells Calvin A. Lang and John P. Richie Jr. Michal Pearl-Yafe, Drora Halperin, Ayelet Halevy, Minimally modified phosphodiester antisense oligo- Henry Kalir, Bella Bielorai and Ina Fabian deoxyribonucleotide directed against the multidrug resistance gene mdr] NEUROSCIENCE Imane Brigui, Taraneh Djavanbc ‘h t Samani Béatrice Jolleés, Sophie Pigaglio and Alain Laigle Statin effects on cholesterol micro-domains in brain Apoptotic cell death induction by F 11782 a novel plasma membranes dual catalytic inhibitor of topoisomerases | and II Christopher Kirsch, Gunter P. Eckert and ( hantal Etiévan Anna Kruczynski , Jean-Marc Barret, Walter E. Mueller Dominique Perrina s Bridget T. Hill The role of multidrug resistance proteins MRP1, DEVELOPMENT MRP2 and MRP3 in cellular folate homeostasis Toxicogenomics of bromobenzene hepatotoxicity: a 1 Hendrik Hooijberg, Godefridus J. Peters, combined transcriptomics and proteomics approach ios G. Assaraf, letie Kathmann, David G. Priest, Wilbert H.M. Heijne, Rob H. Stierum, Monique Slijper, Marlene A. Bunni, Anjo J.P. Veerman, Peter J. van Bladeren and Ben van Ommen George L Scheffer, Gertjan J.L. Kaspers and Gerrit Jansen Inhibition of 15-lipoxygenases by flavonoids: struc- ND IMMUNOPHARMA( ture—activity relations and mode of action Flavonoids inhibit myelin phagocytosis by macro- Christian David Sadik, Helmut Sies and Tankred Schewe phages; a structure—activity relationship study ET, receptor-mediated Ca~~ mobilisation in H9c2 Jerome J. A. Hendriks, Helga E. de Vries, C urdi IC cells Susanne M.A . van der Pol, Timo K. van den Berg, Francesca Ceccarelli, Maria C. Scavuzzo, Laura Giusti Eric A. F van Tol and Christine D. Dijkstra Gianni Bigini, Barbara Costa, Vittoria Carnicelli, Inhibition of the NF-«B signaling pathway mediates Riccardo Zucchi, Antonio ppie and the anti-inflammatory effects of petrosaspongiolide M Maria R. Mazzoni Inmaculada Posadas, Maria Carmen Terencio, Differential effects of YM440 a hypoglycemic agent Antonio Randazzo, Luigi Gomez-Paloma, on binding to a peroxisome proliferator-activated Miguel Paya and Maria José Alcaraz receptor Y} and its transactivation The effect of sesquiterpene lactones on the release of Eiji Kurosaki, Ryosuke Nakano, Akiyoshi Shimaya, human neutrophil elastase Shigeru Yoshida, Motoko Ida, Takayuki Suzuki, Bettina Siedl e, Linda Gustavsson, Senia Johansson, Masayuki Shibasaki and Hisataka Shikama Renato Murillo, Victor Castro, Lars Bohlin and Involvement of nitric oxide/cyclic GMP signaling Irmgard Merfort pathway in the regulation of fatty acid metabolism Heme oxygenase-! induction and regulation in unsti- in rat hepatocytes mulated mouse peritoneal macrophages Javier Garcia-Villafranca, Alberto Guillén and Ana Maria Vicente, Maria Isabel Guillén and Je se ( ‘astro Maria José Alcaraz Characterization of the molecular interactions of interleukin-8 (CXCLS8), erowth related oncogen % — 1) and a non-peptide antagonist (SB L\M ONAR4 Y > PHARKAMAA COLO1 GY o11 25002) with the human CXCR2 Calpain inhibitor (BSF 409425) diminishes ischemia/ Julie Catusse, Anne Liotard, Bruno Loillier, reperfusion-induced damage of rabbit heart mito- Didier Pruneau and Jean-Luc Paquet chondria Contents of Volume 65 2107 Sonata Trumbeckaite, Christane Neuhof, 995 Expression profiles of three isoforms of inositol 1,4,5- Stephan Zierz and Frank N. Gellerich trisphosphate receptor in brown adipose tissue of the rat Kazuaki Kajimoto, Takiko Daikoku, Naoshi Yamazaki, 15 March 2003 Hiroshi Terada and Yasuo Shinohara Commentary CHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC INHIBITORS Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and immu- notolerance of the fetus Trypanosoma cruzi: effect and mode of action of nitroimidazole and nitrofuran derivatives Antonis Makrigiannakis, Emmanuel Zoumakis, Sofia Kalantaridou, Nikos Mitsiades, Andreas Margioris , Juan Diego Maya, Soledad Bollo, George P. Chrousos and Achilleas Gravanis Luis J. Nuriez-Vergara, Juan A. Squella, Yolanda Repetto, Antonio Morello, Jacques Périé and Gérard Chauviere AR PHARMACOLOGY Tumor necrosis factor 4-induced apoptosis in astro- INFLAMMATION AND IMMUNOPHARMAC( cytes is prevented by the activation of P2Y,, but not P2Y, nucleotide receptors The inhibition of mast cell activation by neutrophil Seong G. Kim, Kelly A. Soltysiak, Zhan-Guo Gao, lactoferrin: uptake by mast cells and interaction with Tong-Shin Chang, Eunju Chung and tryptase, chymase and cathepsin G Kenneth A. Jacobson Shaoheng He, Alan R. McEuen, Sally A. Blewett, Ping Li, Mark G. Buckley, Paul Leufkens and Assessment of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca~*-uptake Andrew F. Walls during the development of left ventricular hyper- trophy Ramesh C. Gupta, Xiao-Ping Yang, Sudhish Mishra and CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY PHARMACOLOGY Hani N. Sabbah Down-regulation of bradykinin B»-receptor mRNA p23 enhances the formation of the aryl hydrocarbon in the heart in pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy receptor-DNA complex in the rat Premnath V. Shetty, Bhagyashree Y. Bhagwat and Katsutoshi Yayama, Satoshi Matsuoka, Makoto Nagaoka, Eri Shimazu, Masaoki Takano and William K. Chan Hiroshi Okamoto Opposing mechanisms of NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase regulation by peroxisome proliferators 1 April 2003 Li-Qun Fan, Jackie Coley, Richard T. Miller, Russell C. Cattley and J. Christopher Corton Peptide G protein agonists from a phage display Commentaries library Broad-spectrum chemokine inhibitors (BSClIs) and Jutta Hessling, Martin J. Lohse and Karl-Norbert Klotz their anti-inflammatory effects in vivo David J. Grainger and Jill Reckless Kinetic analysis of fluorescein and dihydrofluorescein effluxes in tumour cells expressing the multidrug MultidiscipIl inary utilization of dimethyl sulfoxide: resistance protein, MRP] pharmacological, cellular, and molecular aspects Chantarawan Saengkhae, Chatchanok Loetchutinat and Nuno C. Santos, J. Figueira-Coelho, Arlette Garnier-Suillerot J. Martins-Silva and Carlota Saldanha Regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 expression by ilo- prost in human vascular smooth muscle cells. Role MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY) of transcription factors CREB and ICER Investigation of the cellular mechanism of inhibition Svenja Debey, Jutta Meyer-Kirchrath and Karsten Schrér of formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine-induced Expression of acetoacetyl-CoA synthetase, a novel superoxide anion generation in rat neutrophils by 2- cytosolic ketone body-utilizing enzyme, in human benzyloxybenzaldehyde brain Jih-Pyang Wang, Ling-Chu Chang, Yi-Lee Lin, Masahiro Ohgami, Noriko Takahashi, Mei-Feng Hsu, Chiung-Yun Chang, Li-Jiau Huang and Masahiro Yamasaki and Tetsuya Fukui Sheng-Chu Kuo 2108 Contents of Volume 65 1053 Resveratrol-induced G> arrest through the inhibition CHEMOTHERAPY AND ABOLIC INHIBITORS of CD. K7r ~ and p34°"C"D~ kinases in colon carcinoma Decreased expression of the reduced folate carrier HT29 cells and folypolyglutamate synthetase is the basis for Yu-Chih Liang, Shu-Huei Tsai, Linda Chen, acquired resistance to the pemetrexed antifolate Shoei-Yn Lin-Shiau and Jen-Kun Lin (LY231514) in an L1210 murine leukemia cell Cytotoxicity and apoptosis of benzoquinones: redox line cycling, cytochrome c release, and BAD protein Yanhua Wang, Rongboa Zhao and I. David Goldman expression Gabriela Tudor, Peter Gutierrez, ) IMMUNOPHARMACOI Angelica Aguilera-Gutierrez and Edward A. Sausville Polycationic peptides as inhibitors of mast cell serine Effects of D3.49A, R3.50A, and A6.34E mutationso n proteases ligand binding and activation of the cannabinoid-2 Anders Lundequist, Maria Aparecida Juliano, (CB2) receptor Luiz Juliano and Gunnar Pejler Wenke Feng and Z.H. Song OG) Interaction of upstream stimulatory factor proteins with an E-box located within the human CYP1A2 5’-flanking gene contributes to basal transcriptional heart cells: a comparison between cardiac myocytes gene activation and nonmyocytes George V. Pickwell, Hsueh Shih and Kyoko Takahashi, Mistuhiro Azuma, Tomoko Yamada, Linda C. Quattrochi Yuko Ohyabu, Koichi Takahashi, Stephen W. Schaffer and Junichi Azuma Thyroxine-derivatives of lipopeptides: bifunctional dimerization inhibitors of human immunodeficiency Effects of angiotensin II on vascular endothelial cells: virus-1 protease formation of receptor-mediated reactive nitrogen species Julien Dumond, Nicole Boggetto, Hans J. Schramm Wolfgang Schramm, Masayuki Takahashi and Michael J. Mihm, Suvara K. Wattanapitayakul, Ss Michele Reboud-Ravaux Sheng-Fu Piao, Dale G. Hoyt and John Anthony Bauer Pharmacological characterisation of a cell line GASTROINTESTINAL AND RENAI expressing GABA g);, and GABA, receptor subunits Absorption of quercetin-3-glucoside and quercetin- Warren D. Hirst, Adam J. Babbs, Andrew Green, 4’-glucoside in the rat small intestine: the role of Jayne A.L. Minton, Tracy E. Shaw, Alan Wise, lactase phlorizin hydrolase and the sodium-depen- Simon Q. Rice, Menelas N. Pangalos and dent glucose transporter Gary W. Price Andrea J. Day, Jennifer M. Gee, M. Susan DuPont, Concentration dependent mitochondrial effect of lan T. Johnson and Gary Williamson amiodarone Gabor Varbiro, Ambrus Toth, Antal Tapodi, 15 April 2003 Balazs Veres, Balazs Sumegi and Ferenc Gallyas Jr Activation of p53 by the cytoprotective aminothiol Commentary WR1065: DNA-damage-independent pathway and Receptor-mediated adrenocorticoid hormone signal- redox-dependent modulation of p53 DNA-binding ing in ocular tissues activity Massoud Mirshahi and Manjul K. Agarwal Olivier Pluquet, Sophie North, Marie-Jeanne Richard and Pierre Hainaut MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY Interaction of the D2,,... dopamine receptor with G Iron and transition metal transport into erythrocytes proteins: analysis of receptor/G protein selectivity mediated by nifedipine degradation products and Sarah A. Nickolls and Philip G. Strange related compounds Regulation of mastoparan-induced increase of para- Donna L. Savigni, Dieter Wege, Garth S. Cliff, cellular permeability in T84 cells by RhoA and baso- Mark L.H. Meesters and Evan H. Morgan lateral potassium channels 1227 Comparison of the pharmacological antagonism of Irina Blumenstein, Ralf Gerhard, Jtirgen Ries, M, and M; muscarinic receptors expressed in isola- Gabor Kottra and Jtirgen Stein tion and in combination Contents of Volume 65 2109 Michael T. Griffin, Jake Ching-Hsuan Hsu, Marta Szaszak, Laszlo Hunyady, Veerle Kersemans and Darakhshanda Shehnaz and Frederick J. Ehlert Georges Vauquelin Inhibition of the MEK/ERK pathway has no effect on A two-state model of antagonist-AT, receptor inter- agonist-induced aggregation of human platelets action: further support by binding studies at low Archibald McNicol and Elke C.G. Jackson temperature Ilse Verheijen, Jean-Paul De Backer, Cloning and characterisation of the first drug-meta- Patrick Vanderheyden and bolising canine UDP-glucuronosyltransferase of the Georges Vauquelin 2B subfamily Matthew G. Soars, Michelle Fettes, Audrey C. O'Sullivan, Robert J. Riley, CHEMOTHERAPY AND METABOLIC INHIBITORS Brian T. Ethell and Brian Burchell Antitumor effect of the cinnamaldehyde derivative Oxathiolene oxides: a novel family of compounds CB403 through the arrest of cell cycle progression that induce ferritin, glutathione S-transferase, and in the G/M phase other proteins of the phase II response Ha-Won Jeong, Dong Cho Han, E. Christine Pietsch, Allison L. Hurley, Kwang-Hee Son, Mi Young Han, Elizabeth E. Scott, Benjamin P. Duckworth, Mark E. Welker, Sandra Leone-Kabler, Jong-Seok Lim, Ji-Hong Ha, Chang Woo Lee, Hwan Mook Kim, Alan J. Townsend, Frank M. Torti and Hyoung-Chin Kim and Byoung-Mog Kwon Suzy V. Torti Two-step formation of -H NMR visible mobile lipids Cellular uptake of a catechol iron chelator and during apoptosis of paclitaxel-treated K562 cells chloroquine into Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes Fabrizia Brisdelli, Egidio lorio, Arno Knijn, Amalia Ferretti, Donatella Marcheggiani, Luisa Lenti, Akli Hammadi, Florence Ramiandrasoa, Roberto Strom, Franca Podo and Argante Bozzi Veronique Sinou, Christophe Rogier, Thierry Fusai, Jacques Le Bras, Daniel Parzy, Gerhard Kunesch Cellular bases of the antitumor activity of a 7-substi- and Bruno Pradines tuted camptothecin in hormone-refractory human prostate carcinoma models INFLAMMATION AND IMMUNOPHARMACOLOG) Valentina Zuco, Rosanna Supino, Michelandrea De Cesare, Nives Carenini, Paola Perego, In vitro effects of mangiferin on superoxide concen- Laura Gatti, Graziella Pratesi, Claudio Pisano, trations and expression of the inducible nitric oxide Roberta Martinelli, Federica Bucci, Romina Zanier, synthase, tumour necrosis factor-% and transforming Paolo Carminati and Franco Zunino growth factor-fB genes Inhibition of pancreatic stellate cell activation by the José Manuel Leiro, Ezequiel Alvarez, hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibi- Juan Alberto Arranz, Isabel Gonzalez Siso and tor lovastatin Francisco Orallo Robert Jaster, Peter Brock, Gisela Sparmann, Decrease of the inflammatory response and induction Jérg Emmrich and Stefan Liebe of the Akt/protein kinase B pathway by poly-(ADP- Recognition of DNA modified by antitumor cisplatin ribose) polymerase | inhibitor in endotoxin-induced by “latent” and “active” protein p53 septic shock Miroslav Fojta, Hana Pivonkova, Marie Brazdova, Balazs Veres, Ferenc Gallyas Jr., Gabor Varbiro, Lucie Kovarova, Emil Palecek, Sarka Pospisilova, Zoltan Berente, Erzsebet Osz, Gyorgy Szekeres, Borivoj Vojtesek, Jana Kasparkova and Viktor Brabec Csaba Szabo and Balazs Sumegi Activation of the coactivator four-and-a-half-LIM- only protein FHL2 and the c-fos promoter through CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY PHARMACOLOGY inhibition of protein phosphatase 2A A novel antioxidant, octyl caffeate, suppression of Mona Johannessen, Petter Angell Olsen, LPS/IFN-y-induced inducible nitric oxide synthase Bjarne Johansen, Ole Morten Seternes and Ugo Moens gene expression in rat aortic smooth muscle cells Peptide and nonpeptide antagonist interaction with George Hsiao, Ming-Yi Shen, Wen-Chiung Chang, constitutively active human AT, receptors Yu-Wen Cheng, Shiow-Lin Pan, Yueh-Hsiung Kuo, Minh Tam Le, Patrick M.L. Vanderheyden, Tzeng-Fu Chen and Joen-Rong Sheu Contents of Volume 65 1 May 2003 1483 Beneficial effects of L-carnitine in myoblastic C2C12 cells. Interaction with zidovudine Béatrice Georges, Stéphane Galland, Caroline Rigault, Francoise Le Borgne and Jean Demarquoy Commentary 1393 Modulatory effects of hormones, drugs, and toxic Evaluation of B-adrenergic receptor subtypes in the events on renal Organic anion transport human prostate cancer cell line-LNCaP Sylvie A. Terlouw, Rosalinde Masereeuw and Rangaswamy Nagmani, David S. Pasco, Frans G.M. Russel Ruben D. Salas and Dennis R. Feller MOLECULAR AND CELL PHARMAC GROWTH FACTORS 1407 | Jiscovery and characterization of a potent and selec- Effect of in vivo administered hexachlorobenzene tive non-amidine inhibitor of human factor Xa on epidermal growth factor receptor levels, protein Amy M. Liang, David R. Light, Monica Kochanny, tyrosine kinase activity, and phosphotyrosine content Galina Rumennik, Lan Trinh, Dao Lentz, Joseph Post, in rat liver John Morser and Michael Snider Andrea§ . Randi, Horacio A. Sancovich, Ana M. Ferramola de Sancovich, Multidrug resistance correlates with overexpression of Muc4 but inversely with P-glycoprotein and multi- Andrea Loaiza, Rodolfo A. Kolliker Frers, Fernanda Spinelli and Diana L. Kleiman de Pisare1 drug resistance related protein in transfected human melanoma cells Role of nerve growth factor in the regulation of Yan-Ping Hu, Bushra Hag, Kermit L. Carraway, parotid cell differentiation induced by rat serum Niramol Savaraj and Theodore J. Lampidis Takashi Takeuchi, John M. Aletta, Further studies on the interaction of nonpolyglutama- Suzanne G. Laychock, Yingrao Tian table aminopterin analogs with dihydrofolate reduc- and Ronald P. Rubin tase and the reduced folate carrier as determinants of Established theory of radiation-induced decay is not in vitro antitumor activity generalizable to Bolton—Hunter labeled peptides Joel E. Wright, Gregory K. Yurasek, Ying-Nan Chen and Amanda C. Doran, Yieh-Ping Wan, Andre Ri SOU sky Alan S. Kopin and Martin Beinborn Molecular mechanisms for the activation of Ca*~- permeable nonselective cation channels by endothe- GENE EXPRESSION AND DEVELOPMENT lin-1 in C6 glioma cells Frequent co-occurrence of the TATA box mutation Yoshifumi Kawanabe, Nobuo Hashimoto and associated with Gilbert’s syndrome (UGT1A1*28) Tomoh Masaki with other polymorphisms of the UDP-glucuronosyl- The effect of valproic acid on drug and steroid glu- transferase-1 locus (UGT1A6*2 and UGT1A7*3) in curonidation by expressed human UDP-glucuronosyl- Caucasians and Egyptians transferases Christoph Kéhle, Bernd Mohrle, Peter A. Miinzel, Brian T. Ethell, Gail D. Anderson and Brian Burchell Matthias Schwab, Dorothee Wernet, Osama A. Badary and Karl Walter Bock Induction of apoptosis in estrogen dependent and independent breast cancer cells by the marine terpe noid dehydrothyrsiferol Martina K. Pec, Amable Aguirre, Karin Moser-Thier, Rabbit chronic ileitis leads to up-regulation of ade- Javier J. Ferndndez, Maria L. Souto, Javier Dorta, nosine Al/A3 gene products, oxidative stress, and Federico Diaz-Gonzalez anc l Jesvis Villar immune modulation Important amino acids for the function of the human Uma Sundaram, Hamdy Hassanain, MT1 melatonin receptor Zacharias Suntres, Jun Ge Yu, Helen J. Cooke, Tarja Kokkola, Steven M. Foord, Marie-Ange Watson, Jorge Guzman and Fievos L. Christofi Olli Vakkuri and Jarmo T. Laitinen LAAE-14, a new in vitro inhibitor of intracellular Novel selective and metabolically stable inhibitors of calcium mobilization, modulates acute and chronic anandamide cellular uptake inflammation Giorgio Ortar, Alessia Ligresti, Luciano De Petrocellis, Rut Lucas, Mario Alves, Esther del Olmo, Enrico Morera and Vincenze Di Marzo Arturo San Feliciano and Miguel Paya