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A Tribute to Robert W. Torrance; Ch.C. Michel. Reminiscence of Bob Torrance (1); P. Zapata, C. Zapata. Reminiscence of Bob Torrance (2); M. Hanson, P. Kumar. Genomics of Oxygen Sensing: Plasticity and Multiplicity in the Mechanisms of Oxygen Sensing; S. Lahiri. Evolution of Human Hypoxia Tolerance Physiology; P.W. Hochachka, C. Carlos Monge. Comparative Aspects of High-Altitude Adaptation in Human Populations; L.G. Moore, et al. Tibetan and Andean Contrasts in Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia; C.M. Beall. A Genomic Model for Differential Hypoxic Ventilatory Responses; C.G. Tankersley. Regulation of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1alpha: ARNT is not necessary for hypoxic induction of HIF-1alpha in the nucleus; M. Gassmann, et al. Intracellular Pathways Linking Hypoxia to Activation of zeta-fos and AP-1; D.R. Premkumar, et al. Hypoxia-Induced Regulation of mRNA Stability; W.R. Paulding, M.F. Czyzk-Krzeska. Hypoxia, HIF-1, and the Pathophysiology of Common Human Diseases; G.L. Semenza, et al. Gene Regulation during Hypoxia in Excitable Oxygen-Sensing Cells: Depolarization-Transcription Coupling; D.E. Millhorn, et al. Regulation of CREB by Moderate Hypoxia in PC12 Cells; D. Beitner-Johnson, et al. Reactive Oxygen Species as Regulators of Oxygen Dependent Gene Expression; J. Fandrey , J. Genius. A Glycolytic Pathway to Apoptosis of Hypoxic Cardiac Myocytes: Molecular Pathways of Increased Acid Production; K.A. Webster, et al. Mitochondrial-Nuclear Crosstalk is Involved in Oxygen-Regulated Gene Expression in Yeast; R.O. Poyton, C.J. Dagsgaard. Rox1 Mediated Repression: Oxygen Dependent Repression in Yeast; A.J. Kastaniotis, R.S. Zitomer. Oxygen Dependence of Expression of Cytochrome c and Cytochrome c Oxidase Genesin S. cerevisiae; P.V. Burke, K.E. Kwast. Hypoxic and Redox Inhibition of the Human Cardiac L-Type Ca2+ Channel; I.M. Fearon, et al. Molecular Identification of O2 Sensors and O2-Sensitive Potassium Channels in the Pulmonary Circulation; S.L. Archer, et al. Chemosensing at the Carotid Body: Involvement of a HERG-like Potassium Current in Glomus Cells; J.L. Overholt, et al. Oxidant Signalling and Vascular Oxygen Sensing: Role of H2O2 in Responses of the Bovine Pulmonary Artery to Changes in PO2; K.M. Mohazzab-H., M.S. Wolin. Tissue PO2 and Mitochondrial Enzymes: Cytochrome C Oxidase as an O2 Sensor; D.F. Wilson, et al. Regulation of Shaker-Type Potassium Channels by Hypoxia: Oxygen-Sensitive K+ channels in PC12 Cells; L. Conforti, D.E. Millhorn. HIF-1 is Essential for Multilineage Hematopoiesis in the Embryo; D.M. Adelman, et al. Dual Influence of Nitric Oxide on Gene Regulation During Hypoxia; G. Adhikary, et al. Hypoxia Differentially Regulates the Mitogen- and Stress-Activated Protein Kinases: Role of Ca2+/CaM in the Activation of MAPK and p38&ggr; ; P.W. Conrad, et al. Chairman's Summary: Mechanisms of Oxygen Homeostasis, Circa 1999; G.L. Semenza. Arterial Chemoreceptors: Oxygen, Homeostasis and Metabolic Regulation; P.W. Hochachka. Evidence that Nitric Oxide Plays a Role in O2 Sensing from Tissue NO and PO2 Measurements in Cat Carotid Body; D.G. Buerk, S. Lahiri. Carotid Body Gap Junctions: Secretion of Transmitters and Possible Electric Coupling Between Glomus Cells and Nerve Terminals; C. Eyzaguirre. Short- and Long-Term Regulation of Rat Carotid Body Gap Junctions by cAMP Identification of Connexin43, a Gap Junction Subunit; V. Ab