1:30-3:00 p.m. Friday February 11, 2005          Hawaiian Village Room		Respiratory System Chair: Akhil Bidani — UT-Houston Medical School Co-chair: Aladin Boriek — Baylor College of Medicine
	Force Transmission, Compliance and Viscoelasticity are Altered in the α7 Integrin-Null Mouse Diaphragm
		A.M Boriek1, M.A. Lopez1, W. Hwang1, T. Taylor1, M.A. Hashmi1, S.R. Jannapureddy1 and U. Mayer2 – 1Baylor College of Medicine and 2Wellcome Trust Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Manchester, UK
	Kinetics of Superoxide and NO Perfusion during Alveolar Macrophage “Activation”
		S. Chakraborty and A. Bidani – UT Houston Medical School
	Diffusing Capacity Reexamined: Relative Roles of Diffusion and Chemical Reaction in the Red Cell Uptake of O2, CO, CO2, and NO
		S. Chakraborty1,2, V. Balakotaiah2 and A. Bidani1,2 – 1UT-Houston Medical School and 2University of Houston
	Embolic Pulmonary Hypertension Sheep Model by Continuous Venous Air Infusion
		X. Zhou, D. Wang and J.B Zwischenberger – UTMB, Galveston
	Simulation of Changes in Pulmonary Driving Point Impedance Due to Series Insertion of a Paracorporeal Artifical Lung
		R.R. Ha1, J. Qian1, D. Wang2, J.B. Zwischenberger2, A. Bidani3 and J.W. Clark Jr.1 – 1Rice University, 2UTMB, Galveston and 3UT Houston Medical School
	Establishment of Cough Reflex One Year after Lung Transplantation
		A. Duarte, J. Smith, L. Terminella, D. McElyea, S. Lick and G. Sant'Ambrogio – UTMB, Galveston