Table of Contents:
  • 1. Genes Controlling Neural Fate and Differentiation / Rebecca Matsas
  • 2. Neuronal Plasticity in Development: Lessons from Ethanol Neurotoxicity during Embryogenesis / Susan Kentroti
  • 3. Plasticity in Astrocytic Phenotypes: A Role For PKC, Tyrosine Kinases, and Cytoskeleton Signaling / D. Mangoura, C. Pelletiere and D. Wang [and others]
  • 4. Neuron-Glia Cross Talk in Rat Striatum after Transient Forebrain Ischemia / Michele Zoli, Giuseppe Biagini and Rosaria Ferrari [and others]
  • 5. Regulation of Oligodendrocyte Differentiation by Fibroblast Growth Factors / Rashmi Bansal and S.E. Pfeiffer
  • 6. Features and Functions of Human Microglia Cells / Fulvia Gremo, Valeria Sogos and Maria Grazia Ennas [et al.]
  • 7. Migration and Proliferation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in the Central Nervous System / Michel Mallat, Charles-Felix Calvo and Alexandre Dobbertin
  • 8. K[superscript +]-Channels and Cytokines as Markers for Microglial Activation / Britta Kust, Manuel Buttini and Andre Sauter [et al.]
  • 9. Anatomical and Functional Characteristics of Transplanted Monoaminergic Neurons in Paraplegic Rats / Minerva Gimenez y Ribotta, Christelle Roudet and Alain Privat
  • 10. Regulation by Neurotransmitters of Glial Energy Metabolism / Pierre J. Magistretti and Luc Pellerin
  • 11. Dendritic Development of Visual Callosal Neurons / A. Vercelli, F. Assal and G.M. Innocenti
  • 12. Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Plasticity in the Rat following Myenteric Denervation / C. Cracco and G. Filogamo
  • 13. Nerve Growth Factor and Oxidative Stress in the Nervous System / Zhaohui Pan, Deepa Sampath and George Jackson [et al.]
  • 14. Role of Astrocytes in Glutamate Homeostasis: Implications for Excitotoxicity / Arne Schousboe, Ursula Sonnewald and Gianluca Civenni [et al.]
  • 15. Nerve Cell Death Induced by Ca[superscript 2+] Ionophores in Dissociated Hippocampal Cultures: Protective Action of the NMDA Antagonist MK-801 / N. Safran, R. Haring and A. Shainberg [et al.]
  • 16. Is Increased Neurotoxicity a Burden of the Ageing Brain? / Andrea Vaccari, PierLuigi Saba and Ignazia Mocci [et al.]
  • 17. Alzheimer Disease: From Molecular Biology to Therapy / Ezio Giacobini
  • 18. Steroid and Protein Regulators of Glial Cell Proliferation / Luis Goya
  • 19. Estrogens Influence Growth, Maturation, and Amyloid [beta] Peptide Production in Neuroblastoma Cells and in a [beta]-APP Transfected Kidney 293 Cell Line / David Chang, Judy Kwan and Paola S. Timiras
  • 20. Role of Testosterone in the Activation of Sexual Behavior and Neuronal Circuitries in the Senescent Brain / G.C. Panzica, E. Garcia-Ojeda and C. Viglietti-Panzica [et al.]
  • 21. Endogenous Opioids and Prenatal Determinants of Neuroplasticity / Ian S. Zagon, Steven W. Tobias and Patricia J. McLaughlin
  • 22. Brain Plasticity and the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) / Lars Christian B. Ronn, Nina Pedersen and Henrik Jahnsen [et al.].