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BRAIN RESEARCH VOL. 632 NOS 1/2 CONTENTS 31 DECEMBER 1993 Cited in Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) — Chem. Abstracts — Index Medicus (MEDLINE) — Current Contents (Life Sci.) — Excerpta Medica (EMBASE) - Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO) — Pascal et Francis (INIST-CNRS) — RIS (Reference Update) — Current Awareness in Biological Science (CABS) Guidelines for the submission of manuscripts Research Reports Peripheral proprioceptive modulation in crayfish walking leg by serotonin C. Rossi-Durand (France) Pre-emptive administration of clonidine prevents development of hyperalgesia to mechanical stimuli in a model of mononeuropathy in the rat G.D. Smith, S.M. Harrison, J. Wiseman, P.J. Elliott and P.J. Birch (UK) Effects of ageing on tachykinin function in the basal ganglia A.J. Stoessl, E. Polanski and H. Frydryszak (Canada) Infusions of a-2 noradrenergic agonists and antagonists into the amygdala: effects on kindling M.R. Pelletier and M.E. Corcoran (Canada) Deficits in working memory following inhibition of hippocampal nitric oxide synthesis in the rat M. Ohno, T. Yamamoto and S. Watanabe (Japan) Intrahippocampal transplants of septal cholinergic neurons: choline acetyltransferase activity, muscarinic receptor binding, and spatial memory function B.J. Tarricone, J.R. Simon and W.C. Low (USA) Innervation of normal human sural and optic nerves by noradrenaline- and peptide-containing nervi vasorum and nervorum: effect of diabetes and alcoholism J. Lincoln, P. Milner, O. Appenzeller, G. Burnstock and C. Qualls (UK, USA) Fos induction by nerve growth factor in the adult rat brain Z.-C. Peng, S. Chen, M. Fusco, G. Vantini and M. Bentivoglio (Italy) Ventral tegmental injections of morphine but not U-50,488H enhance feeding in food-deprived rats M.B. Noel and R.A. Wise (Canada) Effects of tachykinins on phosphoinositide metabolism in the hypothalamus: is the NK1 receptor involved? C.J. Lebrun, P. Wende, U. Steckelings, K. Itoi and Th. Unger (Germany, Japan) Neonatal sciatic nerve lesion triggers the sprouting of fibers in the contralateral ventral root of the rat K. Chung, M.J. Park, K. Sheen and J.M. Chung (USA) Localisation of muscarinic (m,) and other neurotransmitter receptors on corticofugal-projecting pyramidal neurones I.P. Chessell, P.T. Francis, M.N. Pangalos, R.C.A. Pearson and D.M. Bowen (UK) Variations in soleus H-reflexes as a function of plantarflexion torque in man A.J. Butler, G. Yue and W.G. Darling (USA) Activation of the human supraoptic and paraventricular nucleus neurons with aging and in Alzheimer’s disease as judged from increasing size of the Golgi apparatus P.J. Lucassen, R. Ravid, N.K. Gonatas and D.F. Swaab (Netherlands, USA) Transthyretin expression in the rat brain: effect of thyroid functional state and role in thyroxine transport P. Blay, C. Nilsson, C. Owman, A. Aldred and G. Schreiber (Sweden, Australia) Mercury (Hg?*) decreases voltage-gated calcium channel currents in rat DRG and Aplysia neurons M. Pekel, B. Platt and D. Biisselberg (Germany) Expression of Fos in rat central nervous system elicited by afferent stimulation of the femoral nerve D.J. McKitrick and F.R. Calaresu (Canada) Mechanisms underlying hypothalamic temperature changes during sleep in mammals A. Azzaroni and P.L. Parmeggiani (Italy) Repeated exposure to hyperbaric oxygen sensitizes rats to oxygen-induced seizures L.H. Fenton and M.B. Robinson (USA) Activation of the medial septal area attenuates LTP of the lateral perforant path and enhances heterosynaptic LTD of the medial perforant path in aged rats K. Pang, M.J. Williams and D.S. Olton (USA) Gustatory and tactile stimulation of the posterior tongue activate overlapping but distinctive regions within the nucleus of the solitary tract C.B. Halsell, J.B. Travers and S.P. Travers (USA) (contents continued on p. 358) L 0006-8993(19931231)632:1/2;1-U 358 (contents continued) Effect of portal infusion of hypertonic saline on neurons in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus in the rat M. Kobashi and A. Adachi (Japan) Channel shutdown: a response of hippocampal neurons to adverse environments G.G. Somjen, G.C. Faas, M. Vreugdenhil and W.J. Wadman (Netherlands, USA) Membrane currents in CA1 pyramidal cells during spreading depression (SD) and SD-like hypoxic depolarization G. Czéh, P.G. Aitken and G.G. Somjen (Hungary, USA) Opioid receptor density changes in Alzheimer amygdala and putamen J. Barg, M. Belcheva, J. Rowinski, A. Ho, W.J. Burke, H.D. Chung, C.A. Schmidt and C.J. Coscia (USA, Israel) Location and axonal projection of one type of swallowing interneurons in cat medulla K. Ezure, Y. Oku and I. Tanaka (Japan) Effects of ammonium ions on synaptic transmission and on responses to quisqualate and N-methyl-D-aspartate in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in vitro P. Fan and J.C. Szerb (Canada) Na* influx through Ca** channels can promote striatal GABA efflux in Ca?*-deficient conditions in response to electrical field depolarization S. Bernath, M.J. Zigmond, E.S. Nisenbaum, E.S. Vizi and T.W. Berger (USA, Hungary) Microcircuitry of posterior cingulate cortex in vitro: electrophysiology and laminar analysis using the current source density method T.G. Hedberg, G.V. Simpson and P.K. Stanton (USA) Morphological diversities of CD44 positive astrocytes in the cerebral cortex of normal subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease H. Akiyama, I. Tooyama, T. Kawamata, K. Ikeda and P.L. McGeer (Japan, Canada) The peripheral and central projections of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus in the rat. A light and electron microscopic tracing study J. Klooster, H.J.M. Beckers, G.F.J.M. Vrensen and J.J.L. Van der Want (Netherlands) Development and regulation of B adrenergic receptors in kitten visual cortex: an immunocytochemical and autoradiographic study Y. Liu, W. Jia, A.D. Strosberg and M. Cynader (Canada, France) Reduction of voluntary alcohol consumption in the rat by transplantation of hypothalamic grafts A.J. Langa, L.A. Grupp and Y. Israel (Canada) Protective effect of nerve growth factor against glutamate-induced neurotoxicity in cultured cortical neurons S. Shimohama, N. Ogawa, Y. Tamura, A. Akaike, T. Tsukahara, H. Iwata and J. Kimura (Japan) Short Communications Neuritogenesis of retinal ganglion cells is differentially promoted by target extract: retinal neuritogenesis A. Bosco, N.G. Carri and R. Linden (Argentina, Brazil) Dopamine D, receptor control of pallidal fos expression: comparisons between intact and 6-hydroxydopamine-treated hemispheres J.F. Marshall, B.N. Cole and G.J. LaHoste (USA) Increased levels of the excitotoxin quinolinic acid in spinal cord following contusion injury A.R. Blight, K. Saito and M.P. Heyes (USA) Mapping extracellular excitability in an insect mechanoreceptor neuron P.H. Torkkeli and A.S. French (Canada) Involvement of EP; subtype of prostaglandin E receptors in PGE,-induced enhancement of the bradykinin response of nociceptors T. Kumazawa, K. Mizumura and H. Koda (Japan) Adult rabbit brain synthesizes retinoic acid S. Dev, A.J. Adler and R.B. Edwards (USA) Distribution of N-methyl p-aspartate (NMDA) receptor mRNAs in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus J.D. Mikkelsen, P.J. Larsen and F.J.P. Ebling (Denmark, UK) Colocalization of Fos- and glucocorticoid receptor-immunoreactivities is present only in a very restricted population of dorsal horn neurons of the rat spinal cord after nociceptive stimulation A. Cintra, C. Molander and K. Fuxe (Sweden) Differential controls of small and large motor unit activity in the masseter muscle with incisal stimulation in humans C. Yamamura and K. Shimada (Japan) Colocalization of calbindin-D28k with vasopressin in hypothalamic cells of the rat: a double-labeling immunofluorescence study R. Arai, D.M. Jacobowitz and S. Deura (Japan, USA) Opioid receptor antagonist nalmefene stereospecifically inhibits glutamate release during global cerebral ischemia S.H. Graham, H. Shimizu, A. Newman, P. Weinstein and A.I. Faden (USA) The subdivisions of the intermediolateral nucleus in the sacral spinal cord of the cat Y. Lü, Y.-J. Du, B.-Z. Qin and J.-S. Li (People’s Republic of China) Author Index