BRAIN RESEARCH VOL. 921 NOS. 1,2 CONTENTS 7 DECEMBER 2001 Cited in Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) — Chem. Abstracts — Index Medicus (MEDLINE) — Current Contents (Life Sci.) - EMBASE/Excerpta Medica — Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO) — Pascal et Francis (INIST-CNRS) — RIS (Reference Update) — Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences. Full text available in ScienceDirect’ and Neuroscion. Announcements Brain Research Interactive Young Investigator Awards Call for Papers — Gene Expression Patterns vi Research reports Age-related differences in NMDA responses in cultured rat hippocampal neurons C. Cady, M.S. Evans, G.J. Brewer (USA) Association of extracellular acetylcholinesterase with gustatory nerve terminal fibers in the nucleus of the solitary tract M.A. Barry, S. Haglund, L.D. Savoy (USA) Distribution of an orphan G-protein coupled receptor (JP05) mRNA in the human brain S. Brezillon, M. Detheux, M. Parmentier, T. Hökfelt, Y.L. Hurd (Belgium, Sweden) Tau phosphorylation during apoptosis of human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells P. Mookherjee, GV.W. Johnson (USA) Location of dye-coupled second order and of efferent vestibular neurons labeled from individual semicircular canal or otolith organs in the frog A. Birinyi, H. Straka, C. Matesz, N. Dieringer (Hungary, Germany) AMPA GluR2 subunit is differentially distributed on GABAergic neurons and pyramidal cells in the macaque monkey visual cortex Y. He, P.R. Hof, W.G.M. Janssen, P. Vissavajjhala, J.H. Morrison (USA) Corticocortical and thalamocortical projections to layer I of the frontal neocortex in rats B.D. Mitchell, L.J. Cauller (USA) Subfornical organ neurons projecting to paraventricular nucleus: whole-cell properties JW. Anderson, P.M. Smith, AV. Ferguson (Canada) Excitatory amino acid receptor subtype agonists induce feeding in the nucleus accumbens shell in rats: opioid antagonist actions and interactions with p-opioid agonists J.A. Echo, N. Lamonte, G. Christian, V. Znamensky, T.F. Ackerman, R.J. Bodnar (USA) Identification and characterization of an output neuron from the oscillatory molluscan olfactory network S. Shimozono, S. Watanabe, T. Inoue, Y. Kirino (Japan) Halothane-induced intracellular calcium release in cholinergic cells R.S. Gomez, C. Guatimosim, J. Barbosa, A.R. Massensini, MV. Gomez, M.A.M. Prado (Brazil) Chronic administration of pharmacological levels of melatonin does not ameliorate the MPTP-induced degeneration of the nigrostriatal pathway WW. Morgan, J.F. Nelson (USA) Reverse microdialysis of N-methyl-p-aspartic acid into the lateral hypothalamus of rats: effects on feéding and other behaviors M.A. Duva, E.M. Tomkins, L.M. Moranda, R. Kaplan, A. Sukhaseum, A. Jimenez, B.G. Stanley (USA) Synaptic connections between trigemino-parabrachial projection neurons and y-aminobutyric acid- and glycine-immunoreactive terminals in the rat D. Wang, J.-H. Wu, Y.-X. Dong, Y.-Q. Li (PR China) Distribution of iron in the parrot brain: conserved (pallidal) and derived (nigral) labeling patterns T.F. Roberts, S.E. Brauth, W.S. Hall (USA) Social play development in pre-weaning olfactory deprived or stimulated rats A. Loranca, M. Salas (Mexico) Methamphetamine produces subsequent reductions in running time to exhaustion in mice M.I. Kalinski, D.E. Dluzen, R. Stadulis (USA) Zinc-enriched GABAergic terminals in mouse spinal cord Z. Wang, J.-Y. Li, A. Dahlström, G. Danscher (Sweden, Denmark, China) A dopamine antagonist blocks vaginocervical stimulation-induced neuronal responses in the rat forebrain A. Quysner, J.D. Blaustein (USA) (Contents continued inside) 0006-8993 (20011207) 921:1/2;1-W (contents continued) Functional analysis of GABA, receptors in nucleus tractus solitarius neurons from neonatal rats R.-Q. Huang, G.H. Dillon (USA) Projection sites of superficial and deep spinal dorsal horn cells in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the rat F.O. Gamboa-Esteves, I. Tavares, A. Almeida, T.F.C. Batten, P.N. McWilliam, D. Lima (UK, Portugal) Influence of gender on auditory startle responses M. Kofler, J. Müller, L. Reggiani, J. Valls-Solé (Austria, Spain) Sustained unilateral blockade of rat striatal M, muscarinic receptors with ml-toxinl in vivo J. Liang, C. Gutierrez-Ford, L.T. Potter (USA) Traumatic injury-induced BMP7 expression in the adult rat spinal cord T. Setoguchi, K. Yone, E. Matsuoka, H. Takenouchi, K. Nakashima, T. Sakou, S. Komiya, S. Izumo (Japan) Reduction by sevoflurane of adenosine 5'-triphosphate-activated inward current of locus coeruleus neurons in pontine slices of rats E. Masaki, M. Kawamura, F. Kato (Japan) Antinociceptive profiles of aspirin and acetaminophen in formalin, substance P and glutamate pain models S.-S. Choi, J.-K. Lee, H.-W. Suh (South Korea) The distribution of cannabinoid-induced Fos expression in rat brain: differences between the Lewis and Wistar strain J.C. Arnold, A.N. Topple, P.E. Mallet, G.E. Hunt, 1.S. McGregor (Australia) Short communications Neuronal preservation in the sympathetic ganglia of rats with chronic streptozotocin-induced diabetes R.E. Schmidt (USA) The role of the cAMP-PKA system in the short-term regulation of striatal ['*C]-2-deoxyglucose uptake in freely moving rats R. Hosoi, S. Momosaki, N. Ibii, K. Abe, T. Itoh, O. Inoue (Japan) Author index To view articles from this journal, visit Neuroscion, $ neuroscion the comprehensive neuroscience information service on the web. a meeting of minds 8=2 » e... Register today at WwW.neuroscion.com »a—- ®sn s o..e„e .r es eseges«s @s== @s#e 2 s@ @e