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BRAIN RESEARCH: DEVELOPMENTAL. BRAIN RESEARCH VOL. 146 NOS. 1,2 CON TENTS 19 DECEMBER 2003 Cited in Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) — Chem. Abstracts — Index Medicus € AZEDLINE) — 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 Neurosciora Publisher's Notes Free colour illustrations in the online version of articles Vv Change in policy for publishing papers describing gene expression patterns vi Why publish Gene Expression Pattern papers in Brain Research? Vii Announcements Brain Research Young Investigator Awards - November 2002 Vill Brain Research Young Investigator Awards 1X Guide for Authors Xx Themes and Topics XV Research reports Direct cell—cell contact required for neurotrophic effect of chromaffin cells on tmeural progenitor cells M.A. Schumm, D.A. Castellanos, B.R. Frydel and J. Sagen (USA) | Dexamethasone exposure during the neonatal period alters ORLI mRNA expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and hippocampus of the adult rat C.R. Neal Jr., B.L. VanderBeek, D.M. Vazquez and S.J. Watson Jr. (US A.) 15 Cell death in the nasal septum of normal and naris-occluded rats P. Brunjes and D.C. Shurling (USA) 25 Manipulating transmitter release at the neuromuscular junction of neonatal rats zalters the expression of ChAT and GAP-43 in motoneurons P.S. Sharp, J. Dekkers, J.R.T. Dick and L. Greensmith (UK) 29 Changes in the postnatal development on nitric oxide system induced by serot@min depletion P. Tagliaferro, A.J. Ramos, J.J. Lopez-Costa, E.M. Lopez and A. Brusc@ (Argentina) 39 Spatial and temporal patterns of expression of Noggin and BMP4 in embryonic and postnatal rat hippocampus X. Fan, H. Xu, W. Cai, Z. Yang and J. Zhang (PR China) 5] The sensitivity of sodium channels in immature and mature rat CA] neurones t©@ the local anaesthetics procaine and lidocaine M.A. Ribeiro and P.F. Costa (Portugal) 59 Quantitative features of the nucleus rotundus in the brain of pre- and post-hatcIh chicks N. Con, A. Canbilen, P.M. Bradley and S. Kaplan (Turkey, UK) 71 p21" Activation following hypoxia—ischemia in the newborn rat brain is dependent on nitric oxide synthase activity but p21"* l ras does not contribute to neurologic injury M.S. Wainwright, L.A. Brennan, M.L. Dizon and S.M. Black (USA) 79 (Contents contér2zued inside) Also available on 0165-3806 (20031219) 146:1/2;1-C www.sciencedirect.com (contents continued) Ontogenesis and regulation of cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system of the mouse G. Quan, C. Xie, J.M. Dietschy and S.D. Turley (USA) Spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression during fetal monkey brain development D.E. Redmond Jr., J.-l. Zhao, J.D. Randall, A.C. Eklund, L.O.V. Eusebi, R.H. Roth, S.R. Gullans and R.V. Jensen (USA) Expression of the guanine nucleotide exchange factor, mr-gef, is regulated during the differentiation of specific subsets of telencephalic neurons A. Bithell, J. Alberta, F. Hornby, C.D. Stiles and B.P. Williams (UK, USA) Epigenetic factors differentially influence postnatal maturation of serotonin (5-HT) innervation in cerebral cortex of gerbils: interaction of rearing conditions and early methamphetamine challenge J. Neddens, F. Bagorda, A. Busche, S. Horstmann, G.H. Moll, R.R. Dawirs and G. Teuchert-Noodt (Germany) Short communication NADPH-diaphorase positivity in the rostral migratory stream of the developing rat E. Raéekova, J. Orendacova, M. Martoncikova and I. Vanicky (Slovak Republic) Author Index