- ELSEVIEI Neuroscience Letters 247 (1998) 212-213 Contents to Volume 247 Volume 247, no. 1 Guidelines for the Submission of Manuscripts Protective effect of deferoxamine on sodium nitroprusside-induced apoptosis in PC12 cells M.S. Desole. L. Sciola, S. Sircana, C. Godani, R. Migheli, M.R. Delogu, G. Piras, G. De Natale, E. Miele (Italy) Comparable activity levels in developmentally deprived and non-deprived layer IV cortical columns of the adult rat primary somatosensory cortex G. Gutiérrez-Ospina, S. Diaz-Cintra, A. Aguirre-Portilla, A. Aguilar-Vazquez, S.R. Lopez, F.A. Barrios (Mexico) Increased dentate granule cell neurogenesis following amygdala kindling in the adult rat J.M. Parent, S. Janumpalli, J.O. McNamara, D.H. Lowenstein (USA) Self-sustained firing of human motor units M.A. Gorassini, D.J. Bennett, J.F. Yang (Canada) Postischemic treatment with calpain inhibitor MDL 28170 ameliorates brain damage in a gerbil model of global ischemia P.-A. Li, W. Howlett, Q.P. He, H. Miyashita, M. Siddiqui, A. Shuaib (Canada, USA) Chemokine inhibition in rat stab wound brain injury using antisense oligodeoxynucleotides R.S. Ghirnikar, Y.L. Lee, J.D. Li, L.F. Eng (USA) Intracerebral source localization of mental process-related potentials elicited prior to mental sweating response in humans S. Homma, Y. Nakajima, S. Toma, T. Ito, T. Shibata (Japan) Stochastic determination of the chromosomal region responsible for expression of human glial fibrillary acidic protein in astrocytic tumors T. Yoshimine, M. Maruno, E. Kumura, A.K.M. Ghulam Muhammad, H. Ninomiya, A. Kato, T. Hayakawa (Japan) Low density lipoprotein receptor related protein gene exon 3 polymorphism association with Alzheimer’s disease in Chinese L. Baum, L. Chen, H.-K. Ng, Y.S. Chan, Y.T. Mak, J. Woo, H.F.K. Chiu, C.P. Pang (China) NMDA-induced increases in rat brain glutamine synthetase but not glial fibrillary acidic protein are mediated by free radicals J.E. Davenport Jones, R.M. Fox, C.K. Atterwill (UK) Bilaterally independent respiratory rhythms in the decerebrate rat J.H. Peever, G.-F. Tian, J. Duffin (Canada) High frequency of apolipoprotein E 2 allele is specific for patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related haemorrhage M.O. McCarron, J.A.R. Nicoll (UK) 6-Actin immunoreactivity in rat microglial cells: developmental pattern and participation in microglial reaction after kainate injury M. Plantier, E. Der Terrossian, A. Represa (France) pH dependency of y-calpain and m-calpain activity assayed by casein zymography following traumatic brain injury in the rat X. Zhao, J.K. Newcomb, R.M. Posmantur, K.K.W. Wang, B.R. Pike, R.L. Hayes (USA) Acknowledgements to Reviewers Volume 247, nos. 2,3 Which afferents induce and transmit dorsal root reflex in rats? T.-B. Lin, T.-C. Fu (Taiwan) Regional changes of NADPH-diaphorase and neuropeptide Y neurons in the cerebral cortex of aged Fischer 344 rats Y. Huh, W. Lee, J. Cho, H. Ahn (South Korea) Coexpression of phospholipase A, isoforms in rat striatal astrocytes P. Zanassi, M. Paolillo, S. Schinelli (Italy) Ca’*-H’ antiport activity in synaptic vesicles isolated from sheep brain cortex P.P. Goncalves, S.M. Meireles, C. Gravato, M.G.P. Vale (Portugal) Morphological heterogeneity of cultured spinal and cerebral rat oligodendrocytes C. Bjartmar (Sweden) Imidazoline receptor proteins in brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease J.A. Garcia-Sevilla, P.V. Escriba, C. Walzer, C. Bouras, J. Guimén (Switzerland, Spain) Progressive accumbens degeneration after neonatal striatal 6-hydroxydopamine in rats M.H. Teicher, S.L. Andersen, A. Campbell, H.A. Gelbard, R.J. Baldessarini (USA) Role of calcium in the activation of erp72 and heme oxygenase-1 expression on depletion of endoplasmic reticulum calcium stores in rat neuronal cell culture T. Linden, J. Doutheil, W. Paschen (Germany) - ELSEVIEI Neuroscience Letters 247 (1998) 212-213 Contents to Volume 247 Volume 247, no. 1 Guidelines for the Submission of Manuscripts Protective effect of deferoxamine on sodium nitroprusside-induced apoptosis in PC12 cells M.S. Desole. L. Sciola, S. Sircana, C. Godani, R. Migheli, M.R. Delogu, G. Piras, G. De Natale, E. Miele (Italy) Comparable activity levels in developmentally deprived and non-deprived layer IV cortical columns of the adult rat primary somatosensory cortex G. Gutiérrez-Ospina, S. Diaz-Cintra, A. Aguirre-Portilla, A. Aguilar-Vazquez, S.R. Lopez, F.A. Barrios (Mexico) Increased dentate granule cell neurogenesis following amygdala kindling in the adult rat J.M. Parent, S. Janumpalli, J.O. McNamara, D.H. Lowenstein (USA) Self-sustained firing of human motor units M.A. Gorassini, D.J. Bennett, J.F. Yang (Canada) Postischemic treatment with calpain inhibitor MDL 28170 ameliorates brain damage in a gerbil model of global ischemia P.-A. Li, W. Howlett, Q.P. He, H. Miyashita, M. Siddiqui, A. Shuaib (Canada, USA) Chemokine inhibition in rat stab wound brain injury using antisense oligodeoxynucleotides R.S. Ghirnikar, Y.L. Lee, J.D. Li, L.F. Eng (USA) Intracerebral source localization of mental process-related potentials elicited prior to mental sweating response in humans S. Homma, Y. Nakajima, S. Toma, T. Ito, T. Shibata (Japan) Stochastic determination of the chromosomal region responsible for expression of human glial fibrillary acidic protein in astrocytic tumors T. Yoshimine, M. Maruno, E. Kumura, A.K.M. Ghulam Muhammad, H. Ninomiya, A. Kato, T. Hayakawa (Japan) Low density lipoprotein receptor related protein gene exon 3 polymorphism association with Alzheimer’s disease in Chinese L. Baum, L. Chen, H.-K. Ng, Y.S. Chan, Y.T. Mak, J. Woo, H.F.K. Chiu, C.P. Pang (China) NMDA-induced increases in rat brain glutamine synthetase but not glial fibrillary acidic protein are mediated by free radicals J.E. Davenport Jones, R.M. Fox, C.K. Atterwill (UK) Bilaterally independent respiratory rhythms in the decerebrate rat J.H. Peever, G.-F. Tian, J. Duffin (Canada) High frequency of apolipoprotein E 2 allele is specific for patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related haemorrhage M.O. McCarron, J.A.R. Nicoll (UK) 6-Actin immunoreactivity in rat microglial cells: developmental pattern and participation in microglial reaction after kainate injury M. Plantier, E. Der Terrossian, A. Represa (France) pH dependency of y-calpain and m-calpain activity assayed by casein zymography following traumatic brain injury in the rat X. Zhao, J.K. Newcomb, R.M. Posmantur, K.K.W. Wang, B.R. Pike, R.L. Hayes (USA) Acknowledgements to Reviewers Volume 247, nos. 2,3 Which afferents induce and transmit dorsal root reflex in rats? T.-B. Lin, T.-C. Fu (Taiwan) Regional changes of NADPH-diaphorase and neuropeptide Y neurons in the cerebral cortex of aged Fischer 344 rats Y. Huh, W. Lee, J. Cho, H. Ahn (South Korea) Coexpression of phospholipase A, isoforms in rat striatal astrocytes P. Zanassi, M. Paolillo, S. Schinelli (Italy) Ca’*-H’ antiport activity in synaptic vesicles isolated from sheep brain cortex P.P. Goncalves, S.M. Meireles, C. Gravato, M.G.P. Vale (Portugal) Morphological heterogeneity of cultured spinal and cerebral rat oligodendrocytes C. Bjartmar (Sweden) Imidazoline receptor proteins in brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease J.A. Garcia-Sevilla, P.V. Escriba, C. Walzer, C. Bouras, J. Guimén (Switzerland, Spain) Progressive accumbens degeneration after neonatal striatal 6-hydroxydopamine in rats M.H. Teicher, S.L. Andersen, A. Campbell, H.A. Gelbard, R.J. Baldessarini (USA) Role of calcium in the activation of erp72 and heme oxygenase-1 expression on depletion of endoplasmic reticulum calcium stores in rat neuronal cell culture T. Linden, J. Doutheil, W. Paschen (Germany) Contents to Volume 247 Nicotinic agonists competitively antagonize serotonin at mouse 5-HT; receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes D.A. Gurley, T.H. Lanthorn (USA) Preparation of cell suspensions for co-transplantation: methodological considerations A.I. Othberg, A.E. Willing, S. Saporta, D.F. Cameron, P.R. Sanberg (USA) Dynorphin uses a non-opioid mechanism to potentiate N-methyl-p-aspartate currents in single rat periaqueductal gray neurons S.-L. Lai, Y. Gu, L.-Y. M. Huang (Taiwan, USA) The effect of excitatory aminoacids on GABA release from mediobasal hypothalamus of female rats M. Lasaga, A. De Laurentiis, M. Pampillo, D. Pisera, M. del Carmen Diaz, S. Theas, B. Duvilanski, A. Seilicovich (Argentina) Malic enzyme isoforms in astrocytes: comparative study on activities in rat brain tissue and astroglia-rich primary cultures R. Vogel, B. Hamprecht, H. Wiesinger (Germany) Removal of GABAergic inhibition in the mediodorsal nucleus of the rat thalamus leads to increases in heart rate and blood pressure E. Stotz-Potter, E. Benarroch (USA) Melatonin restores and enhances the human type B tonsillar lymphocyte subset in recurrent acute tonsillitis M.A. Lopez-Gonzalez, J.M. Guerrero, B. Sanchez, F. Delgado (Spain) Neurons as well as astrocytes express proteoglycan-type protein tyrosine phosphatase ¢/RPTP®@: analysis of mice in which the PTPSRPTPB gene was replaced with the LacZ gene T. Shintani, E. Watanabe, N. Maeda, M. Noda (Japan) Modulation of glutamate sensitivities by inhibitors of a protein kinase and a protein phosphatase in cultured rat Purkinje cells J. Kasahara, H. Sugiyama (Japan) Talipexole protects dopaminergic neurons from methamphetamine toxicity in CS7BL/6N mouse T. Kondo, H. Shimada, K. Hatori, Y. Sugita, Y. Mizuno (Japan) Characterization of a plasma membrane zinc transporter in rat brain R.A. Colvin (USA) Spontaneous regeneration of the pyramidal tract after transection in young rats T. Inoue, S. Kawaguchi, K. Kurisu (Japan) Low and high frequency electroacupuncture at Hoku elicits a distinct mechanism to activate sympathetic nervous system in anesthetized rats T.-B. Lin, T.-C. Fu, C.-F. Chen, Y.-J. Lin, C.-T. Chien (Taiwan) Colocalization of Bcl-2 and 4-hydroxynonenal modified proteins in microglial cells and neurons of rat brain following transient focal ischemia T. Urabe, N. Hattori, M. Yoshikawa, H. Yoshino, K. Uchida, Y. Mizuno (Japan) Recoverin and hippocalcin distribution in the lamprey (Lampreta fluviatilis) retina N. Dalil-Thiney, E. Bastianelli, R. Pochet, J. Repérant, C. Versaux-Botteri (France, Belgium) Autoradiographic localisation of muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes in human placenta S.K. Tayebati, L. Vitaioli, D. Zaccheo, F. Amenta (Italy) Impaired short- and long-term memory in Ts65Dn mice, a model for Down syndrome R.M. Escorihuela, I.F. Vallina, C. Martinez-Cué, C. Baamonde, M. Dierssen, A. Tobefia, J. Flérez, A. Fernandez-Teruel (Spain) Inwardly rectifying K* currents in intermediate cells in the cochlea of gerbils: a possible contribution to the endocochlear potential S. Takeuchi, M. Ando (Japan) Cholinergic, but not the rod pathway-related glycinergic (AII), amacrine cells contain calretinin in the rat retina R. Gabriel, P. Witkovsky (Hungary, USA) Effect of spinal cord stimulation on tactile hypersensitivity in mononeuropathic rats is potentiated by simultaneous GABAg and adenosine receptor activation J.-G. Cui, B.A. Meyerson, A. Sollevi, B. Linderoth (Sweden) Does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive aspects of speech production? A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in humans H. Ackermann, D. Wildgruber, 1. Daum, W. Grodd (Germany) Changes in proton currents in murine microglia induced by cytoskeletal disruptive agents R. Klee, U. Heinemann, C. Eder (Germany) Serum levels of macrophage-derived protein MRP-8/14 are elevated in active multiple sclerosis T. Bogumil, P. Rieckmann, B. Kubuschok, K. Felgenhauer, W. Briick (Germany) Cancellation of low-frequency stimulation-induced long-term depression by docosahexaenoic acid in the rat hippocampus C. Young, P.-W. Gean, S.-P. Wu, C.-H. Lin, Y.-Z. Shen (Taiwan) Comparison of mitochondrial respiratory chain enzyme activities in rodent astrocytes and neurones and a human astrocytoma cell line V.C. Stewart, J.M. Land, J.B. Clark, S.J.R. Heales (UK) Motor denervation induces altered muscle fibre type densities and atrophy in a rat model of neuropathic pain M.A.R.C. Daemen, H.A.J.M. Kurvers, P.H.J. Bullens, D.W. Slaaf, G. Freling, P.J.E.H.M. Kitslaar, F.A.J.M. van den Wildenberg (The Netherlands) Author Index to Volume 247 Contents to Volume 247 214 (Contents continued from back coven Colocalization of Bcl-2 and 4-hydroxynonenal modified proteins in microglial cells and neurons of rat brain following transient focal ischemia T. Urabe, N. Hattori, M. Yoshikawa, H. Yoshino, K. Uchida, Y. Mizuno (Japan) Recoverin and hippocalcin distribution in the lamprey (Lampreta fluviatilis) retina N. Dalil-Thiney, E. Bastianelli, R. Pochet, J. Repérant, C. Versaux-Botteri (France, Belgium) Autoradiographic localisation of muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes in human placenta S.K. Tayebati, L. Vitaioli, D. Zaccheo, F. Amenta (Italy) Impaired short- and long-term memory in Ts65Dn mice, a model for Down syndrome R.M. Escorihuela, |.F. Vallina, C. Martinez-Cué, C. Baamonde, M. Dierssen, A. Tobefna, J. Florez, A. Fernandez-Teruel (Spain) Inwardly rectifying K* currents in intermediate cells in the cochlea of gerbils: a possible contribution to the endocochlear potential S. Takeuchi, M. Ando (Japan) Cholinergic, but not the rod pathway-related glycinergic (All), amacrine cells contain calretinin in the rat retina R. Gabriel, P. Witkovsky (Hungary, USA) Effect of spinal cord stimulation on tactile hypersensitivity in mononeuropathic rats is potentiated by simultaneous GABAgs and adenosine receptor activation J.-G. Cui, B.A. Meyerson, A. Sollevi, B. Linderoth (Sweden) Does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive aspects of speech production? A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in humans H. Ackermann, D. Wildgruber, |. Daum, W. Grodd (Germany) Changes in proton currents in murine microglia induced by cytoskeletal disruptive agents R. Klee, U. Heinemann, C. Eder (Germany) Serum levels of macrophage-derived protein MRP-8/14 are elevated in active multiple sclerosis T. Bogumil, P. Rieckmann, B. Kubuschok, K. Felgenhauer, W. Brick (Germany) Cancellation of low-frequency stimulation-induced long-term depression by docosahexaenoic acid in the rat hippocampus C. Young, P.-W. Gean, S.-P. Wu, C.-H. Lin, Y.-Z. Shen (Taiwan) Comparison of mitochondrial respiratory chain enzyme activities in rodent astrocytes and neurones and a human astrocytoma cell line V.C. Stewart, J.M. Land, J.B. Clark, S.J.R. Heales (UK) Motor denervation induces altered muscle fibre type densities and atrophy in a rat model of neuropathic pain M.A.R.C. Daemen, H.A.J.M. Kurvers, P.H.J. Bullens, D.W. Slaaf, G. Freling, P.J.E.H.M. Kitslaar, F.A.J.M. van den Wildenberg (The Netherlands) Author Index to Volume 247 Contents to Volume 247