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Neuroscience Letters Neuroscience Letters 275 (1999) 232-234 Contents to Volume 275 Volume 275, no. 1 Guidelines for the submission of manuscripts Downregulation of kappa opioid receptor mRNA levels by chronic ethanol and repetitive cocaine in rat ventral tegmentum and nucleus accumbens A. Rosin, S. Lindholm, J. Franck, J. Georgieva (Sweden) Transient expression of nitric oxide synthase in the hypoglossal nucleus of the rat during early postnatal development C. Vazquez, G. Anesetti, L. Martinez Palma (Uruguay) Spatial working memory assessment by a visual-manual delayed response task: a controlled study in schizophrenia P. Stratta, E. Daneluzzo, P. Prosperini, M. Bustini, M.G. Marinangeli, A. Rossi (Italy) Exposure of foetal mesencephalic cells to bone morphogenetic protein-2 enhances the survival of dopaminergic neurones in rat striatal grafts M. Espejo, B. Cutillas, F. Ventura, S. Ambrosio (Spain) Differential display and cloning of the hippocampal gene mRNAs in senescence accelerated mouse X. Wei, Y. Zhang, J. Zhou (People’s Republic of China) Ontogenetic expression and splicing of estrogen receptor-a and B mRNA in the rat midbrain H. Raab, M. Karolczak, I. Reisert, C. Beyer (Germany) Changes of superoxide dismutase gene expression and activity in the brain of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats W.-C. Huang, S.-W. Juang, I.-M. Liu, T.-C. Chi, J.-T. Cheng (Taiwan) Rat motor neuron plasticity induced by dorsal rhizotomy R. Cuppini, S. Sartini, P. Ambrogini, G. Fulgenzi, L. Graciotti (Italy) Ketamine and phenobarbital do not reduce the evoked-potential enhancement induced by electroconvulsive shock seizures in the rat Z. Gombos, A. Mendonga, G.A. Cottrell, W. McIntyre Burnham (Canada) Transient increases of histamine H, and H; receptor mRNA levels in the rat striatum after the chronic administration of methamphetamine Y. Kubota, C. Ito, A. Kuramasu, M. Sato, T. Watanabe (Japan) Sodium homeostasis in rat hippocampal slices during oxygen and glucose deprivation: role of voltage-sensitive sodium channels M.-L. Fung, M.D.R. Croning, G.G. Haddad (Hong Kong, USA) Co-localization of the glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor and its functional receptor c-RET in a subpopulation of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons T. Honda, M. Takahashi, Y. Sugiura (Japan) From spatial acoustic changes to attentive behavioral responses within 200 ms in humans T. Ruusuvirta (Finland) Early hypoxia modulates the phenotype of dopaminergic cells in rat di- and mesencephalic cell cultures and induces a higher vulnerability of non-dopaminergic neurons to a second hypoxic exposure B. Husemann, N. Andreeva, J. Gao, J. Heldt, K. Andersson, J. Gross (Germany, Russia, Sweden) Altered levels of neuropeptides characterize the brain of lupus prone mice L. Bracci-Laudiero, L. Aloe, T. Lundeberg, E. Theodorsson, C. Stenfors (Sweden, Italy) Dendritic Ca”* transient increase evoked by wind stimulus in the cricket giant interneuron H. Ogawa, Y. Baba, K. Oka (Japan) Development of membrane properties of rat neocortical neurons studied in organotypic cocultures K. Yamada, N. Yamamoto, K. Toyama (Japan) Psychological stress selectively increases extracellular dopamine in the ‘shell’, but not in the ‘core’ of the rat nucleus accumbens: a novel dual-needle probe simultaneous microdialysis study Y.-L. Wu, M. Yoshida, H. Emoto, M. Tanaka (People’s Republic of China) Volume 275, no. 2 Huperzine A protects rat pheochromocytoma cells against hydrogen peroxide-induced injury X.Q. Xiao, J.W. Yang, X.C. Tang (People’s Republic of China) 233 Contents to Volume 275 Force level modulates human cortical oscillatory activities T. Mima, N. Simpkins, T. Oluwatimilehin, M. Hallett (USA) Semantic or lexico-syntactic factors: what determines word-class specific activity in the human brain? F. Pulvermiiller, B. Mohr, H. Schleichert (Germany) Progesterone receptor expression in the brainstem of the female rat Y. Kastrup, M. Hallbeck, A. Amandusson, S. Hirata, O. Hermanson, A. Blomqvist (Sweden, Japan) The methylation status of cytosines in a T gene promoter region alters with age to downregulate transcriptional activity in human cerebral cortex H. Tohgi, K. Utsugisawa, Y. Nagane, M. Yoshimura, M. Ukitsu, Y. Genda (Japan) Warming-activated channels of warm-sensitive neurons in rat hypothalamic slices A. Hori, K. Minato, S. Kobayashi (Japan) The regeneration of reduced glutathione in rat forebrain mitochondria identifies metabolic pathways providing the NADPH required R. Vogel, H. Wiesinger, B. Hamprecht, R. Dringen (Germany) Calcitonin microinjection into the periaqueductal gray impairs contextual fear conditioning in the rat R. Aboufatima, A. Chait, A. Dalal, R. de Beaurepaire (Morocco, France) Synuclein expression is decreased in rat substantia nigra following induction of apoptosis by intrastriatal 6-hydroxydopamine N.G. Kholodilov, T.F. Oo, R.E. Burke (USA) Effects of etonitazene consumption and abstinence on the signal transmission of .-opioid receptors in brain membranes of rats T. May, F. Juilfs, J. Wolffgramm (Germany) Noradrenaline-induced pigment aggregating response of melanophores in normal, denervated and reinnervated cichlid skin L.G.E. Martensson, S. Warmlander, C. Hildebrand (Sweden) Partial sciatic nerve transection induced tyrosine hydroxidase immunoreactive axon sprouting around both injured and spared dorsal root ganglion neurons which project to the gracile nucleus in middle-aged rats W. Ma, M.A. Bisby (Canada) Effects of quinine on three different types of potassium currents in bullfrog sympathetic neurons S. Imai, T. Suzuki, K. Sato, T. Tokimasa (Japan) Functional changes of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid and a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate channels in gerbil hippocampal CAI, in relation to postischemic enhancement of glutamate receptor-mediated responses K. Ikemune, A. Mitani, S. Namba, K. Kataoka, T. Arai (Japan) Preparation of human cDNAs encoding expanded polyglutamine repeats M.F. Peters, C.A. Ross (USA) Cortical catecholamine changes and seizures induced by 4-aminopyridine in awake rats, studied with a dual microdialysis-electrical recording technique A. Morales-Villagran, S. Lopez-Pérez, L. Medina-Ceja, R. Tapia (Mexico) Risk for Alzheimer’s disease in older late-onset cases is associated with HLA-DRB1*03 D. Neill, M.D. Curran, D. Middleton, H. Mawhinney, J.A. Edwardson, I. McKeith, C. Ballard, C. Morris, P. Ince, E. Jaros, R. Perry (UK) Induction of cyclooxygenase-2 in the rat brain after a mild episode of focal ischemia without tissue inflammation or neural cell damage A.M. Planas, M.A. Soriano, C. Justicia, E. Rodriguez-Farré (Spain) Expression and distribution of redox regulatory protein, thioredoxin after metabolic impairment by 3-nitropropionic acid in rat brain T. Sugino, K. Nozaki, Y. Takagi, I. Hattori, N. Hashimoto, J. Yodoi (Japan) Apoptosis of glioma cells induced by the fibroblast growth factor inhibitor 1 ,3,6-naphthalenetrisulfonate P. Cuevas, D. Reimers, D. Diaz, R.M. Lozano, G. Giménez-Gallego (Spain) Gluthatione level is altered in lymphoblasts from patients with familial Alzheimer’s disease C. Cecchi, S. Latorraca, S. Sorbi, T. Iantomasi, F. Favilli, M.T. Vincenzini, G. Liguri (Italy) Volume 275, no. 3 Protein kinase C inhibition has only a transient growth arresting effect on in vitro regenerating mouse sensory neurons P. Wiklund, P.A.R. Ekstrom (Sweden) Increased levels of tau-like protein in patients with Down syndrome P.D. Mehta, B.A. Patrick, A.J. Dalton, P.S. Aisen, M.E. Emmerling, E.A. Sersen, H.M. Wisniewski (USA) Sr** induce a release of divalent cation from internal Ca** store by nerve stimulation at frog neuromuscular junction N. Tanabe, A. Morota (Japan) Pre-ischemic depletion of brain norepinephrine decreases infarct size in normothermic rats exposed to transient focal cerebral ischemia B. Neligard, G. Burkhard Mackensen, S. Sarraf-Yazdi, Y. Miura, R. Pearlstein, D.S. Warner (USA) The regulation of externally paced human locomotion in virtual reality M. Buekers, G. Montagne, A. de Rugy, M. Laurent (Belgium, France) Diabetes alters neurite regeneration from mouse retinal explants in culture M. Takano, K. Sango, H. Horie, M. Sato, Y. Iijima, $. Ohno, S. Inoue, Y. Ishikawa (Japan) Contents to Volume 275 Increase in bombesin-like peptides in the spinal cord after dexamethasone treatment of adrenalectomized rats T. Westermark, T. Isaksson, P. Holmberg, U. Kjérell, S$. Rantapaéaé-Dahlqvist, S. Forsgren (Sweden) 179 Identification of a novel polymorphism in the promoter region of the tau gene highly associated to progressive supranuclear palsy in humans M. Ezquerra, P. Pastor, F. Valldeoriola, J.L. Molinuevo, R. Blesa, E. Tolosa, R. Oliva (Spain) 183 Suppressive action produced by B-amyloid peptide fragment 31-35 on long-term potentiation in rat hippocampus is N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-independent: it’s offset by (—)huperzine A L. Ye, J.-T. Qiao (People’s Republic of China) 187 Immunoglobulins induce increased myelin debris clearance by mouse macrophages T. Kuhlmann, W. Briick (Germany) 191 Lesions of the rat piriform cortex prevent long-lasting sensorimotor gating deficits induced by stimulation of the ventral hippocampus M. Koch, A. Klarner, H.-U. Schnitzler (Germany) Nitric oxide release from substantia gelatinosa of the rat spinal cord in vitro S. Kimura, Y. Yajiri, S. Uchiyama, H.E. Takahashi, K. Shibuki (Japan) Rat primary cultured microglia express glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor receptors S. Honda, K. Nakajima, Y. Nakamura, Y. Imai, $. Kohsaka (Japan) Pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field affects human sleep and sleep electroencephalogram A.A. Borbély, R. Huber, T. Graf, B. Fuchs, E. Gallmann, P. Achermann (Switzerland) Sigmoidal admission rate-dependence of toluene narcotic potency in rats: comparison with nitrous oxide J.H. Abraini, P. Campo, B. Kriem, J.-C. Rostain, A. Vincent (France) A stereological study on the neuroprotective actions of acute Modafinil treatment on 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine- induced nigral lesions of the male black mouse J.A. Aguirre, A. Cintra, J. Hillion, J.A. Narvaez, A. Jansson, T. Antonelli, L. Ferraro, F.A. Rambert, K. Fuxe (Spain, Sweden, Italy, France) 215 The organization of rapid eye movement activity during rapid eye movement sleep is impaired in the elderly G. Ficca, S. Gori, P. Ktonas, C. Quattrini, J. Trammell, P. Salzarulo (Italy, USA) 219 Analysis of music—brain interaction with simultaneous measurement of regional cerebral blood flow and electroencephalogram beta rhythm in human subjects S. Nakamura, N. Sadato, T. Oohashi, E. Nishina, Y. Fuwamoto, Y. Yonekura (Japan) 222 Corrigendum 227 Author Index to Volume 275 228 Contents to Volume 275 232