1. Preface to the Special Edition

   • Toru Nabika
   • Yukio Yamori

   Preface Pages: 579 - 579

2. Role of Genetic Factors in the Etiopathogenesis of Cerebrovascular Accidents: From an Animal Model to the Human Disease

   • Speranza Rubattu
   • Rosita Stanzione
   • Massimo Volpe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 581 - 588

3. Substrain Differences, Gender, and Age of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats Critically Determine Infarct Size Produced by Distal Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

   • Hitonori Takaba
   • Kenji Fukuda
   • Hiroshi Yao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 589 - 598

4. Nutritional Prevention on Hypertension, Cerebral Hemodynamics and Thrombosis in Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

   • Takanori Noguchi
   • Katsumi Ikeda
   • Yukio Yamori

   OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 638

5. The Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat: How Good Is It as a Model for Cerebrovascular Diseases?

   • Toru Nabika
   • Zonghu Cui
   • Junichi Masuda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 639 - 646

6. Properties of Connexin26 Hemichannels Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes

   • Harris Ripps
   • Haohua Qian
   • Jane Zakevicius

   OriginalPaper Pages: 647 - 665

7. Distribution of Neuropeptide Y-Immunoreactive Neurons in the Human Brainstem, Cerebellum, and Cortex During Development

   • Sen Mun Wai
   • Pawel M. Kindler
   • David T. Yew

   OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 684

8. Hypoxic Excitability Changes and Sodium Currents in Hippocampus CA1 Neurons

   • M. Englund
   • M. Bjurling
   • T. Brismar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 694

9. Tacrolimus-Induced Neurotoxicity and Nephrotoxicity Is Ameliorated by Administration in the Dark Phase in Rats

   • Atsushi Yamauchi
   • Ryozo Oishi
   • Yasufumi Kataoka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 695 - 704

10. Erratum

    Erratum Pages: 705 - 705