1. Special Issue in Honor of Regino Perez-Polo

   • H. David Shine

   Foreword Pages: 693 - 694

2. Brain Prolyl Endopeptidase Expression in Aging, APP Transgenic Mice and Alzheimer’s Disease

   • Steffen Roßner
   • Ingo Schulz
   • Hans-Ulrich Demuth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 695 - 702

3. Retrograde Axonal Transport of Dopamine Beta Hydroxylase Antibodies by Neurons in the Trigeminal Ganglion

   • Anna J. Reynolds
   • Selma K. Kaasinen
   • Ian A. Hendry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 703 - 712

4. Neurochemical Evidence for Agmatine Modulation of 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,2,3,6-Tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) Neurotoxicity

   • Gad M. Gilad
   • Varda H. Gilad
   • Jose M. Rabey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 713 - 719

5. Expression of Heat Shock Protein (HSP)-25 and HSP-32 in the Rat Spinal Cord Reconstructed with Neurogel^TM

   • Stéphane Woerly
   • Oluwole Awosika
   • Araceli Espinosa-Jeffrey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 721 - 735

6. Effect of Antioxidant Diets on Mitochondrial Gene Expression in Rat Brain During Aging

   • V. G. Nicoletti
   • V. M. Marino
   • A. M. Giuffrida Stella

   OriginalPaper Pages: 737 - 752

7. BMP Enhances Transcriptional Responses to NGF During PC12 Cell Differentiation

   • P. Lönn
   • K. Zaia
   • T. Ebendal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 753 - 765

8. Biochemical Characterization of Intracellular Membranes Bearing Trk Neurotrophin Receptors

   • Hiroko Yano
   • Moses V. Chao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 767 - 777

9. Protein Kinase C Activity is Necessary for Estrogen-Induced Erk Phosphorylation in Neocortical Explants

   • György Sétáló Jr.
   • Meharvan Singh
   • C. Dominique Toran-Allerand

   OriginalPaper Pages: 779 - 790

10. P38 Activation Mediates Amyloid-β Cytotoxicity

    • Xiongwei Zhu
    • Matthew Mei
    • Mark A. Smith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 791 - 796

11. Protective Effect of Carnosine During Nitrosative Stress in Astroglial Cell Cultures

    • V. Calabrese
    • C. Colombrita
    • E. Rizzarelli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 797 - 807

12. Intraspinal Application of Endothelin Results in Focal Ischemic Injury of Spinal Gray Matter and Restricts the Differentiation of Engrafted Neural Stem Cells

    • Richard L. Benton
    • John P. Woock
    • Scott R. Whittemore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 809 - 823

13. The Pre-nervous Serotonergic System of Developing Sea Urchin Embryos and Larvae: Pharmacologic and Immunocytochemical Evidence

    • Gennady A. Buznikov
    • Robert E. Peterson
    • Jean M. Lauder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 825 - 837

14. Puma and p53 Play Required Roles in Death Evoked in a Cellular Model of Parkinson Disease

    • Subhas C. Biswas
    • Elizabeth Ryu
    • Lloyd A. Greene

    OriginalPaper Pages: 839 - 845

15. Lipid Signaling in Experimental Epilepsy

    • Kasie K. Cole-Edwards
    • Nicolas G. Bazan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 847 - 853

16. Effect of Hyperosmotic Conditions on the Expression of the Betaine-GABA-Transporter (BGT-1) in Cultured Mouse Astrocytes

    • Mads Olsen
    • Alan Sarup
    • Arne Schousboe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 855 - 865

17. A Sublethal Dose of TNFα Potentiates Kainate-Induced Excitotoxicity in Optic Nerve Oligodendrocytes

    • Brandon A. Miller
    • Fang Sun
    • Michael S. Beattie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 867 - 875

18. The Role of Neurotrophins in Brain Aging: A Perspective in Honor of Regino Perez-Polo

    • Carl W. Cotman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 877 - 881

19. NF-κB in the Survival and Plasticity of Neurons

    • Mark P. Mattson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 883 - 893

20. Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease – Interrelationship with β-amyloid, Inflammation and Neurotrophin Signaling

    • Reinhard Schliebs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 895 - 908

21. Cellular Stress Reactions as Putative Cholinergic Links in Alzheimer’s Disease

    • Debra Toiber
    • Hermona Soreq

    OriginalPaper Pages: 909 - 919

22. The Chromaffin Cell and its Development

    • Klaus Unsicker
    • Katrin Huber
    • Chaya Kalcheim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 921 - 925

23. Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Brain Aging: Nutritional Considerations

    • J.A. Joseph
    • B. Shukitt-Hale
    • D. Fisher

    OriginalPaper Pages: 927 - 935