1. Special issue dedicated to Dr. Hans Thoenen

   Announcement Pages: 735 - 735

2. Foreword

   • Eric M. Shooter

   EditorialNotes Pages: 737 - 738

3. Neurotrophins and the primate central nervous system: A minireview

   • Motoharu Hayashi

   Original Articles Pages: 739 - 747

4. Paracrine and autocrine actions of neurotrophic factors

   • Alun M. Davies

   Original Articles Pages: 749 - 753

5. Molecules inhibiting neurite growth: A minireview

   • Martin E. Schwab

   Original Articles Pages: 755 - 761

6. Neurotrophin-4/5 treatment reduces infarct size in rats with middle cerebral artery occlusion

   • Kay-Min Chan
   • Diem-Thuy N. Lam
   • Franz Hefti

   Original Articles Pages: 763 - 767

7. The concept of uptake and retrograde transport of neurotrophic molecules during development: History and present status

   • Ronald W. Oppenheim

   Original Articles Pages: 769 - 777

8. Signal transduction from membrane to nucleus: The special case for neurons

   • S. O. Johanson
   • M. F. Crouch
   • I. A. Hendry

   Original Articles Pages: 779 - 785

9. Neurotrophin-4: The odd one out in the neurotrophin family

   • Carlos F. Ibáñez

   Original Articles Pages: 787 - 793

10. Visualization of protein kinase activities in single cells by antibodies against phosphorylated vimentin and GFAP

    • Naoyuki Inagaki
    • Kunio Tsujimura
    • Masaki Inagaki

    Original Articles Pages: 795 - 800

11. Preparation of a cell-free translation system from PC12 cells

    • Makoto Shibutani
    • Eugene Kim
    • Gordon Guroff

    Original Articles Pages: 801 - 807

12. Neurotrophin-3 and TrkC-immunoreactive neurons in rat dorsal root ganglia correlate by distribution and morphology

    • Colin Chen
    • Xin-Fu Zhou
    • Robert A. Rush

    Original Articles Pages: 809 - 814

13. EGF-Induced sustained tyrosine phosphorylation and decreased rate of down-regulation of EGF receptor in PC12h-R cells which show neuronal differentiation in response to EGF

    • Masashi Yamada
    • Toshihiko Ikeuchi
    • Hiroshi Hatanaka

    Original Articles Pages: 815 - 822

14. The development of the noradrenergic transmitter phenotype in postganglionic sympathetic neurons

    • U. Ernsberger
    • H. Rohrer

    Original Articles Pages: 823 - 829

15. The response of motoneurons to neurotrophins

    • Michael Sendtner
    • Bettina Holtmann
    • Richard A. Hughes

    Original Articles Pages: 831 - 841

16. Distinct modulatory actions of TGF-β and LIF on neurotrophin-mediated survival of developing sensory neurons

    • Kerstin Krieglstein
    • Klaus Unsicker

    Original Articles Pages: 843 - 850

17. Constitutive phosphorylation of TrkC receptors in cultured cerebellar granule neurons might be responsible for the inability of NT-3 to increase neuronal survival and to activate p21 ras

    • Ute Zirrgiebel
    • Dan Lindholm

    Original Articles Pages: 851 - 859

18. Expression of neuronal-NOS in developing basal forebrain cholinergic neurons: Regulation by NGF

    • David M. Holtzman
    • Sandra Lee
    • William C. Mobley

    Original Articles Pages: 861 - 868