1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. Kainic acid-mediated excitotoxicity as a model for neurodegeneration

   • Qun Wang
   • Sue Yu
   • Albert Y. Sun

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 16

3. Role of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of selective neuronal loss in Wernicke’s encephalopathy

   • Paul Desjardins
   • Roger F. Butterworth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 25

4. Phospholipase A₂ in astrocytes

   • Grace Y. Sun
   • Jianfeng Xu
   • Gary A. Weisman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 41

5. The α-ketoglutarate-dehydrogenase complex

   • Gary E. Gibson
   • John P. Blass
   • Victoria Bunik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 63

6. Mechanisms for inhibition of P2 receptors signaling in neural cells

   • Fernando A. González
   • Gary A. Weisman
   • Nataliya E. Chorna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 79

7. Oxidative stress in mitochondria

   • Makoto Naoi
   • Wakako Maruyama
   • Masashi Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 93

8. Signaling from P2 nucleotide receptors to protein kinase cascades induced by CNS injury

   • Joseph T. Neary
   • Yuan Kang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 103

9. Oxidative stress and neuronal death/survival signaling in cerebral ischemia

   • Atsushi Saito
   • Carolina M. Maier
   • Pak H. Chan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 116

10. Similarities and differences between the Wnt and reelin pathways in the forming brain

    • Orly Reiner
    • Tamar Sapir

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 134

11. Polyphenols in cerebral ischemia

    • Agnes Simonyi
    • Qun Wang
    • Grace Y. Sun

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 147

12. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase

    • Robert Piotr Strosznajder
    • Henryk Jesko
    • Agata Zambrzycka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 167

13. Molecular determinants of P2Y₂ nucleotide receptor function

    • Gary A. Weisman
    • M. Wang
    • L. Erb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 183

14. Is hypercholesterolemia a risk factor for alzheimer’s disease?

    • W. Gibson Wood
    • Urule Igbavboa
    • Walter E. Müller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 192

15. Metabolic investigation in psychiatric disorders

    • Jeffrey K. Yao
    • Ravinder D. Reddy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 203

16. Oxidative imbalance in alzheimer’s disease

    • Xiongwei Zhu
    • Hyoung-gon Lee
    • Mark A. Smith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 217

17. Synaptic signaling by lipids in the life and death of neurons

    • Nicolas G. Bazan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 230

18. Effects of hypoxia on the proliferation and differentiation of NSCs

    • Ling-Ling Zhu
    • Li-Ying Wu
    • Ming Fan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 242

19. α-Synuclein and dopamine metabolism

    • Shun Yu
    • Kenji Uéda
    • Piu Chan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 254

20. Hypoxic preconditioning

    • Guo-Wei Lu
    • Shun Yu
    • Cui-Ying Gao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 271

21. Environmental toxins and α-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease

    • Yanying Liu
    • Hui Yang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 282

22. Natural antioxidants for neurodegenerative diseases

    • Baolu Zhao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 293

23. Pharmacological study of the novel compound FLZ against experimental parkinson’s models and its active mechanism

    • WeiHong Feng
    • HuaiLing Wei
    • Geng Tao Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 300