1. Human astrocytic brain tumors express APO2L/TRAIL

   • Johannes Rieger
   • Hiroko Ohgaki
   • M. Weller

   Express communication Pages: 1 - 4

2. Nuclear DNA fragmentation in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: does a mere positive in situ nuclear end-labeling indicate apoptosis?

   • I. Ferrer

   Regular paper Pages: 5 - 12

3. Immunohistochemical analysis of spinal cord lesions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) antibodies

   • H. Kikuchi
   • Katsumi Doh-ura
   • Toru Iwaki

   Regular paper Pages: 13 - 21

4. Immunoelectron microscopic study of c-Fos, c-Jun and heat shock protein after transient cerebral ischemia in gerbils

   • Hidekazu Tomimoto
   • Osamu Takemoto
   • Takehiko Yanagihara

   Regular paper Pages: 22 - 30

5. An increase of hippocampal calretinin-immunoreactive neurons correlates with early febrile seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy

   • I. Blümcke
   • Heinz Beck
   • Otmar D. Wiestler

   Regular paper Pages: 31 - 39

6. Immunocytochemical demonstration of oncocytes in normal adenohypophysis

   • H. Nishioka
   • H. Ito
   • Y. Kato

   Regular paper Pages: 40 - 44

7. Early T cell response in the central nervous system in canine distemper virus infection

   • A. Tipold
   • P. Moore
   • M. Vandevelde

   Regular paper Pages: 45 - 56

8. Naturally occurring G_M2 gangliosidosis in two Muntjak deer with pathological and biochemical features of human classical Tay-Sachs disease (type B G_M2 gangliosidosis)

   • J. Fox
   • Y.-T. Li
   • B. Homer

   Regular Paper Pages: 57 - 62

9. Large motor neuron involvement in Stiff-man syndrome: a qualitative and quantitative study

   • K. Ishizawa
   • T. Komori
   • M. Iwata

   Regular paper Pages: 63 - 70

10. Age-related changes of DNA repair and mitochondrial DNA synthesis in the mouse brain

    • C. Schmitz
    • Birgit Axmacher
    • Hubert Korr

    Regular paper Pages: 71 - 81

11. A high incidence of apolipoprotein E ε4 allele in middle-aged non-demented subjects with cerebral amyloid β protein deposits

    • T. Arai
    • Kenji Ikeda
    • Hiroshi Mori

    Short original communication Pages: 82 - 84

12. On the occurrence of neuronal sprouting in the frontal cortex of a patient with Down’s syndrome

    • S. Ohara
    • Masashige Tsukada
    • Shu-ichi Ikeda

    Case report Pages: 85 - 90

13. Neuronopathic juvenile glucosylceramidosis due to sap-C deficiency: clinical course, neuropathology and brain lipid composition in this Gaucher disease variant

    • T. Pàmpols
    • M. Pineda
    • H. Christomanou

    Case Report Pages: 91 - 97

14. Perineurial abnormalities in the spontaneously diabetic dog

    • M. Ghani
    • R. A. Malik
    • A. J. M. Boulton

    Case report Pages: 98 - 102

15. Polyglutamine aggregates: a possible component of eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions in the hippocampal pyramidal neurons of a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?

    • Eric Lewin Altschuler

    Letters to the editors Pages: A103 - A103

16. Reply to Altschuler

    • Akiyoshi Kakita
    • Hitoshi Takahashi

    Letters to the editors Pages: B103 - B104