1. Preface

   • Károly Elekes

   EditorialNotes Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: v - v

2. Persistent Na-Channels: Origin and Function

   • T. Kiss

   ReviewPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 1 - 12

3. How Messengers Modulate the Shifting of Spontaneously Generated Action Potential Into Bursts of Potentials in Central Snail Neuron?

   • M. C. Tsai

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 13 - 22

4. Higher-Order Control of the Feeding Network in Lymnaea

   • Magda Alania
   • D. D. Vorontsov
   • D. A. Sakharov

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 23 - 28

5. Monitoring of Neuroactive Factors Released from a Pattern-Generating Network

   • I. A. Chistopolsky
   • D. D. Vorontsov
   • D. A. Sakharov

   BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 29 - 31

6. Possible Involvement of Nitric Oxide in Coordination of Buccal Rhythm and Gut Motility in Lymnaea stagnalis

   • Taya L. Dyakonova
   • Varvara E. Dyakonova

   BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 33 - 37

7. Humoral Serotonin and Dopamine Modulate the Feeding in The Snail, Helix pomatia

   • L. Hernádi
   • L. Kárpáti
   • L. Hiripi

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 39 - 46

8. The Terrestrial Snail, Helix Pomatia, Adapts to Environmental Conditions by the Modulation of Central Arousal

   • L. Hernádi
   • L. Hiripi
   • Ágnes Vehovszky

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 47 - 53

9. Functional Neuroanatomy of the 5-Htergic System in the Developing and Adult Buccal Complex of the Pond Snail, Lymnaea stagnalis

   • G. Balog
   • K. Elekes

   BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 55 - 59

10. Localization of Serotonin Transporter mRNA in the CNS of Lymnaea stagnalis

    • Hisayo Sadamoto
    • Z. Serfőző
    • E. Ito

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 61 - 64

11. Activities and Functions of Peripheral Neurons in the Enteric Nervous System of Aplysia and Lymnaea

    • M. Kurokawa
    • S. Ito
    • T. Okamoto

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 65 - 71

12. Recovery of Learning Ability after the Ablation of the Procerebrum in the Terrestrial Slug, Limax valentianus

    • R. Matsuo
    • E. Ito

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 73 - 76

13. The Effects of Gaba on the Network Oscillations of the Procerebrum in Limax valentianus

    • S. Kobayashi
    • Mariko Hattori
    • E. Ito

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 77 - 79

14. Immunohistological Studies on the Distribution of Learning-Related Peptides in the Central Nervous System of Conditioned Lymnaea

    • Y. Nomura
    • D. Hatakeyama
    • M. Sakakibara

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 81 - 92

15. Neurophysiological Analysis of Visuo-Vestibular Conditioning in Lymnaea stagnalis

    • H. Suzuki
    • T. Horikoshi
    • M. Sakakibara

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 93 - 95

16. Relationship Between Developmental Synaptic Modulation and Conditioning-Induced Synaptic Change in Lymnaea

    • T. Karasawa
    • Nao Sato
    • M. Sakakibara

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 97 - 100

17. Coordination between Pneumostome Movements and Cyclic Locomotion in Planorbarius corneus (Mollusca, Pulmonata)

    • V. V. Tsyganov

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 101 - 104

18. Speed of Back-Swimming of Lymnaea

    • Kanako Aono
    • A. Fusada
    • E. Ito

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 105 - 109

19. FMRFamide-Like Immunoreactivity in the Central Nervous System of the Cephalopod Mollusc, Idiosepius notoides

    • T. Wollesen
    • R. Loesel
    • A. Wanninger

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 111 - 116

20. Adult-to-Embryo Chemical Signaling in the Regulation of Larval Development in Trochophore Animals: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms

    • Elena E. Voronezhskaya
    • K. I. Glebov
    • L. P. Nezlin

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 117 - 122

21. Involvement of Transient Larval Neurons in Osmoregulation and Neurogenesis in the Freshwater Snails, Lymnaea stagnalis and Helisoma trivolvis

    • Anastasia K. Chaban
    • Elena E. Voronezhskaya

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 123 - 126

22. Comparative Lophotrochozoan Neurogenesis and Larval Neuroanatomy: Recent Advances from Previously Neglected Taxa

    • A. Wanninger

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 127 - 136

23. Genitalic Autogrooming in the Male Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus Degeer

    • M. Kumashiro
    • M. Iwano
    • M. Sakai

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 137 - 148

24. PDF as a Coupling Mediator Between the Light-Entrainable and Temperature-Entrainable Clocks in Drosophila melanogaster

    • K. Tomioka
    • Y. Miyasako
    • Y. Umezaki

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 149 - 155

25. The Dance of the Honeybee: How Do Honeybees Dance to Transfer Food Information Effectively?

    • R. Okada
    • H. Ikeno
    • E. Ito

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 157 - 162

26. Bilateral Symmetry in Crayfish Behavioral Reactions

    • Zhanna Shuranova

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 163 - 172

27. GABAergic Synaptic Connections in Mushroom Bodies of Insect Brains

    • F.-W. Schürmann
    • Ina Frambach
    • K. Elekes

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 173 - 181

28. The Compartment Structures of the Antennal Lobe in the Ant, Aphaenogaster smythiesi japonica

    • Midori Sakura
    • T. Hiraguchi
    • H. Aonuma

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 183 - 187

29. The Actions of Caenorhabditis elegans Neuropeptide-Like Peptides (NLPs) on Body Wall Muscle of Ascaris suum and Pharyngeal Muscle of C. elegans

    • Sylvana Papaioannou
    • Lindy Holden-Dye
    • R. J. Walker

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 189 - 197

30. Functions of Flatworm Neuropeptides NPF, GYIRF and FMRF in Course of Pharyngeal Regeneration of Anterior Body Fragments of Planarian, Girardia tigrina

    • Natalia D. Kreshchenko

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 199 - 207

31. Do Glial Cells Exist in the Nervous System of Parasitic and Free-Living Flatworms? An Ultrastructural and Immunocytochemical Investigation

    • Natalia M. Biserova

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 209 - 219

32. The Pattern of Serotonin and Fmrfamide in Cercaria from Different Taxonomic Groups — A Preliminary Study

    • O. O. Tolstenkov
    • Nadezhda Terenina
    • Alexandra Jashina

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 221 - 225

33. Neuropeptides and Their Functions in Hydra

    • T. Takahashi
    • E. Hayakawa
    • T. Fujisawa

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 227 - 235

34. Neuropeptides and Their Receptors of the Protochordate, Ciona intestinalis: The Evolutionary Origin of Vertebrate Neuropeptides

    • H. Satake
    • M. Aoyama
    • Nori Satoh

    BriefCommunication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 237 - 239

35. Functions of a GnRH Receptor Heterodimer of the Ascidian, Ciona intestinalis

    • T. Sakai
    • M. Aoyama
    • H. Satake

    Short Communication Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 241 - 243