1. Foreword

   EditorialNotes Pages: 589 - 589

2. The public health significance of metal neurotoxicity

   • David O. Carpenter

   Preface Pages: 591 - 597

3. GABA receptor-channel complex as a target site of Mercury, copper, zinc, and lanthanides

   • Toshio Narahashi
   • Jenny Yan Ma
   • Masanobu Nakahiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 621

4. Inhibitory effects of HgCl₂ on excitation-secretion coupling at the motor nerve terminal and excitation-contraction coupling in the muscle cell

   • Asbjørn Røed
   • Bente Brokstad Herlofson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 636

5. Astrocytes as potential modulators of mercuric chloride neurotoxicity

   • M. Aschner
   • K. J. Mullaney
   • D. Vitarella

   OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 652

6. Effect of HgCl₂ on acetylcholine, carbachol, and glutamate currents ofAplysia neurons

   • J. Györi
   • M. Fejtl
   • J. Salánki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 653 - 664

7. Mercuric(II) chloride modulates single-channel properties of carbachol-activated Cl⁻ channels in cultured neurons ofAplysia californica

   • Michael Fejtl
   • János Györi
   • David O. Carpenter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 665 - 674

8. Mercury (Hg²⁺) and zinc (Zn²⁺): Two divalent cations with different actions on voltage-activated calcium channel currents

   • D. Büsselberg
   • M. Pekel
   • B. Platt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 675 - 687

9. Zinc modulates a-type potassium currents and neuronal excitability in snail neurons

   • L. Erdélyi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 689 - 700

10. Lead as an inductor of some morphological and functional changes in synaptosomes from rat brain

    • Lidia Jabłońska
    • Michał Walski
    • Urszula Rafałowska

    OriginalPaper Pages: 701 - 709

11. Pb²⁺ reduces voltage- andN-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)-activated calcium channel currents

    • D. Büsselberg
    • D. Michael
    • B. Platt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 711 - 722

12. Long-term potentiation in the piriform cortex is blocked by lead

    • D. O. Carpenter
    • M. R. Matthews
    • N. Hori

    OriginalPaper Pages: 723 - 733

13. Modulation of synaptic events by heavy metals in the central nervous system of mollusks

    • Katalin S.-Rózsa
    • János Salánki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 735 - 754

14. Action of lead on glutamate-activated chloride currents inHelix pomatia L. neurons

    • J. Salánki
    • J. Györi
    • D. O. Carpenter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 755 - 768

15. Effects of chronic exposure to cadmium- or lead-enriched environments on ionic currents of identified neurons inLymnaea stagnalis L.

    • Attila Szücs
    • J. Salánki
    • K. S.-Rózsa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 769 - 780

16. Metal ion-induced permeability changes in cell membranes: A minireview

    • Tibor Kiss
    • Oleg Osipenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 781 - 789

17. Studies of aluminum neurobehavioral toxicity in the intact mammal

    • Robert A. Yokel
    • David D. Allen
    • Jerome J. Meyer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 791 - 808

18. The effects of Al on the calcium currents inHelix neurons

    • Imre Farkas
    • Lajos Erdélyi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 809 - 817

19. Actions of aluminum on voltage-activated calcium channel currents

    • B. Platt
    • D. Büsselberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 819 - 829

20. Combined actions of Pb²⁺, Zn²⁺, and Al³⁺ on voltage-activated calcium channel currents

    • B. Platt
    • D. Büsselberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 831 - 840

21. Differential effects of heavy metal ions on Ca²⁺-dependent K⁺ channels

    • H. P. M. Vijverberg
    • T. Leinders-Zufall
    • R. G. D. M. van Kleef

    OriginalPaper Pages: 841 - 857