1. Neuro-Oncology in a Nutshell

   • Joachim M. Baehring

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 2

2. Expression of Cathepsin B and microvascular density increases with higher grade of astrocytomas

   • Maode Wang
   • Jianjian Tang
   • Akira Teramoto

   Laboratory Investigation Pages: 3 - 7

3. Effects of toxic doses of glutamate on Cu–Zn and Mn/superoxide dismutases activities in human glioma cell lines

   • Andrea Regner
   • Daniel Pretto Schunemann
   • Adriana Brondani da Rocha

   Laboratory Investigation Pages: 9 - 17

4. In vitro effects of topotecan and ionizing radiation on TRAIL/Apo2L-mediated apoptosis in malignant glioma

   • Emilio Ciusani
   • Danilo Croci
   • Andrea Salmaggi

   Laboratory Investigation Pages: 19 - 25

5. Atypical molecular background of glioblastoma and meningioma developed in a patient with Li–Fraumeni syndrome

   • Piotr Rieske
   • Magdalena Zakrzewska
   • Paweł Piotr Liberski

   Laboratory Investigation Pages: 27 - 30

6. Central Neurocytoma

   • Serguei Bannykh
   • John Strugar
   • Joachim Baehring

   Images in Neuro-Oncology Pages: 31 - 31

7. High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue for children with high risk and recurrent medulloblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors

   • Antonio Pérez-Martínez
   • Alvaro Lassaletta
   • Luis Madero

   Clinical Study Pages: 33 - 38

8. Clinical relevance of non-neuronal auto-antibodies in patients with anti-Hu or anti-Yo paraneoplastic diseases

   • Lucinda Aguirre-Cruz
   • Jean-Luc Charuel
   • Lucile Musset

   Clinical study Pages: 39 - 41

9. Brain metastasis in pediatric extracranial solid tumors: survey and literature review

   • Rejin Kebudi
   • İnci Ayan
   • Emin Darendeliler

   Clinical Study Pages: 43 - 48

10. Isolated primary intracerebral mycetoma: presenting as a mass lesion in a patient with prostate cancer and multiple myeloma

    • Shyam Prabhakaran
    • Philip H. Gutin
    • Jeffrey J. Raizer

    Clinical Study Pages: 49 - 52

11. Cerebellar liponeurocytoma/lipidized medulloblastoma

    • Fügen Vardar Aker
    • Selvinaz Özkara
    • Tayfun Hakan

    Clinical Study Pages: 53 - 59

12. Temozolomide (TMZ) combined with cisplatin (CDDP) in patients with brain metastases from solid tumors: a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) Phase II study

    • Christos Christodoulou
    • Dimitrios Bafaloukos
    • Dimosthenis Skarlos

    Clinical Study Pages: 61 - 65

13. Intramedullary spinal cord metastases in breast cancer: report of four cases and review of the literature

    • Christos Kosmas
    • Maria Koumpou
    • Dimitrios Pectasides

    Clinical Study Pages: 67 - 72

14. Phase I/II study of selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor celecoxib as a radiation sensitizer in patients with unresectable brain metastases

    • Leandro C. A. Cerchietti
    • Marcelo R. Bonomi
    • Berta M. C. Roth

    Clinical Study Pages: 73 - 81

15. Neuro-Oncology International Calendar of Events

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 84