1. Foreword

   • Annica B. Dahlström

   Foreword Pages: 395 - 396

2. Age- and Sex-Dependent Effects of Ethanol on Hippocampal Hemicholinium-3 Sensitive Choline Carriers During Postnatal Development of Rats

   • Zdena Krištofiková
   • Veronika Platilová
   • Jan Klaschka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 397 - 405

3. Functional Neurochemical Evidence for the Presence of Presynaptic Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors at the Terminal Region of Myenteric Motoneurons: A Study with Epibatidine

   • P. Mandl
   • J. P. Kiss
   • E. S. Vizi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 407 - 412

4. Characterization of Muscarinic Autoreceptors in the Rabbit Hippocampus and Caudate Nucleus

   • C. Stoll
   • U. Schwarzwälder
   • R. Jackisch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 413 - 417

5. Allosteric Drugs Acting at Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors

   • Magali Waelbroeck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 419 - 422

6. Upregulation of mRNA Encoding the M₅ Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor in Human T- and B-Lymphocytes During Immunological Responses

   • Takeshi Fujii
   • Yoshihiro Watanabe
   • Koichiro Kawashima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 423 - 429

7. Phosphorylation Sites Within α4 Subunits of α4β2 Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors: A Comparison of Substrate Specificities for cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase (PKA) and Protein Kinase C (PKC)

   • Lynn Wecker
   • Christopher Q. Rogers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 436

8. Use of M₁–M₅ Muscarinic Receptor Knockout Mice as Novel Tools to Delineate the Physiological Roles of the Muscarinic Cholinergic System

   • Frank P. Bymaster
   • David L. McKinzie
   • Jürgen Wess

   OriginalPaper Pages: 437 - 442

9. Dependence of Miniature Endplate Current on Kinetic Parameters of Acetylcholine Receptors Activation: A Model Study

   • Irina V. Kovyazina
   • Eugen E. Nikolsky
   • František Vyskočil

   OriginalPaper Pages: 443 - 448

10. SSR_2(a) Receptor Expression and Adrenergic/Cholinergic Characteristics in Differentiated SH-SY5Y Cells

    • Sayed Hossein Hashemi
    • Jia-Yi Li
    • Annica Dahlström

    OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 460

11. Interactions Between p75 and TrkA Receptors in Differentiation and Vulnerability of SN56 Cholinergic Cells to Beta-Amyloid

    • B. Madziar
    • M. Tomaszewicz
    • A. Szutowicz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 461 - 465

12. Effects of Septal Grafts on Acetylcholine Release from Rat Hippocampus After 192 IgG-Saporin Lesion

    • Michael Hilgert
    • Joachim Hartmann
    • Jochen Klein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 467 - 472

13. Specificity of the Rat Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter

    • Myung-Hee Kim
    • Mei Lu
    • Louis B. Hersh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 473 - 476

14. Diffusion Pathways to Critical Cysteines in the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter of Torpedo

    • James E. Keller
    • Stanley M. Parsons

    OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 482

15. High-Affinity Choline Transporter

    • Takashi Okuda
    • Tatsuya Haga

    OriginalPaper Pages: 483 - 488

16. Effects of Sex Hormones, Forskolin, and Nicotine on Choline Acetyltransferase Activity in Human Isolated Placenta

    • Ignaz Wessler
    • Sören Schwarze
    • Heinz Kilbinger

    OriginalPaper Pages: 489 - 492

17. C-Terminal Fragments of Amyloid-β Peptide Cause Cholinergic Axonal Degeneration by a Toxic Effect Rather Than by Physical Injury in the Nondemented Human Brain

    • Peter Kasa
    • Henrietta Papp
    • Frederic Checler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 498

18. β-Amyloid and Cholinergic Neurons

    • Vladimír Doležal
    • Jana Kašparová

    OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 506

19. Temperature Effect on Proximal to Distal Gradient of Quantal Release of Acetylcholine at Frog Endplate

    • D. Samigullin
    • E. Bukharaeva
    • F. Vyskočil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 514

20. Cholinesterases: New Roles in Brain Function and in Alzheimer's Disease

    • Ezio Giacobini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 522

21. Trimerization Domain of the Collagen Tail of Acetylcholinesterase

    • Suzanne Bon
    • Annick Ayon
    • Jean Massoulié

    OriginalPaper Pages: 523 - 535

22. Functional Regulation of Choline Acetyltransferase by Phosphorylation

    • Tomas Dobransky
    • R. Jane Rylett

    OriginalPaper Pages: 537 - 542

23. Cytosolic Choline Acetyltransferase Binds Specifically to Cholinergic Plasma Membrane of Rat Brain Synaptosomes to Generate Membrane-Bound Enzyme

    • Pahud Gabrielle
    • Medilanski Jeana
    • Eder-Colli Lorenza

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 549

24. Selection and Characterization of the Choline Transport Mutation Suppressor from Torpedo Electric Lobe, CTL1

    • Seana O'Regan
    • François-Marie Meunier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 551 - 555

25. Exploring the Regulation of the Expression of ChAT and VAChT Genes in NG108-15 Cells: Implication of PKA and PI3K Signaling Pathways

    • Xavier Castell
    • Nathalie Cheviron
    • Marie-Françoise Diebler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 557 - 564

26. Investigation on Acetylcholine, Aspartate, Glutamate and GABA Extracellular Levels from Ventral Hippocampus During Repeated Exploratory Activity in the Rat

    • L. Bianchi
    • C. Ballini
    • G. Pepeu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 573

27. Early Postdenervation Depolarization Is Controlled by Acetylcholine and Glutamate via Nitric Oxide Regulation of the Chloride Transporter

    • František Vyskočil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 585

28. Nitrergic Modulation of Hippocampal Acetylcholine Release Is Independent of Endothelial NO Synthase Activity

    • Marie-Luise Buchholzer
    • Jochen Klein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 591

29. Catecholaminergic Neurons in the Rat Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System

    • Jana Slavíková
    • Jitka Kuncová
    • Magda Dvořáková

    OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 598

30. A Comparative Study on Selectivity of α-Conotoxins GI and ImI Using Their Synthetic Analogues and Derivatives

    • Igor E. Kasheverov
    • Maxim N. Zhmak
    • Victor I. Tsetlin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 606

31. Upregulation of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in in Vitro Stellate Astrocytes and in Vivo Reactive Astrocytes After Electrically Induced Status Epilepticus

    • Maria Vincenza Catania
    • Raffaella Giuffrida
    • Anna Maria Giuffrida-Stella

    OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 615

32. Modulatory Role of Adenosine Receptors in Insect Motor Nerve Terminals

    • L. G. Magazanik
    • I. M. Fedorova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 617 - 624

33. Effect of Novel Stressors on Tyrosine Hydroxylase Gene Expression in the Adrenal Medulla of Repeatedly Immobilized Rats

    • R. Kvetnansky
    • M. Rusnak
    • E. L. Sabban

    OriginalPaper Pages: 625 - 630

34. Genetic Adaptation Controlled by Methylations and Acetylations at the Nuclear and Cytosolic Levels: A Hypothetical Model

    • Maurice Israël

    OriginalPaper Pages: 631 - 635

35. Guinea Pigs as a Nontransgenic Model for APP Processing in Vitro and in Vivo

    • Mike Beck
    • Volker Bigl
    • Steffen Roßner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 637 - 644

36. Palmitoylcarnitine Modulates Palmitoylation of Proteins: Implication for Differentiation of Neural Cells

    • Dorota Szczepankowska
    • Katarzyna A. Nałęcz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 645 - 651

37. Involvement of Glutamate Neurotransmission in the Development of Excessive Wheel Running in Lewis Rats

    • M. Schwendt
    • R. Duncko
    • D. Jezova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 653 - 657

38. Low- and High-Affinity Reactions in Rapid Neurotransmission

    • Yves Dunant
    • Alain Bloc

    OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 665

39. Cooperative Interactions at M₂ Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors: Structure/Activity Relationships in Stepwise Shortened Bispyridinium- and Bis(Ammonio)Alkane-Type Allosteric Modulators

    • Ralf Gilsbach
    • Maren Großmüller
    • Klaus Mohr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 667 - 673