1. A Tribute to Arne Schousboe

   • Ursula Sonnewald

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 3

2. Evaluation of Drugs Acting at Glutamate Transporters in Organotypic Hippocampal Cultures: New Evidence on Substrates and Blockers in Excitotoxicity

   • Ross D. O'Shea
   • Melissa V. Fodera
   • Philip M. Beart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 13

3. Taurine Release in the Developing and Adult Mouse Hippocampus: Involvement of Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate

   • Pirjo Saransaari
   • Simo S. Oja

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 20

4. The Role of Taurine in the Central Nervous System and the Modulation of Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis

   • Todd M. Foos
   • Jang-Yen Wu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 26

5. Effects of L-Glutamate Transport Inhibition by a Conformationally Restricted Glutamate Analogue (2S,1'S,2'R)-2-(Carboxycyclopropyl)Glycine (L-CCG III) on Metabolism in Brain Tissue In Vitro Analysed by NMR Spectroscopy

   • Charbel El-Hajj Moussa
   • Ann D. Mitrovic
   • Vladimir J. Balcar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 35

6. Ammonia-Induced Extracellular Accumulation of Taurine in the Rat Striatum In Vivo: Role of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors

   • M. Zielińska
   • W. Hilgier
   • J. Albrecht

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 42

7. Metabolic Compartmentation in Cortical Synaptosomes: Influence of Glucose and Preferential Incorporation of Endogenous Glutamate into GABA

   • Ursula Sonnewald
   • Mary McKenna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 50

8. A Comparison of Some Metabolic Effects of N-Methylaspartate Stereoisomers, Glutamate and Depolarization: A Multinuclear MRS Study

   • N. M. Thatcher
   • R. S. Badar-Goffer
   • H. S. Bachelard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 58

9. Osmosensitive Release of Neurotransmitter Amino Acids: Relevance and Mechanisms

   • Herminia Pasantes-Morales
   • Rodrigo Franco
   • Benito Ordaz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 65

10. Differential Mechanisms of Glutamate-Stimulated Perturbations in the Kinetics of c-fos mRNA Induction Are Associated with Maturation of Cerebellar Granule Cells in Primary Culture

    • Roger Griffiths
    • Angus Grieve
    • Clive Meredith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 77

11. Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity in Retina: Neuroprotection with Receptor Antagonist, Dextromethorphan, but Not with Calcium Channel Blockers

    • Jorge I. Calzada
    • B. Eric Jones
    • Dianna A. Johnson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 88

12. Immunogold Cytochemistry Identifies Specialized Membrane Domains for Monocarboxylate Transport in the Central Nervous System

    • Linda Bergersen
    • Amina Rafiki
    • Ole Petter Ottersen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 96

13. Delayed Cell Death Signaling in Traumatized Central Nervous System: Hypoxia

    • Danielle Chu
    • JingXin Qiu
    • Regino Perez-Polo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 106

14. NS-417, a Novel Compound with Neurotrophic-Like Effects

    • Lone Dagø
    • Dan Peters
    • Mette Grønborg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 111

15. Up-Regulation of 5-HT2B Receptor Density and Receptor-Mediated Glycogenolysis in Mouse Astrocytes by Long-Term Fluoxetine Administration

    • Ebenezer K. C. Kong
    • Liang Peng
    • Leif Hertz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120

16. Mechanisms of Action of Carbamazepine and Its Derivatives, Oxcarbazepine, BIA 2-093, and BIA 2-024

    • António F. Ambrósio
    • Patrício Soares-da-Silva
    • Arsélio P. Carvalho

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 130

17. Nuclear Degradation of Particular Fos Family Members Expressed Following Injections of NMDA and Kainate in Murine Hippocampus

    • Noritaka Nakamichi
    • Takayuki Manabe
    • Yukio Yoneda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 138

18. Neurotoxicity of Lindane and Picrotoxin: Neurochemical and Electrophysiological Correlates in the Rat Hippocampus In Vivo

    • Gabriella Nyitrai
    • Katalin A. Kékesi
    • Julianna Kardos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 145

19. Identification of Transcripts Expressed Under Functional Differentiation in Primary Culture of Cerebral Cortical Neurons

    • Qiang Li
    • Zhi Li
    • Albert Cheung-Hoi Yu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 154

20. Citrate, Beneficial or Deleterious in the CNS?

    • Ursula Sonnewald
    • Aksel Galtung Risan
    • Hong Qu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 159

21. Differential Response of Neural Cells to Trauma-Induced Free Radical Production In Vitro

    • K. S. Panickar
    • A. R. Jayakumar
    • M. D. Norenberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 166

22. Effects of Potassium and Glutamine on Metabolism of Glucose in Astrocytes

    • Bjørnar Hassel
    • Ursula Sonnewald

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 171

23. Alzheimer's Disease Research Enters a “New Cycle”: How Significant?

    • A. Copani
    • M. A. Sortino
    • A. M. Giuffrida Stella

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 176