1. Introduction

   • Thérèse Di Paolo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 1

2. Cellular strategies of estrogen-mediated neuroprotection during brain development

   • Malgorzata Kajta
   • Cordian Beyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 9

3. Estradiol exerts neuroprotective actions against ischemic brain injury

   • Phyllis M. Wise

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 15

4. Estrogen and selective estrogen receptor modulators

   • Stephanie J. Murphy
   • Louise D. McCullough
   • Patricia D. Hurn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 26

5. Induction of antioxidative and antiapoptotic thioredoxin supports neuroprotective hypothesis of estrogen

   • Chuang C. Chiueh
   • Sang Y. Lee
   • Dennis L. Murphy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 31

6. Functional aspects of estrogen neuroprotection

   • Veronica Bisagno
   • Rachel E. Bowman
   • Victoria N. Luine

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 41

7. Endogenous estrogen formation is neuroprotective in model of cerebellar ataxia

   • Amanda Sierra
   • Íñigo Azcoitia
   • Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 51

8. Chronic but not acute estradiol treatment protects against the neurodegenerative effects of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonists

   • William H. Dribben
   • Brian M. Nemmers
   • Nuri B. Farber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 58

9. Neuroprotective effects of estrogen and tamoxifen in vitro

   • Krishnan M. Dhandapani
   • Darrell W. Brann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 66

10. Estrogen as neuroprotectant of nigrostriatal dopaminergic system

    • Dean E. Dluzen
    • Martin W. I. M. Horstink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 75

11. Estrogens and parkinson disease

    • Hideyuki Sawada
    • Shun Shimohama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 79

12. Estrogens and parkinson disease

    • Rachel Saunders-Pullman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 87

13. Effects of estradiol, phytoestrogens, and ginkgo biloba extracts against 1-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridine-induced oxidative stress

    • Benoît Gagné
    • Sylvie Gélinas
    • Maria-Grazia Martinoli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 95

14. Estradiol and dehydroepiandrosterone potentiate levodopa-induced locomotor activity in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine monkeys

    • Nancy Bélanger
    • Laurent Grégoire
    • Thérèse Di Paolo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 101