1. The neuroendocrine system in hibernating mammals: present knowledge and open questions

   • Frank Nürnberger

   Review Article Pages: 391 - 412

2. Apoptosis in lactating and involuting mouse mammary tissue demonstrated by nick-end DNA labelling

   • Lynda H. Quarrie
   • Caroline V. P. Addey
   • Colin J. Wilde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 413 - 419

3. Phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells during the formation of neointimal thickenings in the rat carotid artery after balloon injury: an electron-microscopic and stereological study

   • Johan Thyberg
   • Karin Blomgren
   • Maciej Dryjski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 421 - 433

4. Hair cell regeneration in the chick inner ear following acoustic trauma: ultrastructural and immunohistochemical studies

   • Masanori Umemoto
   • Masafumi Sakagami
   • Yoshihiro Yoneda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 443

5. The distribution and co-localization of immunoreactivity to nitric oxide synthase, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P within nerve fibres supplying bovine and porcine female genital organs

   • Mariusz Majewski
   • Waldemar Sienkiewicz
   • Miroslaw Lakomy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 464

6. Silvering and gill “mitochondria-rich” cells in the eel, Anguilla anguilla

   • Y. A. Fontaine
   • M. Pisam
   • A. Rambourg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 465 - 471

7. Glycosaminoglycans in porcine lung: an ultrastructural study using Cupromeronic Blue

   • Rainer Erlinger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 473 - 483

8. Do vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-and nitric oxide synthase-immunoreactive terminals synapse exclusively with VIP cell bodies in the submucous plexus of the guinea-pig ileum?

   • Z. S. Li
   • H. M. Young
   • J. B. Furness

   OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 491

9. Species-independent expression of nitric oxide synthase in the sarcolemma region of visceral and somatic striated muscle fibers

   • Zarko Grozdanovic
   • Georgios Nakos
   • Reinhart Gossrau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 499

10. Expression of αSM actin in terrestrial ectothermic vertebrates

    • Ines Di Rosa
    • Fausto Panara
    • Rita Pascolini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 506

11. Unusual distribution of tubulin isoforms in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis

    • A. R. Jackson
    • T. H. MacRae
    • R. P. Croll

    OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 515

12. Interaction of force transmission and sarcomere assembly at the muscle-tendon junctions of carp (Cyprinus carpio): ultrastructure and distribution of titin (connectin) and α-actinin

    • Hendrica A. Akster
    • Jan-Willem van de Wal
    • Tineke Veenendaal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 517 - 524

13. Quantitation of peptide hormone in single cultured secretory neurons of the crab, Cardisoma carnifex

    • R. Keller
    • S. Grau
    • I. M. Cooke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 532

14. Immunohistochemical properties and spinal connections of pelvic autonomic neurons that innervate the rat prostate gland

    • Mark Kepper
    • Janet Keast

    OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 542

15. Thymic vascular system of the European common frog, Rana temporaria: a scanning electron-microscopic study of vascular casts

    • Adam J. Miodoński
    • Janusz Bigaj
    • Barbara Plytycz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 549

16. Immunohistochemical characterisation of sympathetic and parasympathetic pelvic neurons projecting to the distal colon in the male rat

    • G. B. Luckensmeyer
    • J. R. Keast

    OriginalPaper Pages: 551 - 559

17. Efferent projections from the retrochiasmatic area to the median eminence and to the pars nervosa of the hypophysis with special reference to the A15 dopaminergic cell group in the sheep

    • Véronique Gayrard
    • Jean-Claude Thiéry
    • Yves Tillet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 561 - 567

18. Localization of corticotropin-releasing factor immunoreactivity in the brain of the teleost Sparus aurata

    • Juan Miguel Mancera
    • Pedro Fernández-LLebrez

    Short Communication Pages: 569 - 572