Plasticity and Regeneration of the Nervous System

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
New Molecular Insights on the Development of the Peripheral Nervous System....Pages 1-11
DNA Content Revealed by Cytophotometry in Neurons: Variability Related to Neuroplasticity....Pages 13-19
Prenatal Development of the Rat Amygdaloid Complex: An Electron Microscopic Study....Pages 21-28
Recent Findings on the Regulation of Axonal Calibre....Pages 29-32
The Biogenic Monoamines as Regulators of Early (Pre-Nervous) Embryogenesis: New Data....Pages 33-48
Hormone-Dependent Plasticity of the Motoneurons of the Ischiocavernosus Muscle: An Ultrastructural Study....Pages 49-60
Reactive Sprouting (Pruning Effect) is Altered in the Brain of Rats Perinatally Exposed to Morphine....Pages 61-67
Effects of Serotonin on Tyrosine Hydroxylase and Tau Protein in a Human Neuroblastoma Cell Line....Pages 69-80
Critical Periods of Neuroendocrine Development: Effects of Prenatal Xenobiotics....Pages 81-89
Cell Plasticity during in Vitro Differentiation of a Human Neuroblastoma Cell Line....Pages 91-102
LN-10, a Brain Derived CDNA Clone: Studies Related to CNS Development....Pages 103-110
Spinal Cord Slices with Attached Dorsal Root Ganglia: A Culture Model for the Study of Pathogenicity of Encephalitic Viruses....Pages 111-119
Human Fetal Brain Cultures: A Model to Study Neural Proliferation, Differentiation and Immunocompetence....Pages 121-134
Origin of Microglia and their Regulation by Astroglia....Pages 135-142
Neuronal-Astrocytic Interactions in Brain Development, Brain Function and Brain Disease....Pages 143-159
Structure and Function of Glia Maturation Factor Beta....Pages 161-164
Neuromodulatory Actions of Glutamate, GABA and Taurine: Regulatory Role of Astrocytes....Pages 165-180
C-6 Glioma Cells of Early Passage Have Progenitor Properties in Culture....Pages 181-195
Brain Extracellular Matrix and Nerve Regeneration....Pages 197-206
Human Nerve Growth Factor: Biological and Immunological Activities, and Clinical Possibilities in Neurodegenerative Disease....Pages 207-225
Schwann Cell Proliferation during Postnatal Development, Wallerian Degeneration and Axon Regeneration in Trembler Dysmyelinating Mutant....Pages 227-238
Basic FGF and its Actions on Neurons: A Group Account with Special Emphasis on the Parkinsonian Brain....Pages 239-247
Molecular and Morphological Correlates Following Neuronal Deafferentation: A Cortico-Striatal Model....Pages 249-255
Monosialoganglioside GM1 and Modulation of Neuronal Plasticity in CNS Repair Processes....Pages 257-266
Nerve Growth Factor in CNS Repair and Regeneration....Pages 267-276
Ordered Disorder in the Aged Brain....Pages 277-290
Plasticity in Expression of Co-Transmitters and Autonomic Nerves in Aging and Disease....Pages 291-301
Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors in Human Brain: Effects of Aging and Alzheimer....Pages 303-315
Macromolecular Changes in the Aging Brain....Pages 317-327
ADP-Ribosylation: Approach to Molecular Basis of Aging....Pages 329-343
Mechanisms of Cell Death....Pages 345-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-365