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ANNOUNCEMENT

ICRAN 94, the 1994 International Conference on Recent Advantages in Neurotraumatology and The Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at Marriott Surfers, Paradise Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, from 25 28 September t994.

Conference secretariat: ICRAN 94 PO Box 1280 Milton, Q 4064 Australia Tel: 07-369-0477/Int. (617) 369-0477 Fax: 07-369-1512/Int. (617) 369-1512

CONTENTS (continued from the back cover)

Subeellular distribution and immunological detection of retrograde axonally transported proteins in acrylamide and diabetic neuropathies A.J. Hargreaves and W.G. McLean (UK) 20l

Upregulation of the pro-opiomelanocortin gene in spinal motoneurones in muscular dystrophy in mice S. Hughes and M.E. Smith (UK) 205

Messenger RNAs from chick muscle encode a motoneuronal survival-promoting factor Y. Kashihara, C. Takasu and M. Kuno (Japan) 208

Electrophysiological identification of horizontal synaptic connections in rat visual cortex in vitro T. Murakoshi, J.-Z. Guo and T. Ichinose (Japan) 211

Incurvation of early embryonic neural retina by acetylcholine through muscarinic receptors M. Yamashita and Y. Fukuda (Japan) 215

Oral administration of idebenone, a stimulator of NGF synthesis, recovers reduced NGF content in aged rat brain A. Nitta, T. Hasegawa and T. Nabeshima (Japan) 219

Selective loss of calbindin D28K-immunoreactive neurons in the cortical layer II in brains of Alzheimer's disease: a morphometric study E. Nishiyama, J. Ohwada, N. Iwamoto and H. Arai (Japan) 223

Reactive changes of glial cells after optic nerve axotomy in adult rats C. Przyrembel and M. B~ihr (FRG) 227

Quantal behaviour of synaptic transmission can be statistically examined using the Fourier line spectrum of the histogram of synaptic potentials D.A. Rusakov (UK, Ukraine) 231

Role of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in synchronized discharges of hilar neurons in guinea pig hippocampal slices M. Bijak and U. Misgeld (FRG) 235

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