Circulatory and Developmental Aspects of Brain Metabolism

Abstract

Opening Address.- Section I Circulatory Aspects.- Ischemia Related Changes in Adenine Nucleotide Metabolism.- Regional Glucose Metabolism and Nerve Cell Damage after Cerebral Ischemia in Normo- and Hypoglycemic Rats.- Nuclear Cell Regulatory Mechanism in Cerebral Ischemia and Anoxia.- Correlation of Amino Acid Concentrations, Permeability and Structural Changes in Monkey Brain Following Both Sustained and Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion.- Histochemical and Biochemical Investigations on ATPase Activity Following Transient Brain Ischemia in Gerbils.- The Ischemic and Postischemic Effect on the Activities of Cerebral Monoamine Oxidase, Cytochrome Oxidase and Acetylcholinesterase in Mongolian Gerbils.- Oscillatory Pattern of Catecholamine Metabolism Following Transient Cerebral Ischemia in Gerbils.- Influence of Barbiturates, Hypothermia and Hemodilution on Post-Ischemic Metabolism and Functional Recovery Following Cerebro-Circulatory Arrest in Cats.- Behavior of the Habenulo-Pineal Complex in Deep Hypothermia (Cold, Hypoxia, Hypercapnia).- Mechanisms of Ischemic Brain Damage in Acute Arterial Hypertension.- The Effect of Chemically and Electrically Induced Acute Hypertension on the Permeability Across Cerebral Vessels.- The Pathology of Intracerebral Arteriolar Spasm.- Intravascular Aggregation of Platelets and Cerebrovascular Insufficiency.- Further Studies on Isolated Brain Capillaries: Some Characteristics of the Adenosine Triphosphatase, Adenylate- and Guanylate Cyclase.- Metabolic Patterns in Cerebral Capillaries.- Studies on the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) to Monoamines.- Dynamics of Postischemia: Enzymes in Brain Capillaries.- Section II Developmental Aspects.- Ontogeny of Membrane-Bound Protein Phosphorylating Systems in the Rat.- Tubulin in Developing Rat Brain: Regional Distribution and Effect of Glucocorticoids.- Transfer Ribonucleic Acids in the Developing Brain: The Effect of the Convulsant Methionine Sulfoximine on tRNA Function.- General and Regional Turnover of Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acids in the Brain of Male and Female Rats During Postnatal Development.- Changes of the Soluble and Insoluble Glycoprotein Glycans During Rat Brain Development.- Acid Mucopolysaccharides and Myelin Development.- Neuronal-Glial Interactions During Neural Growth in Culture.- Effects of Convulsions on Rabbit Hippocampal Gangliosides During Hippocampus Development.- Brain Development and Learning.- Early Sea Urchin Embryo as a Model for the Study of Pre-Nervous Functions of Neurotransmitters. New Data.- Effect of Unilateral Deafferentation on the Development of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Dog.- Anatomo-Histological Studies of Caudate Nucleus - Visual System Relations.- Development of the Medullo-Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid-Contacting Neurons.- Phylogenetic Aspects of the Sensory Neurons of the Wall of the Diencephalon.- Participants.