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  • Front Cover; Circumventricular Organs and Brain Fluid Environment: Molecular and Functional Aspects; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Section I: Microenvironment of the Brain: Blood ... Interstitial Fluid ... CSF; Chapter 1. A role for centrally-released vasopressin in brain ion and volume regulation: a hypothesis; Chapter 2. Neuronal plasticity depending on a glycoprotein synthesized in goldfish leptomeninx; Chapter 3. Goldfish ependymins: cerebrospinal fluid proteins of meningeal origin
  • Chapter 4. Effect of central administration of angiotensin II on cerebrospinal fluid formation in rabbitsChapter 5. Adrenalectomy aggravates ischemic brain edema in female Sprague-Dawley rats with carotid arteries ligated; Chapter 6. Central release of vasopressin: stimuli, dynamics, consequences; Chapter 7. Pregnancy and opioid interactions with the anterior peri-third ventricular input to magnocellular oxytocin neurones; Chapter 8. Endogenous opioids regulate intracerebral oxytocin release during parturition in a region-specific manner
  • Chapter 9. Evidence against participation of V2 receptors in the increase of cerebral blood flow during hypoxemia in the ratChapter 10. ANF-induced modulation of ADH-release in the rabbit and Pekin duck; Chapter 11. Vasopressin involvement in central control of blood pressure; Chapter 12. Neuropeptides within the nucleus tractus solitarii modulate the central cardiovascular control process; Chapter 13. Disturbances of volume regulation in chronic alcoholics: a correlation with the excitability of the central nervous system
  • Chapter 14. Chromatographically identified oxytocin in the human peripheral nervous systemChapter 15. Central effects of tricyclic compounds on the endocrine system ... an in vitro study; Section II: Barriers within the Brain: Transport ... Exchange; Chapter 16. Intracerebral grafting of solid tissues and cell suspensions: the blood-brain barrier and host immune response; Chapter 17. Blood-brain barrier: a molecular approach to its structural and functional characterization; Chapter 18. Development of an in vitro cell culture system to mimic the blood-brain barrier
  • Chapter 19. The development of ion regulation at the blood-brain barrierChapter 20. An approach to study of transport of trace metals at the blood-brain barrier; Chapter 21. Bidirectional passage of peptides across the blood-brain barrier; Chapter 22. Localization patterns for immunoglobulins and albumins in the brain suggest diverse mechanisms for their transport across the blood-brain barrier (BBB); Chapter 23. Peptide receptors of the blood-brain barrier and substrate transport into the brain