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REGULATION OF PROTEIN METABOLISM - M. Salinas and J. Burda.- CELL ADHESION MOLECULES OF THE IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUPERFAMILY IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM - P. S. Walmod, M. V. Pedersen, V. Berezin, and E. Bock.- NEUROSECRETORY PROTEIN TRAFFICKING AND DENSE-CORE GRANULE BIOGENESIS IN NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS - T. Kim, M. Gondre-Lewis, I. Arnaoutova, N. Cawley, Y. Peng Loh.- PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AT SYNAPTIC SITES ON DENDRITES - O. Steward.- EMERGING FUNCTIONS OF THE "CA2+ BUFFERS" PARVALBUMIN, CALBINDIN D-28k AND CALRETININ IN THE BRAIN - B. Schwaller.- ACTIN, ACTIN-BINDING PROTEINS AND MYOSINS IN NERVOUS SYSTEM - R. Ishikawa.- TRANSGLUTAMINASE - A. J. L. Cooper, S.-Y. Kim.- PROTEIN ALTERATION IN MENTAL RETARDATION - M. A. Junaid, W. T. Brown.- PROTEIN SULFATION - S. Hemmerich.- PROTEIN FOLDING - A. Szilagyi, J. Kardos, S. Osvath, L. Barna, and P. Zavodszky.- NEURODEGENERATIVE DEMENTIAS INVOLVING ABERRANT PROTEIN AGGREGATION - T. Kudo and M. Takeda.- POLYGLUTAMINE DISEASES - H. Okazawa.- THE PROTEASOME, PROTEIN AGGREGATION, AND NEURODEGENERATION - S. Wilk.- SERINE PROTEASES - J. Toth, P. Medveczky, L. Szilagyi, and L. Graf.- CALPAIN AS A TARGET FOR PREVENTION OF NEURONAL DEATH IN INJURIES AND DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM - S. K. Ray, M. K. Guyton, E. A. Sribnick, and N. L. Banik.- SECRETASE PROCESSING OF AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN (APP) AND NEURODEGENERATION (APP) - N. Marks and M. J. Berg.- THE BIOLOGY OF CASPASES IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TRAUMA - M. L. McEwen, J. E. Springer.- MICROGLIAL PROTEASES - H. Nakanishi.- MMPs AND OTHER MATRIX-DEGRADING METALLOPROTEINASES IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE - P. E. Gottschall and K. Conant.- PROTEASE INHIBITORS AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS - B. Tizon and E. Levy.- NEUROPEPTIDASES - K.-S. Hui.- UBIQUITINATION AND PROTEASOMAL PROTEIN DEGRADATION IN NEURONS - L. Klimaschewski.- PROTEASE ACTIVITY IN THE AGING BRAIN - D. A. Gray.- FROM CONCEPT TO POTENTIAL THERAPEUTICS: NEUROPROTECTIVE PEPTIDES - I. Gozes and J. Tiong