"This volume is the result of Nitric Oxide: the good, the bad, and the beautiful, a satellite symposium to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, held on November 4, 2000 and sponsored by the Taiwanese Bioscientists of America"--Contents page. Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Novel actions -- Preconditioning-mediated neuroprotection: role of nitric oxide, cGMP, and new protein expression / Tsugunobu Andoh -- NO-mediated chemoresistance in C6 glioma cells / Ding-I. Yang -- Role of nitric oxide in myocardial preconditioning / Buddhadeb Dawn -- Regulation of caspases by nitric oxide / Peter K.M. Kim -- The significance of nitric oxide production in the brain after injury / Ahmad Khaldi -- Contradictory effects of sodium nitroprusside and S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine on oxidative stress in brain dopamine neurons in vivo / Pekka Rauhala -- L-citrulline recycle for synthesis of NO in cerebral perivascular nerves and endothelial cells / Tony J.F. Lee -- Glial-neuronal transfer of arginine and S-nitrosothiols in nitric oxide transmission / K.Q. Do -- Nitric oxide protects astrocytes from oxidative stress / Sara J. Robb -- The roles of nitric oxide in dorsal root ganglion neurons / Thimmasettappa Thippeswamy -- Spatial and temporal correlation of nitric oxide synthase expression with CuZn-superoxide dismutase reduction in motor neurons following axotomy / Wan-Hua Amy Yu -- Nitric oxide transport and storage in the cardiovascular system / Bernard Muller -- Thioredoxin-related regulation of NO/NOS activities / Li-En Shao -- Does nitric oxide play a role in orofacial pain transmission? / Jin-Fei Yeo -- pt. 2. Deleterious effects -- A critical assessment of the neurodestructive and neuroprotective effects of nitric oxide / Seng-Kee Leong -- Hypothesis: proteasomal dysfunction. A primary event in neurogeneration that leads to nitrative and oxidative stress and subsequent cell death / Barry Halliwell -- A chemical perspective on the interplay between NO, reactive oxygen species, and reactive nitrogen oxide species / Michael G. Espey -- Nitric oxide and superoxide, a deadly cocktail / Alvaro G. Estévez -- Apolipoprotein-E allele-specific regulation of nitric oxide production / Carol A. Colton -- The assoication between neuronal nitric oxide synthase and neuronal sensitivity in the brain after brain injury / Philip K. Liu -- A reassessment of the peroxynitrite scavenging activity of uric acid / M. Whiteman -- Possible roles of nitric oxide in the physiology and pathophysiology of the mammalian cochlea / Run-Sheng Ruan -- Nitric oxide in liver diseases: friend, foe, or just passerby? / Wei Min Hon -- Nitric oxide (NO) and convulsions induced by pentylenetetrazol / Ankica Jelenkoviâc -- Serum-dependence of LPS-induced neurotoxicity in rat cortical neurons / Cynthia L. Cooper -- Role of nitric oxide in inflammation-mediated neurodegeneration / Bin Liu -- p38 MAP kinase is involved in lipopolysaccharide-induced dopaminergic neuronal cell death in rat mesencehphalic neuron-glia cultures / Gwang-Ho Jeohn -- Gèo6976 protects mesencephalic neurons from lipopolysaccharide-elicited death by inhibiting p38 MAP kinase phosphorylation / Gwang-Ho Jeohn -- pt. 3. Clinical potential -- Nitric-oxide-releasing drugs: a novel class of effective and safe therapeutic agents / Jean-Luc Burgaud -- Ginseng, sex behavior, and nitric oxide / Laura L. Murphy -- The clinical safety of Viagra / Peter H.C. Lim -- Nitric oxide: an antioxidant and neuroprotector / Kochupurackal P. Mohanakumar -- Nitric oxide triggers classic ischemic preconditioning / Amanda Lochner -- Mechanisms of hepatoprotection by nitric oxide . Yinna Wang -- Protective effects of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor in ischemic brain injury / Y. Wang.