INVITED REVIEW

1. Optogenetics and its application in neural degeneration and regeneration
2. Live-cell imaging: new avenues to investigate retinal regeneration
3. Neurotrophic factors and corneal nerve regeneration
4. Primary cilia as a novel horizon between neuron and environment
5. Effects of estrogen receptor modulators on cytoskeletal proteins in the central nervous system
6. Transcriptional inhibition in Schwann cell development and nerve regeneration
7. LINGO-1 and AMIGO3, potential therapeutic targets for neurological and dysmyelinating disorders?
8. Modulation of valosin-containing protein by Kyoto University Substances (KUS) as a novel therapeutic strategy for ischemic neuronal diseases
9. Heterocyclic compounds as key structures for the interaction with old and new targets in Alzheimer’s disease therapy
10. Metabolic pathways as possible therapeutic targets for progressive multiple sclerosis

PERSPECTIVE

1. Mitochondrial homeostasis in Parkinson’s disease - a triumvirate rule?
2. A role for lipids as agents to alleviate stroke damage: the neuroprotective ef f ect of 2-hydroxy arachidonic acid
3. Reassembly of the axon initial segment and nodes of Ranvier in regenerated axons of the central nervous system

RESEARCH ARTICLE

1. Spreading depression and focal venous cerebral ischemia enhance cortical neurogenesis
2. Extract of Ginkgo biloba promotes neuronal regeneration in the hippocampus after exposure to acrylamide
3. Cortical activation pattern during shoulder simple versus vibration exercises: a functional near infrared spectroscopy study
4. Relationship of nocturnal concentrations of melatonin, gamma-aminobutyric acid and total antioxidants in peripheral blood with insomnia after stroke: study protocol for a prospective non-randomized controlled trial
5. Xingnao Kaiqiao needling method for acute ischemic stroke: a meta-analysis of safety and efficacy
6. Association and dif f erences in genetic polymorphisms in PCSK9 gene in subjects with lacunar infarction in the Han and Uygur populations of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China
7. Cold water swimming pretreatment reduces cognitive def i cits in a rat model of traumatic brain injury
8. Dexmedetomidine mitigates isof l urane-induced neurodegeneration in fetal rats during the second trimester of pregnancy
9. Dried Rehmannia root protects against glutamateinduced cytotoxity to PC12 cells through energy metabolism-related pathways
10. Impact of Pitx3 gene knockdown on glial cell linederived neurotrophic factor transcriptional activity in dopaminergic neurons
11. Optical coherence tomography and T cell gene expression analysis in patients with benign multiple sclerosis
12. A novel triple immunoenzyme staining enables simultaneous identif i cation of all muscle fi ber types on a single skeletal muscle cryosection from normal, denervated or reinnervated rats
13. A progressive compression model of thoracic spinal cord injury in mice: function assessment and pathological changes in spinal cord

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

1. Naringin as a benef i cial natural product against degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic projection in the adult brain

1. Erythropoietin enhanced recovery aer peripheral nerve injury