Stroke: Prevalence and Mechanisms of Cell Death, Gert J. Ter Horst and Antonio Postigo. Imaging of Stroke, Henk Stevens, Hugo M. L. Jansen, Jacques DeReuck, and Jakob Korf. Clinical Aspects of Stroke and Therapeutic Strategies, Keith W. Muir, Elkan Gamzu, and Kennedy R. Lees. Calcium Homeostasis, Nimodipine, and Stroke, Paul G. M. Luiten, Bauke Stuiver, Gineke I. de Jong, Csaba Nyakas, and Jacques H. A. De Keyser. Glutamate Neurotoxicity and Stroke, Tihomir P. Obrenovitch. Glycine Antagonists for Treatment of Ischemic Brain Injury, Midori A. Yenari, David C. Tong, and Gregory W. Albers. Free Radical-Mediated Cerebral Damage After Hypoxia/Ischemia and Stroke, Tomohiro Matsuyama. Genomic Responses Following Cerebral Ischemia, Christoph Wiessner and Konstantin-Alexander Hossmann. Hormonal Modulators of Cerebral Ischemia, Laura J. McIntosh and Robert M. Sapolsky. Inflammatory Responses to Cerebral Ischemia: Implications for Stroke Treatment, John Sharkey, John S. Kelly, and Steven P. Butcher. Animal Models Used in Cerebral Ischemia and Stroke Research, Akira Tamura, Kensuke Kawai, and Kiyoshi Takagi. Index.