Neurons--nerve cells / Fang Liu, Tucker A. Patterson, Jingshu Zhang, Merle G. Paule, William Slikker, Jr., and Cheng Wang -- Astrocytes / Cheng Wang, Qi Yin, Shuliang Liu, Xuan Zhang, Fang Liu, Jingshu Zhang, Tucker A. Patterson, Merle G. Paule, and William Slikker, Jr. -- Oligodendrocytes [myelin-related glial cell in the central nervous system (CNS)] / Shuliang Liu, Merle G. Paule, Fang Liu, Qi Yin, Tucker A. Patterson, William Slikker, Jr., and Cheng Wang -- Schwann cells / Xuan Zhang, Tucker A. Patterson, Merle G. Paule, Cheng Wang, and William Slikker, Jr. -- Neuroendocrine cells / Zhen He, Sherry A. Ferguson, Tucker A. Patterson, and Merle G. Paule -- Neural stem cells in the adult brain : altered activity in aging, Alzheimer's disease, mood disorders, and epilepsy / Ashok K. Shetty and Bharathi Hattiangady -- Neural stem cells and transplantation / Malathi Srivatsan -- 3D in vitro models for developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) / Luc Stoppini, Jenny Sandström von Tobel, Igor Charvet, Marie-Gabrielle Zurich, Lars Sundstrom, and Florianne Monnet-Tschudi -- Neural cell lines (lineage) / Qiang Gu -- Advanced cell techniques to study developmental neurobiology and toxicology / Thomas Hartung, Helena T. Hogberg, Marcel Leist, David Pamies, and Lena Smirnova -- Anesthesia and neural plasticity / Laszlo Vutskits -- Blood-brain barrier (BBB) / Balabhaskar Prabhakarpandian, Syed Ali, and Kapil Pant -- Neurotrophins and Alzheimer's disease / Jyotshna Kanungo -- Neurotransmitters and receptors / Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic -- Neuronal ion channels / Slobodan M. Todorovic -- Brain injury-neuroprotection / Koichi Yuki, Mary Ellen McCann, and Sulpicio G. Soriano