Chapter 1: Central Axonal Development and Pathology in Early Life Robin L. Haynes, Hannah C. Kinney Chapter 2: Microtubules in the nervous system Nobuyuki Fukushima Chapter 3: Tau phosphorylation Jesus Avila, Felix Hernandez Chapter 4: Tau Pathology Nicolas Sergeant, Luc Buee Chapter 5: Tauopathy and brain aging Akihiko Takashima Chapter 6: Microtubule-associated protein 4 Kiyotaka Tokuraku, Kazuyuki Matsushima, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Susumu Kotani Chapter 7: Structure of Neural Intermediate Filaments David A.D. Parry Chapter 8: Alpha-internexin: the Fourth Subunit of Neurofilaments in the Mature CNS Aidong Yuan, Ralph A. Nixon Chapter 9: Peripherin Pathology Jesse R. McLean, Janice Robertson Chapter 10: Neurofilament cross-bridge: a structure associated specifically with the neurofilament among the intermediate filament family Takahiro Gotow Chapter 11: Neurofilament Transport Andrew J Grierson and Christopher C.J Miller Chapter 12: Knockout models of neurofilament proteins Rodolphe Perrot, Jean-Pierre Julien Chapter 13: Neurofilaments and Radial Growth: Deconstruction of a hypothesis through the construction of gene targeted mice Michael L. Garcia, Devin M. Barry Chapter 14: Deregulation of Cytoskeletal Protein Phosphorylation and Neurodegeneration Jyotshnabala Kanungo, Ya-li Zheng, Parvathi Rudrabhatla, Niranjana D. Amin, Bibhutibhushan Mishra, Harish C. Pant Chapter 15: Neurofilaments in Aged Animals Shin-ichi Hisanaga, Takahiro Sasaki, Atsuko Uchida Chapter 16: Neurofilament changes in Multiple Sclerosis Elizabeth Gray, Alastair Wilkins Chapter 17: Intermediate filament interactions in neurons Kevin G. Young, Rashmi Kothary Chapter 18: Tropomyosins in Neuronal Morphogenesis and Development Nikki Margarita Curthoys, Peter William Gunning, Thomas Fath Chapter 19: The Driving Machinery for Growth Cone Navigation Takuro Tojima, Hiroyuki Kamiguchi Chapter 20: Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein: The intermediate filament protein of astrocytes Douglas L. Eng, Lawrence F. Eng Chapter 21: Axonal Transport Mechanisms in Cytoskeleton Formation and Regulation Aidong Yuan, Ralph A. Nixon Chapter 22: Axonal transport and motor neuron disease Anna-Lena Stroem, Lawrence J. Hayward, Edward J. Kasarskis, Haining Zhu Chapter 23: In vivo imaging of axonal transport in aging and Alzheimer's disease Donna J. Cross, Satoshi Minoshima Chapter 24: Regulation of Cytoskeletal Composition in Neurons: Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Control in Development, Regeneration, and Disease Ben G. Szaroa, Michael J. Strong Chapter 25: Crosstalks between myelinating cells and the axonal cytoskeleton Rodolphe Perrot, Joel Eyer Chapter 26: Topographic regulation of neuronal intermediate filament proteins by phosphorylation: In health and disease Parvathi Rudrabhatla, Harish C Pant Chapter 27: Cytoskeleton, axonal transport, and the mechanisms of axonal neuropathy Hsinlin T Cheng, Brian Callaghan, Jacqueline R Dauch and Eva L Feldman Chapter 28: Effects of Insulin on Tau and Neurofilament R. Schechter, K.E. Miller Chapter 29: Ethanol effects on the cytoskeleton of nerve tissue cells Sergio G. Evrard, Alicia Brusco