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Welcome to the first issue of the Volume 23, 2002 of the Neuroendocrinology
Letters.
It is with great pleasure that today I can inform you about
the appointment of Professor Michel Salzet, Ph.D., as
a member of the Board of Associate Editors of the Neuroendocrinology
Letters (NEL). Professor Michel Salzet, became a member of the
NEL Editorial Board on December 9, 2001 and since then he has
contributed a most impressive original paper - Cellular localization
of a renin-like enzyme in leeches, a Review Article - Neuroimmunology
of opioids From Invertebrates to Human and a Letter to the Editor.
He also has recommended highly distinguished colleagues to join
our Editorial Board, thereby, significantly contributing to
the enlargement of the scientific scope of the NEL.
It
is with the same pleasure that I introduce you to the following
distinguished colleagues, who have graciously accepted my invitation
to join the Editorial Board of the Neuroendocrinology Letters
last December 2001 and January 2002:
Prof.
Juri Engelbrecht, Ph.D., D.Sc., Dr.h.c., President, Estonian
Academy of Sciences, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute
of Cybernetics at Tallinn TU, Tallinn, Estonia.
Prof.
George B. Stefano, Ph.D., State University of New York/College
at Old Westbury, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Biological
Sciences and Director, Old Westbury Neuroscience Institute,
New York USA.
Prof.
Robert Day, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of
Pharmacology, Medical School University of Sherbrooke, Québec,
Canada.
Prof.
Robert Dantzer, D.V.M., Dr.Sc., Director of Research,
1st Class, French National Institute of Agricultural Research
(INRA), Director of the Laboratory of Integrative Neurobiology,
INRA and French National Institute for Health and Medical Research
(INSERM), Bordeaux, France; Adjunct Professor at the University
of Illinois at Urbana; Editor-in-Chief: Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Prof.
Marco Cosentino, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine University of Insubria, Varese,
Italy.
Dr.
Paolo Lissoni, Divisione Radioterapia Oncologica, Ospedale
S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy.
Starting
this new volume of the Neuroendocrinology Letters, I would like
to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude, especially
to two of my co-workers:
First, to the Deputy Chief Editor of the NEL, Professor Michal
Karasek, who consistently supported me in all my efforts
with editing and publishing this Journal and who was and is
an invaluable source of inspiration and innovation.
Also, I would like to very cordially thank Jon RG Turner, a
good old friend of mine, for his invaluable help with consulting
me with ideas and in all necessary references concerning the
American English language.
In
this issue of the NEL, I am happy to present the Doctoral
Thesis by Marko Vendelin from the Institute of Cybernetics
at Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia, which demonstrates
on one hand the transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity
of the Neuroendocrinology Letters and also our intention to
publish outstanding Doctoral Thesis from various fields of science.
In
her Editorial in the Volume 22, No. 6, 2001 [1], our Art Director,
Lili Maas, announced two philosophical articles by Professor
Marek Pawlikowski, of which the first we now publish
as a Guest Editorial. Throughout the years, Professor
Pawlikowski, has contributed significant scientific papers to
this Journal, in the field of Neuroendocrinology. He also has
submitted the beautiful poetry in French, in Vol. 22 No. 5,
and is known as an advocate of humanistic and ethical values
in medicine, society at large, and not least, in language itself.
We
have the privilege to publish two Letters to the Editor:
The first is by Professor Michel Salzet entitled Immune
cells express endocrine marker reflecting the Letter to the
Editor, NEL Vol. 21 No. 3, 2000: Claude Bernard was right:
hormones may be produced by ‘non-endocrine’ cells
by Igor M. Kvetnoy, Russel J. Reiter & Vladimir Kh. Khavinson.
The
second is by Dr. Ruediger Lorenz entitled Cytokines
and Epilepsy: A Clinical Study, a follow-up of his previous
clinical study, published as a Letter to the Editor in Vol.
21 No. 5, 2001. Dr. Lorenz, who also is a member of the Editorial
Board of the NEL, has contributed in the Press Room of the NEL
Website the paper on Vagusnerv-Stimulation Influence on melatonin
and cytokines - a possible mechanism of action of vagus nerve
stimulation.
Professor
George B. Stefano et al. has submitted to this issue
an excellent Review Article on Morphine as a Hormone entitled
An Hormonal Role for Endogenous Opiate Alkaloids: Vascular Tissues,
as his first contribution to the Neuroendocrinology Letters.
I
would like to equally express my deep gratitude to the following
distinguished colleagues who submitted their outstanding original
papers to this first issue of 2002:
Professor Daniel P. Cardinali with co-workers, Professor
D.F. Swaab with co-workers, Dr. Paolo Lissoni
with co-workers, Dr. P. Cano with co-workers, Dr. M.A.
De Bortoli with co-workers, and Dr. Sheila L. Handley
with co-workers.
Our statistics shows an increasing number of visitors to our
NEL Website, where we also receive reports of the most read
articles. We are summarizing the internal statistics of the
most read articles and other topics reflecting the interest
of the readers. It is with increasing pleasure for me to invite
your attention to the continuously updated Website and Press
Room of the NEL at www.nel.edu . Many of the papers submitted
and published in the NEL are ‘hot topics’ and of great
interest to journalists and to the general public. We would
like to encourage all NEL authors to also send us, along with
their scientific paper, a ‘popular version’
aimed for the mass media and press. This ‘news version’
will considerably facilitate the dissemination of information
about your research and results to a broader public.
Also,
if you have any news you would like to share with us, other
colleagues, readers and even journalists, please send it to
us for possible publication on our NEL Website.
From
this year on, the Neuroendocrinology Letters together with the
Foundation of Integrated Sciences (FIS) will
be publishing the International Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal
Psychology and Medicine (Integrative Prenatal and Perinatal
Sciences). The topics of those two journals very often are interrelated
and we encourage you to send us your contributions for this
Journal as well.
This
year, besides the regular issues, we also plan to publish supplements
which will be distributed to the regular subscribers without
charge. They will also be displayed online on our NEL website
and indexed in MEDLINE PubMed. The first NEL Supplement
edited by Prof. Michal Karasek -- Proceedings of the
International Symposium Polanica Zdroj (Poland) 30 Sept.
to 3 Oct. 2001 Melatonin: Clinical Significance and Therapeutic
Application will be published in March 2002. (Visit our
Website at: www.nel.edu/Press/Press.htm)
The
second NEL Supplement is scheduled for June 2002 as Proceedings
of the International Symposium University of Cologne, Germany,
May 2-3, 2002; Light, Endocrine Systems and Cancer - Facts
and Research Perspectives (See Website at: www.nel.edu/Press/Press.htm
and the Announcement in this Issue). Both Supplements are open
for commercial advertisements and/or sponsorship. Interested
parties please contact publisher@nel.edu
As
I initiate this new volume, I very much am looking forward to
a close cooperation with you and I cordially welcome your contributions
from the fields of science, philosophy and art to the pages
of the Neuroendocrinology Letters.
Peter G. Fedor-Freybergh
Editor-in-Chief; Neuroendocrinology Letters
1. Maas L. From the
Art Director’s Desk. Neuroendocrinol Lett 2001;
22:475.
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