| Introduction / Peter Csermely |
| Awardees of the Congress |
| Hans Selye (1907-1982) |
| Hans Selye and His Legacy Today |
| Stress and Nonspecific Resistance / Lorand Bertok |
| The Stress Concept and Neuroimmunoregulation in Modern Biology / Istvan Berczi |
| Hans Selye: The Original and Creative Scientist / Kalman Kovacs |
| Stress: From Concept to Modern Immunology / George Lazar |
| Hans Selye and the Development of the Stress Concept: Special Reference to Gastroduodenal Ulcerogenesis / Sandor Szabo |
| Heat-Shock Proteins / Part I.： |
| Small Heat-Shock Protein Family: Function in Health and Disease / Michael J. Welsh ; Matthias Gaestel |
| The Role of Chaperonins in Vivo: The Next Frontier / Jonathan D. Trent ; Hiromi K. Kagawa ; Takuro Yaoi |
| Chaperonins in Health and Disease / A. R. M. Coates ; B. Henderson |
| The 90-kDa Stress Protein, Hsp90, Is a Novel Molecular Chaperone / Ichiro Yahara ; Yasufumi Minami ; Yoshihiko Miyata |
| The Molecular Chaperones in Cell Cycle Control / Noriyuki Sato ; Toshihiko Torigoe |
| Heat Shock and Apoptosis: The Two Defense Systems of the Organism May Have Overlapping Molecular Elements / Maria Punyiczki ; Laszlo Fesus |
| Stress Proteins in Inflammation / Barbara S. Polla ; Maria Bachelet ; Giuliano Elia ; M. Gabriella Santoro |
| Heat-Shock Proteins and the Immune Response / Gabriele Multhoff ; Claus Botzler |
| Antibodies against 60-kDa Heat-Shock Proteins in Human Immuno-deficiency Virus Infection / Zoltan Prohaszka ; Denes Banhegyi ; Eszter Ujhelyi ; Istvan Karadi ; George Fust |
| Expression of Heat-Shock Proteins / Part II.： |
| Role of the Heat-Shock Response in the Life and Death of Proteins / Anu Mathew ; Richard I. Morimoto |
| Regulation of HSF1 Activation and Hsp Expression in Mouse Tissues under Physiological Stress Conditions / Kevin D. Sarge |
| Heat-Shock Genes and Development / M. Morange ; N. Favet ; M.-T. Loones ; M. Manuel ; V. Mezger ; E. Michel ; M. Rallu ; J. Sage |
| Stress Genes in the Nervous System during Development and Aging Diseases / Ian R. Brown ; Illana Gozes |
| Signal Transduction Pathway Leading to Hsp27 and Hsp70 Gene Expression during Myocardial Adaptation to Stress / Dipak K. Das ; Nilanjana Maulik ; Richard M. Engelman ; John A. Rousou ; David Deaton ; Joseph E. Flack III. |
| Stress Response in Prokaryotes and in Eukaryotes / Part III.： |
| Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascades as Regulators of Stress Responses / Michael Karin |
| Regulation of Heat-Shock Response in Bacteria / Gil Segal ; Eliora Z. Ron |
| The Response of Fungal Propagules to Competitive Energy Stress in Soil / Mitsuro Hyakumachi ; Dilip K. Arora |
| Membranes in Stress and Adaptation / John L. Harwood ; Laszlo Vigh |
| Heat Resistance in Mammalian Cells: Lessons and Challenges / Andrei Laszlo ; Aniko Venetianer |
| Effect of Reactive Oxygen Species on Iron Regulatory Protein Activity / G. Cairo ; L. Tacchini ; S. Recalcati ; B. Azzimonti ; G. Minotti ; A. Bernelli-Zazzera |
| Plant Stress / Part IV.： |
| The Stress Concept in Plants: An Introduction / Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler |
| Do Selye's Mammalian "GAS" Concept and "Co-stress" Response Exist in Plants? / Y. Y. Leshem ; P. J. C. Kuiper ; L. Erdei ; S. Lurie ; R. Perl-Treves |
| Adaptation Mechanisms of Green Plants to Environmental Stress: The Role of Plant Sterols and the Phosphatidyl Linolenoyl Cascade in the Functioning of Plants and the Response of Plants to Global Climate Change / Pieter J. C. Kuiper |
| Plant Acclimation and Adaptation to Natural and Anthropogenic Stress / M. N. V. Prasad ; Z. Rengel |
| The Biochemistry of Plant Stress and Disease: Oxygen Activation as a Basic Principle / Ingrid Heiser ; Erich F. Elstner |
| Plant Infection--Biotic Stress / Z. Kiraly |
| Some Ecophysiological and Production Responses of Grasslands to Long-Term Elevated CO[subscript 2] under Continental and Atlantic Climates / Zoltan Tuba ; Mike B. Jones ; Kalman Szente ; Zoltan Nagy ; Lian Garvey ; Robert Baxter |
| Role of Glutathione and Glutathione-Related Enzymes in Response of Plants to Environmental Stress / T. Komives ; G. Gullner |
| Formaldehyde Cycle and the Phases of Stress Syndrome / Erno Tyihak ; Lajos Trezl ; Bela Szende |
| Plant Stress Detection by Reflectance and Fluorescence / H. K. Lichtenthaler ; O. Wenzel ; C. Buschmann ; A. Gitelson |
| Environmental Stress / Part V.： |
| The Detection and Characterization of Genetically Programmed Responses to Environmental Stress / Michael S. DuBow |
| Ascorbate and Environmental Stress / Gabor Banhegyi ; Laszlo Braun ; Miklos Csala ; Ferenc Puskas ; Aniko Somogyi ; Tamas Kardon ; Jozsef Mandl |
| Stress in Fish / George K. Iwama |
| Physiological Mediators of the Stress Response / Part VI.： |
| Stressors, Stress, and Neuroendocrine Integration of the Adaptive Response: The 1997 Hans Selye Memorial Lecture / George P. Chrousos |
| Regulation of the Expression of the Inducible Isoform of Nitric Oxide Synthase by Glucocorticoids / Casba Szabo |
| Stress and Molecular Biology of Neurotransmitter-Related Enzymes / Richard Kvetnansky ; Esther L. Sabban |
| Serotonin, Anxiety, and Stress Hormones: Focus on 5-HT Receptor Subtypes, Species and Gender Differences / Gyorgy Bagdy |
| Mechanisms of Stress on Reproduction: Evidence for a Complex Intra-Hypothalamic Circuit / Aldo E. Calogero ; Rosario D'Agata |
| Neurobiology of Stress and Cocaine Addiction: Studies on Corticotropin-Releasing Factor in Rats, Monkeys, and Humans / Zoltan Sarnyai |
| Receptor-Mediated Local Fine-Tuning by Noradrenergic Innervation of Neuroendocrine and Immune Systems / E. S. Vizi |
| Glycobiology of Stress / Gordan Lauc ; Sanja Dabelic ; Sandra Supraha ; Mirna Flogel |
| Stress of Infections: Endotoxins / Part VII.： |
| Introduction: Endotoxin as Stressor and Endotoxemia as Stress |
| Molecular Basis of Endotoxin Toxicity / Ulrich Seydel |
| Effect of Bile Acids on Endotoxin in Vitro and in Vivo (Physicochemical Defense) Bile Deficiency and Endotoxin Translocation |
| Neuroendocrine Response to Endotoxin |
| Limitations of the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate Test in Demonstrating Circulating Lipopolysaccharides / Thomas J. Novitsky |
| Role of Nitric Oxide in Endotoxic Shock: An Overview of Recent Advances / Csaba Szabo |
| Molecular Basis of Endotoxin Tolerance / James A. Cook |
| Stress and Aging / Part VIII.： |
| Stress, Aging, and Neurodegenerative Disorders: Molecular Mechanisms / Jorge Busciglio ; Julie K. Andersen ; Hyman M. Schipper ; Gad M. Gilad ; Richard McCarty ; Fulvio Marzatico ; Olivier Toussaint |
| Genes That Determine Both Thermotolerance and Rate of Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans / Glenda A. Walker ; David W. Walker ; Gordon J. Lithgow |
| Reciprocal Relationships between the Resistance to Stresses and Cellular Aging / Serge Y. Fuchs ; Ze'ev A. Ronai ; Shogen Isoyama ; Nitta Yuko ; Valeria Petronilli ; Paolo Bernardi ; Efstathios S. Gonos ; Patrick Dumont ; Jose Remacle |
| Expression of the Growth Arrest Specific Genes in Rat Embryonic Fibroblasts Undergoing Senescence / Efstathios Gonos |
| Psychosocial Stress / Part IX.： |
| Coping, Control, and Health Risk / Andrew Steptoe |
| Physiological and Emotional Response to Psychological Stressors in Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Disorders / Ulrike Ehlert ; Roland Straub |
| Mind-Body Influences on Immunity: Lateralized Control, Stress, Individual Difference Predictors, and Prophylaxis / John Gruzelier ; Angela Clow ; Phil Evans ; Imre Lazar ; Leslie Walker |
| Stress of Life, Stress of Death: Anxiety in Dentistry from the Viewpoint of Hypnotherapy / T. K. Fabian ; G. Fabian |
| Genetic Selection and Differential Stress Responses: The Roman Lines/Strains of Rats / P. Driscoll ; R. M. Escoprihuela ; A. Fernandez-Teruel ; O. Giorgi ; H. Schwegler ; Th. Steimer ; A. Wiersma ; M. G. Corda ; J. Flint ; J. M. Koolhaas ; W. Langhans ; P. E. Schulz ; J. Siegel ; A. Tobena |
| Stress and Work / Gustav Schacke |
| Stressin and Natural Killer Cell Activity in Professional Soldiers / Jerka Dumic |
| Stress and Coping from a Social-Cognitive Perspective / Ralf Schwarzer |
| Socioeconomic Differences and Psychosocial Aspects of Stress in a Changing Society / M. S. Kopp ; S. Szedmak ; A. Skrabski |
| Index of Contributors |
| Introduction / Peter Csermely |
| Awardees of the Congress |
| Hans Selye (1907-1982) |
| Hans Selye and His Legacy Today |
| Stress and Nonspecific Resistance / Lorand Bertok |
| The Stress Concept and Neuroimmunoregulation in Modern Biology / Istvan Berczi |
