Article Information
- Received June 19, 1997
- Revision received September 11, 1997
- Accepted September 19, 1997
- First published December 1, 1997.
- Version of record published December 1, 1997.
Author Information
- Takashi Shibata1,2,
- Keiko Yamada1,
- Masahiko Watanabe1,
- Kazuhiro Ikenaka3,
- Keiji Wada4,
- Kohichi Tanaka4, and
- Yoshiro Inoue1
- 1Departments of Anatomy and
- 2Urology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060, Japan,
- 3National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki National Research Institutes, Okazaki 444, Japan, and
- 4Department of Degenerative Neurological Diseases, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira 187, Japan
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Disclosures
- Received June 19, 1997.
- Revision received September 11, 1997.
- Accepted September 19, 1997.
This investigation was supported in part by grants-in-aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan and also by research grants from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan, the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, the Suhara Foundation, and the Ichiro Kanehara Foundation. We thank Dr. Yasuhiro Tomooka at the Science University of Tokyo for his kind gift of rabbit anti-nestin antibody, and also Mr. Hideo Umeda and Mr. Yoshihiko Ogawa at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine for their technical assistance.
T.S. and K.Y. contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence should be addressed to Masahiko Watanabe, Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060, Japan.
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