Article Information
- Received December 1, 1997
- Revision received January 20, 1998
- Accepted January 28, 1998
- First published April 15, 1998.
- Version of record published April 15, 1998.
Author Information
- James P. Fawcett1,
- Shernaz X. Bamji1,
- Carrie G. Causing1,
- Raquel Aloyz1,
- Ariel R. Ase2,
- Tomas A. Reader2,
- John H. McLean3, and
- Freda D. Miller1
- 1Center for Neuronal Survival, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 2B4,
- 2Centre de Recherche en Science Neurologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada H3C 3J7, and
- 3Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada A1B 3V6
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Disclosures
- Received December 1, 1997.
- Revision received January 20, 1998.
- Accepted January 28, 1998.
This work was supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network on Psychopathology and Development to F.D.M. James Fawcett was supported by a studentship from the Rick Hansen Society, Shernaz Bamji by a Medical Research Council studentship, Carrie Causing by a Savoy Foundation studentship, and Raquel Aloyz by a fellowship from the Canadian NeuroSciences Network. Freda D. Miller is a Killam Scholar. We are grateful to Audrey Speelman and Rahul Varma for excellent technical assistance, to Tim Kennedy, Richard A. Murphy, Danny Baranes, Eddie Chang, and Marta Majdan for their advice and assistance with some of these experiments, to David Kaplan for reading this manuscript, and to Dr. Floyd Bloom and Dr. David Kupfer for their encouragement during the course of this work. We thank Dr. Qiao Yan and Dr. Andy Welcher for providing the BDNF antibody.
J.P.F. and S.X.B. contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence should be addressed to Freda D. Miller, Center for Neuronal Survival, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, 3801 rue University, Montreal, Canada H3A 2B4.
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