Article Information
- Received December 17, 1998
- Revision received March 15, 1999
- Accepted March 22, 1999
- First published June 1, 1999.
- Version of record published June 1, 1999.
Author Information
- Yi Liu1,
- Duckhyun Kim1,
- B. Timothy Himes1,2,
- Stella Y. Chow1,
- Timothy Schallert3,
- Marion Murray1,
- Alan Tessler1,2, and
- Itzhak Fischer1
- 1Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129,
- 2Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, and
- 3Department of Psychology and Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Disclosures
- Received December 17, 1998.
- Revision received March 15, 1999.
- Accepted March 22, 1999.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant NS24707 and Training Grants NS10090 and HD07467, the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans of America, the International Spinal Cord Research Trust, a Center of Excellence Grant from Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University, and the Research Service of the Veterans Administration. We thank Dr. L. Lillien for the generous gift of the LIG retrovirus vectors, Dr. L. Reichardt for the human BDNF cDNA, and Dr. J. Solowska-Baird for constructing LIG/BDNF. We thank Maryla Obrocka, Theresa Connors, and Kathy Bozek for their technical help.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Itzhak Fischer, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Pennsylvania/Hahnemann University, 3200 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129.
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