Article Information
- Received March 19, 2001
- Revision received May 21, 2001
- Accepted June 1, 2001
- First published August 15, 2001.
- Version of record published August 15, 2001.
Author Information
- Isabel Fariñas1,2,
- Kevin R. Jones3,
- Lino Tessarollo5,
- Allison J. Vigers3,
- Eric Huang1,
- Martina Kirstein2,
- Dominique C. de Caprona4,
- Vincenzo Coppola5,
- Carey Backus1,
- Louis F. Reichardt1, and
- Bernd Fritzsch4
- 1Program in Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0724,
- 2Departamento de Biologı́a Celular, Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Spain,
- 3Department of Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309,
- 4Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, and
- 5Neural Development Group, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21701
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Disclosures
- Received March 19, 2001.
- Revision received May 21, 2001.
- Accepted June 1, 2001.
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (P 50 DC 00215), the National Organization of Hearing Research, and the Leda Sears Trust to B.F. and D.C.D.; Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia–Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a, Spain (SAF99-0119-C0) and Fundació la Marató de TV3 to I.F.; National Institutes of Health Grant KO1 NS01872 to A.J.V.; National Institute of Mental Health Grant 48200 to L.F.R.; and a University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award, a Muscular Dystrophy Association grant, and a Burroughs-Wellcome New Investigator in Pharmacology Award to K.R.J. B.F. thanks C. Miller for excellent assistance with the TEM and SEM preparations and for her dark room work and M. Christensen for her help with immunocytochemistry. L.F.R. is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
I.F., K.R.J., and L.T. contributed equally to this paper.
Correspondence should be addresssed to Dr. B. Fritzsch, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178. E-mail: Fritzsch{at}Creighton.edu.
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