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- Received June 10, 2002
- Revision received August 22, 2002
- Accepted August 23, 2002
- First published November 1, 2002.
- Version of record published November 1, 2002.
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- Received June 10, 2002.
- Revision received August 22, 2002.
- Accepted August 23, 2002.
This study was supported in part by grants from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, Sports and Culture, and the Japan Science and Technology Corporation. We are grateful to C. Kadono and T. Ogawa for technical assistance and to E. Fukui for secretarial assistance. We are also grateful to Prof. T. Tsukamoto (Sapporo Medical University) for his kind encouragement and Prof. K. Noguchi (Hyogo Medical University, Hyogo, Japan) for his critical discussion.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Hiroshi Kiyama, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka, 545-8585, Japan. E-mail:kiyama{at}med.osaka-cu.ac.jp.
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