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- Received August 12, 2003
- Revision received January 30, 2004
- Accepted January 30, 2004
- First published March 17, 2004.
- Version of record published March 17, 2004.
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- Received August 12, 2003.
- Revision received January 30, 2004.
- Accepted January 30, 2004.
This work was supported by a grant from the Department of Defense/Defense Advanced Research Planning Agency/Defense Microelectronics Activity under Award DMEA90-02-2-0216 and the Whitehall Foundation (Award 2000-05-17). V.P. is an Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Senior Fellow. We thank Dr. Karl Bauer (Max-Planck-Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Hannover, Germany) for kindly providing β-Ala-Lys-Nϵ-AMCA peptide, Dr. James E. Rothman (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY) for generously providing a plasmid encoding for super-ecliptic synapto-pHluorin, and Dr. Robert H. Edwards (University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA) for graciously providing polyclonal antibodies against VGLUTs 1 and 3 and plasmids encoding for GST-VGLUTs 1 and 3 fusion proteins. We are grateful for Dr. Glenn I. Hatton's arrangements regarding supply of “Bauer's” peptide and for providing an Alexa Fluor 488 goat anti-mouse antibody. We also thank Dr. Hatton and Todd A. Ponzio for comments on previous versions of this manuscript, for engaging discussions related to this work, and help with brain dissection of adult rats.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Vladimir Parpura, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, 1208 Spieth Hall, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521. E-mail: vlad{at}citrus.ucr.edu.
V. Sunjara's present address: School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3770-03.2004
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