Article Information
- Received April 29, 2004
- Revision received June 9, 2004
- Accepted June 9, 2004
- First published August 11, 2004.
- Version of record published August 11, 2004.
Author Information
- Alexander Gow1,
- Caroline Davies2,
- Cherie M. Southwood1,
- Gregory Frolenkov2,
- Mark Chrustowski1,
- Lily Ng3,
- Daisuke Yamauchi4,
- Daniel C. Marcus4, and
- Bechara Kachar2
- 1Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Department of Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, 2Section on Structural Biology, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, 3Department of Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, and 4Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506
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Disclosures
- Received April 29, 2004.
- Revision received June 9, 2004.
- Accepted June 9, 2004.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Grant RO1 DC006262, NIH-National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant RO1 NS43783 (A.G.), and NIH-NIDCD Grant RO1 DC00212 (D.C.M.). We thank Dr. T. Moran (Director; Hybridoma Core, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NewYork, NY) and HelenPark, who generated the claudin 11 monoclonal antibodies (37E3); Dr. G. Manley (Institut fur Zoologie, Technischen Universitat Munchen, Garching, Germany) for critical reading; Dr. D. Forrest (Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY) for his support and advice; Dr. A. Rzadzinska for her help processing organs of Corti (NIH-NIDCD, Bethesda, MD); and Brunella Bertucci, Cunli Xiang, Tabitha Doci, and Jarrod MacFarlane (Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI) for technical assistance.
Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Alexander Gow, Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 3216 Scott Hall, 541 East Canfield, Detroit, MI 48201, E-mail: agow{at}genetics.wayne.edu; or Bechara Kachar, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Building 50, Room 4249, Bethesda, MD 20892, E-mail: kacharb{at}nidcd.nih.gov.
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