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- Received July 11, 2007
- Revision received December 19, 2007
- Accepted January 8, 2008
- First published February 27, 2008.
- Version of record published February 27, 2008.
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- Joanna M. Solowska1,
- Gerardo Morfini2,
- Aditi Falnikar1,
- B. Timothy Himes1,3,
- Scott T. Brady2,
- Dongyang Huang2, and
- Peter W. Baas1
- 1Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129,
- 2Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, and
- 3Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Peter W. Baas, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2900 Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129 pbaas{at}drexelmed.edu; or Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Of Illinois at Chicago, MC512, 808 South Wood Street, Room 578, Chicago, IL 60612, gmorfini{at}uic.edu
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- Received July 11, 2007.
- Revision received December 19, 2007.
- Accepted January 8, 2008.
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This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation, the Alzheimer's Association, the Department of Defense, and the Craig H. Nielsen Foundation (P.W.B.), from the Amyloid Lateral Sclerosis Association and Huntington's Disease Society of America (G.M.), and from the NIH and Muscular Dystrophy Association (S.T.B.). We thank Elena Rugarli for providing us with human spastin constructs that were used for preliminary studies. We thank Wenqian Yu, Liang Qiang, Jed Shumsky, Douglas Baird, Bin Wang, Yuka Atagi, Katie Liu, Sarah Pollema, and Gustavo Pigino for advice, support, and technical assistance.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Peter W. Baas, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2900 Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129 pbaas{at}drexelmed.edu; or Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University Of Illinois at Chicago, MC512, 808 South Wood Street, Room 578, Chicago, IL 60612, gmorfini{at}uic.edu
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