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- Received July 31, 2009
- Accepted September 30, 2009
- First published November 25, 2009.
- Version of record published November 25, 2009.
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- Paula M. Canas1,
- Lisiane O. Porciúncula1,2,
- Geanne M. A. Cunha1,3,
- Carla G. Silva1,
- Nuno J. Machado1,
- Jorge M. A. Oliveira4,
- Catarina R. Oliveira1, and
- Rodrigo A. Cunha1
- 1Center for Neuroscience of Coimbra, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal,
- 2Department of Biochemistry, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 90035-003, Porto Alegre, Brazil,
- 3Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Ceará, 60430-270, Ceará, Brazil, and
- 4Rede de Química e Tecnologia, Serviço de Farmacologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, 4050-047 Porto, Portugal
- Correspondence should be addressed to Rodrigo A. Cunha, Center for Neuroscience of Coimbra, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal. cunharod{at}gmail.com
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- Received July 31, 2009.
- Accepted September 30, 2009.
This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia Grant POCTI/44740/2002 and by a Pfizer award from the Portuguese Society of Neuroscience. L.O.P. was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico–Brazil. We thank Jiang Fan Chen for generously providing A2A receptor knock-out mice, Gary Arendash and Chuanhai Cao for their generous help in the assays measuring Aβ levels, Rosa Resende for her assistance in the native gel analysis, and Rogério Candeias for his efforts in performing some initial experiments in cortical neurons.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Rodrigo A. Cunha, Center for Neuroscience of Coimbra, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal. cunharod{at}gmail.com
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