Article Information
- Received November 22, 2008
- Accepted January 6, 2009
- First published February 19, 2009.
- Version of record published February 19, 2009.
Author Information
- Masahide Yoshida1,
- Yuki Takayanagi2,
- Kiyoshi Inoue3,
- Tadashi Kimura4,
- Larry J. Young3,
- Tatsushi Onaka2, and
- Katsuhiko Nishimori1
- 1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Miyagi 981-8555, Japan,
- 2Department of Physiology, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi 329-0498, Japan,
- 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, and
- 4Department of Specific Organ Regulation, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Correspondence should be addressed to Katsuhiko Nishimori, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tohoku University, 1-1 Tsutsumidori-Amamiyamachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 981-8555, Japan. knishimo{at}mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp
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Disclosures
- Received November 22, 2008.
- Accepted January 6, 2009.
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This work was supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan Grants 20790194 (Y.T.) and 20590237 (T.O.), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants 17005041 (M.Y.), 20020023 (T.O.), and 18380076 (K.N.). The contributions of L.J.Y. were supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant MH64692 and National Science Foundation Grant IBN-9876754. We thank Dr. A. Smith (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Y. Katoh-Fukui (National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan), Dr. A. Miyawaki (RIKEN, Saitama, Japan), and Dr. J. Miyazaki (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan) for their generous gifts of the ES cell line E14TG2a, the plasmid construct for Venus, and CAG-cre mice; Dr. G. Hoffman (Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD), who generously provided the JV3850 oxytocin receptor antibody; Dr. Y. Mishina (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC) for technical advice on targeting vector construction and encouragement; and Dr. H. Yawo (Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan) for technical help in the analysis of living brain slices.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Katsuhiko Nishimori, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tohoku University, 1-1 Tsutsumidori-Amamiyamachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 981-8555, Japan. knishimo{at}mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp
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