Article Information
- Received October 26, 2009
- Revision received January 18, 2010
- Accepted February 14, 2010
- First published March 24, 2010.
- Version of record published March 24, 2010.
Author Information
- Emily B. Einstein1,*,
- Carlyn A. Patterson1,*,
- Beverly J. Hon1,
- Kathleen A. Regan1,
- Jyoti Reddi1,
- David E. Melnikoff1,
- Marcus J. Mateer1,
- Stefan Schulz2,
- Brian N. Johnson1, and
- Melanie K. Tallent1
- 1Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, and
- 2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, D-07747 Jena, Germany
- Correspondence should be addressed to Melanie K. Tallent, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. mtallent{at}drexelmed.edu
Author contributions
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↵*E.B.B. and C.A.P. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received October 26, 2009.
- Revision received January 18, 2010.
- Accepted February 14, 2010.
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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants NS38633 and NS048241, a Drexelmed Translational Tobacco Funds Grant (Pennsylvania Department of Health) to M.K.T., Drexel University College of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (B.H., C.A.P., and K.A.R.), and Drexel University College of Medicine start-up funds. We thank Dr. Daniel Hoyer and Dr. Herbert Schmid (Novartis) for providing ACQ090, Dr. Ute Hochgeshwender (Duke University School of Medicine) for the sst3 and sst4 knock-out mice, Dr. James Schaeffer (Merck) for the sst2 knock-out mice, and Dr. Luis de Lecea (Stanford University School of Medicine) for the sst2/sst4double knock-outs. We thank Ms. Jennifer Otway and Mr. Christopher Watson for assisting with the LTP experiments, and Ms. Rebecca Jay for her contribution to the behavioral studies. We would also like to thank Dr. James E. Barrett for helpful comments on this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Melanie K. Tallent, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. mtallent{at}drexelmed.edu
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