Article Information
- Received January 4, 2010
- Revision received July 30, 2010
- Accepted August 18, 2010
- First published October 13, 2010.
- Version of record published October 13, 2010.
Author Information
- Erwin Ilegems1,
- Ken Iwatsuki2,
- Zaza Kokrashvili3,
- Outhiriaradjou Benard4,
- Yuzo Ninomiya5, and
- Robert F. Margolskee3
- 1The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Hospital L1, Stockholm, SE-171 76, Sweden,
- 2Institute of Life Sciences, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Kawasaki, 210-8681, Japan,
- 3Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3308,
- 4Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, and
- 5Section of Oral Neuroscience, Graduate School of Dental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
- Correspondence should be addressed to Erwin Ilegems, The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Hospital L1, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. erwin.ilegems{at}ki.se
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Disclosures
- Received January 4, 2010.
- Revision received July 30, 2010.
- Accepted August 18, 2010.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants DC008240 (E.I.) and DC03055 and DC03155 (R.F.M.). We thank Dr. Atsushi Miyawaki for providing the construct YC3.60. Confocal laser scanning microscopy and transmission electron microscopy were performed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine-Microscopy Shared Resource Facility, supported with funding from NIH-National Cancer Institute Shared Resources Grant 5R24 CA095823-04, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Grant DBI-9724504, and NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant 1 S10 RR0 9145-01. Real-time PCR was performed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Quantitative PCR Shared Facility. Paraffin embedding and sectioning was done at the Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
R.F.M. has a personal financial interest in the form of stock ownership in the Redpoint Bio company and is an inventor on patents and patent applications which have been licensed to Redpoint Bio.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Erwin Ilegems, The Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Hospital L1, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. erwin.ilegems{at}ki.se
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