Article Information
- Received December 27, 2010
- Revision received May 16, 2011
- Accepted May 18, 2011
- First published June 29, 2011.
- Version of record published June 29, 2011.
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Author contributions
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Author contributions: M.K., J.R.F., and B.L.F. designed research; M.K., J.R.F., G.F.Z., and S.B.L. performed research; M.K., J.R.F., G.F.Z., S.B.L., and B.L.F. analyzed data; M.K. and B.L.F. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received December 27, 2010.
- Revision received May 16, 2011.
- Accepted May 18, 2011.
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This work was supported in part by a Busch Biomedical Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants IBN-0919747 and IBN-0548543, March of Dimes Foundation Grants 1-FY04-107 and 1-FY08-464, and a Grant-In-Aid from the American Heart Association (to B.L.F.). J.R.F. was supported in part by the IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) Program on Integratively Engineered Biointerfaces at Rutgers: NSF Grant DGE-0333196. M.K. was awarded an Anna B. and James Leathem Fellowship, and G.F.Z. and S.B.L. received School of Arts and Sciences Honors Awards in support of this research. We acknowledge Maxine Chen for some of the pilot studies leading to this work.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Bonnie L. Firestein, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Nelson Biological Laboratories, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8082. Firestein{at}biology.rutgers.edu
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