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- Received May 17, 2010
- Revision received April 27, 2011
- Accepted May 19, 2011
- First published July 27, 2011.
- Version of record published July 27, 2011.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: K.K. and M.H. designed research; K.K. and M.H. performed research; K.K. and M.H. analyzed data; K.K. and M.H. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received May 17, 2010.
- Revision received April 27, 2011.
- Accepted May 19, 2011.
This work was supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation (M. H.), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research no.22680031 and no. 22650083 (K.K.), Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) (K.K.), and the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences. We thank Karel Svoboda for performing preliminary experiments; Spencer Smith, Christian Wilms, Jenny Davie, Séverine Mahon, Arnd Roth, Benjamin Judkewitz, and Jesper Sjöström for helpful discussions, Taro Ishikawa for analysis tools; and Latha Ramakrishnan for technical assistance. K. K. thanks Masanobu Kano for his support.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either Michael Häusser or Kazuo Kitamura, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK, m.hausser{at}ucl.ac.uk or kkitamura{at}m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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