Article Information
- Received April 23, 2012
- Revision received July 4, 2012
- Accepted July 27, 2012
- First published September 26, 2012.
- Version of record published September 26, 2012.
Author Information
- Kayo Nishizawa1,
- Ryoji Fukabori1,
- Kana Okada1,2,
- Nobuyuki Kai1,
- Motokazu Uchigashima3,
- Masahiko Watanabe3,
- Akira Shiota4,
- Masatsugu Ueda4,
- Yuji Tsutsui5, and
- Kazuto Kobayashi1,2
- 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan,
- 2Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan,
- 3Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan,
- 4Utsunomiya Branch, PhoenixBio, Utsunomiya 321-0973, Japan, and
- 5Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Fukushima 960-1296, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: K.N. and K.K. designed research; K.N., R.F., K.O., N.K., M. Uchigashima, M.W., A.S., and M. Ueda performed research; Y.T. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; K.N., R.F., K.O., N.K., M. Uchigashima, M.W., A.S., M. Ueda, Y.T., and K.K. analyzed data; K.N. and K.K. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received April 23, 2012.
- Revision received July 4, 2012.
- Accepted July 27, 2012.
This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) and Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Comprehensive Brain Science Network) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan; and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology of Japan Science and Technology Agency. We thank Dr. I. Pastan for providing anti-Tac(Fv)-PE38. We are grateful to M. Kikuchi, N. Sato, K. Sato, and T. Kobayashi for their technical support in the animal experiments.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Kazuto Kobayashi, Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan. kazuto{at}fmu.ac.jp
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