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- Received February 16, 2012
- Revision received August 17, 2012
- Accepted August 23, 2012
- First published October 17, 2012.
- Version of record published October 17, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: J.J.H. and E.F. designed research; J.J.H., N.B., C.H., K.J., and B.M. performed research; J.J.H., N.B., D.G., C.H., K.J., S.L., B.M., and E.F. analyzed data; J.J.H. and E.F. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received February 16, 2012.
- Revision received August 17, 2012.
- Accepted August 23, 2012.
This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Grant FR 1784/11-1 (E.F.), the DFG Research Training Group GRK 845 (Molecular, physiological and pharmacological analysis of cellular membrane transport), and the Marie Curie Research Training Network “CaVNET,” Contract MRTN-CT-2006-035367. We thank Dr. J. Striessnig for Cacna1d−/− mice, Dr. B. Gasnier for the VIAAT antibody, J. Winkelhoff and T. Kehrwald for excellent technical assistance, and K. Eubler for help with the decay time analysis. We are grateful to Drs. J. W. Deitmer, C. Lohr, and D. Schrenk for providing necessary facility access to the confocal microscopes. Finally, we thank Drs. M. B. Rust and F. Felmy for helpful comments on this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Eckhard Friauf, Animal Physiology Group, Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany. eckhard.friauf{at}biologie.uni-kl.de
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