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- Received June 30, 2014
- Revision received September 26, 2014
- Accepted October 29, 2014
- First published January 28, 2015.
- Version of record published January 28, 2015.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: H.A.B. and A.-C.E.G. designed research; A.M.F., E.D.H., E.M.V., and W.A.C. performed research; E.M.V. and G.A.-J. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; A.M.F., W.A.C., and H.A.B. analyzed data; E.D.H., H.A.B., and A.-C.E.G. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received June 30, 2014.
- Revision received September 26, 2014.
- Accepted October 29, 2014.
↵*A.M.F. (who performed the initial experiments with designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs and l-DOPS) and E.D.H. (who completed the study, including additional control experiments, cell counting of transfected cells, and confocal microscopy) have shared first-authorship.
This work was supported by Grant DSADIIP-13-284845 from the Alzheimer's Association and a grant from the NIH (AG012122). We thank Alfred Moore, Claudia Umphlet, and Laura Columbo for excellent technical assistance.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Ann-Charlotte E. Granholm, Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Avenue, BSB Suite 403, Charleston, SC 29425. granholm{at}musc.edu
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