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- Received January 14, 2016
- Revision received March 18, 2016
- Accepted March 22, 2016
- First published April 27, 2016.
- Version of record published April 27, 2016.
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- 1Department of Anatomy, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan,
- 2Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan, and
- 3Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: R.I. and M.W. designed research; R.I. performed research; K.S. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; R.I. analyzed data; M.W. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received January 14, 2016.
- Revision received March 18, 2016.
- Accepted March 22, 2016.
This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (24220007 to M.W.; 17500233 and 24500413 to R.I.) and also by the Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS) from AMED. We thank H. Okushima and E. Suzuki, Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, for technical assistance.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: Ryoichi Ichikawa, Department of Anatomy, Sapporo medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan, richi{at}sapmed.ac.jp; or Masahiko Watanabe, Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. watamasa{at}med.hokudai.ac.jp
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