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- Received July 15, 1998
- Revision received September 11, 1998
- Accepted September 15, 1998
- First published December 1, 1998.
- Version of record published December 1, 1998.
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- Received July 15, 1998.
- Revision received September 11, 1998.
- Accepted September 15, 1998.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants AG11084, GM32355, NS33396, and NS34887 and by Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, and the Fyssen Fondation. We thank Dr. Peter O’Hara for use of his Neurolucida system (MicroBrightField, Colchester, VT) in the analysis of the distribution of hypocretin-immunoreactive fibers. We also thank Drs. Y. Yang for technical assistance with the electron microscopy, Chiaki Fukuhara who made the preprohypocretin used to raise antisera, Masashi Yanagisawa for the gift of orexin A, and Jean-Louis Nahon for the gift of melanin-concentrating hormone cDNA plasmid.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Christelle Peyron, Department of Biological Sciences, Gilbert Hall, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020.