Article Information
- Received June 13, 2001
- Revision received August 20, 2001
- Accepted September 11, 2001
- First published December 15, 2001.
- Version of record published December 15, 2001.
Author Information
- Kouichi Hashimoto1,
- Ryoichi Ichikawa2,
- Hajime Takechi3,
- Yoshiro Inoue4,
- Atsu Aiba5,
- Kenji Sakimura6,
- Masayoshi Mishina7,
- Tsutomu Hashikawa8,
- Arthur Konnerth9,
- Masahiko Watanabe4, and
- Masanobu Kano1
- 1Department of Physiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan,
- 2Department of Anatomy, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan,
- 3Department of Gerontology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan,
- 4Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan,
- 5Division of Cell Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Japan,
- 6Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan,
- 7Department of Molecular Neurobiology and Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, and Cure Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan,
- 8Laboratory for Neural Architecture, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan, and
- 9Institut für Physiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80802 München, Germany
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Disclosures
- Received June 13, 2001.
- Revision received August 20, 2001.
- Accepted September 11, 2001.
This work has been partly supported by grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture and Technology (M.K.), the Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation (K.H.), and the Human Frontier Science Program (M.K., A.K.). This work has also been supported by Special Coordination Funds for promoting Science and Technology from the Japanese Government (K.H.) and Research for the Future Program of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (A.A). We thank Dr. N. Kawai for continuous encouragement throughout the course of this study, K. Matsumoto and Y. Hirano for excellent technical assistance, and T. Hensch for critically reading this manuscript.
Correspondence should be addressed to Masanobu Kano, Department of Physiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan. E-mail:mkano{at}med.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
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