Article Information
- Received September 21, 2000
- Revision received November 29, 2000
- Accepted December 5, 2000
- First published March 1, 2001.
- Version of record published March 1, 2001.
Author Information
- 1Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 2182 “Récepteurs et Cognition,” Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cédex 15, France, and
- 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, Section of Physiology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 41100 Modena, Italy
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Disclosures
- Received September 21, 2000.
- Revision received November 29, 2000.
- Accepted December 5, 2000.
This work was supported by the Collège de France, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Council for Tobacco Research, the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer and the Commission of the European Communities (CEC). R.K. is supported by salary from the Collège de France; A.deK.d'E. is supported by the CEC; M.Z. is a recipient of a Telethon and a Ministero dell'Universitá e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Cofin2000 Italian grant. We thank Dr. Clément Léna for technical help regarding RT-PCR procedures, Dr. Richard Miles for useful comments, Dr. Arthur Beaudet (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX) for providing the α7 knock-out mice, and Dr. Lisa Marubio for the gift of α4 knock-out mice.
R.K. and A.deK.d'E. contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence should be addressed to Jean-Pierre Changeux, Unitéde Neurobiologie Moléculaire, Département des Biotechnologies, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue de Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. E-mail: changeux{at}pasteur.fr.
Dr. de Kerchove d'Exaerde's present address: Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, CP601, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, School of Medicine 808, route de Lennik 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
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