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- Received June 8, 2004
- Revision received August 11, 2004
- Accepted August 13, 2004
- First published September 22, 2004.
- Version of record published September 22, 2004.
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- Received June 8, 2004.
- Revision received August 11, 2004.
- Accepted August 13, 2004.
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health–National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC005127 and DC006213) and the Whitehall Foundation. We are indebted to Drs. Gordon Shepherd, Charles Greer, Wei Chen, Philip Haydon, and Peter Sterling for their encouragement and insightful discussion. We thank Drs. Carrie Iwema, Tomo Ishii, and Stefan Fuss for helping us with in situ hybridization, Dr. Xinmin Zhang for analyzing the receptor genes, and Jian Liu for technical assistance. We thank Dr. Mike Nusbaum for his critical inputs on this manuscript and Dr. Steve Moss for his generous permission to use the confocal microscope.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Minghong Ma, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 215 Stemmler Hall, 3450 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail: minghong{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.
DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2222-04.2004
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