Article Information
- Received November 7, 2004
- Revision received January 5, 2005
- Accepted January 6, 2005
- First published March 2, 2005.
- Version of record published March 2, 2005.
Author Information
- Tomomi Tani1,
- Yoshikazu Miyamoto2,
- Kazuhiro E. Fujimori3,
- Takahisa Taguchi3,
- Toshio Yanagida2,5,
- Yasushi Sako2,4, and
- Yoshie Harada1,5
- 1Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan, 2Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, 3Cell Engineering Research Institute, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ikeda 563-8577, Japan, and 4Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, and 5Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Disclosures
- Received November 7, 2004.
- Revision received January 5, 2005.
- Accepted January 6, 2005.
This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Basic Research Programs of the Japan Science and Technology Agency. We thank Dr. Masahiro Ueda for his suggestion of introducing single molecule detection techniques for the study of the growth cone, Dr. Tetsuichi Wazawa for his advice on the synthesis of fluorescent conjugates, and Dr. Richard D. Allen for his critical reading of this manuscript.
Correspondence should be addressed to Tomomi Tani, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Honkomagome 3-18-22, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan. E-mail: ttani{at}rinshoken.or.jp.
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