Article Information
- Received May 31, 2007
- Revision received November 22, 2007
- Accepted November 22, 2007
- First published January 2, 2008.
- Version of record published January 2, 2008.
Author Information
- Carolina Mendoza-Topaz1,
- Francisco Urra1,
- Romina Barría1,
- Valeria Albornoz1,
- Diego Ugalde1,
- Ulrich Thomas2,
- Eckart D. Gundelfinger2,
- Ricardo Delgado4,
- Manuel Kukuljan1,
- Parthena D. Sanxaridis3,
- Susan Tsunoda3,
- M. Fernanda Ceriani5,
- Vivian Budnik6, and
- Jimena Sierralta1
- 1Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad de Chile and Centro de Neurociencias Integradas, Santiago, Chile,
- 2Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, D-39118 Magdeburg, Germany,
- 3Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,
- 4Millenium Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotechnology, Santiago, Chile,
- 5Fundación Instituto Leloir, 1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
- 6Department of Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Jimena Sierralta, Program of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Independencia 1027, P.O. Box 70005, Santiago, Chile. jimena{at}neuro.med.uchile.cl
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Disclosures
- Received May 31, 2007.
- Revision received November 22, 2007.
- Accepted November 22, 2007.
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This work was supported by the Max Planck Award for international collaborations from the Alexander von Humboldt Society and the Max Planck Society (E.G.) and Grants FONDECYT 1030795, ICMP04-068-F, and ACT-47 (J.S., M.K.), and National Institutes of Health Grants FIC R03 TW007068 (J.S., V.B.) and R01 NS042629 (V.B.). We thank Dr. Michael Gorczyca for helpful comments on this manuscript. We also thank Ms. Rebeca Baeza for technical assistance, Mr. Norberto Gherbessi for assistance with electron microscopy, and the Electron Microscopy Facility at University of Massachusetts Medical School supported by the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center Grant DK32520. We thank the Bloomington Stock Center for providing fly stocks and Dr. A. DiAntonio for anti-GluRIII antibodies.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Jimena Sierralta, Program of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Independencia 1027, P.O. Box 70005, Santiago, Chile. jimena{at}neuro.med.uchile.cl
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