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History
- Received November 1, 2007
- Revision received March 5, 2008
- Accepted March 7, 2008
- First published April 2, 2008.
- Version of record published April 2, 2008.
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Author Information
- Vicki M. Tysseling-Mattiace1,*,
- Vibhu Sahni1,*,
- Krista L. Niece3,
- Derin Birch1,
- Catherine Czeisler1,
- Michael G. Fehlings4,
- Samuel I. Stupp2,3, and
- John A. Kessler1
- 1Department of Neurology and
- 2Department of Medicine and Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611,
- 3Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, and
- 4Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8
- Correspondence should be addressed to Vicki M. Tysseling-Mattiace, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. v-mattiace{at}northwestern.edu
Author contributions
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↵*V.M.T.-M. and V.S. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received November 1, 2007.
- Revision received March 5, 2008.
- Accepted March 7, 2008.
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This project was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 EB003806-01 (S.I.S., J.A.K.), R01 NS20013-21 (J.A.K.), and P50 NS54287 (J.A.K.) and by a scholarship from the Foundation for Physical Therapy (V.M.T.). We thank Bridgid Nolan, Tammy McGuire, and Min Hu for assistance with animal care, Hongzhou Jiang for help with the scanning electron microscopy, and Jie Huang for help with statistics. We thank Oswald Steward and his laboratory for advice and training on the tract-tracing methodology.
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S.S. has founded a company, Nanotope, to eventually develop commercial applications of the self-assembling materials. S.I.S. and J.A.K. participate in this venture.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Vicki M. Tysseling-Mattiace, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611. v-mattiace{at}northwestern.edu
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