Article Information
- Received March 20, 2009
- Revision received July 7, 2009
- Accepted October 7, 2009
- First published November 18, 2009.
- Version of record published November 18, 2009.
Author Information
- James A. Daniel1,2,
- Sally Galbraith3,
- Lorraine Iacovitti4,
- Andrea Abdipranoto1,2, and
- Bryce Vissel1,2
- 1Neuroscience Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia,
- 2Faculty of Medicine and
- 3School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia, and
- 4Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
- Correspondence should be addressed to Bryce Vissel, Neuroscience Program, Level 7, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. b.vissel{at}garvan.org.au
Author contributions
Disclosures
- Received March 20, 2009.
- Revision received July 7, 2009.
- Accepted October 7, 2009.
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Our work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council Australia Grant #188819 (B.V.), a NSW State Government Spinal Cord Injury & Related Neurological Conditions Research Grant administered by the Office for Science and Medical Research (B.V.), The NSW State Government's BioFirst Award (B.V.), the Australian Postgraduate Award (J.A.D.), the Baxter Family Scholarship (J.A.D.), the Gowrie Trust Scholarship (J.A.D.), The Baxter Trust, The Lyndsay and Heather Payne Medical Research Foundation, Perpetual Philanthropic Foundation, National Institutes of Health Grant NS32519-15 (L.I.), Amadeus Energy Ltd., Bill Gruy, Geoff Dixon, and Dawn Dixon, and the Henry H. Roth Charitable Foundation. This work would not have happened without Amadeus Energy Ltd., Bill and Laura Gruy, and Geoffrey Towner. We thank Nick Kell and Joanna Knott for their support, Drs. T. Lewis, M. Christie, and J. Clements for their insightful comments regarding data analysis, and Drs. S. Janmaat and J. Bekkers for their generous overall assistance. Dr. D. Sulzer provided the methods for culturing dopamine neurons. Dr. J. Bekkers provided the methods for culturing hippocampal neurons. We thank Charles F. Stevens for his invaluable advice. We also thank the following people for their helpful comments in the preparation of this manuscript: Dr. S. Janmaat, A. Daniel, Dr. E. Vissel, Dr. D. Ryugo, Dr. R. Callister, and Dr. S. Oleskevich.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Bryce Vissel, Neuroscience Program, Level 7, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. b.vissel{at}garvan.org.au