Article Information
- Received November 22, 2010
- Revision received January 13, 2011
- Accepted February 7, 2011
- First published March 30, 2011.
- Version of record published March 30, 2011.
Author Information
- Daniela Busti1,
- Raffaella Geracitano2,
- Nigel Whittle3,
- Yannis Dalezios4,5,
- Miroslawa Mańko2,
- Walter Kaufmann1,
- Kurt Sätzler6,
- Nicolas Singewald3,
- Marco Capogna2, and
- Francesco Ferraguti1
- 1Department of Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria,
- 2Medical Research Council, Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom,
- 3Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Pharmacy and Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria,
- 4Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion 71003, Greece,
- 5Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Heraklion 71110, Greece, and
- 6School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA, County Londonderry, United Kingdom
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Disclosures
- Received November 22, 2010.
- Revision received January 13, 2011.
- Accepted February 7, 2011.
This work was supported by the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung Grants S10207 (F.F.) and S10202 (N.S.), the Academic Research Collaboration Programme of the British Council (F.F., M.C.), and the Medical Research Council (M.C.). We thank Michaela Benedet for helping with the processing of recorded slices, Lukas M. Kastlunger for helping with three-dimensional reconstructions, Gabi Schmidt for excellent technical support, L. Klimaschewski (Department of Anatomy, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria) for helpful advice on the use of the Metamorph software, J. M. Fritschy (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland) for kindly providing fixed brains from GABAA α3-ko mice, and W. Sieghart (Brain Research Centre, Vienna, Austria) and M. Watanabe (Department of Anatomy, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan) for kindly providing the GABAA α3 subunit and mGlu1α receptor antibodies, respectively. We also thank A. Lüthi (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland), M. Zoli (University of Modena, Modena, Italy), and R. Tasan, Y. Kasugai, H. Hörtnagel, and G. Sperk (Department of Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University) for reading a previous version of this manuscript.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Francesco Ferraguti, Department of Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Peter-Mayr Strasse 1a, Innsbruck A-6020, Austria. francesco.ferraguti{at}i-med.ac.at
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