Article Information
- Received January 19, 2011
- Revision received February 17, 2011
- Accepted February 18, 2011
- First published April 6, 2011.
- Version of record published April 6, 2011.
Author Information
- 1Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan,
- 2Acupuncture & Meridian Science Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea,
- 3Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan, and
- 4Department of Physiological Sciences, The Graduate School for Advanced Study, Hayama 240-0193, Japan
Author contributions
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Author contributions: S.K.K. and J.N. designed research; S.K.K. performed research; S.K.K. and J.N. analyzed data; S.K.K. and J.N. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received January 19, 2011.
- Revision received February 17, 2011.
- Accepted February 18, 2011.
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This work was supported by the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (22240042) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to J.N.; and the JSPS foreign researcher fellowship (P08456), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (20-08456) from JSPS, and Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, Korea (R11-2005-014) to S.K.K. We thank H. Ishibashi, T. Nemoto, H. Wake, Y. Takatsuru, K. Eto, H. Inada, and C. Yin for excellent technical advice and critical discussions on the experiments and manuscript; M. Kano for the generous gift of Elvax beads; M. Yoshitomo and T. Ohba for expert technical assistance; and S. Park for providing a mouse illustration.
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The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Junichi Nabekura, Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan. nabekura{at}nips.ac.jp
