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- Received December 1, 2010
- Revision received February 2, 2011
- Accepted February 14, 2011
- First published April 13, 2011.
- Version of record published April 13, 2011.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: M.H.F. and J.W.G. designed research; M.H.F., B.H.P., and P.N.H. performed research; M.H.F., D.F., T.T., T.N., P.C.W., D.L.P., and B.S.S. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; M.H.F. and J.W.G. analyzed data; M.H.F. and J.W.G. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received December 1, 2010.
- Revision received February 2, 2011.
- Accepted February 14, 2011.
This work was supported by The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot Grant UL1 RR 025005 (The Johns Hopkins University), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–National Institutes of Health Grants P01 NS047308 and R01 NS041269, and Adelson Program in Neural Repair and Rehabilitation. We thank Michelle Polley, Osefame Ewaleifoh, Shilpa Sakharkar, Ryan Taub, Zoe Rammelkamp, Karen Kumar, and Ying Wu for technical assistance. We are grateful to Dr. Michael Caterina and Elizabeth Hwang for helping with macrophage in vitro assay. We acknowledge the help of Carol Rubright and Carol Cooke of the Electron Microscope Unit of the Department of Neurology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. John W. Griffin, Department of Neurology, Neuromuscular Division, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The John G. Rangos Sr. Building, Room 275, 855 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205. jgriffi{at}jhmi.edu
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