Article Information
- Received July 5, 2011
- Revision received August 12, 2011
- Accepted August 15, 2011
- First published October 5, 2011.
- Version of record published October 5, 2011.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: A.W.L. and U.H. designed research; A.W.L., J.G., F.G., and V.K. performed research; A.W.L., J.G., F.G., V.K., and U.H. analyzed data; A.W.L. and U.H. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received July 5, 2011.
- Revision received August 12, 2011.
- Accepted August 15, 2011.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This work was supported by funds provided to U.H. by the State of California for medical research on alcohol and substance abuse through the University of California at San Francisco, by the Sandler Family Foundation, and by the NIH (DA14809). We are grateful to members of Nirao Shah's laboratory (Melody Wu for information on estradiol treatments and Scott Juntti for helpful discussions). We thank Chris Kliethermes for assistance with estradiol injections and brain dissections and Yun Zhang for virus production. We also thank Novartis for the generous gift of TAE684.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Amy W. Lasek, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, 5858 Horton Street, Suite 200, Emeryville, CA 94608. alasek{at}gallo.ucsf.edu
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