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- Received July 25, 2011
- Revision received October 4, 2011
- Accepted October 5, 2011
- First published November 16, 2011.
- Version of record published November 16, 2011.
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Author contributions: H.S. and S.A. designed research; H.S., S.A., S.H., S.F., K.K., and S.K. performed research; H.S., S.F., and K.K. analyzed data; H.S., S.A., and T.K. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received July 25, 2011.
- Revision received October 4, 2011.
- Accepted October 5, 2011.
This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the Global Centers of Excellence Program (F03) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (T.K.) and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 23591230) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (S.A.).
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Shigeki Arawaka, Department of Neurology, Hematology, Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, 2-2-2 Iida-nishi, Yamagata, Japan 990-9585. arawaka{at}med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp