Article Information
- Received July 4, 2011
- Revision received October 26, 2011
- Accepted November 4, 2011
- First published January 4, 2012.
- Version of record published January 4, 2012.
Author Information
- Po-Han Chiang1,*,
- Pu-Yeh Wu1,*,
- Tzu-Wei Kuo1,*,
- Yu-Chao Liu1,
- Chu-Fang Chan1,
- Ta-Chun Chien2,3,
- Jen-Kun Cheng4,
- Yu-Yin Huang5,
- Cheng-Di Chiu6, and
- Cheng-Chang Lien1
- 1Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center and
- 2Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan,
- 3Molecular Medicine Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan,
- 4Department of Anesthesiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei 104, Taiwan, Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan,
- 5Department of Anesthesiology, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei 112, Taiwan, and
- 6Department of Neurosurgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 404, Taiwan
Author contributions
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Author contributions: J.-K.C., Y.-Y.H., C.-D.C., and C.-C.L. designed research; P.-H.C., P.-Y.W., T.-W.K., Y.-C.L., C.-F.C., and T.-C.C. performed research; P.-H.C., P.-Y.W., T.-W.K., Y.-C.L., C.-F.C., T.-C.C., and C.-C.L. analyzed data; C.-C.L. wrote the paper.
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↵*P.-H.C., P.-Y.W., and T.-W.K. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received July 4, 2011.
- Revision received October 26, 2011.
- Accepted November 4, 2011.
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This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Aim for the Top University Plan, National Health Research Institutes (NHRI-EX100-9720NC), Taiwan National Science Council (NSC99-2321-B-010-001), and Cheng Hsin General Hospital (Grant Nr. 100-53 to Y.-Y.H). We thank Drs. G. J. Stuart and C. Schmidt-Hieber for critically reading the manuscript, P. Jonas for comments on the initial experiments, and Drs. G. J. Stuart, C. Schmidt-Hieber, M. Martina, and R. Piet for helpful advice.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Cheng-Chang Lien, Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University 155, Section 2, Li-Nong Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan. cclien{at}ym.edu.tw
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