Article Information
- Received March 5, 2012
- Revision received July 2, 2012
- Accepted July 8, 2012
- First published August 22, 2012.
- Version of record published August 22, 2012.
Author Information
- Naofumi Uesaka1,
- Takayasu Mikuni1,
- Kouichi Hashimoto1,4,5,
- Hirokazu Hirai2,
- Kenji Sakimura3, and
- Masanobu Kano1
- 1Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan,
- 2Department of Neurophysiology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan,
- 3Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan,
- 4Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan, and
- 5Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: N.U., K.H., and M.K. designed research; N.U. and T.M. performed research; H.H. and K.S. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; N.U. and T.M. analyzed data; N.U., K.H., and M.K. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received March 5, 2012.
- Revision received July 2, 2012.
- Accepted July 8, 2012.
This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 22300125 (K.H.), 21300118 (K.S.), and 17023021, 21220006, and 23650204 (M.K.); the Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (LS021; H.H.); the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences (Development of Biomarker Candidates for Social Behavior); and the Global COE (Center of Excellence) Program (Integrative Life Science Based on the Study of Biosignaling Mechanisms) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan. N.U. was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. We thank K. Matsuyama, M. Sekiguchi, S. Tanaka, and A. Koseki for technical assistance. We thank Dr. Arthur Nienhuis and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and George Washington University for the lentiviral backbone vector and the packaging plasmid, Dr. Didier Trono for the psPAX2 plasmid, pCMVΔR8.74, pMD.2G, and Dr. Peter Scheiffele for the neuroligin-2 plasmid.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Masanobu Kano, Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. mkano-tky{at}m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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