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- Received July 14, 2011
- Revision received October 27, 2011
- Accepted November 30, 2011
- First published January 25, 2012.
- Version of record published January 25, 2012.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: A.B.-G. and F.J.A. designed research; A.B.-G. and F.J.A. performed research; A.B.-G. and F.J.A. analyzed data; F.J.A. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received July 14, 2011.
- Revision received October 27, 2011.
- Accepted November 30, 2011.
This work was supported by NIH Grant NS047357 to F.J.A. We thank specially Maria Berrocal for her invaluable contribution generating the animals used in this study and troubleshooting many of the techniques at the start of this project. Special thanks to Dr. Martyn Goulding (Salk Institute) who provided us with the En1cre/+ animals used here and was a continuous source of input during the development of this study. We also want to acknowledge Dr. Silvia Arber (Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland) and Dr. Robert Brownstone (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia) for sharing with us different strains of reporter mice from their colonies. We also like to thank Drs. Thomas Jessell and Jay B. Bikoff (Columbia University, New York, NY) for their discussions on this project and data sharing. Finally, we thank Dr. Ronald Griffith for comments on the manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Francisco J. Alvarez at his present address: Department of Physiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30345. francisco.j.alvarez{at}emory.edu
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