Article Information
- Received May 9, 2012
- Revision received August 23, 2012
- Accepted September 3, 2012
- First published October 31, 2012.
- Version of record published October 31, 2012.
Author Information
- 1Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience and
- 2Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, 10461;
- 3Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065; and
- 4Neuroscience Graduate Program, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065
Author contributions
Author contributions: N.S. and Z.K. designed research; N.S., R.I., and R.V.S. performed research; N.S. and S.-H.S. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; N.S. analyzed data; N.S. and Z.K. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received May 9, 2012.
- Revision received August 23, 2012.
- Accepted September 3, 2012.
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS038505), and the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research (CSCR11IRG011) (Z.K.). We thank the following investigators for constructs: Janice Imai, Tohru Yamamoto, Roger Bradley, Deanna Benson, and Allan Bradley. We also thank Stacey Reeber for her assistance with mouse work. We are grateful to Carol Mason, Jane Dodd, Jane Johnson, Yimin Zou, Hannes Bülow, Jean Hébert, Scott Emmons, Marie Fernandes, Cristina Aguirre-Chen, and Angela Jevince for providing critical and insightful comments on the manuscript. Anti-mouse Ncad (6B3) was obtained from the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank, developed under the auspices of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and maintained by the University of Iowa, Department of Biological Sciences (Iowa City, IA).
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Zaven Kaprielian, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience and Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Kennedy Center Room 624, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY 10461. zaven.kaprielian{at}einstein.yu.edu
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