Article Information
- Received September 27, 2011
- Revision received December 15, 2011
- Accepted January 9, 2012
- First published February 29, 2012.
- Version of record published February 29, 2012.
Author Information
- Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari1,*,
- Dominic Bastien4,*,
- Geoffrey Yurcisin2,
- Isabelle Pineau4,
- W. Dalton Dietrich1,
- Yves De Koninck3,
- Robert W. Keane1,2, and
- Steve Lacroix4
- 1The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and
- 2Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, 33136, Florida,
- 3Institut Universitaire de Santé Mentale de Québec, Québec, Canada, G1J 2G3, and
- 4Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval and Department of Molecular Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, G1V 4G2
Author contributions
Author contributions: J.P.d.R.V., R.W.K., and S.L. designed research; J.P.d.R.V., D.B., G.Y., I.P., R.W.K., and S.L. performed research; W.D.D., Y.d.K., R.W.K., and S.L. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; J.P.d.R.V., D.B., R.W.K., and S.L. analyzed data; J.P.d.R.V., R.W.K., and S.L. wrote the paper.
↵*J.P.d.R.V. and D.B. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received September 27, 2011.
- Revision received December 15, 2011.
- Accepted January 9, 2012.
This study was supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant MOP-84558 (S.L.) and National Institutes of Health Grant NS059836 and Craig Nielsen Foundation Grant 124671 (R.W.K.) S. L. is supported by the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec. We thank Nicolas Vallières, Nadia Fortin, and Karen Vandal for their invaluable technical assistance. We are also grateful to Dr. Armen Saghatelyan (Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Québec, QC, Canada) for giving us access to his laser scanning confocal microscope.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Steve Lacroix, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université Laval Research Center, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 4G2. Steve.Lacroix{at}crchul.ulaval.ca
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