Article Information
- Received July 26, 2012
- Revision received January 22, 2013
- Accepted January 25, 2013
- First published March 6, 2013.
- Version of record published March 6, 2013.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: S.M.L.-B. and A.J.R. designed research; S.M.L.-B., E.M.Y., M.A.A., A.J.V., and A.J.R. performed research; A.J.R. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; S.M.L.-B., E.M.Y., M.A.A., and A.J.R. analyzed data; S.M.L.-B., E.M.Y., and A.J.R. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received July 26, 2012.
- Revision received January 22, 2013.
- Accepted January 25, 2013.
This work is supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-89739, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Senior Scholar Award (A.J.R.), and MS Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship (S.M.L.-.B.). We thank Kathryn Westendorf for technical assistance and expertise, and our awesome high school volunteer, Antigone (Tiggy) Valen, for her help in quantification, and Gavin Bock for assistance with behavioral analysis. We would also like to thank Khatereh Aminoltejari and Greg Silasi (from the lab of Dr. Tim Murphy, University of British Columbia) for their immense help in teaching us and troubleshooting rose bengal lesion and behavioral analysis. We would also like to thank Dr. Helene Sage for sharing reagents and insight into SPARC action, and Drs. Tim Murphy, Wolfram Tetzlaff, and Brian MacVicar for their collaboration and their insightful discussions of this manuscript.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. A. Jane Roskams, Room 3-309 Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada. roskams{at}zoology.ubc.ca
