Article Information
- Received March 5, 2013
- Revision received April 5, 2013
- Accepted April 10, 2013
- First published May 22, 2013.
- Version of record published May 22, 2013.
Author Information
- Marissa S. Kuzirian1,*,
- Anna R. Moore1,*,
- Emily K. Staudenmaier1,
- Roland H. Friedel2, and
- Suzanne Paradis1
- 1Department of Biology, National Center for Behavioral Genomics, and Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, and
- 2Department of Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, and Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029
Author contributions
Author contributions: M.S.K., A.R.M., R.H.F., and S.P. designed research; M.S.K., A.R.M., and E.K.S. performed research; R.H.F. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; M.S.K., A.R.M., and E.K.S. analyzed data; M.S.K., A.R.M., and S.P. wrote the paper.
↵*M.S.K. and A.R.M. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received March 5, 2013.
- Revision received April 5, 2013.
- Accepted April 10, 2013.
This work was supported in part by the March of Dimes (Research Grant #5-FY09-125), the National Institutes of Health (Grant #R01NS065856 to S.P. and Grant #F31NS078901 to M.S.K.; A.R.M. supported by Grant #T32NS007292 to Eve Marder), and Core Facilities for Neurobiology at Brandeis University (Grant #P30NS45713). We thank Dr. Alain Chedotal for the gift of the Sema4D-AP construct, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne for the gift of the PlexinB1−/− mice, and Drs. Paul Garrity and Sacha Nelson for experimental advice and critical reading of this manuscript.
M.S.K., A.R.M. and S.P. are listed as coinventors on a provisional patent application entitled “Methods of Modulating GABAergic Inhibitory Synapse Formation and Function Using Sema4D.” The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Suzanne Paradis, Department of Biology, National Center for Behavioral Genomics, and Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02454. paradis{at}brandeis.edu
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