Article Information
- Received June 2, 2012
- Revision received October 10, 2012
- Accepted November 16, 2012
- First published January 23, 2013.
- Version of record published January 23, 2013.
Author Information
- Noelle C. Anastasio1,2,
- Scott R. Gilbertson1,4,
- Marcy J. Bubar1,
- Anton Agarkov4,
- Sonja J. Stutz1,2,
- Yowjiun Jeng1,2,3,
- Nicole M. Bremer1,2,
- Thressa D. Smith1,2,
- Robert G. Fox1,2,
- Sarah E. Swinford1,
- Patricia K. Seitz1,2,
- Marc N. Charendoff5,
- John W. Craft Jr5,
- Fernanda M. Laezza1,2,
- Cheryl S. Watson1,3,
- James M. Briggs5, and
- Kathryn A. Cunningham1,2
Author contributions
Author contributions: N.C.A., S.R.G., M.J.B., C.S.W., J.M.B., and K.A.C. designed research; N.C.A., S.R.G., A.A., S.J.S., Y.J., N.M.B., T.D.S., R.G.F., S.E.S., P.K.S., M.N.C., J.W.C., and K.A.C. performed research; N.C.A., S.R.G., A.A., S.J.S., Y.J., N.M.B., T.D.S., R.G.F., S.E.S., P.K.S., M.N.C., J.W.C., F.M.L., C.S.W., J.M.B., and K.A.C. analyzed data; N.C.A., S.R.G., M.J.B., M.N.C., J.W.C., J.M.B., and K.A.C. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received June 2, 2012.
- Revision received October 10, 2012.
- Accepted November 16, 2012.
This work was supported by the Klarman Family Foundation, the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research, and National Institute of Drug Abuse Grants DA06511, DA024157, and DA020087. K.A.C. is an editor of Neuropsychopharmacology Reviews and receives compensation for this role from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. We thank Drs. Kelly Berg and William Clarke from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for the gift of the CHO cell lines. We thank Dr. Adriana Paulucci-Holthauzen and Leoncio Vergara with the University of Texas Medical Branch Optical Microscopy Core for capturing confocal microscopy images and contributing to analysis of confocal photomicrographs. The NAMD (Not Another Molecular Dynamics) program was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Kathryn A. Cunningham, University of Texas Medical Branch Center for Addiction Research, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0615. kcunning{at}utmb.edu
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