Article Information
- Received September 11, 2014
- Revision received July 14, 2015
- Accepted July 29, 2015
- First published September 2, 2015.
- Version of record published September 2, 2015.
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Author contributions
Author contributions: S.R. and M.S. designed research; S.R., C.C.R., and K.S. performed research; M.S. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; S.R. analyzed data; S.R. and M.S. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received September 11, 2014.
- Revision received July 14, 2015.
- Accepted July 29, 2015.
This work was supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health Intramural Grant to M.S. Light microscopy was performed at the Microscopy and Imaging Core, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with the assistance of V. Schram. Scanning electron microscopy was performed at the Electron Microscopy Core Facility, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, with the assistance of P.M. Zerfas and C.A. Brantner. We thank G. Dold and T. Talbot of the National Institute of Mental Health Instrumentation Core Facility for assistance with designing the tastant delivery system; J. McFarland for assistance with data analysis; and G. Barnea, L. Belluscio, D. Berson, C.-H. Lee, C. McBain, D. Rinberg, and the members of the Stopfer laboratory for helpful discussions.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Mark Stopfer, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. stopferm{at}mail.nih.gov