Article Information
- Received March 26, 2015
- Revision received November 3, 2015
- Accepted November 12, 2015
- First published January 12, 2016.
- Version of record published January 12, 2016.
Author Information
- Alice M. Stamatakis1,2,
- Maaike Van Swieten1,4,
- Marcus L. Basiri1,2,
- Grace A. Blair1,
- Pranish Kantak1, and
- Garret D. Stuber1,2,3
- 1Departments of Psychiatry and Cell Biology and Physiology,
- 2Curriculum in Neurobiology, and
- 3Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, and
- 4Master program Neuroscience and Cognition, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Transitional Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht 3584 CX, The Netherlands
Author contributions
Author contributions: A.M.S., P.K., and G.D.S. designed research; A.M.S., M.V.S., M.L.B., G.A.B., and P.K. performed research; A.M.S., M.V.S., M.L.B., G.A.B., and G.D.S. analyzed data; A.M.S. and G.D.S. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received March 26, 2015.
- Revision received November 3, 2015.
- Accepted November 12, 2015.
This work was supported by The Klarman Family Foundation, The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research, the Foundation of Hope, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA032750 and DA038168), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (P60 AA011605); A.M.S. was supported by NS007431 and DA034472. We thank members of the Stuber laboratory for helpful discussion, the UNC vector core for viral packaging, Bradford Lowell for the Vglut2-IRES-Cre mice, Karl Deisseroth and Nirao Shah for viral constructs, and the UNC Neuroscience Center Microscopy Core (P30 NS045892).
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Garret D. Stuber, Departments of Psychiatry and Cell Biology and Physiology, Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. gstuber{at}med.unc.edu