Article Information
- Received August 29, 2015
- Revision received April 5, 2016
- Accepted April 12, 2016
- First published May 25, 2016.
- Version of record published May 25, 2016.
Author Information
- Yoshio Hoshiba1,2,3,
- Tomohisa Toda1,2,3,
- Haruka Ebisu1,2,3,
- Mayu Wakimoto1,2,3,
- Shigeru Yanagi4, and
- Hiroshi Kawasaki1,2
- 1Department of Medical Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and
- 2Brain/Liver Interface Medicine Research Center, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa 920-8640, Japan,
- 3Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan, and
- 4Laboratory of Molecular Biochemistry, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1432-1 Horinouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-03, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: Y.H., T.T., S.Y., and H.K. designed research; Y.H., T.T., H.E., and M.W. performed research; Y.H. analyzed data; Y.H. and H.K. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received August 29, 2015.
- Revision received April 5, 2016.
- Accepted April 12, 2016.
This work was supported by the Global Centers of Excellence program and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan, and Takeda Science Foundation, and by the Iwadare Scholarship Foundation (Y. H.). We thank Drs S. Tsuji, T. Kadowaki, H. Bito (The University of Tokyo), H. Tanaka (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences), E. Nishida (Kyoto University), the late Y. Sasai, and S. Nakanishi for their continuous support and warm encouragement; Drs Y. Nakai (Hirosaki University), H. Mizuno (National Institute of Genetics), E. Sock, M. Wegner (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), S. Watanabe (The University of Tokyo), K. Yoshimura, T. Sakurai, and M. Sato (Kanazawa University) for their technical support; and the Kawasaki laboratory members and Z. Blalock for critical discussions and comments on this paper.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Hiroshi Kawasaki, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8640, Japan. kawasaki-labo{at}umin.ac.jp
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