Targeted disruption of the voltage-dependent calcium channel 2 /-1-subunit

Geraldine A. Fuller-Bicer,* Gyula Varadi,* Sheryl E. Koch,* Masakazu Ishii,* Ilona Bodi, Nijiat Kadeer, James N. Muth, Gabor Mikala, Natalia N. Petrashevskaya, Michael A. Jordan, Sui-Po Zhang, Ning Qin, Christopher M. Flores, Idit Isaacsohn, Maria Varadi, Yasuo Mori, W. Keith Jones, and Arnold Schwartz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology and Biophysics, Department of Surgery, and Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio; DNA Analysis, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Division of Analgesics, Drug Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Spring House, Pennsylvania

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