The cell adhesion molecule L1 regulates the expression of choline acetyltransferase and the development of septal cholinergic neurons.

"This work was funded by Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERCC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR Funding Reference Number 93603), Canadian Neurotrauma Research Program (CNRP), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT) (IA), Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) Fellowship (IF), Ontario Mental Health Foundation (OMHF) Studentship (AB), and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia post-doctoral fellowship SFRH/BPD/14581/2003 (MTGdaC). M. Schachner is a New Jersey Professor of Spinal Cord Research. The authors would also like to thank A. Tandon for his critical reading of the article; S. Bell for editing and proof-reading the article; MBF Bioscience and Geoff Greene for stereology support; A. Ypsilanti and S. Rideout for assistance in experiments; and G. Loers, I. Jakovcevski, and P. Putthoff for a generous supply of L1-Fc, reagents, and mice. We are grateful to W. B. Stallcup for the L1 antibody. We appreciated the expert assistance of G. Knowles at the Centre for Cytometry and Scanning Microscopy, and E. Yang at the Proteomics Core Facility of the Toronto Angiogenesis Research Centre, both located at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and supported by a CIHR Multi-User Equipment & Maintenance Grant. Funded by NSERCC, CIHR (funding reference number 93603), CNRP, CFI, OIT (IA), ONF Fellowship (IF), OMHF Studentship (AB), and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia post-doctoral fellowship SFRH/BPD/14581/2003 (MTGdaC)."