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Acknowledgments
I thank Professor Takahide Nagase for his mentorship and encouragement, Professor
Noboru Mizushima for showing me what a researcher is and how fascinating research
can be. I appreciate Haruka Chino for teaching me the basics of how to perform
experiments from scratch, Hayashi Yamamoto for constructive discussion, Saori Yoshii
for mouse sampling, Keiko Igarashi for help with histological examinations, Shoji
Yamaoka for pMRX-vector, Teruhito Yasui for pCG-VSV-G and pCG-gag-pol, Robert
A. Weinberg for pCMV-VSV-G, Didier Trono for psPAX2, and Keith Mostov for
pLKO.1-blast vector.
I would like to thank all lab members for helping me. Finally, I would like to express my
sincere gratitude to my wife and my two wonderful children for supporting me throughout
my research life.
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