______________________________________________________ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
236 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Mark Ansorge and Neil Gray (Columbia University, New York) for the microarray experiments on Tph2::eGFP mice. I would thank also Alfonso Represa and Shirley Beguin (INMED, Marseille) for in utero electroporation experiments.
I am grateful to Cinzia Valente and Monica Baronti for animal care and Marzia Fabbri, Guglielma De Matienzo and Elena Landi for the technical support.
A special acknowledgment to Massimo Pasqualetti, Sara Migliarini, Giulia Pacini, Elisa Brilli, Attilio Marino and Daniele di Pasquale, great colleagues but even more great friends.