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H-1443Budapest-70,P.O.Box123HungaryDearEditor:Thisisamanuscriptentitled“InternationalvisibilityofChinesescientificjournals”byShengliRenandRonaldRousseau.Itissubmittedtobeconsideredforpublicationasan“Article”inyourjournal.Allauthorshavereadandapprovedthisversionofthearticle,andduecarehasbeentakentoensuretheintegrityofthework.Neithertheentirepapernoranypartofitscontenthasbeenpublishedorhasbeenacceptedelsewhere.Itisnotbeingsubmittedtoanyotherjournal.6WebelievethepapermaybeofparticularinteresttothereadersofyourjournalasitCorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoShengliRenatthefollowingaddress,phoneandfaxnumber,andemailaddress:……Thankyouverymuchforyourattentiontoourpaper.Sincerelyyours,ShengliRen(簽名)RonaldRousseau(簽名)7DearEditor,

Wewouldliketosubmittheenclosedmanuscriptentitled"GDNFAcutelyModulatesNeuronalExcitabilityandA-typePotassiumChannelsinMidbrainDopaminergicNeurons",whichwewishtobeconsideredforpublicationinNatureNeuroscience.

GDNFhaslongbeenthoughttobeapotentneurotrophicfactorforthesurvivalofmidbraindopaminergicneurons,whicharedegeneratedinParkinson’sdisease.Inthispaper,wereportanunexpected,acuteeffectofGDNFonA-typepotassiumchannels,leadingtoapotentiationofneuronalexcitability,inthedopaminergicneuronsincultureaswellasinadultbrainslices.Further,weshowthatGDNFregulatestheK+channelsthroughamechanismthatinvolvesactivationofMAPkinase.Thus,thisstudyhasrevealed,forthefirsttime,anacutemodulationofionchannelsbyGDNF.OurfindingschallengetheclassicviewofGDNFasalong-termsurvivalfactorformidbraindopaminergicneurons,andsuggestthatthenormalfunctionofGDNFistoregulateneuronalexcitability,andconsequentlydopaminerelease.TheseresultsmayalsohaveimplicationsinthetreatmentofParkinson’sdisease.

Duetoadirectcompetitionandconflictofinterest,werequestthatDrs.XXXofHarvardUniv.,andYYofYaleUniv.notbeconsideredasreviewers.Withthanksforyourconsideration,Iam……

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Afterthesubmissionofourmanuscriptentitled"Cancerclassificationbyexpressionprofiles:microRNAversusmRNA"(trackingnumber:2007-10-11332)toNature,sixweekshavepassed.SoIwouldliketoinquirethestatusofourmanuscript.

WethinkthatourcommentsontheoriginalpaperofNaturewillcausewidespreadinteresttobothexpertsandnon-experts.ThisisbecausemicroRNAisahotspotinlifescience;theauthoroftheoriginalpaperisaVIPincancerresearchbasedongeneexpressionprofiles,withaSCIHindexof45,totalcitationsmorethan15,000times,andthispapercitied365times;andthealgorithmweproposedoutperformstherecentstate-of-the-artalgorithm.Moreover,byusingotherstate-of-the-artalgorithms,wecanalsoprovethattheoriginalauthor'smainconclusionsarewrong.

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