*Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom;
†Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, United Kingdom;
‡School of Science and Engineering, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia;
§Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands;
‖School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;
¶Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi; and
**Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetology and Nephrology, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland
Correspondence: Dr. Maciej Tomaszewski, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Clinical Sciences Wing, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK. Phone: 44-116-256-3019; Fax: 44-116-287-5792; E-mail: [email protected]
Received August 12, 2010
Accepted December 7, 2010