Original papers: Pathophysiological aspects
Lekontseva, Olgaa,c; Jiang, Yanyanb,c; Davidge, Sandra Ta,b,c
aDepartment of Physiology, Canada
bDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Alberta, Canada
cWomen and Children's Health Research Institute and Cardiovascular Research Group of the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Edmonton, Canada
Received 13 December, 2008
Revised 11 March, 2009
Accepted 30 March, 2009
Correspondence to Dr Sandra T. Davidge, PhD, Professor, Departments of Obstetrics/Gynaecology and Physiology, 232 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2S2, Canada Tel: +780 492 1864; fax: +780 492 1308; e-mail: [email protected]
Previous presentation of the work in part: Canadian Cardiovascular Congress, Quebec, Canada, Oct 2007 (moderated poster presentation) and Society for Gynecologic Investigations Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, March 2008 (oral presentation).