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- Received March 23, 2012
- Revision received June 26, 2012
- Accepted July 21, 2012
- First published September 26, 2012.
- Version of record published September 26, 2012.
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Author contributions: S.C. and T.H.M. designed research; S.C. and Y.X. performed research; S.C., M.H.M., and Y.X. analyzed data; S.C. and T.H.M. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received March 23, 2012.
- Revision received June 26, 2012.
- Accepted July 21, 2012.
This work was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and the Yukon, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Grant MOP 111009, and a Human Frontier Science Program grant to T.H.M. We thank Cindy Jiang and Pumin Wang for surgical assistance; Jeff LeDue and Jamie Boyd for assistance with the experimental system; and Oliver G. S. Ayling, Sherri Tran, and Thomas C. Harrison for constructive suggestions and sharing preliminary data.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Timothy H. Murphy, 4N1-2255 Wesbrook Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada. thmurphy{at}mail.ubc.ca
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