Article Information
- Received April 1, 2009
- Revision received June 6, 2009
- Accepted July 30, 2009
- First published September 23, 2009.
- Version of record published September 23, 2009.
Author Information
- Victor M. Navarro1,
- Michelle L. Gottsch2,
- Charles Chavkin3,
- Hiroaki Okamura4,
- Donald K. Clifton2, and
- Robert A. Steiner1,2
- Departments of 1Physiology and Biophysics,
- 2Obstetrics and Gynecology, and
- 3Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, and
- 4Laboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0901, Japan
- Correspondence should be addressed to Robert A. Steiner, University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195-7290. steiner{at}u.washington.edu
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Disclosures
- Received April 1, 2009.
- Revision received June 6, 2009.
- Accepted July 30, 2009.
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This research was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health (NICHD/NIH) through Cooperative Agreement U54 HD12629 (to the University of Washington Center for Research in Reproduction and Contraception), NICHD/NIH Grant R01 HD27142, National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH Grants RO1 DA016898 and KO5 DA020570, the Fulbright/MEC Program of the United States Department of State and Ministerio Español de Ciencia e Innovación, the Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship supported by the 7th Frame Programme of the European Union, and the Program for Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Bioscience (PROBRAIN) of Japan. We are grateful for the technical assistance provided by Sarah McConkey, Sarah Ahmad, and Dan Messinger at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) and Brigitte Mann at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). We thank Drs. Martin Kelly and Oline Ronnekleiv at the Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, OR) for their constructive comments on a previous draft of this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Robert A. Steiner, University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195-7290. steiner{at}u.washington.edu
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