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Contractile apparatus dysfunction early in the pathophysiology of diabetic cardiomyopathy
Mark T Waddingham, Amanda J Edgley, Hirotsugu Tsuchimochi, Darren J Kelly, Mikiyasu Shirai, James T Pearson
Mark T Waddingham, Amanda J Edgley, Darren J Kelly, Department of Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3065, Australia
Amanda J Edgley, James T Pearson, Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
Hirotsugu Tsuchimochi, Mikiyasu Shirai, Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan
James T Pearson, Monash Biomedical Imaging Facility, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
James T Pearson, Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Author contributions: Waddingham MT, Edgley AJ and Pearson JT wrote the paper; all authors provided intellectual input, edited and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by The research funding from the International Synchrotron Access Program (AS/IA133) of the Australian Synchrotron (to Pearson JT); A Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (#E056, 26670413) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences and Technology of Japan (to Shirai M).
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Correspondence to: James T Pearson, PhD, Monash Biomedical Imaging Facility, Monash University, 770 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. james.pearson@monash.edu
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Received: August 27, 2014
Peer-review started: August 28, 2014
First decision: December 17, 2014
Revised: December 30, 2014
Accepted: March 5, 2015
Article in press: March 9, 2015
Published online: July 10, 2015
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