Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30973543 and No 30572356), and by the Scientific Research Foundation of Anhui Medical University (No 2008kj13). The authors acknowledge ONO Pharmaceutical Co in Japan for providing the selective EP1 receptor agonist and antagonist. The authors especially thank Yuri SHEIKINE for rearranging and correcting the manuscript.
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