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Zhao JF, Chen HH, Ojcius DM, Zhao X, Sun D, Ge YM, Zheng LL, Lin X, Li LJ, Yan J. Identification of Leptospira interrogans phospholipase C as a novel virulence factor responsible for intracellular free calcium ion elevation during macrophage death. PLoS One 2013; 8:e75652. [PMID: 24124502 PMCID: PMC3790881 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 08/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Leptospira-induced macrophage death has been confirmed to play a crucial role in pathogenesis of leptospirosis, a worldwide zoonotic infectious disease. Intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)]i) elevation induced by infection can cause cell death, but [Ca(2+)]i changes and high [Ca(2+)]i-induced death of macrophages due to infection of Leptospira have not been previously reported. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We first used a Ca(2+)-specific fluorescence probe to confirm that the infection of L. interrogans strain Lai triggered a significant increase of [Ca(2+)]i in mouse J774A.1 or human THP-1 macrophages. Laser confocal microscopic examination showed that the [Ca(2+)]i elevation was caused by both extracellular Ca(2+) influx through the purinergic receptor, P2X7, and Ca(2+) release from the endoplasmic reticulum, as seen by suppression of [Ca(2+)]i elevation when receptor-gated calcium channels were blocked or P2X7 was depleted. The LB361 gene product of the spirochete exhibited phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C (L-PI-PLC) activity to hydrolyze phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) into inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), which in turn induces intracellular Ca(2+) release from endoplasmic reticulum, with the Km of 199 µM and Kcat of 8.566E-5 S(-1). Secretion of L-PI-PLC from the spirochete into supernatants of leptospire-macrophage co-cultures and cytosol of infected macrophages was also observed by Western Blot assay. Lower [Ca(2+)]i elevation was induced by infection with a LB361-deficient leptospiral mutant, whereas transfection of the LB361 gene caused a mild increase in [Ca(2+)]i. Moreover, PI-PLCs (PI-PLC-β3 and PI-PLC-γ1) of the two macrophages were activated by phosphorylation during infection. Flow cytometric detection demonstrated that high [Ca(2+)]i increases induced apoptosis and necrosis of macrophages, while mild [Ca(2+)]i elevation only caused apoptosis. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE This study demonstrated that L. interrogans infection induced [Ca(2+)]i elevation through extracellular Ca(2+) influx and intracellular Ca(2+) release cause macrophage apoptosis and necrosis, and the LB361 gene product was shown to be a novel PI-PLC of L. interrogans responsible for the [Ca(2+)]i elevation.
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- Jing-Fang Zhao
- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Depatment of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- Health Sciences Research Institute and Department Molecular Cell Biology, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University Weill Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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Asmat TM, Agarwal V, Räth S, Hildebrandt JP, Hammerschmidt S. Streptococcus pneumoniae infection of host epithelial cells via polymeric immunoglobulin receptor transiently induces calcium release from intracellular stores. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:17861-9. [PMID: 21454571 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.212225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The pneumococcal surface protein C (PspC) is a major adhesin of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococci) that interacts in a human-specific manner with the ectodomain of the human polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) produced by respiratory epithelial cells. This interaction promotes bacterial colonization and bacterial internalization by initiating host signal transduction cascades. Here, we examined alterations of intracellular calcium ([Ca(2+)](i)) levels in epithelial cells during host cell infections with pneumococci via the PspC-hpIgR mechanism. The release of [Ca(2+)](i) from intracellular stores in host cells was significantly increased by wild-type pneumococci but not by PspC-deficient pneumococci. The increase in [Ca(2+)](i) was dependent on phospholipase C as pretreatment of cells with a phospholipase C-specific inhibitor U73122 abolished the increase in [Ca(2+)](i). In addition, we demonstrated the effect of [Ca(2+)](i) on pneumococcal internalization by epithelial cells. Uptake of pneumococci was significantly increased after pretreatment of epithelial cells with the cell-permeable calcium chelator 1,2-bis-(o-aminophenoxy)-ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid-tetraacetoxymethyl ester or use of EGTA as an extracellular Ca(2+)-chelating agent. In contrast, thapsigargin, an inhibitor of endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)ATPase, which increases [Ca(2+)](i) in a sustained fashion, significantly reduced pIgR-mediated pneumococcal invasion. Importantly, pneumococcal adherence to pIgR-expressing cells was not altered in the presence of inhibitors as demonstrated by immunofluorescence microscopy. In conclusion, these results demonstrate that pneumococcal infections induce mobilization of [Ca(2+)](i) from intracellular stores. This may constitute a defense response of host cells as the experimental reduction of intracellular calcium levels facilitates pneumococcal internalization by pIgR-expressing cells, whereas elevated calcium levels diminished bacterial internalization by host epithelial cells.
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- Tauseef M Asmat
- Department of Genetics of Microorganisms, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Strasse 15a, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Yersinia enterocolitica induces epithelial barrier dysfunction through regional tight junction changes in colonic HT-29/B6 cell monolayers. J Transl Med 2011; 91:310-24. [PMID: 20956974 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2010.180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Yersinia enterocolitica is a common cause of acute gastroenteritis. This study aimed to clarify the mechanisms leading to barrier dysfunction and diarrhea. Exposure of human colonic HT-29/B6 cells to Y. enterocolitica resulted in a decrease in transepithelial resistance from 404±23 to 163±21 Ω cm² (P<0.001) in parallel with an increase in mannitol (182 Da) and fluorescein (332 Da) permeability, whereas short circuit current did not change. This effect was time dependent, required the presence of living bacteria, could not be triggered by bacterial supernatants and was not due to Yersinia outer proteins. Concomitantly, Y. enterocolitica induced necrosis as indicated by an increase in lactate dehydrogenase-release, whereas epithelial apoptosis was not upregulated. Local changes in conductivity were detected by conductance scanning, indicating 'leaky regions' within the epithelium that were visualized by biotinylation and confocal microscopy. In these regions, claudin-3 and -4 and, especially claudin-8, were redistributed off the tight junction (TJ) into the cytoplasm. In addition, the expression of claudin-2, -3, -8, -10 and ZO-1 was diminished as quantified by immunoblotting. Moreover, we found claudin-8 to be regulated by the c-Jun N-terminal kinase, the inhibition of which attenuated the Y. enterocolitica-induced decrease in transepithelial resistance and restored claudin-8 protein level. In conclusion, barrier dysfunction in Y. enterocolitica infection is due to circumscribed epithelial TJ protein changes and necrotic cell loss, as a consequence of which leak flux diarrhea and antigen-uptake provoking extraintestinal arthritis may be triggered.
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Goyal A, Bhattacharyya S, Majumdar S, Narang A, Ghosh S. Cellular response induced by a galactose-specific adhesin of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in INT-407 cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 55:378-87. [PMID: 19159427 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.2008.00529.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In the present study, the role of a fimbrial galactose-specific adhesin of the T7 strain of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC-T7) in the signal transduction pathways in human small intestinal epithelial cells (INT-407) was explored. The adhesin was purified by anion exchange chromatography using a Mono Q HR5/5 column in the AKTA purifier system. The characteristic stacked brick pattern of aggregative adherence of EAEC-T7 to INT-407 cells was found to be inhibited in the presence of immunoglobulin G against the purified adhesin as well as d-galactose. The adhesin induced a significant increase in the intracellular calcium concentration [Ca(2+)](i) in INT-407 cells, which was reduced in the presence of dantrolene (inhibitor of intracellular calcium stores), verapamil, calciseptin (calcium channel blockers) as well as neomycin [inhibitor of phospholipase C (PLC)]. Further, an increased level of PLCgamma1 and inositol 1,4,5-tri phosphate as well as enhanced activity of protein kinase C (PKC) in the adhesin-stimulated cells were found to be downregulated in the presence of neomycin and U73122 (inhibitors of PLC) and H-7 (inhibitor of PKC), respectively. The adhesin could also induce interleukin-8 secretion from INT-407 cells, which was inhibited in the presence of dantrolene as well as staurosporin (inhibitor of PKC). Collectively, our results have suggested that the galactose-specific adhesin-induced signal transduction pathway might play a crucial role in the EAEC-induced pathogenesis.
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- Atul Goyal
- Departments of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India
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Saha S, Chowdhury P, Mazumdar A, Pal A, Das P, Chakrabarti MK. Role of Yersinia enterocolitica heat-stable enterotoxin (Y-STa) on differential regulation of nuclear and cytosolic calcium signaling in rat intestinal epithelial cells. Cell Biol Toxicol 2008; 25:297-308. [PMID: 18563600 DOI: 10.1007/s10565-008-9084-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2007] [Accepted: 04/22/2008] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The heat-stable enterotoxin (Y-STa) produced by the pathogenic strains of Yersinia enterocolitica is a causative agent of secretory diarrhea. We have reported earlier that Y-STa-induced inositol trisphosphate-mediated cytosolic calcium rise occurs in rat intestinal epithelial cells. In the present communication, the involvement of a nuclear calcium store in the action mechanism of Y-STa in rat intestinal epithelial cells has been shown. Calcium imaging with time series confocal microscopy shows that Y-STa stimulates both the nuclear and cytosolic calcium levels in rat intestinal epithelial cells where a rise in nuclear calcium precedes the cytosolic events. Moreover, Y-STa stimulates both cytosolic and nuclear inositol trisphosphate (IP(3)) levels in a time-dependent manner. Western blot and immunocytochemical analysis reveal a higher density of IP(3) receptor type II in the nuclear membrane compared to the cytosol, which may be the cause of an early rise of the nuclear calcium level. Therefore, it is suggested that Y-STa regulates the nuclear and cytosolic calcium signals in a distinct temporal manner in rat intestinal epithelial cells.
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- Subhrajit Saha
- Division of Pathophysiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India
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Strange K, Yan X, Lorin-Nebel C, Xing J. Physiological roles of STIM1 and Orai1 homologs and CRAC channels in the genetic model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. Cell Calcium 2007; 42:193-203. [PMID: 17376526 PMCID: PMC2066184 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2007.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2007] [Revised: 02/09/2007] [Accepted: 02/12/2007] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans provides numerous experimental advantages for developing an integrative molecular understanding of physiological processes and has proven to be a valuable model for characterizing Ca(2+) signaling mechanisms. This review will focus on the role of Ca(2+) release activated Ca(2+) (CRAC) channel activity in function of the worm gonad and intestine. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3))-dependent oscillatory Ca(2+) signaling regulates contractile activity of the gonad and rhythmic posterior body wall muscle contraction (pBoc) required for ovulation and defecation, respectively. The C. elegans genome contains a single homolog of both STIM1 and Orai1, proteins required for CRAC channel function in mammalian and Drosophila cells. C. elegans STIM-1 and ORAI-1 are coexpressed in the worm gonad and intestine and give rise to robust CRAC channel activity when coexpressed in HEK293 cells. STIM-1 or ORAI-1 knockdown causes complete sterility demonstrating that the genes are essential components of gonad Ca(2+) signaling. Knockdown of either protein dramatically inhibits intestinal cell CRAC channel activity, but surprisingly has no effect on pBoc, intestinal Ca(2+) oscillations or intestinal ER Ca(2+) store homeostasis. CRAC channels thus do not play obligate roles in all IP(3)-dependent signaling processes in C. elegans. Instead, we suggest that CRAC channels carry out highly specialized and cell specific signaling roles and that they may function as a failsafe mechanism to prevent Ca(2+) store depletion under pathophysiological and stress conditions.
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- Kevin Strange
- Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232-2520, United States.
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Lorin-Nebel C, Xing J, Yan X, Strange K. CRAC channel activity in C. elegans is mediated by Orai1 and STIM1 homologues and is essential for ovulation and fertility. J Physiol 2007; 580:67-85. [PMID: 17218360 PMCID: PMC2075418 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.124883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The Ca(2+) release-activated Ca(2+) (CRAC) channel is a plasma membrane Ca(2+) entry pathway activated by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) store depletion. STIM1 proteins function as ER Ca(2+) sensors and regulate CRAC channel activation. Recent studies have demonstrated that CRAC channels are encoded by the human Orai1 gene and a homologous Drosophila gene. C. elegans intestinal cells express a store-operated Ca(2+) channel (SOCC) regulated by STIM-1. We cloned a full-length C. elegans cDNA that encodes a 293 amino acid protein, ORAI-1, homologous to human and Drosophila Orai1 proteins. ORAI-1 GFP reporters are co-expressed with STIM-1 in the gonad and intestine. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3))-dependent Ca(2+) signalling regulates C. elegans gonad function, fertility and rhythmic posterior body wall muscle contraction (pBoc) required for defecation. RNA interference (RNAi) silencing of orai-1 expression phenocopies stim-1 knockdown and causes sterility and prevents intestinal cell SOCC activation, but has no effect on pBoc or intestinal Ca(2+) signalling. Orai-1 RNAi suppresses pBoc defects induced by intestinal expression of a STIM-1 Ca(2+)-binding mutant, indicating that the proteins function in a common pathway. Co-expression of stim-1 and orai-1 cDNAs in HEK293 cells induces large inwardly rectifying cation currents activated by ER Ca(2+) depletion. The properties of this current recapitulate those of the native SOCC current. We conclude that C. elegans expresses bona fide CRAC channels that require the function of Orai1- and STIM1-related proteins. CRAC channels thus arose very early in animal evolution. In C. elegans, CRAC channels do not play obligate roles in all IP(3)-dependent signalling processes and ER Ca(2+) homeostasis. Instead, we suggest that CRAC channels carry out highly specialized and cell-specific signalling roles and that they may function as a failsafe mechanism to prevent Ca(2+) store depletion under pathophysiological and stress conditions.
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- Catherine Lorin-Nebel
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, T-4208 Medical Center North, Nashville, TN 37232-2520, USA
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Yan X, Xing J, Lorin-Nebel C, Estevez AY, Nehrke K, Lamitina T, Strange K. Function of a STIM1 homologue in C. elegans: evidence that store-operated Ca2+ entry is not essential for oscillatory Ca2+ signaling and ER Ca2+ homeostasis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 128:443-59. [PMID: 16966474 PMCID: PMC2151571 DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200609611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3))-dependent Ca(2+) signaling regulates gonad function, fertility, and rhythmic posterior body wall muscle contraction (pBoc) required for defecation in Caenorhabditis elegans. Store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) is activated during endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca(2+) store depletion and is believed to be an essential and ubiquitous component of Ca(2+) signaling pathways. SOCE is thought to function to refill Ca(2+) stores and modulate Ca(2+) signals. Recently, stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) was identified as a putative ER Ca(2+) sensor that regulates SOCE. We cloned a full-length C. elegans stim-1 cDNA that encodes a 530-amino acid protein with approximately 21% sequence identity to human STIM1. Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged STIM-1 is expressed in the intestine, gonad sheath cells, and spermatheca. Knockdown of stim-1 expression by RNA interference (RNAi) causes sterility due to loss of sheath cell and spermatheca contractile activity required for ovulation. Transgenic worms expressing a STIM-1 EF-hand mutant that constitutively activates SOCE in Drosophila and mammalian cells are sterile and exhibit severe pBoc arrhythmia. stim-1 RNAi dramatically reduces STIM-1GFP expression, suppresses the EF-hand mutation-induced pBoc arrhythmia, and inhibits intestinal store-operated Ca(2+) (SOC) channels. However, stim-1 RNAi surprisingly has no effect on pBoc rhythm, which is controlled by intestinal oscillatory Ca(2+) signaling, in wild type and IP(3) signaling mutant worms, and has no effect on intestinal Ca(2+) oscillations and waves. Depletion of intestinal Ca(2+) stores by RNAi knockdown of the ER Ca(2+) pump triggers the ER unfolded protein response (UPR). In contrast, stim-1 RNAi fails to induce the UPR. Our studies provide the first detailed characterization of STIM-1 function in an intact animal and suggest that SOCE is not essential for certain oscillatory Ca(2+) signaling processes and for maintenance of store Ca(2+) levels in C. elegans. These findings raise interesting and important questions regarding the function of SOCE and SOC channels under normal and pathophysiological conditions.
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- Xiaohui Yan
- Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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