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Ji R, Wu Y, Ye Y, Li Y, Li Y, Zhong G, Fan W, Feng C, Chen H, Teng X, Wu Y, Xu J. Stimulation of PSTPIP1 to trigger proinflammatory responses in asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. Heliyon 2024; 10:e26886. [PMID: 38463809 PMCID: PMC10920375 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Background A hyperinflammatory response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection gravely worsens the clinical progression of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although the undesirable effects of inflammasome activation have been correlated to the severity of COVID-19, the mechanisms of this process in the asymptomatic infection and disease progression have not yet been clearly elucidated. Methods We performed strand-specific RNA sequencing in 39 peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples from asymptomatic individuals(n = 10), symptomatic patients(n = 16) and healthy donors(n = 13). Results Dysregulation of pyrin inflammasomes along with the proline-serine-threonine phosphatase-interacting protein 1 (PSTPIP1) gene was identified in SARS-COV-2 infection. Notably, the PSTPIP1 expression level showed a significant negative correlation with an adjacent long-noncoding RNA (lncRNA) RP11-797A18.6 in the asymptomatic individuals compared with the healthy controls. In addition, a decline in the nuclear factor kappa B subunit 1 (NFKB1) gene expression was observed in asymptomatic infection, followed by a rise in the mild and moderate disease stages, suggesting that altered NFKB1 expression and associated proinflammatory signals may trigger a disease progression. Conclusions Overall, our results indicate that PSTPIP1-dependent pyrin inflammasomes-mediated pyroptosis and NF-κB activation might be potential preventive targets for COVID-19 disease development and progression.
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- Ruili Ji
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shunde Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Foshan, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shunde Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Foshan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, China
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- Guangzhou Huayin Medical Laboratory Center Ltd., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Science, West China TianFu Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Respiratory, Maoming Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Maoming 525000, Guangdong, China
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- Guangzhou Huayin Medical Laboratory Center Ltd., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Maoming Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Maoming 525000, Guangdong, China
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- Guangzhou Huayin Medical Laboratory Center Ltd., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Maoming Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Maoming 525000, Guangdong, China
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- Guangzhou Huayin Medical Laboratory Center Ltd., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shunde Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Foshan, China
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Maoming Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Maoming 525000, Guangdong, China
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Cui H, Soga K, Tamehiro N, Adachi R, Hachisuka A, Hirose A, Kondo K, Nishimaki-Mogami T. Statins repress needle-like carbon nanotube- or cholesterol crystal-stimulated IL-1β production by inhibiting the uptake of crystals by macrophages. Biochem Pharmacol 2021; 188:114580. [PMID: 33930349 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2021.114580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Statins are 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitors that lower atherogenic LDL-cholesterol levels. Statins exert clinically relevant anti-inflammatory effects; however, the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. Studies have shown that endogenous and exogenous pathogenic crystals, such as cholesterol and monosodium urate (MSU), and needle-like nanomaterials, such as multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), induce the production of IL-1β and play a critical role in the development of crystal-associated sterile inflammatory pathologies. In this study, we evaluated the effect of statins on crystal-induced IL-1β production in macrophages. We found that various statins, including pitavastatin, atorvastatin, fluvastatin, and lovastatin, but not squalene synthase inhibitor, repressed IL-1β release upon MWCNT stimulation. In addition, IL-1β production induced by cholesterol crystals and MSU crystals, but not by ATP or nigericin, was diminished. MWCNT-stimulated IL-1β release was dependent on the expression of NLRP3, but not AIM2, NLRC4, or MEFV. Statin-induced repression was accompanied by reduced levels of mature caspase-1 and decreased uptake of MWCNT into cells. Supplementation of mevalonate, geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate, or farnesyl pyrophosphate prevented the reduction in IL-1β release, suggesting a crucial role of protein prenylation, but not cholesterol synthesis. The statin-induced repression of MWCNT-elicited IL-1β release was observed in THP-1-derived and mouse peritoneal macrophages, but not in bone marrow-derived macrophages where statins act in synergy with lipopolysaccharide to enhance the expression of IL-1β precursor protein. In summary, we describe a novel anti-inflammatory mechanism through which statins repress mature IL-1β release induced by pathogenic crystals and nanoneedles by inhibiting the internalization of crystals by macrophages.
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- Hongyan Cui
- National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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- National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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- National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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- National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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- National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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- National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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Kurihara C, Lecuona E, Wu Q, Yang W, Núñez-Santana FL, Akbarpour M, Liu X, Ren Z, Li W, Querrey M, Ravi S, Anderson ML, Cerier E, Sun H, Kelly ME, Abdala-Valencia H, Shilatifard A, Mohanakumar T, Budinger GRS, Kreisel D, Bharat A. Crosstalk between nonclassical monocytes and alveolar macrophages mediates transplant ischemia-reperfusion injury through classical monocyte recruitment. JCI Insight 2021; 6:147282. [PMID: 33621212 PMCID: PMC8026186 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.147282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is the predominant cause of early graft loss following lung transplantation. We recently demonstrated that donor pulmonary intravascular nonclassical monocytes (NCM) initiate neutrophil recruitment. Simultaneously, host-origin classical monocytes (CM) permeabilize the vascular endothelium to allow neutrophil extravasation necessary for PGD. Here, we show that a CCL2-CCR2 axis is necessary for CM recruitment. Surprisingly, although intravital imaging and multichannel flow cytometry revealed that depletion of donor NCM abrogated CM recruitment, single cell RNA sequencing identified donor alveolar macrophages (AM) as predominant CCL2 secretors. Unbiased transcriptomic analysis of murine tissues combined with murine KOs and chimeras indicated that IL-1β production by donor NCM was responsible for the early activation of AM and CCL2 release. IL-1β production by NCM was NLRP3 inflammasome dependent and inhibited by treatment with a clinically approved sulphonylurea. Production of CCL2 in the donor AM occurred through IL-1R-dependent activation of the PKC and NF-κB pathway. Accordingly, we show that IL-1β-dependent paracrine interaction between donor NCM and AM leads to recruitment of recipient CM necessary for PGD. Since depletion of donor NCM, IL-1β, or IL-1R antagonism and inflammasome inhibition abrogated recruitment of CM and PGD and are feasible using FDA-approved compounds, our findings may have potential for clinical translation.
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- Division of Thoracic Surgery and
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Thoracic Surgery and.,Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Elkon KB. Review: Cell Death, Nucleic Acids, and Immunity: Inflammation Beyond the Grave. Arthritis Rheumatol 2018; 70:805-816. [PMID: 29439290 PMCID: PMC5984680 DOI: 10.1002/art.40452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Cells of the innate immune system are rigged with sensors that detect nucleic acids derived from microbes, especially viruses. It has become clear that these same sensors that respond to nucleic acids derived from damaged cells or defective intracellular processing are implicated in triggering diseases such as lupus and arthritis. The ways in which cells die and the concomitant presence of proteins and peptides that allow nucleic acids to re-enter cells profoundly influence innate immune responses. In this review, we briefly discusses different types of programmed necrosis, such as pyroptosis, necroptosis, and NETosis, and explains how nucleic acids can engage intracellular receptors and stimulate inflammation. Host protective mechanisms that include compartmentalization of receptors and nucleases as well as the consequences of nuclease deficiencies are explored. In addition, proximal and distal targets in the nucleic acid stimulation of inflammation are discussed in terms of their potential amenability to therapy for the attenuation of innate immune activation and disease pathogenesis.
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- Keith B. Elkon
- Department of Medicine and Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Dunn K, Pasternak B, Kelsen JR, Sullivan KE, Dawany N, Wright BL. Mevalonate kinase deficiency presenting as recurrent rectal abscesses and perianal fistulae. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2017; 120:214-215. [PMID: 29290516 DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2017.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Revised: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Kara Dunn
- Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
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- Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona; University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona; University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona; Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Moradian MM, Babikyan D, Banoian D, Hayrapetyan H, Manvelyan H, Avanesian N, Sarkisian T. Comprehensive analysis of mutations in the MEFV gene reveal that the location and not the substitution type determines symptom severity in FMF. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2017; 5:742-750. [PMID: 29178647 PMCID: PMC5702578 DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 08/21/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Background Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an autoinflammatory disorder caused by mutations in the MEFV gene. These mutations appear in different populations with different frequencies and their caused symptom severities vary from mild to moderate to severe depending on the mutation type. Methods In this study, we analyzed the mutations that have been reported in the MEFV gene from symptomatic FMF patients and compared their frequencies in different populations from the 1000 Genome and the Exome databases, using statistical clustering. We also analyzed the nucleotide and amino acid substitution patterns across the MEFV gene. Results We found 16 (8%) nonsynonymous mutations outside exon 10 that did not cluster with known disease‐causing mutations (DCMs), due to their high frequencies in other populations. We also studied the substitution patterns for nucleotides and amino acids to determine the conserved and variable regions in the MEFV gene. In general more nonsynonymous substitutions were reported in exons 2, 3, and 10 from the FMF database (symptomatic FMF patients) compared to the 1000 Genome and the Exome databases. The same was true for amino acid (AA) substitutions where there were 1.5 times more radical (RAD) to conservative (CON) changes. However, when it came to AA substitutions exon 10 was quite conserved with a RAD/CON ratio of 0.9. In fact, we report that the most severe FMF symptoms are caused by conservative mutations in two highly conserved exon 10 regions. Conclusion We found presumptive FMF‐causing mutations that did not cluster with DCMs based on their allele frequencies. We also observed that the type of mutation is less likely to determine the severity of the FMF symptoms; rather it was the location of the mutations that was the determining factor.
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- Mike M Moradian
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California.,Department of Molecular Genetics, Center of Medical Genetics and Primary Health Care, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Yerevan State medical University, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Yerevan State medical University, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Morava Scientific & Technology Services, Glendale, California.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Yerevan State medical University, Yerevan, Armenia
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Gomez-Lopez N, Romero R, Xu Y, Garcia-Flores V, Leng Y, Panaitescu B, Miller D, Abrahams VM, Hassan SS. Inflammasome assembly in the chorioamniotic membranes during spontaneous labor at term. Am J Reprod Immunol 2017; 77:10.1111/aji.12648. [PMID: 28233423 PMCID: PMC5429868 DOI: 10.1111/aji.12648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
PROBLEM Inflammasome activation requires two steps: priming and assembly of the multimeric complex. The second step includes assembly of the sensor molecule and adaptor protein ASC (an apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD), which results in ASC speck formation and the recruitment of caspase (CASP)-1. Herein, we investigated whether there is inflammasome assembly in the chorioamniotic membranes and choriodecidual leukocytes from women who underwent spontaneous labor at term. METHOD OF STUDY Using in situ proximity ligation assays, ASC/CASP-1 complexes were determined in the chorioamniotic membranes from women who delivered at term without labor or underwent spontaneous labor at term with or without acute histologic chorioamnionitis (n=10-11 each). Also, ASC speck formation was determined by flow cytometry in the choriodecidual leukocytes isolated from women who delivered at term with or without spontaneous labor (n=9-12 each). RESULTS (i) ASC/CASP-1 complexes were detected in the chorioamniotic membranes; (ii) ASC/CASP-1 complexes were greater in the chorioamniotic membranes from women who underwent spontaneous labor at term than in those without labor; (iii) ASC/CASP-1 complexes were even more abundant in the chorioamniotic membranes from women who underwent spontaneous labor at term with acute histologic chorioamnionitis than in those without this placental lesion; (iv) ASC speck formation was detected in the choriodecidual leukocytes; and (v) ASC speck formation was greater in the choriodecidual leukocytes isolated from women who underwent spontaneous labor at term than in those without labor. CONCLUSION There is inflammasome assembly in the chorioamniotic membranes and choriodecidual leukocytes during spontaneous labor at term.
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- Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Perinatology Research Branch, Program for Perinatal Research and Obstetrics, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NICHD/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, USA
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