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Sakai T, Kamino K. Functiogenesis of cardiac pacemaker activity. J Physiol Sci 2016; 66:293-301. [PMID: 26719289 PMCID: PMC10717167 DOI: 10.1007/s12576-015-0431-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2015] [Accepted: 11/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Throughout our investigations on the ontogenesis of the electrophysiological events in early embryonic chick hearts, using optical techniques to record membrane potential probed with voltage-sensitive dyes, we have introduced a novel concept of "functiogenesis" corresponding to "morphogenesis". This article gives an account of the framework of "functiogenesis", focusing on the cardiac pacemaker function and the functional organization of the pacemaking area.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tetsuro Sakai
- Department of Systems Physiology, University of the Ryukyus Graduate School of Medicine, 207 Uehara, Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0215, Japan.
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Gu S, Wang YT, Ma P, Werdich AA, Rollins AM, Jenkins MW. Mapping conduction velocity of early embryonic hearts with a robust fitting algorithm. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2015; 6:2138-57. [PMID: 26114034 PMCID: PMC4473749 DOI: 10.1364/boe.6.002138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Cardiac conduction maturation is an important and integral component of heart development. Optical mapping with voltage-sensitive dyes allows sensitive measurements of electrophysiological signals over the entire heart. However, accurate measurements of conduction velocity during early cardiac development is typically hindered by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measurements of action potentials. Here, we present a novel image processing approach based on least squares optimizations, which enables high-resolution, low-noise conduction velocity mapping of smaller tubular hearts. First, the action potential trace measured at each pixel is fit to a curve consisting of two cumulative normal distribution functions. Then, the activation time at each pixel is determined based on the fit, and the spatial gradient of activation time is determined with a two-dimensional (2D) linear fit over a square-shaped window. The size of the window is adaptively enlarged until the gradients can be determined within a preset precision. Finally, the conduction velocity is calculated based on the activation time gradient, and further corrected for three-dimensional (3D) geometry that can be obtained by optical coherence tomography (OCT). We validated the approach using published activation potential traces based on computer simulations. We further validated the method by adding artificially generated noise to the signal to simulate various SNR conditions using a curved simulated image (digital phantom) that resembles a tubular heart. This method proved to be robust, even at very low SNR conditions (SNR = 2-5). We also established an empirical equation to estimate the maximum conduction velocity that can be accurately measured under different conditions (e.g. sampling rate, SNR, and pixel size). Finally, we demonstrated high-resolution conduction velocity maps of the quail embryonic heart at a looping stage of development.
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- Shi Gu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44016, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44016, USA
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Kamino K. Personal recollections: regarding the pioneer days of optical recording of membrane potential using voltage-sensitive dyes. NEUROPHOTONICS 2015; 2:021002. [PMID: 26157993 PMCID: PMC4487648 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.2.2.021002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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- Kohtaro Kamino
- Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
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Ma P, Wang YT, Gu S, Watanabe M, Jenkins MW, Rollins AM. Three-dimensional correction of conduction velocity in the embryonic heart using integrated optical mapping and optical coherence tomography. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2014; 19:76004. [PMID: 24996663 PMCID: PMC4082492 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.19.7.076004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Revised: 05/13/2014] [Accepted: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Optical mapping (OM) of cardiac electrical activity conventionally collects information from a three-dimensional (3-D) surface as a two-dimensional (2-D) projection map. When applied to measurements of the embryonic heart, this method ignores the substantial and complex curvature of the heart surface, resulting in significant errors when calculating conduction velocity, an important electrophysiological parameter. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of imaging the 3-D structure of the embryonic heart and accurately characterizing the surface topology. We demonstrate an integrated OCT/OM imaging system capable of simultaneous conduction mapping and 3-D structural imaging. From these multimodal data, we obtained 3-D activation maps and corrected conduction velocity maps of early embryonic quail hearts. 3-D correction eliminates underestimation bias in 2-D conduction velocity measurements, therefore enabling more accurate measurements with less experimental variability. The integrated system will also open the door to correlate the structure and electrophysiology, thereby improving our understanding of heart development.
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- Pei Ma
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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Optical techniques have revolutionized the investigation of cardiac cellular physiology and advanced our understanding of basic mechanisms of electrical activity, calcium homeostasis, and metabolism. Although optical methods are widely accepted and have been at the forefront of scientific discoveries, they have been primarily applied at cellular and subcellular levels and considerably less to whole heart organ physiology. Numerous technical difficulties had to be overcome to dynamically map physiological processes in intact hearts by optical methods. Problems of contraction artifacts, cellular heterogeneities, spatial and temporal resolution, limitations of surface images, depth-of-field, and need for large fields of view (ranging from 2x2 mm2 to 3x3 cm2) have all led to the development of new devices and optical probes to monitor physiological parameters in intact hearts. This review aims to provide a critical overview of current approaches, their contributions to the field of cardiac electrophysiology, and future directions of various optical imaging modalities as applied to cardiac physiology at organ and tissue levels.
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- Igor R Efimov
- Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7207, USA.
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Rothenberg F, Efimov IR, Watanabe M. Functional imaging of the embryonic pacemaking and cardiac conduction system over the past 150 years: Technologies to overcome the challenges. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 280:980-9. [PMID: 15372434 DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Early analyses of cardiac pacemaking and conduction system (CPCS) development relied on classic histology and visual inspection of the beating heart. Current techniques that facilitate delineation of the CPCS include the use of specific antibody markers and transgenic mouse lines specifically expressing reporter genes. Assaying the function of tiny embryonic hearts required an increase in the level of spatial and temporal resolution. Current methods for such analyses include the use of intracellular and extracellular microelectrodes, echocardiography, rapid optical imaging using fluorescent dyes, and most recently optical coherence tomography. This review will focus on methods developed to investigate the functional emergence of the embryonic cardiac conduction system. Where appropriate, the methods used to delineate the anatomic pathways will also be discussed. The combination of techniques to capture both morphological and functional data from the CPCS will further improve with continued interdisciplinary collaboration. The Supplementary Material referred to in this article can be found at the Anatomical Record website (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0003-276X/suppmat).
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- Florence Rothenberg
- Biomedical Engineering, Department Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Sakai T, Kamino K. Optical mapping approaches to cardiac electrophysiological functions. THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 51:1-18. [PMID: 11295638 DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.51.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Recently, optical methods for monitoring membrane potential with fast voltage-sensitive dyes have been introduced as a powerful tool for studying cardiac electrical functions. These methods offer two principal advantages over more conventional electrophysiological techniques. One is that optical recordings may be made from very small cells that are inaccessible to microelectrode impalement, and the other is that multiple sites/regions of a preparation can be monitored simultaneously to provide spatially resolved mapping of electrical activity. The former has made it possible to record spontaneous electrical activities in early embryonic precontractile hearts, and the latter has been applied for mapping of the propagation patterns of electrical activities in the cardiac tissue. In this article, optical studies of the electrophysiological function of the vertebrate heart are reviewed.
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- T Sakai
- Department of Physiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519 Japan.
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Pruente HM, Bove R, Kwaku KF, Dillon SM. Animated images of cardiac membrane voltage during defibrillation. J Electrocardiol 1995; 28 Suppl:7-15. [PMID: 8656132 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-0736(95)80002-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Optical recording using voltage-sensitive dyes has been used to investigate the mechanisms of defibrillation because it (1) is immune to the artifacts produced by high-voltage shocks, (2) provides the time course of the membrane action potential, and (3) can be used to make simultaneous recordings at many sites. The authors used the laser scanning technique to optically record action potentials from 100 sites with 1-ms resolution on the surface of the isolated, perfused rabbit heart during defibrillation. The data were typically analyzed by constructing maps of impulse propagation and examining individual recordings from sites of interest. Described here is a new analysis method that creates millisecond-by-millisecond images of the spatial distribution of membrane potentials. The experimental protocol applied a test shock to the fibrillating heart, followed by a rescue shock and a paced beat. Optical recordings were calibrated to yield membrane voltage as a percentage of the resting and overshoot levels of the postrescue stimulated action potential. The positions of the recording sites and the membrane voltage levels for all 100 sites during a single 1-ms interval were used to interpolate membrane voltage levels at points within a 128 x 128 pixel frame using the biharmonic interpolation method. The level of membrane potential was encoded by pixel color and surface elevation. Sequential frames were viewed as a face-on two dimensional or as a three-dimensional perspective of the colored surface. Animation of membrane voltage distributions enabled the visualization of the interaction between the shock-induced electrophysiologic response and the propagation of electrical activity preceding and following a defibrillation shock. Successful defibrillation shocks synchronized repolarization across the surface of the heart following the shock.
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Spence SG, Vetter C, Hoe CM. Effects of the class III antiarrhythmic, dofetilide (UK-68,798) on the heart rate of midgestation rat embryos, in vitro. TERATOLOGY 1994; 49:282-92. [PMID: 8073367 DOI: 10.1002/tera.1420490408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Gestation day 11 (GD11) and 14 (GD14) embryos were cultured for up to 4 hours in the presence of Dofetilide (0.01-0.50 microgram/ml), a potent Class III Antiarrhythmic which selectively inhibits the rapid component of the time dependent outward potassium current (IKr). Significant (P < or = 0.05) reductions in heart rate (HR) as measured over a 4 hour period were dose dependent and reversible. The sensitivity of the GD11 embryos was greater than GD14 embryos (14-64% decrease in HR vs. an 11-43% decrease in HR, respectively) at the same concentrations tested. These in vitro results support the hypothesis that the embryo-lethality of Class III Antiarrhythmics observed in vivo may be a class effect of the IKr subtype potassium channel blockers. The data suggest a possible mechanism of embryotoxicity is to lower embryonic HR resulting in subsequent hypoxia and death. Dofetilide's effects on GD11 HR were partially reversible by the sequential addition of Isoproterenol or Theophylline.
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- S G Spence
- Department of Safety Assessment, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania 19486
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Sakai T, Komuro H, Katoh Y, Sasaki H, Momose-Sato Y, Kamino K. Optical determination of impulse conduction velocity during development of embryonic chick cervical vagus nerve bundles. J Physiol 1991; 439:361-81. [PMID: 1895241 PMCID: PMC1180113 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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1. Employing an optical method for multiple-site simultaneous recording of electrical activity, we have determined the conduction velocity in cervical vagus nerve bundles isolated from 5- to 21-day-old chick embryos, and investigated its developmental changes. 2. The preparations were stained with a voltage-sensitive merocyanine-rhodanine dye (NK2761), and action potential- (impulse-) related optical signals were elicited by brief stimuli applied to the end of the vagus nerve bundle with a suction electrode. Optical signals were recorded simultaneously from many contiguous regions using a 12 x 12-element photodiode array. 3. The optical signals spread with small delay from the site of stimulation. From the relationship between the delay and distance from the current-applying electrode, conduction velocities were estimated in each tested preparation: the conduction velocity was very small and increased monotonically from about 0.1 m s-1 at 5 days embryonic age to about 0.4 m s-1 by hatching. The increase in the conduction velocity was closely related to a developmental increase in the diameter of the vagus nerve bundle. 4. In addition, we have examined the spread of electrotonic potentials. The space constant was very small (200-450 microns) and increased as development proceeded. 5. Compound optical action signals having two distinct components were also recorded. They often appeared to be concentrated in the preparations from 8- to 12-day-old embryos. The conduction velocity of the second component was slower than that of the first. We suggest that appearance of the second component reflects degeneration of a subset of axons resulting from 'neural cell death' during the development of the vagus nerve.
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- T Sakai
- Department of Physiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan
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KAMINO KOHTARO, KOMURO HITOSHI, SAKAI TETSURO, HIROTA AKIHIKO. Optical Indications of Spontaneous Electrical Activity and Functional Organization of Pacemaking Area in the Early Embryonic Chick Heart. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1990. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1990.tb13244.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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De Jong F, Geerts WJ, Lamers WH, Los JA, Moorman AF. Isomyosin expression pattern during formation of the tubular chicken heart: a three-dimensional immunohistochemical analysis. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 1990; 226:213-27. [PMID: 2137308 DOI: 10.1002/ar.1092260211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Three-dimensional (3-D) distribution of atrial and ventricular isomyosins is analysed immunohistochemically during the formation of the tubular chicken heart (stage 7 to 12 [H/H]) using antibodies specific for adult chicken atrial and ventricular myosin heavy chains, respectively. This analysis revealed that both types of isomyosins can be first detected at stage 8 (H/H, possessing four pairs of somites), i.e., when the heart primordium still exists as two separate cardiogenic plates. The ventricular type of isomyosin is initially expressed in those areas of cardiogenic plates in the vicinity of the anterior intestinal portal. The atrial type of isomyosin is initially expressed in zones caudal and lateral to the areas of ventricular isomyosin expression. Medial to the atrial isomyosin-expressing areas, cardiogenic plate areas exist that initially lack myosin expression. Those parts of the cardiogenic plates that fuse in front of the anterior intestinal portal, thereby forming the heart tube, are characterized by the expression of both isomyosins; however, the caudolateral parts of the heart primordium maintain their single atrial isomyosin expression during further development. Cardiac contractions are therefore first observed at stage 10 (H/H, possessing ten pairs of somites) in myocardium that coexpresses both isomyosins.
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- F De Jong
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kamino K, Katoh Y, Komuro H, Sato K. Multiple-site optical monitoring of neural activity evoked by vagus nerve stimulation in the embryonic chick brain stem. J Physiol 1989; 409:263-83. [PMID: 2585291 PMCID: PMC1190443 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1989.sp017496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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1. Electrical activity in the embryonic chick brain stem has been monitored optically. The vagus-brain stem preparations isolated from 7-day-old chick embryos were stained with voltage-sensitive merocyanine-rhodanine dyes. 2. Voltage-related optical absorption signals evoked by vagus nerve stimulation with depolarizing and hyperpolarizing pulses using a suction electrode were recorded simultaneously from 127 adjacent loci in the brain stem using a 12 x 12-element photodiode array. 3. The optical signals evoked by the stimulation appeared to be concentrated longitudinally in the central region and in the lateral region, both on the stimulated side of the brain stem, and they did not spread to the opposite side. In addition, the evoked optical responses were detected from small areas on the dorsal surface of the stimulated side, in experiments using transverse slices of brain stem. 4. The optical action potential signals evoked by the brief depolarizing stimulus were conducted slowly and were blocked completely by tetrodotoxin. With relatively long-duration depolarizing and hyperpolarizing stimulations, electrotonic responses were recorded. 5. When 2 microA/2 ms hyperpolarizing pulse stimulations were applied, anode-break excitation signals were detected, and these signals were also blocked by tetrodotoxin. 6. On the basis of the data obtained from these experiments, we constructed maps of the electrical response area and demonstrated the spatial pattern of the vagus dorsal nucleus in the 7-day-old embryonic chick brain stem.
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- K Kamino
- Department of Physiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan
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