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Merhi Z, Moseley-LaRue R, Moseley AR, Smith AH, Zhang J. Ozone and pulsed electro-magnetic field therapies improve endometrial lining thickness in frozen embryo transfer cycles: Three case reports. Medicine (Baltimore) 2019; 98:e16865. [PMID: 31441861 PMCID: PMC6716719 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000016865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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RATIONALE In assisted reproductive technology, a persistently thin endometrial lining represents a huge challenge during frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles. PATIENT CONCERNS Three patients who had a persistently thin endometrial lining despite the use of several medical agents known to improve endometrial lining thickness. DIAGNOSES Infertility undergoing FET cycles. INTERVENTIONS A combination of transdermal and intravaginal ozone therapy along with Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Field (PEMF) therapy. OUTCOMES Ozone with PEMF, both of which are known to have vasodilatatory, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidant actions, were successful in improving the thickness of the endometrial lining in all 3 patients. Two out of 3 patients became pregnant following single embryo transfer. LESSONS Ozone with PEMF constitute a novel experimental approach for women with persistently thin endometrial lining undergoing FET. This novel approach needs validation by large well-designed studies.
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- Zaher Merhi
- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx
- New Hope Fertility Center, New York, NY
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Nakao A, Sugimoto R, Billiar TR, McCurry KR. Therapeutic antioxidant medical gas. J Clin Biochem Nutr 2008; 44:1-13. [PMID: 19177183 PMCID: PMC2613492 DOI: 10.3164/jcbn.08-193r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2008] [Accepted: 08/05/2008] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Medical gases are pharmaceutical gaseous molecules which offer solutions to medical needs and include traditional gases, such as oxygen and nitrous oxide, as well as gases with recently discovered roles as biological messenger molecules, such as carbon monoxide, nitric oxide and hydrogen sulphide. Medical gas therapy is a relatively unexplored field of medicine; however, a recent increasing in the number of publications on medical gas therapies clearly indicate that there are significant opportunities for use of gases as therapeutic tools for a variety of disease conditions. In this article, we review the recent advances in research on medical gases with antioxidant properties and discuss their clinical applications and therapeutic properties.
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- Atsunori Nakao
- Thomas E Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Januszkiewicz AJ, Snapper JR, Sturgis JW, Rayburn DB, Dodd KT, Phillips YY, Ripple GR, Sharpnack DD, Coulson NM, Bley JA. Pathophysiologic Responses of Sheep to Brief High-Level Nitrogen Dioxide Exposure. Inhal Toxicol 2008. [DOI: 10.3109/08958379209145314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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O'Byrne PM, Inman MD, McDonald DM. Experimental Models of Airway Hyperresponsiveness. Mucosal Immunol 2005. [PMCID: PMC7173528 DOI: 10.1016/b978-012491543-5/50085-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Funabashi H, Shima M, Kuwaki T, Hiroshima K, Kuriyama T. Effects of repeated ozone exposure on pulmonary function and bronchial responsiveness in mice sensitized with ovalbumin. Toxicology 2004; 204:75-83. [PMID: 15369850 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2004.06.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2004] [Accepted: 06/13/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We examined the effect of repeated ozone exposure on the respiratory system in mice, sensitized with ovalbumin (OA). OA-sensitized mice and saline-treated control mice were exposed to 1.0 ppm ozone or clean air for 6 h daily and five days weekly for five weeks. Subsequently, these mice were exposed to 1.0 ppm ozone for 1 h, and pulmonary function was evaluated by pneumotachography during ozone exposure and arterial blood gas analysis and histopathological examination were performed. OA sensitization or repeated ozone exposure did not affect baseline pulmonary function. In OA-sensitized mice receiving repeated ozone exposure, acute ozone exposure increased respiratory resistance and decreased dynamic compliance, with significant differences in both parameters compared with, after repeated ozone exposure without OA sensitization. In mice without repeated exposure, there was no difference in the effect of acute ozone exposure according to the use of OA sensitization. After 1-h exposure, arterial blood gas analysis showed a significant decrease in PaO2 in mice undergoing OA sensitization alone, with no significant reduction of this parameter in mice receiving repeated exposure. Histopathologically, alveolar epithelial hyperplasia occurred in repeatedly exposed mice. These results indicated that respiratory allergy might be a risk factor, which aggravates the effects of repeated ozone exposure.
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- Hidemitsu Funabashi
- Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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Yamauchi T, Shima M, Kuwaki T, Ando M, Ohmichi M, Fukuda Y, Adachi M. Acute effects of ozone exposure on lung function in mice sensitized to ovalbumin. Toxicology 2002; 172:69-78. [PMID: 11844616 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-483x(01)00588-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pulmonary responses to ozone exposure (1.0 ppm) were investigated in mice sensitized to ovalbumin compared with control mice receiving saline. Pulmonary function parameters were measured by pneumotachography. Arterial blood gases and the concentrations of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid were analyzed. Ozone exposure, when compared with filtered air exposure, caused significantly larger decreases in dynamic compliance (P<0.05) and minute ventilation (P<0.05) in ovalbumin-sensitized mice but not in control mice. Moreover, the decrease in minute ventilation in response to ozone exposure was significantly greater (P<0.01) in ovalbumin-sensitized mice than in control mice. Ozone exposure caused a significant decrease in PaO2 in ovalbumin-sensitized mice but not in control mice. PaO2 after ozone exposure tended to be smaller in ovalbumin-sensitized mice than in control mice. The concentration of sICAM-1 in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid increased in ovalbumin-sensitized mice, but effects of ozone exposure were not observed. These results indicated that sensitization of the immune system to ovalbumin might be a risk factor which aggravates the effects of ozone exposure on the respiratory system.
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- Tsuneo Yamauchi
- Department of Public Health, Chiba University School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan.
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Kleeberger SR, Reddy SP, Zhang LY, Cho HY, Jedlicka AE. Toll-like receptor 4 mediates ozone-induced murine lung hyperpermeability via inducible nitric oxide synthase. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2001; 280:L326-33. [PMID: 11159012 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.2001.280.2.l326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We tested the hypotheses that 1) inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mediates ozone (O3)-induced lung hyperpermeability and 2) mRNA levels of the gene for iNOS (Nos2) are modulated by Toll-like receptor 4 (Tlr4) during O3 exposure. Pretreatment of O3-susceptible C57BL/6J mice with a specific inhibitor of total NOS (N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine) significantly decreased the mean lavageable protein concentration (a marker of lung permeability) induced by O3 (0.3 parts/million for 72 h) compared with vehicle control mice. Furthermore, lavageable protein in C57BL/B6 mice with targeted disruption of Nos2 [Nos2(-/-)] was 50% less than the protein in wild-type [Nos2(+/+)] mice after O3. To determine whether Tlr4 modulates Nos2 mRNA levels, we studied C3H/HeJ (HeJ) and C3H/HeOuJ mice that differ only at a missense mutation in Tlr4 that confers resistance to O3-induced lung hyperpermeability in the HeJ strain. Nos2 and Tlr4 mRNA levels were significantly reduced and correlated in resistant HeJ mice after O3 relative to those in susceptible C3H/HeOuJ mice. Together, the results are consistent with an important role for iNOS in O3-induced lung hyperpermeability and suggest that Nos2 mRNA levels are mediated through Tlr4.
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- S R Kleeberger
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Vesely KR, Hyde DM, Stovall MY, Harkema JR, Green JF, Schelegle ES. Capsaicin-sensitive C-fiber-mediated protective responses in ozone inhalation in rats. J Appl Physiol (1985) 1999; 86:951-62. [PMID: 10066710 DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.86.3.951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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To assess the role of lung sensory C fibers during and after inhalation of 1 part/million ozone for 8 h, we compared breathing pattern responses and epithelial injury-inflammation-repair in rats depleted of C fibers by systemic administration of capsaicin as neonates and in vehicle-treated control animals. Capsaicin-treated rats did not develop ozone-induced rapid, shallow breathing. Capsaicin-treated rats showed more severe necrosis in the nasal cavity and greater inflammation throughout the respiratory tract than did control rats exposed to ozone. Incorporation of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (a marker of DNA synthesis associated with proliferation) into terminal bronchiolar epithelial cells was not significantly affected by capsaicin treatment in rats exposed to ozone. However, when normalized to the degree of epithelial necrosis present in each rat studied, there was less 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine labeling in the terminal bronchioles of capsaicin-treated rats. These observations suggest that the ozone-induced release of neuropeptides does not measurably contribute to airway inflammation but may play a role in modulating basal and reparative airway epithelial cell proliferation.
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- K R Vesely
- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Gong H, Wong R, Sarma RJ, Linn WS, Sullivan ED, Shamoo DA, Anderson KR, Prasad SB. Cardiovascular effects of ozone exposure in human volunteers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998; 158:538-46. [PMID: 9700133 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.158.2.9709034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We hypothesized that ozone (O3) exposure acutely affects cardiovascular hemodynamics in humans and, in particular, in subjects with essential hypertension. We studied 10 nonmedicated hypertensive and six healthy male adults. Each subject, after catheterization of the right heart and a radial artery, was exposed in an environmentally controlled chamber to filtered air (FA) on one day and to 0.3 ppm O3 on the following day for 3 h with intermittent exercise. Relative to FA exposure, O3 exposure induced no statistically significant changes in cardiac index, ventricular performance, pulmonary artery pressure, pulmonary and systemic vascular resistances, ECG, serum cardiac enzymes, plasma catecholamines and atrial natriuretic factor, and SaO2. The overall results did not indicate major acute cardiovascular effects of O3 in either the hypertensive or the control subjects. However, mean preexposure to postexposure changes were significantly (p < 0.02) larger with O3 than with FA for rate-pressure product (1,353 beats/min/mm Hg) and for heart rate (8 beats/min); these responses were not significantly different between the hypertensive and the control subjects. Significant O3 effects were also observed for mean FEV1 (-6%), and AaPO2 (> 10 mm Hg increase), which were not significantly different between the two groups. These results suggest that O3 exposure can increase myocardial work and impair pulmonary gas exchange to a degree that might be clinically important in persons with significant preexisting cardiovascular impairment, with or without concomitant lung disease.
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- H Gong
- Department of Medicine, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey; University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA USA.
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Wells UM, Duneclift S, Widdicombe JG. H2O2 increases sheep tracheal blood flow, permeability, and vascular response to luminal capsaicin. J Appl Physiol (1985) 1997; 82:621-31. [PMID: 9049746 DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.82.2.621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Exogenous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) causes airway epithelial damage in vitro. We have studied the effects of luminal H2O2 in the sheep trachea in vivo on tracheal permeability to low-molecular-weight hydrophilic (technetium-99m-labeled diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid; 99mTc-DTPA) and lipophilic ([14C]antipyrine; [14C]AP) tracers and on the tracheal vascular response to luminal capsaicin, which stimulates afferent nerve endings. A tracheal artery was perfused, and tracheal venous blood was collected. H2O2 exposure (10 mM) reduced tracheal potential difference (-42.0 +/- 6.4 mV) to zero. It increased arterial and venous flows (56.7 +/- 6.1 and 57.3 +/- 10.0%, respectively; n = 5, P < 0.01, paired t-test) but not tracheal lymph flow (unstimulated flow 5.0 +/- 1.2 microliters.min-1.cm-1, n = 4). During H2O2 exposure, permeability to 99mTc-DTPA increased from -2.6 to -89.7 x 10(-7) cm/s (n = 5, P < 0.05), whereas permeability to [14C]AP (-3,312.6 x 10(-7) cm/s, n = 4) was not altered significantly (-2,565 x 10(-7) cm/s). Luminal capsaicin (10 microM) increased tracheal blood flow (10.1 +/- 4.1%, n = 5) and decreased venous 99mTc-DTPA concentration (-19.7 +/- 4.0, P < 0.01), and these effects were significantly greater after epithelial damage (28.1 +/- 6.0 and -45.7 +/- 4.3%, respectively, P < 0.05, unpaired t-test). Thus H2O2 increases the penetration of a hydrophilic tracer into tracheal blood and lymph but has less effect on a lipophilic tracer. It also enhances the effects of luminal capsaicin on blood flow and tracer uptake.
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- U M Wells
- Department of Physiology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom
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Eight healthy adults (56-85 yrs) were exposed in an environmental chamber to filtered air (FA), 0.60 ppm NO2, 0.45 ppm O3, and 0.60 ppm NO2 + 0.45 ppm O3 to investigate the effects of NO2 and O3 exposure on cardiac output. The subjects were exposed to each condition for two hours, while they exercised and rested in alternating 20-min periods. Minute ventilation averaged 26-29 l/min among the four exposures. Cardiac output was measured by the noninvasive impedance cardiography method, and was recorded prior to each exposure with the subject at rest, and during the last five minutes of each exercise period. There were no differences in cardiac output at preexposure among the four exposures. The exercise-induced increase in cardiac output with NO2/O3 exposure was significantly smaller (P < 0.05) than with the FA or O3 alone exposures. Reaction products of inhaled NO2 are known to cross the lung membranes, probably as a nitrate or nitrite. NO2 and O3 are also known to react together to form nitrate and nitrite. We hypothesize that a nitrate or nitrite reaction product of inhaled O3 and NO2 crosses the lung membrane into the general circulation, where it functions as a vasodilator, thereby reducing cardiac output.
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- D M Drechsler-Parks
- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106-5060, USA
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Gunther RA, Yousef MA, Schelegle ES, Cross CE. Corticosteroid administration modifies ozone-induced increases in sheep airway blood flow. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE 1992; 146:660-4. [PMID: 1519844 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm/146.3.660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Recently, we have shown that exposure of intubated conscious sheep to 3 to 4 ppm ozone (O3) for 3 h increases bronchial blood flow (Qbr). The purpose of the present study was to assess the potential role of corticosteroids in modulating this increase. Six nasally intubated sheep were exposed to filtered room air, 3.5 ppm O3 on two separate occasions, and 3.5 ppm O3 plus methyl-prednisone, for 3 h. Qbr was measured using a chronically implanted 20 MHz pulsed Doppler flow probe. Qbr, mean aortic pressure, cardiac output, pulmonary artery pressure, arterial blood gases, and core temperature were monitored. After 3 h of 3.5 ppm O3, Qbr increased from 3.2 +/- 0.5 (mean +/- SEM) to 8.5 +/- 1.6 KHz, whereas bronchial vascular resistance (BVR) decreased from the baseline value of 43.6 +/- 8.0 to 15.0 +/- 3 mm Hg/KHz. With corticosteroids, baseline Qbr was 3.2 +/- 0.6 and BVR was 44.2 +/- 9.7; after 3 h of 3.5 ppm O3, Qbr was 3.3 +/- 0.5 KHz and BVR was 39.0 +/- 8.0 mm Hg/KHz. The two 3.5-ppm O3 exposures without corticosteroids were impressively reproducible. Except for Qbr and BVR, no other measured cardiovascular parameters were affected by O3. The results indicate that corticosteroids are capable of interfering with mediator, neurohumoral, or inflammatory cell mechanisms responsible for vasodilation of the airway microcirculation after O3 exposure, but do not specifically address the specific processes whereby this attenuation occurs.
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- R A Gunther
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
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Pino MV, Stovall MY, Levin JR, Devlin RB, Koren HS, Hyde DM. Acute ozone-induced lung injury in neutrophil-depleted rats. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1992; 114:268-76. [PMID: 1609419 DOI: 10.1016/0041-008x(92)90077-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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To test the hypothesis that neutrophils contribute to acute, ozone-induced epithelial damage in the lung, rats were depleted of their circulating neutrophils by intraperitoneal injection of a rabbit anti-rat neutrophil serum (ANS) 12 hr prior to an 8-hr exposure to 1.0 ppm ozone. Additional rats were given an injection of normal rabbit serum (NRS) prior to ozone exposure. Exposures were followed by postexposure periods in filtered air for 0, 4, or 16 hr. Control rats were given either ANS or NRS and then exposed only to filtered air. Analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from NRS-treated rats revealed a significant increase in total neutrophils above that of controls at the 4- and 16-hr postexposure times, with a peak increase at 4 hr postexposure. In contrast, there was almost total ablation of the BALF neutrophil response in the ANS-treated rats at all times. Ozone caused an increase in BALF protein, fibronectin, and interleukin-6 above those in controls in both the NRS- and ANS-treated rats, but the only significant difference between the two groups was a level of fibronectin in the neutrophil-depleted animals higher than that in the neutrophil-sufficient animals at the 0-hr postexposure time. Electron microscopic morphometry on lungs fixed by intravascular perfusion demonstrated no significant differences in the volume per surface area epithelial basal lamina (Vs) of necrotic and degenerating epithelial cells in central acini between the neutrophil-depleted and neutrophil-sufficient animals. From these results, we concluded that neutrophils do not play a detectable role in contributing to the early epithelial damage in the lung caused by an acute exposure to ozone.
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- M V Pino
- California Primate Research Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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