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Perissinotti PP, Rivero-Echeto MC, Garcia-Rill E, Bisagno V, Urbano FJ. Leptin alters somatosensory thalamic networks by decreasing gaba release from reticular thalamic nucleus and action potential frequency at ventrobasal neurons. Brain Struct Funct 2018. [PMID: 29520482 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-018-1645-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Leptin is an adipose-derived hormone that controls appetite and energy expenditure. Leptin receptors are expressed on extra-hypothalamic ventrobasal (VB) and reticular thalamic (RTN) nuclei from embryonic stages. Here, we studied the effects of pressure-puff, local application of leptin on both synaptic transmission and action potential properties of thalamic neurons in thalamocortical slices. We used whole-cell patch-clamp recordings of thalamocortical VB neurons from wild-type (WT) and leptin-deficient obese (ob/ob) mice. We observed differences in VB neurons action potentials and synaptic currents kinetics when comparing WT vs. ob/ob. Leptin reduced GABA release onto VB neurons throughout the activation of a JAK2-dependent pathway, without affecting excitatory glutamate transmission. We observed a rapid and reversible reduction by leptin of the number of action potentials of VB neurons via the activation of large conductance Ca2+-dependent potassium channels. These leptin effects were observed in thalamocortical slices from up to 5-week-old WT but not in leptin-deficient obese mice. Results described here suggest the existence of a leptin-mediated trophic modulation of thalamocortical excitability during postnatal development. These findings could contribute to a better understanding of leptin within the thalamocortical system and sleep deficits in obesity.
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- Paula P Perissinotti
- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Biología Molecular y Celular "Dr. Héctor Maldonado", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Biología Molecular y Celular "Dr. Héctor Maldonado", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (ININFA), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Biología Molecular y Celular "Dr. Héctor Maldonado", Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Glovak Z, Mihalko S, Baghdoyan HA, Lydic R. Leptin status alters buprenorphine-induced antinociception in obese mice with dysfunctional leptin receptors. Neurosci Lett 2017; 660:29-33. [PMID: 28893589 PMCID: PMC5651198 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2017] [Revised: 08/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Buprenorphine is an opiate used for pain management and to treat opiate addiction. The cytokine leptin can modulate nociception, but the extent to which buprenorphine-induced antinociception varies as a function of leptin signaling has not been characterized. Four congenic mouse lines with phenotypes that include differences in body weight and leptin status were used to test the hypothesis that the antinociceptive effects of buprenorphine vary as function of sex and leptin signaling. Each mouse line was comprised of males (n=12) and females (n=12) for a total of 96 animals. Groups included C57BL/6J (B6) mice (wild type), B6 mice with diet-induced obesity (DIO), obese B6.Cg-Lepob/J (ob/ob) mice lacking leptin, and obese B6.BKS(D)-Leprdb/J (db/db) mice with dysfunctional leptin receptors. The dependent measure was tail flick latency (TFL) in seconds for mouse-initiated tail removal from a warm water bath. Independent variables were intraperitoneal administration of saline (control) or buprenorphine (0.3mg/kg). Within every mouse line, buprenorphine significantly increased TFL relative to saline. Compared to the other mouse lines, db/db mice with dysfunctional leptin receptors had a significantly longer TFL after saline and after buprenorphine. TFL did not vary significantly by body weight or sex. The results provide novel support for the interpretation that acute thermal nociception is associated with altered leptin signaling.
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- Zachary Glovak
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
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González B, González C, Bisagno V, Urbano FJ. EFFECTS OF METHAMPHETAMINE ON LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY AND THALAMIC GENE EXPRESSION IN LEPTIN-DEFICIENT OBESE MICE. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 2. [PMID: 28920084 DOI: 10.15761/tbr.1000112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Leptin is an adipose-derived hormone that regulates energy balance. Leptin receptors are expressed in extrahypothalamic sites and several reports showed that leptin can influence feeding and locomotor behavior via direct actions on dopaminergic neurons. The leptin deficient mouse (ob/ob) has been used as an animal model of blunted leptin action, and presents with obesity and mild type 2 diabetes. We used ob/ob mice to study the effect of repeated 7-day methamphetamine (METH) administration analyzing locomotion, behavioral sensitization, and somatosensory thalamic mRNA expression of voltage-gated calcium channels and glutamatergic receptors using RT-PCR. We observed reduced METH-mediated responses in ob/ob mice associated with enhanced in mRNA expression of key voltage-gated and glutamate receptors in the somatosensory thalamus. Results described here are important for understanding the control of locomotion and thalamocortical excitability by leptin.
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- Betina González
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular "Dr. Héctor Maldonado", Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.,CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.,Universidad de Buenos Aires, Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.,CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (ININFA), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnóstico (CEBBAD), Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.,CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (ININFA), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular "Dr. Héctor Maldonado", Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.,CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
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D'Onofrio S, Mahaffey S, Garcia-Rill E. Role of calcium channels in bipolar disorder. CURRENT PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 2017; 6:122-135. [PMID: 29354402 PMCID: PMC5771645 DOI: 10.2174/2211556006666171024141949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bipolar disorder is characterized by a host of sleep-wake abnormalities that suggests that the reticular activating system (RAS) is involved in these symptoms. One of the signs of the disease is a decrease in high frequency gamma band activity, which accounts for a number of additional deficits. Bipolar disorder has also been found to overexpress neuronal calcium sensor protein 1 (NCS-1). Recent studies showed that elements in the RAS generate gamma band activity that is mediated by high threshold calcium (Ca2+) channels. This mini-review provides a description of recent findings on the role of Ca2+ and Ca2+ channels in bipolar disorder, emphasizing the involvement of arousal-related systems in the manifestation of many of the disease symptoms. This will hopefully bring attention to a much-needed area of research and provide novel avenues for therapeutic development.
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- Stasia D'Onofrio
- Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR
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D'Onofrio S, Urbano FJ, Messias E, Garcia-Rill E. Lithium decreases the effects of neuronal calcium sensor protein 1 in pedunculopontine neurons. Physiol Rep 2016; 4:e12740. [PMID: 27033453 PMCID: PMC4814880 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 02/20/2016] [Accepted: 02/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Human postmortem studies reported increased expression of neuronal calcium sensor protein 1 (NCS-1) in the brains of some bipolar disorder patients, and reduced or aberrant gamma band activity is present in the same disorder. Bipolar disorder is characterized by sleep dysregulation, suggesting a role for the reticular activating system (RAS). Lithium (Li(+)) has been shown to effectively treat the mood disturbances in bipolar disorder patients and was proposed to act by inhibiting the interaction betweenNCS-1 and inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor protein (InsP3R).NCS-1 is known to enhance the activity of InsP3R, and of Ca(2+)-mediated gamma oscillatory activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), part of theRAS This study aimed to determine the nature of some of the intracellular mechanisms of Li(+)on ratPPNcells and to identify the interaction between Li(+)andNCS-1. Since Li(+)has been shown to act by inhibiting the enhancing effects ofNCS-1, we tested the hypothesis that Li(+)would reduced the effects of overexpression ofNCS-1 and prevent the downregulation of gamma band activity. Li(+)decreased gamma oscillation frequency and amplitude by downregulating Ca(2+)channel activity, whereasNCS-1 reduced the effect of Li(+)on Ca(2+)currents. These effects were mediated by a G-protein overinhibition of Ca(2+)currents. These results suggest that Li(+)affected intracellular pathways involving the activation of voltage-gated Ca(2+)channels mediated by an intracellular mechanism involving voltage-dependent activation of G proteins, thereby normalizing gamma band oscillations mediated by P/Q-type calcium channels modulated byNCS-1.
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- Stasia D'Onofrio
- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
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- IFIBYNE-CONICET-UBA, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
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Pedunculopontine Gamma Band Activity and Development. Brain Sci 2015; 5:546-67. [PMID: 26633526 PMCID: PMC4701027 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci5040546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Revised: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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This review highlights the most important discovery in the reticular activating system in the last 10 years, the manifestation of gamma band activity in cells of the reticular activating system (RAS), especially in the pedunculopontine nucleus, which is in charge of waking and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. The identification of different cell groups manifesting P/Q-type Ca(2+) channels that control waking vs. those that manifest N-type channels that control REM sleep provides novel avenues for the differential control of waking vs. REM sleep. Recent discoveries on the development of this system can help explain the developmental decrease in REM sleep and the basic rest-activity cycle.
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Urbano FJ, D'Onofrio SM, Luster BR, Beck PB, Hyde JR, Bisagno V, Garcia-Rill E. Pedunculopontine Nucleus Gamma Band Activity-Preconscious Awareness, Waking, and REM Sleep. Front Neurol 2014; 5:210. [PMID: 25368599 PMCID: PMC4202729 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 10/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) is a major component of the reticular activating system (RAS) that regulates waking and REM sleep, states of high-frequency EEG activity. Recently, we described the presence of high threshold, voltage-dependent N- and P/Q-type calcium channels in RAS nuclei that subserve gamma band oscillations in the mesopontine PPN, intralaminar parafascicular nucleus (Pf), and pontine subcoeruleus nucleus dorsalis (SubCD). Cortical gamma band activity participates in sensory perception, problem solving, and memory. Rather than participating in the temporal binding of sensory events as in the cortex, gamma band activity in the RAS may participate in the processes of preconscious awareness, and provide the essential stream of information for the formulation of many of our actions. That is, the RAS may play an early permissive role in volition. Our latest results suggest that (1) the manifestation of gamma band activity during waking may employ a separate intracellular pathway compared to that during REM sleep, (2) neuronal calcium sensor (NCS-1) protein, which is over expressed in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, modulates gamma band oscillations in the PPN in a concentration-dependent manner, (3) leptin, which undergoes resistance in obesity resulting in sleep dysregulation, decreases sodium currents in PPN neurons, accounting for its normal attenuation of waking, and (4) following our discovery of electrical coupling in the RAS, we hypothesize that there are cell clusters within the PPN that may act in concert. These results provide novel information on the mechanisms controlling high-frequency activity related to waking and REM sleep by elements of the RAS.
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- Francisco J Urbano
- IFIBYNE & ININFA-CONICET, University of Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , Little Rock, AR , USA
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , Little Rock, AR , USA
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , Little Rock, AR , USA
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , Little Rock, AR , USA
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- IFIBYNE & ININFA-CONICET, University of Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires , Argentina
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- Center for Translational Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , Little Rock, AR , USA
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Watson SL, Watson CJ, Baghdoyan HA, Lydic R. Adenosine A₁ receptors in mouse pontine reticular formation modulate nociception only in the presence of systemic leptin. Neuroscience 2014; 275:531-9. [PMID: 24976513 PMCID: PMC4143377 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2014] [Revised: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 06/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Human obesity is associated with increased leptin levels and pain, but the specific brain regions and neurochemical mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly understood. This study used adult male C57BL/6J (B6, n=14) mice and leptin-deficient, obese B6.Cg-Lep(ob)/J (obese, n=10) mice to evaluate the hypothesis that nociception is altered by systemic leptin levels and by adenosine A₁ receptors in the pontine reticular formation. Nociception was quantified as paw withdrawal latency (PWL) in s after onset of a thermal stimulus. PWL was converted to percent maximum possible effect (%MPE). After obtaining baseline PWL measures, the pontine reticular formation was microinjected with saline (control), three concentrations of the adenosine A₁ receptor agonist N(6)-p-sulfophenyladenosine (SPA), or super-active mouse leptin receptor antagonist (SMLA) followed by SPA 15 min later, and PWL was again quantified. In obese, leptin-deficient mice, nociception was quantified before and during leptin replacement via subcutaneous osmotic pumps. SPA was administered into the pontine reticular formation of leptin-replaced mice and PWL testing was repeated. During baseline (before vehicle or SPA administration), PWL was significantly (p=0.0013) lower in leptin-replaced obese mice than in B6 mice. Microinjecting SPA into the pontine reticular formation of B6 mice caused a significant (p=0.0003) concentration-dependent increase in %MPE. SPA also significantly (p<0.05) increased %MPE in B6 mice and in leptin-replaced obese mice, but not in leptin-deficient obese mice. Microinjection of SMLA into the pontine reticular formation before SPA did not alter PWL. The results show for the first time that pontine reticular formation administration of the adenosine A₁ receptor agonist SPA produced antinociception only in the presence of systemic leptin. The concentration-response data support the interpretation that adenosine A₁ receptors localized to the pontine reticular formation significantly alter nociception.
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- S L Watson
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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