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      <dochead>Preface</dochead>
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            <p>Preface</p>
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               <snm>McCuskey</snm>
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               <fnm>Robert</fnm>
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               <email>mccuskey@email.arizona.edu</email>
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               <p>Department of Cell Biology &amp; Anatomy, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA</p>
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         <source>Comparative Hepatology</source>
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            <title>
               <p>11th International Symposium on the Cells of the Hepatic Sinusoid and their Relation to Other Cells</p>
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            <title>
               <p>11th International Symposium on the Cells of the Hepatic Sinusoid and their Relation to Other Cells</p>
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            <location>Tucson, Arizona, USA</location>
            <date-range>25&#8211;29 August, 2002</date-range>
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         <issn>1476-5926</issn>
         <pubdate>2004</pubdate>
         <volume>3</volume>
         <issue>Suppl 1</issue>
         <fpage>S1</fpage>
         <url>http://www.comparative-hepatology.com/content/3/S1/S1</url>
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               <pubid idtype="doi">10.1186/1476-5926-2-S1-S1</pubid>
               <pubid idtype="pmpid">14960153</pubid>
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               <day>14</day>
               <month>1</month>
               <year>2004</year>
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         <p>The liver group in Tucson, Arizona, had great pleasure in hosting the 11th International Symposium on the Cells of the Hepatic Sinusoid and their Relation to Other Cells (ISCHS) from the 25th through 29th August, 2002.</p>
         <p>In spite of the reduced travel resulting from the September 11, 2001 tragedy in New York City, we had a total participation by 102 delegates from around the world, representing Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. In total, 6 tutorials, 36 platform presentations, and 37 poster presentations were made. I wish to thank all participants in the meeting, particularly those who gave lectures, papers, or presented posters, and especially those who also prepared their presentations for publication in these Proceedings. I also wish to thank the Scientific Organizing Committee (H. Jaeschke, M. Naito, Y. Shiratori, B. Smedsr&#248;d, F. Vidal-Vanaclocha, E. Wisse, R.S. McCuskey) for organizing the different scientific sessions and E. Rocha and E. Wisse for arranging the first electronic publication of the Proceedings of this series of Symposia. Finally, my special thanks to the dedicated work of S. Eastman and C. Martin for their extensive efforts in organizing both the Symposium and these Proceedings.</p>
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         <st>
            <p>Final Remark</p>
         </st>
         <p>The Symposium was a great success and clearly highlighted the current status of research on sinusoidal lining cells as well as future directions. As a result, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee, we hope that these Proceedings will encourage more research in the area of cells of the hepatic sinusoids and their interaction with other cells. We look forward to sharing new findings at the 12th ISCHS to be held in Bilbao, Spain in 2004 under the organization of Fernando Vidal-Vanaclocha and his colleagues.</p>
         <p>Robert S. McCuskey</p>
         <p>President of ISCHS</p>
         <p>2000&#8211;2002</p>
      </sec>
      <sec>
         <st>
            <p>List of sessions and their contents</p>
         </st>
         <p>
            <b>Opening Lecture:</b>
            <it>KARL WILHELM KUPFFER AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN HEPATOLOGY</it>
         </p>
         <p>Kenjiro Wake</p>
         <sec>
            <st>
               <p>Session I: Stellate Cells in Fibrosis</p>
            </st>
            <p>
               <b>Tutorial:</b>
               <it>MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF STELLATE CELL ACTIVATION AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY FOR LIVER FIBROSIS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Norifumi Kawada</p>
            <p>
               <it>3-D STRUCTURE OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX REGULATES GENE EXPRESSION IN CULTURED HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS TO INDUCE PROCESS ELONGATION</it>
            </p>
            <p>Sato M, Sato T, Kojima N, Imai K, Higashi N, Wang D-R, Senoo H</p>
            <p>
               <it>SIGNALS FOR HEPATIC FIBROGENESIS IN PEDIATRIC CHOLESTATIC LIVER DISEASE: REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Ramm GA, Hoskins AC, Greco SA, Pereira TM, Lewindon PJ</p>
            <p>
               <it>THIOREDOXIN PREVENTS THIOACETAMIDE-INDUCED ACUTE HEPATITIS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Okuyama H, Shimahara Y, Nakamura H, Araya S, Kawada N, Yamaoka Y, Yodoi J</p>
            <p>
               <it>PPAR GAMMA AND HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Hazra S, Miyahara T, Rippe RA, Tsukamoto H</p>
            <p>
               <it>N-CADHERIN CLEAVAGE DURING ACTIVATED HEPATIC STELLATE CELL APOPTOSIS IS INHIBITED BY TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-1</it>
            </p>
            <p>Murphy F, Waung J, Collins J, Arthur MJP, Nagase H, Mann D, Benyon RC, Iredale JP</p>
            <p>
               <it>AMINO ACIDS, <smcaps>L</smcaps>-CYSTEINE AND <smcaps>L</smcaps>-METHIONINE, ATTENUATE THE ACTIVATION OF RAT STELLATE CELLS IN PRIMARY CULTURE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Matsui H, Takashima T, Maeda N, Imanishi Y, Uyama N, Okuyama H, Kawada N</p>
            <p>
               <it>INVOLVEMENT OF GALECTIN-1 AND GALECTIN-3 IN PROLIFERATION AND MIGRATION OF RAT HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS IN CULTURE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Maeda N, Kawada N, Seki S, Ikeda K, Okuyama H, Hirabayashi J, Kasai K, Yoshizato K</p>
            <p>
               <it>SUPPRESSION OF RAT STELLATE CELL ACTIVATION AND LIVER FIBROSIS BY A JAPANESE HERBAL MEDICINE, INCHINKO-TO (TJ135)</it>
            </p>
            <p>Imanishi Y, Maeda N, Matsui H, Takashima T, Seki S, Arakawa T, Kawada N</p>
            <p>
               <it>EXPRESSION OF LEPTIN RECEPTORS IN HEPATIC SINUSOIDAL CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Ikejima K, Lang T, Zhang Y-J, Yamashina S, Honda H, Yoshikawa M, Hirose M, Enomoto N, Kitamura T, Takei Y, Sato N</p>
            <p>
               <it>INTERCELLULAR ADHESIVE STRUCTURES BETWEEN STELLATE CELLS &#8211; AN ANALYSIS IN CULTURED HUMAN HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Imai K, Sato M, Sato T, Kojima N, Miura M, Higashi N, Wang D-R, Suzuki S, Senoo H</p>
            <p>
               <it>ACTIVATION OF STELLATE CELLS BEFORE INDUCTION OF HEPATIC FIBROSIS &#8211; PRECISE TIMING IN CHOLINE-DEFICIENT DIET-FED RAT MODEL</it>
            </p>
            <p>Besshi K, Fujiwara M, Senoo H, Kondou Y, Ohsugi Y, Hayashi T, Ishidate K</p>
            <p>
               <it>PERIPORTAL STELLATE CELLS IN SUBJECTS WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS C WITH A VARIED SERUM ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVEL</it>
            </p>
            <p>Fujiwara M, Besshi K, Takemura T, Itoh Y, Tsujino T, Minagawa N, Nakata R, Yoshitsugu M, Kato Y, Ihori M, Okayasu I, Senoo H, Wake K</p>
            <p>
               <it>INTRALOBULAR DISTRIBUTION OF VITAMIN A-STORING LIPID DROPLETS IN HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO POLAR BEAR AND ARCTIC FOX</it>
            </p>
            <p>Higashi N, Imai K, Sato M, Sato T, Kojima N, Miura M, Wold HL, Moskaug J, Berg T, Norum KR, Roos N, Wake K, Blomhoff R, Senoo H</p>
            <p>
               <it>EXPRESSION OF THE PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTORS (PPARs) IN THE HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Sato T, Sato M, Miura M, Higashi N, Da-Ren W, Suzuki S, Imai K, Kojima N, Senoo H</p>
            <p>
               <it>DECREASED CAPACITY FOR VITAMIN A STORAGE IN HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS IN ARCTIC ANIMALS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Senoo H, Wake K, Wold H, Higashi N, Imai K, Moskaug JO, Kojima N, Miura M, Sato T, Sato M, Roos N, Berg T, Norum KR, Blomhoff R</p>
            <p>
               <it>5-LIPOXYGENASE (5-LO) IS INVOLVED IN KUPFFER CELL SURVIVAL. POSSIBLE ROLE OF 5-LO PRODUCTS IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF LIVER FIBROSIS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Titos E, Planagum&#224; A, L&#243;pez-Parra M, Villamor N, Miquel R, Jim&#233;nez W, Arroyo V, Rivera F, Rod&#233;s J, Cl&#224;ria J</p>
            <p>
               <it>REGULATION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE EXPRESSION BY EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX COMPONENTS IN CULTURED HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Wang DR, Sato M, Sato T, Kojima N, Higashi N, Senoo H</p>
            <p>
               <it>HMG-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR MODULATES COLLAGEN GEL-CONTRACTION BY HEPATIC MYOFIBROBLAST-LIKE STELLATE CELL LINE: INVOLVEMENT OF GERANYLGERANYLATED PROTEINS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Yanase M, Ikeda H, Matsui A, Noiri E, Tomiya T, Arai M, Inoue Y, Tejima K, Nagashima K, Nishikawa T, Kimura S, Fujiwara K, Rojkind M, Ogata I</p>
         </sec>
         <sec>
            <st>
               <p>Session II: Functional Aspects of Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells</p>
            </st>
            <p>
               <b>Tutorial:</b>
               <it>CLEARANCE FUNCTION OF SCAVENGER ENDOTHELIAL CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>B&#229;rd Smedsr&#248;d</p>
            <p>
               <it>FC GAMMA-RECEPTORS IN CELLS OF THE HEPATIC SINUSOID</it>
            </p>
            <p>Braathen H, Berg T, Mousavi SA, Kjeken R</p>
            <p>
               <it>THE LIVER SINUSOIDAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL HYALURONAN RECEPTOR AND ITS HOMOLOG, STABILIN-1 &#8211; THEIR ROLES (KNOWN AND UNKNOWN) IN ENDOCYTOSIS</it>
            </p>
            <p>McCourt PAG, Hansen B, Svistuonov D, Johansson S, Longati P, Schledzewski K, Kzhyshkowska J, Goerdt S, Johansson S, Smedsr&#248;d B</p>
            <p>
               <it>MALONDIALDEHYDE-ACETALDEHYDE (MAA) MODIFIED PROTEINS INDUCE PRO-INFLAMMATORY AND PRO-FIBROTIC RESPONSES BY LIVER ENDOTHELIAL CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Thiele GM, Duryee MJ, Willis MS, Sorrell MF, Freeman TL, Tuma DJ, Klassen LW</p>
            <p>
               <it>PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE SINUSOIDAL ENDOTHELIUM AND SPACE OF DISSE IN AGEING PAPIO HAMADRAYAS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Cogger VC, Warren A, Fraser R, Ngu M, McLean AJ, Le Couteur DG</p>
            <p>
               <it>THE EFFECT OF CYTOCHALASIN B-LOADED LIPOSOMES ON THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE LIVER SIEVE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Braet F, Vekemans K, Morselt H, De Zanger R, Wisse E, Scherphof G, Kamps J</p>
            <p>
               <it>STUDY OF THE REAPPEARANCE OF SIEVE PLATE-PORES IN IMMORTALIZED SINUSOIDAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS: EFFECT OF ACTIN INHIBITOR IN MIXED PERFUSION CULTURES</it>
            </p>
            <p>Saito M, Matsuura T, Masaki T, Maehashi H, Braet F</p>
         </sec>
         <sec>
            <st>
               <p>Session III: Development and Regeneration</p>
            </st>
            <p>
               <it>ROLE OF HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS IN THE EARLY PHASE OF LIVER REGENERATION IN RAT: FORMATION OF TIGHT ADHESIONS TO PARENCHYMAL CELLS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Mabuchi A, Mullaney I, Sheard PW, Hessian PA, Zimmermann A, Senoo H, Wheatley AM</p>
            <p>
               <it>IMAGING LIVER DEVELOPMENT/REMODELING IN THE SEE-THROUGH MEDAKA FISH</it>
            </p>
            <p>Hinton DE, Wakamatsu Y, Ozato K, Kashiwada S</p>
         </sec>
         <sec>
            <st>
               <p>Session IV: Non-Parenchymal Cells and Liver Injury</p>
            </st>
            <p>
               <b>Tutorial:</b>
               <it>LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE-MEDIATED SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: STABILIZATION OF TNF ALPHA mRNA CONTRIBUTES TO INCREASED LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE-STIMULATED TNF ALPHA PRODUCTION BY KUPFFER CELLS AFTER CHRONIC ETHANOL FEEDING</it>
            </p>
            <p>Kishore R, McMullen MR, Cocuzzi E, Nagy LE</p>
            <p>
               <it>IMMUNOMODULATORY ROLE OF KUPFFER CELL IN LIVER ALLOGRAFTS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Sun Z, Wada T, Hoshino S, Uchikura K, Klein AS</p>
            <p>
               <it>EFFECTS OF ACETAMINOPHEN ON HEPATIC MICROCIRCULATION IN MICE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Ito Y, Machen NW, Abril ER, McCuskey RS</p>
            <p>
               <it>FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PERIPORTAL AND PERIVENOUS KUPFFER CELLS ISOLATED BY DIGITONIN-COLLAGENASE PERFUSION</it>
            </p>
            <p>Bykov I, Ylipaasto P, Eerola L, Lindros KO</p>
            <p>
               <it>THE REGULATORY ROLE OF PROSTAGLANDIN E<sub>2</sub> IN LIVER (PATHO) PHYSIOLOGY IS CONTROLLED AT ITS SITE OF SYNTHESIS AND ITS ACTION ON THE RECEPTORS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Dieter P, Scheibe R, Bezugla Y, Matth&#233;, Schuch S, Treffkorn L, Bernard B, Kamionka S, Kolada A</p>
            <p>
               <it>SIGNALING ROLE OF IRON IN NF KAPPA-B ACTIVATION IN HEPATIC MACROPHAGES</it>
            </p>
            <p>Xiong S, Hongyun S, Tsukamoto H</p>
            <p>
               <it>THALIDOMIDE PREVENTS ALCOHOLIC LIVER INJURY IN RATS THROUGH INHIBITION OF KUPFFER CELL SENSITIZATION</it>
            </p>
            <p>Enomoto N, Takei Y, Hirose M, Ikejima K, Kitamura T, Sato N</p>
            <p>
               <it>AN IN VIVO METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF ENDOSOMAL DISTRIBUTION OF BOTH LIGAND AND ASIALOGYLCOPROTEIN RECEPTOR IN RAT LIVER</it>
            </p>
            <p>Dalton SR, Wiegert RL, Casey CA</p>
            <p>
               <it>ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DEATH PROCESS OF HEPATOCYTES IN NEONATAL MOUSE LIVER</it>
            </p>
            <p>Sasaki K, Sonoda Y, Kumano I, Suda M</p>
            <p>
               <it>USE OF FLOW CYTOMETRIC ANALYSIS TO EXAMINE THE UPTAKE OF APOPTOTIC BODIES BY HEALTHY HEPATOCYTES</it>
            </p>
            <p>Casey C, Baldwin C, Kubik J, Hindemith A, McVicker B</p>
            <p>
               <it>CHEMILUMINESCENCE DETECTION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN ISOLATED KUPFFER CELLS DURING PHAGOCYTOSIS OF TREPONEMA PALLIDUM</it>
            </p>
            <p>Aldini R, Marangoni A, Guardigli M, Sambri V, Giacani L, Montagnani M, Roda A, Cevenini R</p>
            <p>
               <it>HEME OXYGENASE-1 INDUCTION IN HEPATOCYTES AND NON-PARENCHYMAL CELLS PROTECTS AGAINST LIVER INJURY DURING ENDOXEMIA</it>
            </p>
            <p>Dorman RB, Bajt ML, Farhood A, Mayes J, Jaeschke H</p>
            <p>
               <it>BETA<sub>2</sub>-GLYCOPROTEIN I INHIBITION OF MOUSE KUPFFER CELLS RESPIRATORY BURST DEPENDS ON LIVER ARCHITECTURE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Gomes LF, Knox PR, Simon-Giavarotti KA, Junqueira VBC, Sans J, Videla LA</p>
            <p>
               <it>ROLE OF AIM IN CORYNEBACTERIUM-INDUCED GRANULOMA FORMATION IN MICE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Kuwata K, Watanabe H, Yamamoto T, Miyazaki T, Naito M</p>
            <p>
               <it>PRECISION-CUT LIVER SLICES IN CULTURE AS A TOOL TO ASSESS THE PHYSIOLOGICAL INVOLVEMENT OF KUPFFER CELLS IN HEPATIC METABOLISM</it>
            </p>
            <p>Neyrinck AM, Gomez C, Delzenne NM</p>
            <p>
               <it>PEROXYNITRITE FORMATION AND SINUSOIDAL CELL INJURY DURING ACETAMINOPHEN HEPATOTOXICITY IN MICE</it>
            </p>
            <p>Knight TR, Jaeschke H</p>
            <p>
               <it>KUPFFER AND STELLATE CELL PROTEOGLYCANS MEDIATE MALARIA SPOROZOITE TARGETING TO THE LIVER</it>
            </p>
            <p>Pradel G, Garapaty S, Frevert U</p>
            <p>
               <it>CHLOROTYROSINE PROTEIN ADDUCTS ARE RELIABLE BIOMARKERS OF NEUTROPHIL-INDUCED CYTOTOXICITY IN VIVO</it>
            </p>
            <p>Gujral JS, Hinson JA, Jaeschke H</p>
         </sec>
         <sec>
            <st>
               <p>Session V: Role of Sinusoidal Cells in Tumor Progression</p>
            </st>
            <p>
               <it>CYTOTOXIC REACTIONS OF CC531s TOWARDS LIVER SINUSOIDAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS: A MICROSCOPICAL STUDY</it>
            </p>
            <p>Vekemans K, Timmers M, Vermijlen D, De Zanger R, Wisse E, Braet F</p>
            <p>
               <it>CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE KILLING OF METASTATIC COLON CARCINOMA CELLS BY KUPFFER CELLS IN THE EARLY ONSET OF HEPATIC METASTASIS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Timmers M, Vekemans K, Vermijlen D, Wisse E, Braet F</p>
            <p>
               <it>ELEVATED LEVELS OF TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES (TIMPS) IN HUMAN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAS</it>
            </p>
            <p>Matsumoto E, Nakatsukasa H, Nouso K, Nakamura S, Suzuki M, Kobayashi Y, Uemura M, Sato S, Yumoto E, Yokoyama J, Tsuboi S, Tanaka H, Takuma Y, Fujikawa T, Shiratori Y</p>
            <p>
               <it>EXPRESSION OF GROWTH FACTORS IN COLORECTAL CARCINOMA LIVER METASTATIC PATIENTS AFTER PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY: IMPLICATIONS FOR A FUNCTIONAL ROLE IN CELL PROLIFERATION DURING LIVER REGENERATION</it>
            </p>
            <p>Lukomska B, Dluzniewska J, Polanski J, Zajac L</p>
            <p>
               <it>MIGRATION OF LIVER SINUSOIDAL LEUKOCYTES TO THE LIVER COLON ADENOCARCINOMA METASTASES</it>
            </p>
            <p>Durowicz S, Lukomska B, Dluzniewska J, Laszuk D, Olszewski WL</p>
            <p>
               <it>REDUCTION OF LIVER METASTASES OUTGROWTH BY TUMOUR ANTIGEN-PULSED DENDRITIC CELL VACCINATION</it>
            </p>
            <p>Mels AK, Mayen I, van Egmond M, Beelen RHJ, Meijer S, Richters CD</p>
            <p>
               <it>CORRELATION BETWEEN IN VIVO ACCUMULATION AND IN VITRO ADHESION OF LIVER ASSOCIATED LYMPHOCYTES IN AND AROUND LIVER ADENOCARCINOMA METASTASES</it>
            </p>
            <p>Stanczyk M, Olszewski WL, Durowicz S, Maruszynski M</p>
            <p>
               <it>HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAS WHICH ARE UNDETECTED BY DYNAMIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY</it>
            </p>
            <p>Yamamoto T, Hirohashi K, Sakabe K, Shuto T, Uenishi M, Ogawa M, Tanaka S, Tanaka H, Kubo S, Kaneda K, Sakurai M</p>
            <p>
               <it>EXPRESSION OF FIBRILLIN-1 IN FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA OF THE LIVER: A ROLE IN MICROCIRCULATION ADAPTABILITY</it>
            </p>
            <p>Lepreux S, Desmouli&#233;re A, Rosenbaum J, Balabaud C, Bioulac-Sage P</p>
            <p>
               <it>PIT CELLS EXCLUSIVELY KILL P815 TUMOR CELLS BY THE PERFORIN/GRANZYME PATHWAY</it>
            </p>
            <p>Vermijlen D, Luo D, Froelich CJ, Medema JP, Alain J, Kummer JA, Willems E, Braet F, Wisse E</p>
         </sec>
      </sec>
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