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Akitoshi Ishizaka, Tomoyuki Matsuda, Kurt H. Albertine, Hidefumi Koh, Sadatomo Tasaka, Naoki Hasegawa, Nobuoki Kohno, Toru Kotani, Hiroshi Morisaki, Junzo Takeda, Morio Nakamura, Xiaohui Fang, Thomas R. Martin, Michael A. Matthay, and Satoru Hashimoto Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, 160-8582; Department of Anesthesiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, 602-8566; Department of Molecular and Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, 734-8551; Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan; Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132; and Department of Medicine, Primary and Specialty Medicine Service Line, Veterans Affairs/Puget Sound Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98108; and Department of Medicine and Anesthesia, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143