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We ought to better understand these pleiotropic effects for the most effective treatments of hypertension and its complications....
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PMID: 21928691
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We investigated the relationship between RAAS and hypoxia in the developing kidney. The expression of VEGF and heme oxygenase (HO)-1 related with the oxygen was analyzed in the enalapril- or spironolactone-treated neonatal rat kidneys. Enalapril (30 mg/kg/d) or spironolactone (200 mg/kg/d) was admin...
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PMID: 21263376
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We investigated the relationship between RAAS and hypoxia in the developing kidney. The expression of VEGF and heme oxygenase (HO)-1 related with the oxygen was analyzed in the enalapril- or spironolactone-treated neonatal rat kidneys. Enalapril (30 mg/kg/d) or spironolactone (200 mg/kg/d) was admin...
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PMID: 21263376
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We investigated the relationship between RAAS and hypoxia in the developing kidney. The expression of VEGF and heme oxygenase (HO)-1 related with the oxygen was analyzed in the enalapril- or spironolactone-treated neonatal rat kidneys. Enalapril (30 mg/kg/d) or spironolactone (200 mg/kg/d) was admin...
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PMID: 21263376
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The present study was performed to compare the bioavailability of two perindopril erbumine (CAS 107133-36-8) 4 mg tablet formulations (test formulation and reference formulation). This study was a randomized, single-blind, two-period, two-sequence cross-over study which included 20 healthy adult male...
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PMID: 21650082
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The efficacy of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) in the management of hypertension is well established. Whether these agents induce pleiotropic effects that promote the amelioration of vascular disorders independent of blood pressure reduction remains controversial. This review e...
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PMID: 21214721
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We assessed whether two dietary patterns were effective in lowering BP in persons on antihypertensive therapy and in those not on therapy. Ninety-four participants (38/56 females/males), aged 55·6 (SD 9·9) years, consumed two 4-week dietary regimens in random order (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hype...
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PMID: 20807467
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We tested the hypothesis that the combination of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) plus angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) can be more effective in decreasing hypertrophy than a largely employed association such as ACEi plus ß-blockers in PPM patients.
We enrolled a total of 72 pat...
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PMID: 21095333
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We searched MEDLINE/EMBASE/CENTRAL for articles published from 1990 to the present about randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of ACE inhibitors with a sample size of at least 100 patients in the ACE inhibitors arm with follow-up for at least 3 months and reporting the incidence or withdrawal rates due...
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PMID: 21035591
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This research study was conducted to investigate whether serum albumin levels predict allograft/patient outcomes in the new era of transplant medicine and immunology.
The association of 1-year post-transplant serum albumin, and patient and graft outcomes was retrospectively analyzed in 500 kidney tr...
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PMID: 20537920
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To investigate the effects of enalapril on the expressions of IL-1beta and IL-6 in the lung of rats treated with acrolein inhalation.
Inflammatory lung injury was induced by acrolein inhalation in rats. The rats were divided into natrium solution (NS) group, acrolein...
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PMID: 21265103
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Angiotensin II and insulin resistance (IR) have clinical implications in the pathophysiology of chronic heart failure (CHF). However, it is still unclear whether the combination of an angiotensin-receptor blocker and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) improves IR in CHF patients who do n...
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PMID: 20827028
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Blood pressure (BP) control is frequently difficult to achieve in patients with predominantly elevated systolic BP. Consequently, these patients frequently require combination therapy including a thiazide diuretic such as hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) and an agent blocking the renin-angiotensin-aldoste...
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PMID: 20931100
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To review relevant literature supporting the use of β-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), diuretics, digoxin, aldosterone antagonists, and vasodilators in the management of heart failure in an elderly patient population aged ≥65 years.
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PMID: 20841514
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We studied 20 well controlled hypertensive postmenopausal women who received 6 months of HRT and 6 months of placebo on top of antihypertensive treatment. Two-dimensional M-mode, office blood pressure, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (ABPM), S-estradiol and S-ACE activity were investigated at baselin...
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PMID: 20486868
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Petr Wohl,
Eva Krusinová,
Martin Hill,
Simona Kratochvílová,
Katerina Zídková,
Jan Kopecký,
Tomás Neskudla,
Michal Pravenec,
Marta Klementová,
Jana Vrbíková,
Pavel Wohl,
Petr Mlejnek and
Terezie Pelikánová
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Despite the decrease in fasting plasma glucose, telmisartan does not improve insulin sensitivity and substrate utilization. Telmisartan increases plasma leptin as well as insulin-stimulated plasma adiponectin, leptin and resistin, and decreases plasma TNFα during HEC. Changes in plasma adipokines c...
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PMID: 20630944
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Medical management of systolic heart failure is standardized and based on international guidelines. They promote the use of combination therapy based on neurohormonal blockade targeting both the renin-angiotensin system (with ACE inhibitors or ARB) and sympathetic nervous system (i.e., beta blockers...
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PMID: 21033491
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Heart failure is frequently associated with comorbidities, either because of the etiology of heart failure, either because the prevalence of this disease is high in older age groups, who are affected by various pathologies. Hypertension, diabetes and renal failure are the most frequent comorbidities...
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PMID: 21033494
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A 76 year-old woman with a history of coronary artery bypass grafting and prior myocardial infarction was transferred to the emergency room with loss of consciousness due to marked bradycardia caused by hyperkalemia. The concentration of serum potassium was high, and normal sinus rhythm was restored...
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PMID: 20859899
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Our understanding of the pathophysiology of AF has increased dramatically over the past few decades. Recent treatment guidelines have heightened our awareness of the challenges involved in the treatment of AF and provided useful recommendations for its diagnosis and management. Because AF is usually...
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PMID: 20562374
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We have reviewed the literature examining the benefits and harms of renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blockade in older adults, using studies which included patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) as well as those which included a broader patient population.
We review the results of key trials which...
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PMID: 20539228
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Use of combination therapy whether fixed dose or separate pill combinations is becoming more prevalent. Physicians are not routinely trained in using combinations of different antihypertensive medicines.
Recent outcome trials as well as smaller studies document that meaningful combinations of pharma...
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PMID: 20539227
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Diabetic retinopathy remains a leading cause of visual loss worldwide. Patients with diabetes mellitus commonly have multiple comorbidities treated with a wide variety of medications. Systemic medications that target glycemic control and coexisting conditions may have beneficial or d...
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PMID: 20664533
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Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) are antihypertensive agents associated with reduced risk of new-onset diabetes mellitus. The ARB telmisartan is a partial agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-γ). This study evaluated the effect of telmisartan on insu...
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PMID: 20883237
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Our study revealed that there was a high prevalence of iSRNS and preponderance of non-MCD lesions, with MPGN and FSGS being the major morphologic lesions. The outcome with steroid and cyclophosphamide-based treatment for iSRNS was further enhanced with addition of either lisinopril or spironolactone...
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PMID: 20814150
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We also examined immunohistochemical staining for renal alpha-SMA, TGF-beta1, Col IV, and FN in this model. Weak staining was observed in some glomerulus, mesangial cells, and tubular interstitium of sham rats. Staining was markedly enhanced in the majority of glomerulus, mesangial cells, and tubula...
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PMID: 20493835
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Reninangiotensinaldosterone system is a key link in regulation of blood pressure and causes the target organ damage in hypertensive patients. For many years is not lost interest in the pharmacological blockade of RAAS in order to achieve target levels of BP and prevent damage target organs, particul...
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PMID: 21089428
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Vascular endothelium is responsible for the secretion of several substances exerting anti-atherogenic effects. Endothelial damage is also crucial for the progress of atherosclerosis and risk factors for atherosclerosis represent crucial factors associated with endothelial dysfunction. Studies have s...
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PMID: 21030938
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The mechanism underlying the dermatological manifestations that accompany captopril therapy is not known. The facts that prolidase plays an important role in collagen biosynthesis and that captopril directly inhibits prolidase activity led us to evaluate its effect on collagen biosynthesis in cultur...
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PMID: 20824963
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Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenous methylated amino acid derived from arginine which can inhibit the activity of nitric oxide synthases. In various pathological states such as hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart fai...
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PMID: 20824955
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We found that 2 years of oral sodium citrate slowed GFR decline in patients whose estimated GFR (eGFR) was very low (mean 33 ml/min). This treatment also slowed GFR decline in an animal model of surgically reduced nephron mass. Here, we tested if daily oral sodium bicarbonate slowed GFR decline in p...
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PMID: 20445497
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An increasing number of patients in the community are being treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and beta-blockers for hypertension, coronary disease or diabetic renal and vascular complications. Some of these patients will develop heart f...
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PMID: 20613629
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Amarantin is the predominant seed storage protein from amaranth. It shows a high content of essential amino acids, making this protein important from a nutritional viewpoint. The protein has two disulfide linked subunits: acidic and basic. Acidic subunit has the potential as a functional and nutrace...
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PMID: 20561545
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We hypothesized that angiotensin II may also be involved in the remodeling induced by a chronic flow reduction. We analyzed the effect of angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibition (perindopril) and angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockade (candesartan) on inward remodeling induced by blood flow redu...
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PMID: 20535114
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We describe a series of experiments conducted on mice submitted to acute myocardial infarct and treated either with ACE inhibition (which produces potentiation of bradykinin resulting in non-selective B(1)R and B(2)R activation) or with a potent and highly selective B(2)R agonist. These data suggest...
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PMID: 20505673
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Examination of 883 cases of AAA repair showed increased mortality associated with preoperative RAS blockade. A better understanding of perioperative pharmacology and physiology of RAS blockade is needed as well as future studies to identify causality....
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PMID: 20524103
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A total of 17 randomized controlled trials involving 3291 patients were identified using predefined criteria. The combination treatment of amlodipine and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors resulted in a greater reduction of both systolic blood pressure (SBP) [weighted mean difference (WMD) 5.7...
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PMID: 20512032
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There is growing interest on how to best tailor blood pressure (BP)-lowering medications according to the circadian (24 h) BP pattern of individual patients, that is, chronotherapy. Significant and clinically meaningful treatment-time differences in the beneficial and/or adverse effects of at least...
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PMID: 20571367
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Collapsing glomerulopathy is a form of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis that is usually associated with HIV-1 infection, and is characterized by its poor prognosis and almost inevitable progression to end-stage renal disease. Its pathological features include collapsed glomeruli, podocyte hypertro...
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PMID: 20428916
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We treated MRL-Fas(lpr) mice with imidapril, pravastatin or both agents. Compared with other groups, the mice treated by combination therapy survived longer and showed a significant reduction in proteinuria, renal pathology, including glomerular IgG deposit, and serum anti-DNA Ab. Furthermore, monoc...
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PMID: 20403731
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We performed microarray gene expression profiling of the aorta during atherosclerosis prevention with the ACE inhibitor, captopril. Atherosclerosis-prone apolipoprotein E (apoE)-deficient mice were used as a model to decipher susceptible genes regulated during atherosclerosis prevention with captopr...
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PMID: 20504763
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Richard J McManus,
Jonathan Mant,
Emma P Bray,
Roger Holder,
Miren I Jones,
Sheila Greenfield,
Billingsley Kaambwa,
Miriam Banting,
Stirling Bryan,
Paul Little,
Bryan Williams and
F D Richard Hobbs
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527 participants were randomly assigned to self-management (n=263) or control (n=264), of whom 480 (91%; self-management, n=234; control, n=246) were included in the primary analysis. Mean systolic blood pressure decreased by 12.9 mm Hg (95% CI 10.4-15.5) from baseline to 6 months in the self-manage...
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PMID: 20619448
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The case of woman with dysfunction of left ventricle (LV) possible due to Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment and following myocarditis is presented. Triple therapy with carvedilol, ramipril and spironolactone was continued to prevent further LV remodeling. During 3-years follow-up repeated echocardiograph...
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PMID: 20648444
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Doxorubicin (DOX), despite causing cardiac toxicity, is an anthracycline chemotherapeutic agent that plays an important role in the treatment of breast cancer. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) may protect against cardiac toxicity in patients receiving DOX chemotherapy...
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PMID: 20058065
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The efficacy of the combination of angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in patients of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) with nephropathy is debatable. The antialbuminuric efficacy of dual blockade in patients of type 1 DM with micro- or macroabuminuria...
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PMID: 20693588
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PURPOSE. To investigate the effects of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and an angiotensin II antagonist against retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury in the rat retina. METHODS. Retinal ischemia was induced by increasing intraocular pressure to 130 mm Hg. Rats were treated with an ACE...
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PMID: 20164447
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IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD: The increase in type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This review focuses on the benefits of the fixed-dose combination of perindopril and indapamide on cardiovascular and renal end points in the ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and Vas...
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PMID: 20518617
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Michael A Weber,
George L Bakris,
Kenneth Jamerson,
Matthew Weir,
Sverre E Kjeldsen,
Richard B Devereux,
Eric J Velazquez,
Björn Dahlöf,
Roxzana Y Kelly,
Tsushung A Hua,
Allen Hester,
Bertram Pitt and
ACCOMPLISH Investigators
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In patients with diabetes and hypertension, combining a renin-angiotensin system blocker with amlodipine, compared with hydrochlorothiazide, was superior in reducing cardiovascular events and could influence future management of hypertension in patients with diabetes. (Avoiding Cardiovascular Events...
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PMID: 20620720
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Jang Hoon Lee,
Dong Heon Yang,
Hun Sik Park,
Yongkeun Cho,
Myung Ho Jeong,
Young Jo Kim,
Kee-Sik Kim,
Seung Ho Hur,
In Whan Seong,
Taek Jong Hong,
Myeong Chan Cho,
Chong Jin Kim,
Jae-Eun Jun,
Wee-Hyun Park,
Shung Chull Chae and
Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry Investigators
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The optimal evidence-based medical therapy is prescribed at suboptimal rates, particularly in patients with high-risk features. New educational strategies are needed to increase the use of these secondary preventive medical therapies.
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PMID: 20569714
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