1. From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan (K.S., K.S., S.I., S.S., T.O., T.S., N.K., J.O., R.K., M.N., K.N., K.S., T.A., S.T., H.S.); Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (R.M.); Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia (F.G.S.); and Department of Biochemistry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan (K.K.).