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In addition to Olthoff and Shaked, the remaining Penn-based coauthors are Thomas A. Judge, MD, Andrew E. Gelman, Xiu Da Shen, and Laurence A. Turka, MD. Wayne W. Hancock, MD, at Harvard Medical School is also a coauthor.

Primary grant funding for this work was provided by the National Institutes of Health. Additional support came from the Thomas B. McCabe Fund and the American Heart Association.

The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center's sponsored research ranks fifth in the United States, based on grant support from the National Institutes of Health, the primary funder of biomedical research in the nation -- $149 million in federal fiscal year 1996. In addition, for the second consecutive year, the institution posted the highest growth rate in its research activity -- 9.1 percent -- of the top ten U.S. academic medical centers during the same period. News releases from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center are available to reporters by direct e-mail, fax, or U.S. mail, upon request. They are also posted electronically to the medical center's home page (http://www.med.upenn.edu) and to EurekAlert! (http://www.eurekalert.org), an Internet resource sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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