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I Silver1, B Li, J Szalai

  • 1Trauma Research Program, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5.

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|December 22, 1999
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