Ravi Kaul and Wanda M. Wenman

Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, 403 Neurosciences Building, School of Medicine, 1515 Newton Court, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

Received 2/16/ 98 Accepted 2/20/98

9. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Work in the authors laboratory was supported by grants from the Canadian Medical Research Council, National Institutes of Health, Children’s Miracle Network and start-up funds from the University of California, Davis. We are grateful to Dr. Morton Bradbury and members of his laboratory for advice on the atomic force microscopy analysis and for various reagents.