Caffeine and Apoptosis - Caffeine: Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects - page 396

Acknowledgement
We apologize to those investigators whose work could not be directly referenced
owing to space limitations. Work in the authors' laboratory was supported by
NIH grant ES016936, the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
(P30 CA014599), and the CTSA (NIH UL1RR024999). The authors are grateful
to Dr. Ann Motten for her critical reading of this manuscript.

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