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Also Known As	Lou Ignarro • Louis Joseph Ignarro
Born	May 31, 1941 (age 85) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1998)
Subjects Of Study	human cardiovascular system • impotence • nitric oxide

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