At the request of the authors, the following manuscript has been retracted: “Activated Protein C Reduces the Severity of Compression-Induced Spinal Cord Injury in Rats by Inhibiting Activation of Leukocytes” by Yuji Taoka, Kenji Okajima, Mitsuhiro Uchiba, Kazunori Murakami, Naoaki Harada, Masayoshi Johno, and Masakuni Naruo, which appeared on pages 1393–1398 of the February 15, 1998 issue.