We are grateful to Yumi Takahashi, Taeko Tani, and Waka Kawaguchi for skilled technical assistance, Shigeaki Watanabe (Summit Pharmaceuticals International Corporation) for technical support of IVIS and Akira Hasegawa and Mark McDougall (Promega Corporation) for technical advice of HaloTag system.
It is also important to investigate the various impact of changing the tasks and duties of the diabetes team as the new technology is implemented (e.g. time tradeoffs), increase physicians' workload due to the learning process required by the new tool, assistance to patients for technical support, need for organisational and clinical protocol changes.
We thank Janie Finch for editorial assistance, Neung-Seon Seo and Magnus Hook for technical support, and Steve O'Gorman for PC3 mouse ES cells.
We thank P. Matthews, N. Pitra and J. Nagel for hop sample collection, D. Klassen and D.L. Fancy for Illumina sequencing, D. Cram and C. Matsalla for bioinformatics assistance, and G. Liu for technical support with confocal laser microscopy.
We thank Richard Carter and the late David Walliker for their contributions to malaria genetic and drug-resistance analysis upon which the present work depends, Sandie Cheesman, Kathryn Degnan for pyrosequencing assistance and Gisela Henriques for technical support.
The authors thank Dr. Sonka Krüger, Dr. Maren Lesser, Dr. Julia Ritz, Dr. Franziska Rüegsegger, Cornelia Egloff and Tanja Ammann for her assistance with the ultrasonographic examinations, Lukas Sprenger for technical support, the animal assistants for looking after the cows, and Dr. Chris Winder Waelchli for translating the manuscript.
We thank C.F. Burant and J.D. Lin for helpful discussions, J. Washburn and J.W. MacDonald for performing the microarray analysis, G. Bommer for assistance with GSEA, T. Lanigan for technical support of virus production, and S. Borofsky for plasmid preparations.
We thank Dr. Wayne Hanna for providing plant materials, Virgil Ed Johnson for bioinformatics assistance, and Evelyn P. Morgan for technical support.
The authors wish to acknowledge Dionne Swor, Megan Sribour and Jessica Pellegrino for technical support and assistance with the mouse colony, Ying-Jiun Chen for help with the generation of the targeting construct, and members of the Gogos and Karayiorgou labs for useful suggestions.
We thank J Neumann (Center for Advanced Light Microscopy, LMU Munich) for technical support and assistance.
