We wish to thank Dr. Richard Carroll for his wonderful support, encouragement and helpful comments; and the University of Pennsylvania CFAR and Cancer Center Immunology Core for providing primary human CD4 T cells used in this study; and the Cancer Center Flow Cytometry core for assistance in flow sorting.
The authors thank Ms. Yuh-shin Jiang, Sili Zhou, Tao Qiao, Sakthi Sundararajan and Yeonsoo Yoon for technical assistance, members of Xu's lab for their support and discussion, the UMass Transgenic Animal Modeling Core for pronuclear injection and UMass DERC Morphological Core for assistance in morphological analysis.
We thank the staff in the Medical College of Georgia cell imaging and histology core laboratories for assistance in the use of their facilities.
We wish to thank Neal Benson of the UF flow cytometry core for his assistance in cell sorting and Phillip Scumpia for a critical review of the manuscript.
We thank the Analytic Microscopy Core Facility at The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center for assistance in confocal image analysis.
The core configuration with dense core webs provided more assistance in preventing the appearance of failure pattern with a large connected region.
Regulatory compliance is essential by all Duke CFAR investigators, and the Clinical Core provides expertise and assistance in ensuring compliance.
The authors thank the Oklahoma State University Recombinant DNA core facility for technical assistance in this project.
We would like to thank Conway Transcriptomics Core Facility for technical assistance in real-time PCR, Beata Sapetto-Rebow for assistance with zebrafish facility, Karen Power for help on alternative splicing, and Bronwen Aken for helpful discussion in gene definition methods.
We thank Joe Dycoco for his help with the Mesothelioma database within the Division of Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Avani Giri and Louie Lopez (Pathology Core Facility) for their help in making tissue microarray, and Irina Linkov (Pathology Core Facility) for her technical assistance in immunohistochemistry.
