For scientific methodological advice of Dr. Kurth, the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has received unrestricted funds from CoLucid and Allergan.
We thank Claudia Witt for methodological advice, Christian Heckmann and Nicole Kuhnert for recruitment of participants and Dagmar Brauer for the follow-up monitoring and database documentation.
We also thank Antonio Valentin and Karl Johan Rydgård for early methodological discussions, Martin Hammar and Agnes Ohlsson Gotby for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript, and Lotta Tammik, Klas Strååt and Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér for valuable methodological advice, and for generously sharing supernatants from allogeneically stimulated monocyte derived macrophages.
We are also very grateful to: Ms. Desirée Mettler, MSc, for transcriptions and help in the analysis of the data; Ms. Nadja Mueller Schmid for conducting interviews in German; Dr Brenda Spencer, PD, for methodological advice; Ms. Ann Bless for copy editing the manuscript; Ms. Lucienne Boujon for copy editing abstract and extracts.
They also would like to thank Louise Dekker for her help in collecting the accelerometry data, Caroline Terwee for methodological advice, and Dane Van Domelen for his help in processing the accelerometry data.
Those methods are extended to the whole set of human mt-aaRSs and methodological advice are provided for further investigations.
They would also like to thank Dr. Andre de Champlain, from the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (USA) for methodological advice and Dr. John Yaphe, from the School of Health Sciences of the University of Minho for critically reviewing the text.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/14/323/prepub We thank Marian Bakker and Nicole Siemensma-Muhlenberg (EUROCAT-NNL, Groningen, The Netherlands) for their contribution to the description of the EUROCAT-NNL registry, collection of data, preparation and correction of the database, and for methodological advice.
Our thanks go to Dr. Slim Haddad of the University of Montreal/CRCHUM for his methodological advice on evaluating quality of care.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/65/prepub The authors thank Prof. John Lievens (Ghent University) for his methodological advice during the quality assessment of the included studies and Prof. Dr. Sara Willems and Aagje Ieven for comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.
