We thank Protochips, Inc. for manufacturing the silicon microchips.
We thank R. Krishnan for manufacturing the S. pombe expression DNA microarray and members of Liu's laboratory for suggestions on preparing the manuscript.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2415/11/5/prepub We thank the scientific workshop, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, for manufacturing the filter holder, and Eugeniu Dinu for technical assistance.
The OIM Orthopedie Haren (The Netherlands, http://www.oim.nl) is thanked for manufacturing/adapting the objects used in the measurements and for making the prosthetic simulator.
We thank L. D. Miller and X. Peng for manufacturing S. pombe DNA microarrays.
We would like to thank the volunteers who participated in this study, David Edgell of NIOSH for manufacturing the aerosol samplers, and the staff of Well WVU Student Health for their cheerful cooperation and assistance during this study.
We thank N. Vasconcelos for early help with data processing, J. Meloy, G. Lehew and G. Filho for manufacturing electrode arrays and stimulation devices, and A. Ragoni, M. Pacheco, L. Oliveira and S. Halkiotis for laboratory management.
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The authors also thank Kris Montgomery for isolating the genomic DNAs used in this study, Thomas Bunt for providing the BioWatch aerosol DNA extracts and Lawrence Livermore Microarray Center for manufacturing of the arrays.
