Acknowledgments
We want to thank the following colleagues who previously and currently have provided us the materials and/or access to the equipment (in alphabetical order)
(the others are mentioned as co-authors of the papers)
- Prof. Anupam Agarwal, University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA - HO-1 knockout mice
- Dr Francisco Candal, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA – HMEC-1 cells
- Dr Joanna Cichy, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University – access to LSR flow cytometer
- Prof. Antonio Cuadrado, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain – Nrf2 knockout mice
- Prof. Phyllis Dennery, Philadelphia University, USA – HO-1 plasmids
- Prof. Jerzy Dobrucki, Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University – access to confocal microscope
- Dr Henry Fechner, Charite University, Berlin, Germany – AAV production
- Prof. Norbert Fusenig, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg – HaCaT cells
- Dr Silvio Gutkind, NIH, Bethesda, USA – p38 expression plasmids
- Prof. Anton van Horrevoets, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – microarray analysis
- Dr Jacek Jaworski, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw – training on siRNA technology
- Dr James J. A. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, School of Pharmacy, Madison, WI, USA – Nrf2 reporter plasmid
- Prof. Bozena Kaminska, Nencki Insitute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland – access to Bioanalyzer
- Prof. Claudine Kieda, Prof. Chantal Pichon, Dr. Patrick Midoux, Dr. Yann Herrault – CNRS, Orleans, France – permanent collaboration; students exchange
- Prof. Hideo Kimura, Tokyo Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan – plasmid vectors
- Dr Rainer de Martin, Medical University of Vienna, Austria – IL-8 reporter plasmid
- Prof. Grietje Molema, Groningen University, The Netherlands – hints for laser microdissection
- Prof. Roberto Motterlini, CNRS, Paris, France (previously: Northwick Park Institute, London UK) – CORMs
- Prof. Lorenz Poellinger, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden - HIF-1 and HIF-2 expression vectors; chip assays
- Prof. Agnieszka Slowik, Clinic of Neurology, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University – access to HT7900 thermocycler
- Prof. Makoto Suematsu, Keyo University, Tokyo - HO-1 expression vectors
- Prof. Gisa Tiegs, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany - HO-1 adenoviral vectors
- Prof. Masayuki Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan – Nrf2 knockout mice
- Prof. Seppo Yla-Herttuala and Dr Anna-Liisa Levonen, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio – HIF-1 and HIF-2 expression vectors