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Funding A Health Systems Research Initiative Development Grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Medical Research Council (MRC (and the Wellcome Trust (MR/N005597/1) funds the research presented in this paper. Support for the Agincourt HDSS including verbal autopsies was provided by The Wellcome Trust, UK (grants 058893/Z/99/A; 069683/Z/02/Z; 085477/Z/08/Z; 085477/B/08/Z), and the University of the Witwatersrand and Medical Research Council, South Africa.

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What We Mean When We Talk About Adherence In Respiratory Medicine

Funding acknowledgements The Respiratory Effectiveness Group (REG; www.effectivenessevaluation.org) supported the Expert Adherence Panel Meeting at which many of the concepts presented in this paper were first discussed. REG also supported the manuscript submission costs. AD, EvG and MdB have received funding from the European Community’s 7th Framework (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°282593.

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Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor by a component of cigarette smoke reduces germ cell proliferation in the human fetal ovary : corrigendum

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Peri-conceptional changes in maternal exposure to sewage sludge chemicals disturbs fetal thyroid gland development in sheep

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Activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor by a component of cigarette smoke reduces germ cell proliferation in the human fetal ovary

This work was funded by the Medical ResearchCouncil (G1100357).We are grateful to Anne Saunderson, Joan Creiger and the staff of the Bruntsfield Suite, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, for their considerable assistance in patient recruitment. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by MRC grant G1100357.