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This work was made possible by a grant from The Danish National Research Foundation. 

The author is indebted to The Danish National Research Foundation for financial support. 

We are grateful to the Swedish Natural Science Research Council for financial support. The support by the Swedish Materials Consortium 9 is acknowledged. The Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics is sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation. Part of work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, contract number W-7405-ENG-48. 

This work was supported by National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, University of Zululand research committee and Walter Sisulu University (WSU) directorate of research. The authors thank Dr I. A Oluwafemi for technical assistance and Prof. Revaprasadu for the opportunity to work in his group. We also thank Manfred Scriba (CSIR) for TEM and HRTEM measurements and Ms V. Ncapayi for the FTIR measurements. 

The autors thank the National Research Foundation of Bulgaria for the financial support of this work. The valuable contribution of Prof Dr. A. Voragen and his staff (Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands) on the Chromatographic analysis is gratefully acknowledged. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this work from the National Research Foundation of Bulgaria. 

Acknowledgements We acknowledge support from the Danish National Research Foundation in terms of support to the inSPIN research center. We are grateful to numerous coworkers and colleagues for contributing to the basic results reviewed in this chapter. 

This work was supported by the Hungarian National Research Foundation under grant Nos. OTKAT 029568 and 042755. 

The research from our laboratory featured in this review was supported by the Mitzutani Foundation and the Danish National Research Foundation. 

In this work, R.P.C. and K.H. are supported by the University of Copenhagen Excellence Program. M.T.P. is supported by the P. Carl Petersen Foundation and the Danish Cancer Society. Work in the Helin laboratory is supported by grants from the Danish National Research Foundation, the Association for International Cancer Research, the Danish Cancer Society, the Danish Medical Research Council, the Danish Natural Science Research Council, the Benzon Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 

Berlin. The close integration between basic and clinical research is aimed at making new scientific findings available for patients as quickly as possible. The MDC is a national research foundation. It obtains 90% of its funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Science, with the remaining 10% coming from the state of Berfin. 

Financial support from the Belgian National Research Foundation, the Belgian Ministry of Scientific Programming and the Catholic University of Leuven, Is gratefully acknowledged. 

Finally, we would also like to thank the official bodies for providing us with the necessary financial support to execute our research projects Ghent University (Belgium), Rhodes University (South Africa), Institute for Promotion of Scientific Research and Technology in Flemish Industry (IWT, Belgium), Vlaams Wetenschappelijke Stichting (VWS, Belgium), European Union (Europe) and the National Research Foundation (NRF, South Africa). 

We would like to thank the National Research Foundation and the University of Cape Town for support. Siyabonga Ngubane and Prinessa Chelan for help with some of the drawings and preparation of the manuscript and Tony Hill for help with the figures. 

These studies were made possible by a grant from The Danish National Research Foundation. M.M. thanks EU HMPT-CT-2001-00317 for financial support. 

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Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa through DST/NRF South African Research Chairs Initiative for Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology and Rhodes. 

Acknowledgments We are deeply indebted to Ms Haruka Kodera, Dr. Tadao Takada, and Dr. Yasuko Osakada for their contributions to this study during their master and doctor course studies. This work has been partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Project 17105005, 18750148, 21750170, 22245022, and others) from MEXT of Japanese Government. T.M. thanks the WCU (World Class University) program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (R31-10035) for the support. 

Acknowledgements The study was supported by Szeged Foundation for Anticancer Research, by Grants from OTKA K 60121 (Hungarian National Research Foundation) and NKFP 1-00012/2005. 

The authors wish to thank South Africa s main power utility (ESKOM), the Water Research Commission (WRC) and National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa for funding, Professor V.N. Belyakov for close collaboration on various aspects of electromembrane research, and L. Petrik and R. White for their suggestions. 

The author thanks the Lundbeck Foundation for financial support. The Center for Sustainable and Green Chemistry is sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation. 

We thank the National Research Foundation (South Africa) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal for their financial assistance. N. D. Nielsen is thanked for his assistance with illustration (Figure 1). 

This work was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (R37 GM057073-13 and T32 ES007020-38) and the National Research Foundation-supported Interdisciplinary Research Group in Infectious Diseases of SMART (Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology). 

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This work is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation and the European Union through the grant QUICOV. 

SASOL, the South African National Research Foundation (SA-NRF/THRIP, grant number GUN 2068915) and University of the Free State provided financial assistance. We thank Dr. A. Muller, Mr. Leo Kirsten and Mr. J.M. Janse van Rensburg for data collection. Opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SA-NRF. 

The authors thank Dr. L. Auerswald (University of Cape Town) for his help with the preparation of the manuscript and figures, Prof. P. Taghert (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA) for critically reading some sections on myotropic peptides and The National Research Foundation (Pretoria, South Africa grant number 205 3396) and the University of Cape Town (staff award to G.G.) for financial support. 

I thank Dr Gordon Cragg of the Natural Products Branch at the NCI for helpful discussions and Professor Douglas Rivett and Dr Rob Keyzers for helpful editorial comments. Financial support from the South African National Research Foundation and the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism is gratefully acknowledged. 

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