1. The Dry Eye Clinic led by Tor Utheim with all its facilities to investigate the ocular surface and tear film quality (Fredrik Fineide, Bek Tashbajev, Øygunn Utheim, Sten Ræder, Xiangjun Chen)
2. Kathrine Skarstein’s oral pathology lab at UiB for histological studies and specifically the access to RNA scope which is extensively used in our work starting in the autumn of 2022
3. Department of Pharmacy, UiO, and Marianne Hiorth and her labs used in the development of the novel product to relieve dry mouth symptoms
4. IOBs labs at UiO and Hilde Galtung for qPCR and physiological studies and Morten Enersen for bacterial analyses
5. Bernd Thiede’s Proteomics Core Facility, UiO, for proteomic analyses
6. The Blood Cell Research Group’s former leader Reidun Øvstebø, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), for analyses of extracellular vesicles
7. The Unit of Regenerative Medicine OUS, and Sjur Reppe for cytokine analyses
8. Metabolomics & Molecular Biology Group, OUS, and group leader Katya Elgstøen for metabolomics
9. Vitas Analytical Services, Oslo Science Park, for lipidomics
10. Microarray Core Facility, OUS, and Kari Bente Foss Haug for RNA analyses of EVs
11. Dept. Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University, and Maria Kukuruzinska for analyses of cell biology
12. Simula at OsloMet for AI competence