Ghanem, Simona S.
Muturi, Harrison T.
DeAngelis, Anthony M.
Hu, Jiang
Kulkarni, Rohit N.
Heinrich, Garrett
Najjar, Sonia M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01-DK-083850)
Article History
Received: 11 January 2017
Accepted: 21 April 2017
First Online: 31 May 2017
Data availability
: Data are available on request from the authors.
: This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, R01-DK-054254, R01-DK-083850 and R01-HL-112248 to SMN and R01 DK67536 and R01 DK103215 to RNK, and from the Middle-East Diabetes Research Center, to SSG.
: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.
: SSG researched data, designed experiments, wrote a first draft and revised the manuscript. HTM, AMD, JH and GH researched data and revised the manuscript critically. GH was involved in data analysis and discussions. He also critically read the manuscript. RNK supervised the experiments pertaining to pancreatic cell areas, analysed data, and reviewed critically the manuscript. SMN was responsible for study design, conceptualisation, data analysis and results interpretation, and reviewing the manuscript. SMN had full access to all the data of the study and takes responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of data analysis and the decision to submit and publish the manuscript. All authors have given final approval of this version to be published.
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