Cox, Aaron R.
Lam, Carol J.
Rankin, Matthew M.
King, Kourtney A.
Chen, Pan
Martinez, Ramon
Li, Changhong
Kushner, Jake A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert and Janice McNair Foundation
Diabetes Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine (P30DK079638)
National Cancer Institute (NCI P30-CA125123)
National Institute on Aging (1R01AG040110)
Article History
Received: 8 December 2015
Accepted: 22 February 2016
First Online: 22 March 2016
Funding
: The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation, NIH grant 1R01AG040110 and the Diabetes Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine (DRC - P30DK079638) provided funding. This project was supported by the Pathology and Histology Core at Baylor College of Medicine with funding from NIH grant NCI P30-CA125123. The Genetically Engineered Mouse Core at Baylor College of Medicine was funded by the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center (assisted with transgenic mice).
: JAK has served on the scientific advisory board of Johnson & Johnson and currently serves on an advisory board for Lexicon. All other authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with their contribution to this manuscript.
: ARC conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analysed data, wrote the manuscript and approved the final version. CJL, MMR, KAK, PC and RM performed the experiments, analysed data, wrote the manuscript and approved the final version. CL designed and performed the experiments, analysed the data, wrote the manuscript and approved the final version. JAK conceived and designed the experiments, analysed data and wrote the manuscript. JAK is the guarantor of this work and has approved the final version.