Kawamori, Dan
Shirakawa, Jun
Liew, Chong Wee
Hu, Jiang
Morioka, Tomoaki
Duttaroy, Alokesh
Burkey, Bryan
Kulkarni, Rohit N.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Fellowship)
Uehara Memorial Foundation (Research Fellowship)
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc. (Research Grant)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R00DK090210)
Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation, Japan (Research Fellowship)
Article History
Received: 10 February 2017
Accepted: 18 April 2017
First Online: 20 May 2017
Data availability
: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: DK is the recipient of a Research Fellowship (Manpei Suzuki Diabetes Foundation, Japan) and a JDRF Post-doctoral Fellowship. JS is the recipient of a Research Fellowship (the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [JSPS] and the Uehara Memorial Foundation, Japan). This work was supported in part by NIH DK67536 (RNK), NIH DK103215 (RNK), NIH DK55523 (RNK), 5P30DK36836 (Joslin DERC Specialized Assay and Advanced Microscopy Cores), K99DK090210 (CWL), R00DK090210 (CWL) and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc. (RNK). The study sponsors were not involved in the design of the study; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing the report; or the decision to submit the report for publication.
: AD is an employee of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc. BB was an employee of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc. and is an employee of Zafgen Inc. All other authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with their contribution to this manuscript.
: DK, JS and RNK planned the experiments, researched data, wrote the manuscript and reviewed/edited the manuscript. CWL, JH and TM acquired and analysed the researched data. CWL, JH, TM, AD and BB provided materials and contributed to study design, interpretation of the data and editing the article. All authors approved the manuscript for publication. DK and RNK are the guarantors of this work, had full access to all the data, and take full responsibility for the integrity of data and the accuracy of data analysis.
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