Weitz, Jonathan R.
Makhmutova, Madina
Almaça, Joana
Stertmann, Julia
Aamodt, Kristie
Brissova, Marcela
Speier, Stephan
Rodriguez-Diaz, Rayner
Caicedo, Alejandro
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R56084321)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R21-ES-025673)
Article History
Received: 14 February 2017
Accepted: 14 July 2017
First Online: 7 September 2017
Data availability
: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and itsInternalRef removed).
: This work was supported by the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation and National Institutes of Health grants R56-DK-084321, R01-DK-084321, R21-ES-025673 and R01-DK111538 to AC. JS and SS were supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)-SFB/Transregio 127 and German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) to the German Centre for Diabetes Research (DZD).
: The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript.
: JRW contributed to the study’s design, collection of data and analysis and interpretation of results. JRW wrote the original draft of the manuscript. MM and JA contributed to the collection and analysis of data and critically edited the final version of the manuscript for intellectual content. JS contributed to the implementation of the pancreatic slice technique and critically edited the final version of the manuscript for intellectual content. SS contributed to the conception of the study and provided expert advice for performing the pancreatic slice and critically edited the final version of the manuscript for intellectual content. MB and KA contributed to the RT-PCR data analysis for expression of purinergic receptors and critically edited the final version of the manuscript for intellectual content. RR-D contributed to the conception of the study, collection of data and maintenance of animal colonies and critically edited the final version of the manuscript for intellectual content. AC contributed to the conception of the design of the study and data interpretation and reviewed and edited the original draft of the manuscript. AC is the guarantor of this work and has full access to the data and takes responsibility for the integrity of the work. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
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