Darcy, Justin
Fang, Yimin
McFadden, Samuel
Lynes, Matthew D.
Leiria, Luiz O.
Dreyfuss, Jonathan M.
Bussburg, Valerie
Tolstikov, Vladimir
Greenwood, Bennett
Narain, Niven R.
Kiebish, Michael A.
Bartke, Andrzej
Tseng, Yu-Hua http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2053-9559
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK077097, R01DK102898, T32DK007260, K01DK111714)
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-17-1-0428)
American Heart Association (20POST35210497)
National Institutes of Health (P30DK036836)
Article History
Received: 29 April 2020
Accepted: 18 June 2020
First Online: 6 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: All animal procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at the Joslin Diabetes Center (JDC) and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSOM). The collection of the human samples, phenotyping, and serum analyses were approved by the ethics committee of the University of Leipzig (approval numbers: 159-12-21052012 and 017-12-23012012). All individuals provided written informed consent prior to entering the study.
: The authors declare the following competing interests: M.A.K., N.R.N., V.T., B.G., and V.B. are employees of BERG.