About the Authors

Tatiane C. Nogueira

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiane C. Nogueira, Flavia M. Paula, Olatz Villate

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Flavia M. Paula

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiane C. Nogueira, Flavia M. Paula, Olatz Villate

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Olatz Villate

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiane C. Nogueira, Flavia M. Paula, Olatz Villate

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Maikel L. Colli

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Rodrigo F. Moura

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Daniel A. Cunha

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Lorella Marselli

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Piero Marchetti

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Miriam Cnop

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, Division of Endocrinology, Erasmus Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Cécile Julier

Affiliations INSERM UMR-S 958, Faculté de Médecine Paris Diderot, Paris, France, University Paris 7 Denis–Diderot, Paris, France

Decio L. Eizirik

deizirik@ulb.ac.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TCN FMP OV MLC MC CJ DLE. Performed the experiments: TCN FMP OV MLC RFM DAC. Analyzed the data: TCN FMP OV CJ DLE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM PM MC CJ DLE. Wrote the paper: TCN FMP OV DLE.