About the Authors

Joseph S. Marino

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Jeffrey Iler

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Abigail R. Dowling

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Streamson Chua

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Jens C. Bruning

Affiliation Department of Mouse Genetics and Metabolism, Institute for Genetics, Cologne Excellence Cluster for Cellular Stress Responses in Aging Associated Diseases, and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, 2nd Department for Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, and Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Aging, Cologne, Germany

Roberto Coppari

Affiliation Departments of Internal Medicine, Division of Hypothalamic Research, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Jennifer W. Hill

JenniferW.Hill@utoledo.edu

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWH JSM. Performed the experiments: JWH JSM JI ARD SC JCB RC. Analyzed the data: JWH JSM JI ARD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC JCB RC. Wrote the paper: JWH.