About the Authors

Yi Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Yu, Chris R. J. Carter

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Chris R. J. Carter

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Yu, Chris R. J. Carter

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Nermeen Youssef

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jason R. B. Dyck

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Peter E. Light

peter.light@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY JRBD PEL. Performed the experiments: YY NY. Analyzed the data: YY NY CRJC PEL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRBD. Wrote the paper: YY CRJC JRBD PEL.