About the Authors
- Viorica Ionut
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Contributed equally to this work with: Viorica Ionut, Orison O. Woolcott
† Deceased.
Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Orison O. Woolcott
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Contributed equally to this work with: Viorica Ionut, Orison O. Woolcott
Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Hasmik J. Mkrtchyan
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Darko Stefanovski
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Morvarid Kabir
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Malini S. Iyer
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Huiwen Liu
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Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ana V. B. Castro
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Qiang Wu
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Josiane L. Broussard
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Cathryn M. Kolka
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Isaac Asare-Bediako
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Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Richard N. Bergman
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* E-mail: Richard.Bergman@cshs.org
Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
VI received funding from Amylin Pharmaceuticals. Exenatide used in this study was provided by Amylin Pharmaceuticals. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, and Amylin Pharmaceuticals had no role in the design, planning, conduct, analysis or writing of the present study.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VI RNB CMK. Performed the experiments: VI OOW HJM DS MK MSI HL AVBC QW JLB. Analyzed the data: VI OOW RNB DS MK IAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS. Wrote the paper: OOW VI RNB. Performed the statistical analysis: OOW. Had full access to all the data in the study and takes full responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis: OOW. Helped revise the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: MK DS CMK.