About the Authors

Mariya Balyura

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariya Balyura, Evgeny Gelfgat

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mariya.balyura@uniklinikum-dresden.de

Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Evgeny Gelfgat

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariya Balyura, Evgeny Gelfgat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Charlotte Steenblock

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Gerard Ruiz-Babot

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Leonardo Guasti

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Martin Werdermann

Roles Methodology

Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Barbara Ludwig

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Centre Munich at University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany, Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Tobias Bornstein

Roles Methodology

Affiliations University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Andrew V. Schally

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Divisions of Endocrinology and Hematology–Oncology, Departments of Medicine and Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, FL, United States of America

Ana Brennand

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Stefan R. Bornstein

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dept. of Medicine III, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of Helmholtz Centre Munich at University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany, Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.