About the Authors
- Subhash Kamath
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Contributed equally to this work with: Subhash Kamath, Alberto O. Chavez
Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Alberto O. Chavez
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Contributed equally to this work with: Subhash Kamath, Alberto O. Chavez
Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Amalia Gastaldelli
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Affiliations Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
- Francesca Casiraghi
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Glenn A. Halff
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Affiliation The UT Transplant Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Gregory A. Abrahamian
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Affiliation The UT Transplant Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Alberto M. Davalli
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Affiliations Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
- Raul A. Bastarrachea
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Anthony G. Comuzzie
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Rodolfo Guardado-Mendoza
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Lilia M. Jimenez-Ceja
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Vicki Mattern
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Ana Maria Paez
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Andrea Ricotti
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
- Mary E. Tejero
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Paul B. Higgins
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Iram Pablo Rodriguez-Sanchez
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Devjit Tripathy
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Ralph A. DeFronzo
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Affiliation Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Edward J. Dick Jr
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Affiliation Southwest National Primate Research Center/Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
- Gary W. Cline
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Franco Folli
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* E-mail: folli@uthscsa.edu
Affiliations Department of Medicine/Division of Diabetes. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Diabetes & Endocrinology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SK AOC RAD FF. Performed the experiments: SK AOC FC GAH GAA IPR-S MET AR EJD GWC RG-M LMJ-C VM AMP PBH RAB. Analyzed the data: SK AOC EJD AG GWC FF AGC DT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF RAD. Wrote the paper: AOC SK GWC AMD FF.