About the Authors

Virginia Mela

Affiliation Department of Physiology (Animal Physiology II), Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Álvaro Llorente-Berzal

Affiliation Department of Physiology (Animal Physiology II), Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Francisca Díaz

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Princesa, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Fisiopatología de Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Jesús Argente

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Princesa, Madrid, Spain, Department of Pediatrics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Fisiopatología de Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

María-Paz Viveros

pazviver@bio.ucm.es (M-PV); julieann.chowen@madrid.salud.org (JAC)

Affiliation Department of Physiology (Animal Physiology II), Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Julie A. Chowen

pazviver@bio.ucm.es (M-PV); julieann.chowen@madrid.salud.org (JAC)

Affiliations Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Princesa, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Fisiopatología de Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM JA M-PV JAC. Performed the experiments: VM ALB FD. Analyzed the data: VM M-PV JAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA M-PV JAC. Wrote the paper: VM JA M-PV JAC.