A Small Amount of Dietary Carbohydrate Can Promote the HFD-Induced Insulin Resistance to a Maximal Level

• Shuang Mei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Mei, Xuefeng Yang

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Xuefeng Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shuang Mei, Xuefeng Yang

  Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Huailan Guo,

  Department of Preventive Medicine, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, P. R. China

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Haihua Gu,

  Affiliation Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Longying Zha,

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, South Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Junwei Cai,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China

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• Xuefeng Li,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China

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• Zhenqi Liu,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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• Brian J. Bennett,

  Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ling He ,

  * E-mail: caow@unc.edu (WC); heling@jhmi.edu (LH)

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Wenhong Cao

  * E-mail: caow@unc.edu (WC); heling@jhmi.edu (LH)

  Affiliations Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, China, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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