Exenatide Treatment Alone Improves β-Cell Function in a Canine Model of Pre-Diabetes

• Viorica Ionut †,

  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

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• Orison O. Woolcott ,

  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

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• Hasmik J. Mkrtchyan,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Darko Stefanovski,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Morvarid Kabir,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Malini S. Iyer,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Huiwen Liu,

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Ana V. B. Castro,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Qiang Wu,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Josiane L. Broussard,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Cathryn M. Kolka,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Isaac Asare-Bediako,

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Richard N. Bergman

  * E-mail: Richard.Bergman@cshs.org

  Affiliation Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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