MIF inhibition interferes with the inflammatory and T cell-stimulatory capacity of NOD macrophages and delays autoimmune diabetes onset

• Hannelie Korf ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hannelie.korf@kuleuven.be

  Current address: Laboratory of Hepatology, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3540-0138

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• Laura Breser,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Research in Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina

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• Jelter Van Hoeck,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Janet Godoy,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Research in Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina

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• Dana P. Cook,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Benoit Stijlemans,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lab of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Myeloid Cell Immunology Lab, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Brussels, Belgium

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• Elien De Smidt,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Carolien Moyson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• João Paulo Monteiro Carvalho Mori Cunha,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Virginia Rivero,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Research in Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina

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• Conny Gysemans ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Conny Gysemans, Chantal Mathieu

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Chantal Mathieu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Conny Gysemans, Chantal Mathieu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology (CEE), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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