Semi-automated digital measurement as the method of choice for beta cell mass analysis

Violette Coppens; Gunter Leuckx; Yves Heremans; Willem Staels; Yannick Verdonck; Luc Baeyens; Nico De Leu; Harry Heimberg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191249

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Semi-automated digital measurement as the method of choice for beta cell mass analysis

Violette Coppens,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Antwerp, Belgium, University Department of Psychiatry, Campus Duffel, Duffel, Belgium
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Gunter Leuckx,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Yves Heremans,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Willem Staels,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Ghent University, Hospital and Department of Pediatrics and Genetics, Ghent, Belgium
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Yannick Verdonck,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Luc Baeyens,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Nico De Leu,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Endocrinology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Endocrinology, Algemeen Stedelijk Ziekenhuis Aalst, Aalst, Belgium
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Harry Heimberg

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

* E-mail: Harry.Heimberg@vub.ac.be

Affiliation Beta cell Neogenesis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Semi-automated digital measurement as the method of choice for beta cell mass analysis

Violette Coppens,
Gunter Leuckx,
Yves Heremans,
Willem Staels,
Yannick Verdonck,
Luc Baeyens,
Nico De Leu,
Harry Heimberg

Published: February 6, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191249

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