In vitro comparison of various antioxidants and flavonoids from Rooibos as beta cell protectants against lipotoxicity and oxidative stress-induced cell death

• Céline Moens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Céline Moens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: celine.moens@vub.be

  Affiliation Cell Differentiation Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4125-4950

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• Christo J. F. Muller ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CJFM and LB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform (BRIP), South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Western Cape, Tygerberg, South Africa, Centre for Cardiometabolic Research in Africa, Division of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, Empangeni, South Africa

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• Luc Bouwens

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

  ¶‡ CJFM and LB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cell Differentiation Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-7002

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