An increase in immature β-cells lacking Glut2 precedes the expansion of β-cell mass in the pregnant mouse

• Christine A. Beamish ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine A. Beamish, Linhao Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, Children’s Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, St Joseph Health Care, London, ON, Canada

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• Linhao Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine A. Beamish, Linhao Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Lawson Health Research Institute, St Joseph Health Care, London, ON, Canada, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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• Sandra K. Szlapinski,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, St Joseph Health Care, London, ON, Canada

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• Brenda J. Strutt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Children’s Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada

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• David J. Hill

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david.hill@lhrionhealth.ca

  Affiliations Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, ON, Canada, Children’s Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, St Joseph Health Care, London, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2490-5678

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