About the Authors

Blerina Kola

Contributed equally to this work with: Blerina Kola, Imre Farkas

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, United Kingdom

Imre Farkas

Contributed equally to this work with: Blerina Kola, Imre Farkas

Affiliation Department of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Mirjam Christ-Crain

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, United Kingdom

Gábor Wittmann

Affiliation Department of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Francesca Lolli

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, United Kingdom

Faisal Amin

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, United Kingdom

Judith Harvey-White

Affiliation Laboratory of Physiologic Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zsolt Liposits

Affiliation Department of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

George Kunos

Affiliation Laboratory of Physiologic Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley B. Grossman

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, United Kingdom

Csaba Fekete

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Feketecs@koki.hu (CF); m.korbonits@qmul.ac.uk (MK)

Affiliations Department of Endocrine Neurobiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Tupper Research Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Márta Korbonits

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Feketecs@koki.hu (CF); m.korbonits@qmul.ac.uk (MK)

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK BK CF. Performed the experiments: MK Mc BK FA IF GW JH CF FL. Analyzed the data: MK GK BK AG IF ZL CF. Wrote the paper: MK BK AG IF CF.