The Islet Estrogen Receptor-α Is Induced by Hyperglycemia and Protects Against Oxidative Stress-Induced Insulin-Deficient Diabetes

• Gamze Kilic,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ana I. Alvarez-Mercado,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

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• Bader Zarrouki,

  Affiliation Montreal Diabetes Research Center, CRCHUM and Department of Medicine, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

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• Darren Opland,

  Affiliation Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Chong Wee Liew,

  Affiliation Section of Islet Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Laura C. Alonso,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Martin G. Myers Jr,

  Affiliation Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Jean-Christophe Jonas,

  Affiliation Pole of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Research, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Vincent Poitout,

  Affiliation Montreal Diabetes Research Center, CRCHUM and Department of Medicine, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

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• Rohit N. Kulkarni,

  Affiliation Section of Islet Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Franck Mauvais-Jarvis

  * E-mail: fmauvais@tulane.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

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