Original Article: Endocrine Research

Undine Schubert

1   Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2   Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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Susann Lehmann

1   Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2   Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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Janine Schmid

1   Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2   Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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Henning Morawietz

1   Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

3   Division of Vascular Endothelium and Microcirculation, Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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Stefan R. Bornstein

1   Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2   Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

4   School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences, King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

5   Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Zurich (USZ) and University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich, Switzerland

6   Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

7   German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany

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Barbara Ludwig

1   Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2   Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

6   Center for Regenerative Therapies, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

7   German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft — http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659; CRC/TR 127