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Correspondence to: Athanassios Sambanis, PhD, Telephone: (213) 612-2003, asambanis@wmkeck.org , Postal Address: 550 South Hope Street, Suite 2500, Los Angeles CA 90071, USA
Sudhakar Muthyla performed all experiments, cell culture, insulin ELISA assays, alamar blue metabolic assays, confocal microscopy, data analyses and graphing, and writing of the manuscript; Susan Safley assisted with writing the manuscript and reviewed the manuscript; Kereen Gordon performed API isolation and islet encapsulation; Graham Barer cultured islets and assisted with API isolation and islet encapsulation.
Collin Weber was PI of the laboratory at Emory University in which much of the work was performed; Athanassios Sambanis was PI of the laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, in which much of the work was performed, and he assisted with interpretation of the data and reviewing the manuscript.
We gratefully acknowledge Dr. Lawrence Gazda and Dr. Robert Holdcraft of the Rogosin Institute, Xenia Division, OH for providing adult pig pancreata from Bob Evans Farms for our API isolations.
We also thank Neil Anthony (The Emory Integrated Cellular Imaging core) for assistance with Imaris (3D Image analysis software).
This work was funded by Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and National Institute of Health under award R90DK098981.
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