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Ghanem SS, Muturi HT, DeAngelis AM, Hu J, Kulkarni RN, Heinrich G, Najjar SM. Age-dependent insulin resistance in male mice with null deletion of the carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 2 gene. Diabetologia. 2017;60(9):1751–1760.

Kawamori D, Shirakawa J, Liew CW, Hu J, Morioka T, Duttaroy A, Burkey B, Kulkarni R. GLP-1 signaling compensates for impaired insulin signaling in mouse β-cell proliferation. GLP-1 signaling compensates for impaired insulin signaling regulating beta cell proliferation. 2017.

Patti M-E, Goldfine AB, Hu J, Hoem D, Molven A, Goldsmith J, Schwesinger WH, La Rosa S, Folli F, Kulkarni RN. Heterogeneity of proliferative markers in pancreatic β-cells of patients with severe hypoglycemia following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Acta diabetologica. 2017;54(8):737–747.

Dirice E, Ng RW, Martinez R, Hu J, Wagner FF, Holson EB, Wagner BK, Kulkarni RN. Isoform-selective inhibitor of histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) limits pancreatic islet infiltration and protects female nonobese diabetic mice from diabetes. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2017;292(43):17598–17608.

Teo AKK, Lau HH, Valdez IA, Dirice E, Tjora E, Raeder H, Kulkarni RN. Early developmental perturbations in a human stem cell model of MODY5/HNF1B pancreatic hypoplasia. Stem Cell Reports. 2016;6(3):357–367.

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Dirice E, Kulkarni RN. Harnessing immune cells to enhance β-cell mass in type 1 diabetes. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 2016;64(1):14–20.

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