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Lause for expert technical help.","order":1,"name":"Ethics","label":"Acknowledgements","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics"}},{"value":"All data points generated or analysed during the current study are shown in the figures of this published article (and ESM). Tabulated datasets are available from the corresponding author (M. Bensellam) upon reasonable request for non-commercial academic purposes, subject to a data transfer agreement if required. Data will be shared from the date of publication and for up to 5 years thereafter. Microarray data used to plot graphs in Fig.\n                      \n                      are available in the Gene Expression Omnibus database under the accession number GSE12817.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","label":"Data availability","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics"}},{"value":"This work was supported by a grant from the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation Innovation Development Joint Fund (Key Project) (CSTB2023NSCQ-LZX0049) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82570916) to RC, and by grants from the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Francophone du Diab\u00e8te (SFD, France) and the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique from F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium (FRS-FNRS) to JCJ. JCJ is Research Director of the FRS-FNRS. MB was supported by a fellowship from the \u2018Fonds de Recherche Clinique\u2019, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.","order":3,"name":"Ethics","label":"Funding","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics"}},{"value":"At the time of first submission, JCJ and DRL were members of the Editorial Board of\n                      Diabetologia\n                      . The authors declare that there are no other relationships or activities that might bias, or be perceived to bias, their work.","order":4,"name":"Ethics","label":"Authors\u2019 relationships and activities","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics"}},{"value":"MB contributed to initial conception of the study, experiment design, acquisition and analysis of data, and writing of the first draft of the manuscript. JCJ contributed to the conception of the study, experiment design, acquisition and analysis of data, and critical review of the manuscript. RC, CZ, NG, LY, DM, MK, KL and DRL contributed to experiment design, acquisition and analysis of data, and critical review of the manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript. MB and JCJ are the guarantors of this work.","order":5,"name":"Ethics","label":"Contribution statement","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics"}}]}}