Editors
Anders A. Sima
Wayne State University
USA		 Massimo Trucco
University of Pittsburgh
USA
Associate Editors
Peter Achenbach
University of Munich
Germany		 Anne Cooke
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom		 Baptist Gallwitz
University of Tübingen
Germany
Per B. Jeppesen
Aarhus University
Denmark		 Demosthenes Panagiotakos
Harokopio University
Greece		 Frantisek Saudek
Inst. for Clin. & Exp. Med.
(IKEM), Czech Republic


Harold W. de Valk
University Medical Centre
Uetrecht, The Netherlands

Editorial Board
Massoud Amini
Isfahan University
Iran		 Alan G. Baxter
James Cook University
Australia		 Ramesh R. Bhonde
Manipal Institute of Regenerative
Medicine, India
Bernhard O. Boehm
Ulm University
Germany		 Donald W. Bowden
Wake Forest University
USA		 Stefano Cianfarani
Tor Vergata University
Rome, Italy
Shimon Efrat
Tel Aviv University
Israel		 Paul N. Epstein
University of Louisville
USA		 Matthew A. Gronski
University of Virginia
USA
Arno Hänninen
University of Turku
Finland		 Kjeld Hermansen
Aarhus University
Denmark		 Matthias von Herrath
La Jolla Institute for
Allergy and Immunology, USA
Françoise Homo-Delarche
INSERM, University of Paris
France		 Hideaki Kaneto
Osaka University
Japan		 Gregory S. Korbutt
University of Alberta
Canada
Karsten Kretschmer
Technical University Dresden
Germany		 Yau-Jiunn Lee
Lee's Endocrinologic
Clinic, Taiwan		 Maciej T. Malecki
Jagiellonian University
Poland
Giorgina B. Piccoli
University of Turin
Italy		 Dario Pitocco
Catholic University Rome
Italy		 Anthony Quinn
University of Toledo
USA
Itamar Raz
Hadassah Hebrew University
Hospital, Israel		 Tapani Rönnemaa
Turku University
Central Hospital, Finland		 Pere Santamaria
University of Calgary
Canada
Shlomo Sasson
Hebrew University
Israel		 Akira Shimada
Saiseikai Central Hospital
Japan		 Charles Sia
National Health Research
Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan
Frank A. Sloan
Duke University
USA		 Arkady Torchinsky
Tel Aviv University
Israel		 Pei-Wen Wang
Chang Gung University
College of Medicine, Taiwan
Managing Editor




RDS Board of Reviewers


Yvonne Boettcher, University if Leipzig, Germany
Robert J. Chilton, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
Ketan Dhatariya, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK
Marelise Eekhoff, VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Nick Giannoukakis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Allison Green, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
Soren Gregersen, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Anandwardhan A. Hardikar, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mads Hornum, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Mohsen Janghorbani, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Julie Kerr-Conte/Pattou, Universite de Lille, France
Chee Gee Liew, University of California, Riverside, USA
Harry Martin, Plant & Food Research, New Zealand
Susan Manley, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK
Takayuki Matsumoto, Georgia Health Sciences University, USA
Raghu G. Mirmira, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Nikolaos Papanas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Toni Pollin, Public Health University of Maryland, USA
Richard E. Pratley, University of Vermont, USA
Robert Ritzel, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Dorit Schleinitz, University of Leipzig, Germany
Peter Schwarz, University of Dresden, Germany
Jan Skupien, Joslin Diabetes Center, USA
Vijayaganapathy Vaithilingam, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Chao-Ping Wang, E-Da Hospital, Taiwan
Mary Yannakoulia, Harokopio University, Greece



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