Timothy R Koch, MD, Doctor, Professor, (Email: timothy.r.koch@medstar.net) Center for Advanced Laparoscopic General and Bariatric Surgery, MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, United States

Juan F Navarro-Gonzalez, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chief Doctor, Research Scientist, Unidad de Investigación y Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Senora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 38010, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

MM M Agarwal, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, California University of Science and Medicine, Colton, 92408, United States

Osama M Ahmed, PhD, Academic Research, Professor, Research Scientist, Experimental Obesity and Diabetes Research Lab, Division of Physiology, Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt

Omar Ali, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States

Mustafa Altay, MD, Professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Health Sciences University, Ankara 54600, Turkey

Dimiter Avtanski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Friedman Diabetes Institute, Northwell Health, New York, New York 10022, United States

Mária Bagyánszki, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged H-6726, Hungary

Jerzy Beltowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University, Lublin 20-090, Poland

Siamak Bidel, MD, PhD, Doctor, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 358, Finland

Subrata Kumar Biswas, MBBS, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka 1000, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Antonio Brunetti, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Catanzaro 88100, Italy

Christa Buechler, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine I, Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg 93042, Germany

José Carvalheira, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas 13083, São Paulo, Brazil

Siriporn C Chattipakorn, DDS, PhD, Professor, Neurophysiology Unit, Cardiac Electrophysiology Research and Training Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

Munmun Chattopadhyay, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Scientist, Center of Emphasis in Diabetes and Metabolism, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine,Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX 79905, United States

Chih-Yen Chen, MD, PhD, Attending Doctor, Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 11217, Taiwan

Juei-Tang Cheng, FCPS, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Professor, Department of Medical Science, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan 71101, Taiwan

Boon How Chew, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia

Irina C Chis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca RO-400023, Romania

Massimo Collino, PhD, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, Torino 10125, Italy

Fernando Cordido, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University A Coruña, A Coruña 15006, Spain

Pradeep Kumar Dabla, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, G B Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Delhi 110002, India

Undurti Das, BM BCh, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Das, UN (reprint author), UND Life Sciences, Battle Ground, WA 98604, United States

Huseyin Demirbilek, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Sıhhiye/Ankara 06130, Turkey

Mustafa Dinc, MD, Doctor, Staff Physician, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Gulhane School of Medicine, Ankara 06010, Turkey

Nilberto Robson Falcão do Nascimento, DVM, PhD, Academic Research, Associate Professor, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Ceara State University, Fortaleza 60864240, Ceara, Brazil

Alexander M Efanov, PhD, Research Scientist, Lilly Research Laboratories, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN 46285, United States

Chinedum Eleazu, BSc, MSc, PhD, Lecturer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Senior Researcher, Senior Scientist, Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo , Ebonyi, Nigeria

Chidum E Ezenwaka, BSc, MPhil, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Para-Clinical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad , Trinidad and Tobago

SS Fatima, MD, MPhil, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sceinces, The Aga Khan University, Karachi 75300, Pakistan

Awat Feizi, PhD, Full Professor, Statistician, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Department, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan 81746-73461, Iran

Paolo Fiorina, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Nephrology, Transplantation research center, Boston, MA 02115, United States

Fiorucci Fiorucci, MD, Professor, Department of Medicina Clinica, University of Perugia, Perugia 06122, Italy

Ricardo V García-Mayor, MD, PhD, Professor, Head Department Endocrinology and Nutrition, "El Castro" Medical Centre, Vigo 36203, Spain

Adriana Georgescu, PhD, Academic Research, Head, Professor, Senior Scientist, Department of Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology "Nicolae Simionescu", Bucharest 050568, Romania

José M Gómez-Sáez, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Research Fellow, Endocrinology Service, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitg, Barcelona 08907, Spain

Yue-Wen Gong, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine of Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3E 0T5, MB, Canada

Fernando Guerrero-Romero, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, Biomedical Research Unit, Mexican Social Security Institute, Dgo 34067, Mexico

Yashdeep Gupta, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, Delhi, India

Abdel Rahim A Hamad, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States

Masahide Hamaguchi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Department of Diabetology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto 6028566, Japan

Hidetaka Hamasaki, FACP, MD, PhD, Doctor, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, Hamasaki Clinic, Kagoshima 8900046, Japan

Marghoob Hasan, MSc, PhD, Director, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Public care Diagnostics and Research centre, Purnia 854301, Bihar, India

Azita Hekmatdoost, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Clinical Nutrition, Shahid Beheshti Univ Med Sci, Natl Nutr & Food Technol Res Inst, Tehran 19435, Iran

David J Hill, PhD, Professor, Lawson Health Research Institute, St. Joseph's Health Care, Ontario N6A 4V2, Canada

Somayeh Hosseinpour-Niazi, PhD, Senior Researcher, Nutrition and Endocrine Research center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 19395-4763, Tehran, Iran

Mamdouh MA Hssan, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Research Centre, Dokki 12622, Egypt

Rachel Hudacko, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NY 08903, United States

Saad AR Hussain, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Baghdad, Baghdad 10078, Iraq