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Selective blockade of estrogen receptor beta improves wound healing in diabetes

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Acknowledgments

This study was partly supported by the Grants from the Family Erlling-Persson Foundation, the Stockholm County Research Council, the ALF funds, the Bert von Kantzows Foundation, and the Research Board of Karolinska Institutet. The authors thank to Stina Lindberg of Karolinska Institutet for excellent technical assistance.

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  1. Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Rolf Luft Research Center for Diabetes and Endocrinology, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, L1:01, 17176, Stockholm, Sweden

    Vivekananda Gupta Sunkari, Ileana R. Botusan, Octavian Savu, Jacob Grünler, Xiaowei Zheng, Kerstin Brismar & Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina

  2. Department of Endocrinology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, Bucharest, Romania

    Ileana R. Botusan

  3. National Institute for Diabetes “N.C Paulescu”, Bucharest, Romania

    Octavian Savu

  4. Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jan-Åke Gustafsson

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Sunkari, V.G., Botusan, I.R., Savu, O. et al. Selective blockade of estrogen receptor beta improves wound healing in diabetes. Endocrine 46, 347–350 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12020-013-0144-3

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