High Fat Diet-Induced Beta Cell Proliferation Occurs Prior to Insulin

1 High Fat Diet-Induced Beta Cell Proliferation Occurs Prior to Insulin 2 Resistance in C57Bl/6J Male Mice 3 4 Rockann E. Mosser, Matthew F. Maulis, Valentine S. Moulle, Jennifer C. Dunn, 5 Bethany A. Carboneau, Kavin Arasi, Kirk Pappan, Vincent Poitout, and Maureen 6 Gannon & 4 7 8 Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley, Nashville, TN. Departments of 9 Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Molecular Physiology and 10 Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 5 Montreal Diabetes Research Center, 11 CRCHUM, and Department of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, 12 Metabolon, Inc., Durham, NC. 13