Inflammation of the hypothalamus leads to defective pancreatic islet function.

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This article has been withdrawn by the authors. The senior author (L. A. V.) takes all responsibility for the withdrawal. Some images were unintentionally used to represent different experimental conditions. The actin immunoblot from Fig. 2G was used in Fig. 3D as actin, in Fig. 3E as actin, and in Fig. 7B (1). The actin immunoblot from Fig. 3B was used in Fig. 4C as actin. The actin immunoblot from Fig. 3F was used in Fig. 3F from Ref. 2 and in Figs. 5B and 6A from Ref. 1. The pAkt immunoblot from Fig. 4C was used as PGC1α in Fig. 5A and in Fig. 2B from Ref. 1. The actin immunoblot from Fig. 5D was used in Fig. 2B of Ref. 1. The actin immunoblot from Fig. 6A was used in Fig. 3B of Ref. 3. The Akt immunoblot from Fig. 6B was used in Fig. 6D as actin. The UCP immunoblot in Fig. 6C was used in Fig. 2A from Ref. 3. Additionally from Fig. 6C, the actin immunoblot was used in Figs. 2D and 3C of Ref. 3. It should be noted that the first author (V. C. C.), despite performing most of the experiments, was not involved in the final assembly of the figures. In addition, the remaining coauthors excluding L. A. V. were not involved in the preparation of these figures. The authors reaffirm that all experiments were performed appropriately, and the errors do not affect the interpretation of the results or the conclusions of this work. However, the authors accept that the preparation of the figures fell below the standards of publication by unintentionally using the wrong blots to represent the data. The authors apologize to the scientific community and will seek to publish a corrected manuscript version corroborating the findings of this work.