Each month, the Diabetes editorial team chooses a single paper to be designated the Paper of the Month, which is then made available for free online and added to an exclusive collection (https://diabetesjournals.org/collection/1619/Diabetes-Paper-of-the-Month). Congratulations to the 2023 winners!

David A. D’Alessio, MD

Editor in Chief, Diabetes

Autoantibodies to Perilipin-1 Define a Subset of Acquired Generalized Lipodystrophy

Caleigh Mandel-Brehm, Sara E. Vazquez, Christopher Liverman, Mickie Cheng, Zoe Quandt, Andrew F. Kung, Audrey Parent, Brenda Miao, Emmanuel Disse, Christine Cugnet-Anceau, Stéphane Dalle, Elizaveta Orlova, Elena Frolova, Diana Alba, Aaron Michels, Bergithe E. Oftedal, Michail S. Lionakis, Eystein S. Husebye, Anil K. Agarwal, Xilong Li, Chengsong Zhu, Quan Li, Elif Oral, Rebecca Brown, Mark S. Anderson, Abhimanyu Garg, and Joseph L. DeRisi

https://doi.org/10.2337/db21-1172

Prostaglandin PGE2 Receptor EP4 Regulates Microglial Phagocytosis and Increases Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity

Anzela Niraula, Rachael D. Fasnacht, Kelly M. Ness, Jeremy M. Frey, Sophia A. Cuschieri, Mauricio D. Dorfman, and Joshua P. Thaler

https://doi.org/10.2337/db21-1072

The Importance of Endogenously Secreted GLP-1 and GIP for Postprandial Glucose Tolerance and β-Cell Function After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery

Morten Hindsø, Nora Hedbäck, Maria S. Svane, Andreas Møller, Christoffer Martinussen, Nils B. Jørgensen, Carsten Dirksen, Lærke S. Gasbjerg, Viggo B. Kristiansen, Bolette Hartmann, Mette M. Rosenkilde, Jens J. Holst, Sten Madsbad, and Kirstine N. Bojsen-Møller

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-0568

Inflammatory Cell Infiltration Into Islets Without PD-L1 Expression Is Associated With the Development of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–Related Type 1 Diabetes in Genetically Susceptible Patients

Satoshi Kawata, Junji Kozawa, Sho Yoneda, Yukari Fujita, Risa Kashiwagi-Takayama, Takekazu Kimura, Yoshiya Hosokawa, Megu Y. Baden, Sae Uno, Rikako Uenaka, Kazuyuki Namai, Yoko Koh, Yoshito Tomimaru, Haruhiko Hirata, Motohide Uemura, Satoshi Nojima, Eiichi Morii, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Akihisa Imagawa, and Iichiro Shimomura

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-0557

Topically Administered NOX4 Inhibitor, GLX7013114, Is Efficacious in Treating the Early Pathological Events of Diabetic Retinopathy

Stavroula Dionysopoulou, Per Wikstrom, Claudio Bucolo, Giovanni Luca Romano, Vincenzo Micale, Richard Svensson, Dimitris Spyridakos, Niki Mastrodimou, Spiros Georgakis, Panayotis Verginis, Erik Walum, and Kyriaki Thermos

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-0515

Liver-Secreted Hexosaminidase A Regulates Insulin-Like Growth Factor Signaling and Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle

Magdalene K. Montgomery, Jacqueline Bayliss, Shuai Nie, William de Nardo, Stacey N. Keenan, Marziyeh Anari, Amanuiel Z. Taddese, Nicholas A. Williamson, Geraldine J. Ooi, Wendy A. Brown, Paul R. Burton, Paul Gregorevic, Craig A. Goodman, Kevin I. Watt, and Matthew J. Watt

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-0590

Hematopoietic NLRP3 and AIM2 Inflammasomes Promote Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis, but Increased Necrosis Is Independent of Pyroptosis

Cheng-Chieh Hsu, Trevor P. Fidler, Jenny E. Kanter, Vishal Kothari, Farah Kramer, Jingjing Tang, Alan R. Tall, and Karin E. Bornfeldt

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-0962

GDF15 Mediates the Effect of Skeletal Muscle Contraction on Glucose-Stimulated Insulin Secretion

Hui Zhang, Anny Mulya, Stephan Nieuwoudt, Bolormaa Vandanmagsar, Ruth McDowell, Elizabeth C. Heintz, Elizabeth R.M. Zunica, J. Jason Collier, Nadejda Bozadjieva-Kramer, Randy J. Seeley, Christopher L. Axelrod, and John P. Kirwan

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-0019

Identification of Hypothalamic Glucoregulatory Neurons That Sense and Respond to Changes in Glycemia

Jennifer D. Deem, David Tingley, Anne-Mette Bjerregaard, Anna Secher, Owen Chan, Chukwuemeka Uzo, Nicole E. Richardson, Elizabeth Giering, Tammy Doan, Bao A. Phan, Brandon Wu, Jarrad M. Scarlett, Gregory J. Morton, and Michael W. Schwartz

https://doi.org/10.2337/db23-0139

Glucose Controls Glucagon Secretion by Regulating Fatty Acid Oxidation in Pancreatic α-Cells

Sarah L. Armour, Alexander Frueh, Margarita V. Chibalina, Haiqiang Dou, Lidia Argemi-Muntadas, Alexander Hamilton, Georgios Katzilieris-Petras, Peter Carmeliet, Benjamin Davies, Thomas Moritz, Lena Eliasson, Patrik Rorsman, and Jakob G. Knudsen

https://doi.org/10.2337/db23-0056

Establishment of Pancreatic β-Cell–Specific Gene Knockout System Based on CRISPR/Cas9 Technology With AAV8-Mediated gRNA Delivery

Kyosei Ueki, Yuya Nishida, Shuhei Aoyama, Hirotsugu Uzawa, Akiko Kanai, Minami Ito, Koki Ikeda, Hitoshi Iida, Takeshi Miyatsuka, and Hirotaka Watada

https://doi.org/10.2337/db23-0445

Dual Role of Caspase 8 in Adipocyte Apoptosis and Metabolic Inflammation

Cynthia T. Luk, Carmen K. Chan, Felix Chiu, Sally Yu Shi, Paraish S. Misra, Yu Zhe Li, Evan Pollock-Tahiri, Stephanie A. Schroer, Harsh R. Desai, Tharini Sivasubramaniyam, Erica P. Cai, Mansa Krishnamurthy, Daniel J. Han, Apu Chowdhury, Rukhsana Aslam, Darren A. Yuen, Anne Hakem, Razqallah Hakem, and Minna Woo

https://doi.org/10.2337/db22-1033

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