Associate Professor, Director of Beta Cell Biological Studies, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Endocrinology
Dr. Laura C. Alonso, MD
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Laura C. Alonso works in the field of Endocrinology. He went to medical school at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Laura C. Alonso is also published. He has 27 publications published. The lastest publication: "-Catenin Links Hepatic Metabolic Zonation with Lipid Metabolism and Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.' Dr. Laura C. Alonso is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Evaluation, Medical Therapy, and Course of Adult Persistent Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: A Case Series.
- β-Catenin Links Hepatic Metabolic Zonation with Lipid Metabolism and Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
- Lipotoxicity in the pancreatic Beta cell: not just survival and function, but proliferation as well?
- Glucagon regulates hepatic kisspeptin to impair insulin secretion.
- Human β-cell regeneration: progress, hurdles, and controversy.
- Adaptive β-cell proliferation increases early in high-fat feeding in mice, concurrent with metabolic changes, with induction of islet cyclin D2 expression.
- Time-dependent changes in glucose and insulin regulation during intermittent hypoxia and continuous hypoxia.
- Simultaneous measurement of insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion, and the disposition index in conscious unhandled mice.
- ChREBP Mediates Glucose-Stimulated Pancreatic β-Cell Proliferation.
- Loss of HGF/c-Met signaling in pancreatic β-cells leads to incomplete maternal β-cell adaptation and gestational Diabetes mellitus.
- Activation of Protein Kinase C-{zeta} in Pancreatic {beta}-Cells In Vivo Improves Glucose Tolerance and Induces {beta}-Cell Expansion via mTOR Activation.
- Disruption of hepatocyte growth factor/c-Met signaling enhances pancreatic beta-cell death and accelerates the onset of Diabetes.
- Hyperinsulinemia predicts survival in a hyperglycemic mouse model of critical illness.
- Glucose infusion in mice: a new model to induce beta-cell replication.
- Intermittent hypoxia causes insulin resistance in lean mice independent of autonomic activity.
- Exogenous Glucose Administration Impairs Glucose Tolerance and Pancreatic Insulin Secretion during Acute Sepsis in Non-Diabetic Mice.
- Stem cells of the skin epithelium.
- The hair cycle.
- Stem cells in the skin: waste not, Wnt not.
- Defining BMP functions in the hair follicle by conditional ablation of BMP receptor IA.
- Glucose stimulates human beta cell replication in vivo in islets transplanted into NOD-severe combined immunoDeficiency (SCID) mice.
- Sgk3 links growth factor signaling to maintenance of progenitor cells in the hair follicle.
- Molecular genetic and endocrine mechanisms of hair growth.
- Oestrogens and puberty.
- Intermittent hypoxia reverses the diurnal glucose rhythm and causes pancreatic beta-cell replication in mice.
- Free fatty acids block glucose-induced β-cell proliferation in mice by inducing cell cycle inhibitors p16 and p18.
Schools
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Conditions Treated
- Calcium Metabolism Disorders
- Diabetes Type 2
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tufts PPO
- United Healthcare
Education
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University of Chicago -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
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