Dr. Laura Cristina Alonso M.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
7180 Highland Dr Pittsburgh PA, 15206Rating
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Dr. Laura Alonso practices Endocrinology in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Alonso specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Alonso examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Oestrogens and puberty.
- Intermittent hypoxia reverses the diurnal glucose rhythm and causes pancreatic beta-cell replication in mice.
- Disruption of hepatocyte growth factor/c-Met signaling enhances pancreatic beta-cell death and accelerates the onset of diabetes.
- Activation of protein kinase C-ζ in pancreatic β-cells in vivo improves glucose tolerance and induces β-cell expansion via mTOR activation.
- Free fatty acids block glucose-induced β-cell proliferation in mice by inducing cell cycle inhibitors p16 and p18.
- Loss of HGF/c-Met signaling in pancreatic β-cells leads to incomplete maternal β-cell adaptation and gestational diabetes mellitus.
- Time-dependent changes in glucose and insulin regulation during intermittent hypoxia and continuous hypoxia.
- Adaptive β-cell proliferation increases early in high-fat feeding in mice, concurrent with metabolic changes, with induction of islet cyclin D2 expression.
- The islet estrogen receptor-α is induced by hyperglycemia and protects against oxidative stress-induced insulin-deficient diabetes.
- Human β-cell regeneration: progress, hurdles, and controversy.
- Lipotoxicity in the pancreatic beta cell: not just survival and function, but proliferation as well?
- Evaluation, Medical Therapy, and Course of Adult Persistent Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: A Case Series.
- Insulin demand regulates β cell number via the unfolded protein response.
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