Dr. Richard Michael Mortensen MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
1301 Catherine St 7641 Medical Science Ann Arbor MI, 48109Rating
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Dr. Richard Mortensen practices Endocrinology in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Mortensen 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. Mortensen 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- Cardiac-specific overexpression of GLUT1 prevents the development of heart failure attributable to pressure overload in mice.
- Identification of P2Y12-dependent and -independent mechanisms of glycoprotein VI-mediated Rap1 activation in platelets.
- Human pancreatic acinar cells do not respond to cholecystokinin.
- RGS-insensitive G-protein mutations to study the role of endogenous RGS proteins.
- Cardiomyocyte-specific knockout and agonist of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma both induce cardiac hypertrophy in mice.
- Endogenous RGS proteins and Galpha subtypes differentially control muscarinic and adenosine-mediated chronotropic effects.
- Hypotension, lipodystrophy, and insulin resistance in generalized PPARgamma-deficient mice rescued from embryonic lethality.
- Go but not Gi2 or Gi3 is required for muscarinic regulation of heart rate and heart rate variability in mice.
- Direct monitoring pressure overload predicts cardiac hypertrophy in mice.
- G(o) controls the hyperpolarization-activated current in embryonic stem cell-derived cardiocytes.
- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma-mediated effects in the vasculature.
- PPAR-gamma in the Cardiovascular System.
- In vivo and in vitro studies of a functional peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma response element in the mouse pdx-1 promoter.
- Selection of transfected mammalian cells.
- PPARs: the vasculature, inflammation and hypertension.
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