Dr. Michael O. Thorner M.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Uva Endocrinology 415 Ray C. Hunt Driv Charlottesville VA, 22903About
Dr. Michael Thorner practices Endocrinology in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Thorner 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. Thorner examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Univ of London, The Middlesex Hosp Med Sch 1970
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Validity of methods of body composition assessment in young and older men and women.
- The use of anthropometric and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measures to estimate total abdominal and abdominal visceral fat in men and women.
- Growth hormone (GH) receptor blockade with a PEG-modified GH (B2036-PEG) lowers serum insulin-like growth factor-I but does not acutely stimulate serum GH.
- The mutant growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor of the little mouse does not bind GHRH.
- The discovery of growth hormone-releasing hormone.
- Disorders of prolactin secretion.
- High plasma growth hormone (GH) levels inhibit expression of GH secretagogue receptor messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the rat pituitary.
- Intracerebroventricular administration of the rat growth hormone (GH) receptor antagonist G118R stimulates GH secretion: evidence for the existence of short loop negative feedback of GH.
- Bromocriptine treatment of acromegaly.
- The diagnosis of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in successfully treated acromegalic patients.
- The relationship between 24-hour growth hormone secretion and insulin-like growth factor I in patients with successfully treated acromegaly: impact of surgery or radiotherapy.
- Motilin-related peptide and ghrelin: lessons from molecular techniques, peptide chemistry, and receptor biology.
- Molecular cloning of ovine and bovine growth hormone-releasing hormone receptors: the ovine receptor is C-terminally truncated.
- Abdominal visceral fat and fasting insulin are important predictors of 24-hour GH release independent of age, gender, and other physiological factors.
- Long-term treatment of acromegaly with pegvisomant, a growth hormone receptor antagonist.
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