Dr. Patricia M Vuguin MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
Cham 3415 Bainbridge Aven Bronx NY, 10467About
Dr. Patricia Vuguin is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Bronx, NY. Dr. Vuguin specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
Univ De Buenos Aires- Fac De Med- Buenos Aires- Argentina 1988
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Assessing insulin resistance: application of a fasting glucose to insulin ratio in growth hormone-treated children.
- Ablation of the glucagon receptor gene increases fetal lethality and produces alterations in islet development and maturation.
- Animal models for small for gestational age and fetal programming of adult disease.
- Nestin expression in pancreatic endocrine and exocrine cells of mice lacking glucagon signaling.
- Novel insight into glucagon receptor action: lessons from knockout and transgenic mouse models.
- Minireview: Epigenetic programming of diabetes and obesity: animal models.
- Liver-specific disruption of the murine glucagon receptor produces α-cell hyperplasia: evidence for a circulating α-cell growth factor.
- Animal models of in utero exposure to a high fat diet: a review.
- In utero exposure to a maternal high-fat diet alters the epigenetic histone code in a murine model.
- Effects of genetics and in utero diet on murine pancreatic development.
- Critical periods of increased fetal vulnerability to a maternal high fat diet.
- Lack of glucagon receptor signaling and its implications beyond glucose homeostasis.
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
- Blockade of glucagon signaling prevents or reverses diabetes onset only if residual β-cells persist.
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