Dr. William Timothy Garvey MD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. William Garvey practices Endocrinology in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Garvey 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. Garvey examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mechanism of hexosamine-induced insulin resistance in transgenic mice overexpressing glutamine:fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase: decreased glucose transporter GLUT4 translocation and reversal by treatment with thiazolidinedione.
- Aberrant DNA sequence pattern caused by a heterozygosity.
- Endogenous mutations in human uncoupling protein 3 alter its functional properties.
- Reduced plasma leptin concentrations in bulimia nervosa.
- Ancestral proportions and admixture dynamics in geographically defined African Americans living in South Carolina.
- A role for the Agouti-Related Protein promoter in obesity and type 2 diabetes.
- Adipocytes exhibit abnormal subcellular distribution and translocation of vesicles containing glucose transporter 4 and insulin-regulated aminopeptidase in type 2 diabetes mellitus: implications regarding defects in vesicle trafficking.
- Effective use of thiazolidinediones for the treatment of glucocorticoid-induced diabetes.
- Troglitazone antagonizes metabolic effects of glucocorticoids in humans: effects on glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity, suppression of free fatty acids, and leptin.
- The adipocyte lipid binding protein (ALBP/aP2) gene facilitates foam cell formation in human THP-1 macrophages.
- Effects of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes on lipoprotein subclass particle size and concentration determined by nuclear magnetic resonance.
- The role of uncoupling protein 3 in human physiology.
- Serum lipoproteins in the diabetes control and complications trial/epidemiology of diabetes intervention and complications cohort: associations with gender and glycemia.
- Fibrinogen is a marker for nephropathy and peripheral vascular disease in type 1 diabetes: studies of plasma fibrinogen and fibrinogen gene polymorphism in the DCCT/EDIC cohort.
- Lipoproteins in the DCCT/EDIC cohort: associations with diabetic nephropathy.
Fellowships
- University of California San Diego Medical Center 1983
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 1982
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