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Appetite-Stimulating Hormone is First Potential Medical Treatment for Frailty in Older Women
17 Jun 2009 – Older women suffering from clinical frailty stand to benefit from the first potential medical treatment for the condition, according to a study presented last week by Penn Medicine researchers at ENDO, The Endocrine Society’s 91st Annual Meeting. Ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, was... Read more
Foxa2-Dependent Hepatic Gene Regulatory Networks Depend on Physiological State. Bochkis IM, Schug J, Rubins NE, Chopra AR, O'Malley BW, Kaestner KH. Physiol Genomics. 2009 May 5. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19417011 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Regulates Adipocyte Resistin Expression. Lefterova MI, Mullican SE, Tomaru T, Lazar MA. Diabetes 2009, in production.
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Save the dates:
September 22, 2009 - The Second Annual Levi J. Hammond Lecture
Title: "The Inherited Basis of Type 2 Diabetes"
Presenter: David Altshuler, MD - Professor of Genetics and Medicine,
Harvard Medical School
Time: 4:00pm
Location: BRB Auditorium
September 24, 2009 - The IDOM-IRM Retreat
Title: "Translating Islet Biology into Clinical Therapy"
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: TBD
November 5, 2009 - The 12th Annual John G. Haddad, Jr., MD Memorial Lecture
Title: TBD
Presenter: Dwight A. Towler, MD, PhD - Ira M. Lang Professor of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center
Time: 4:00pm
Location: BRB Auditorium