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Author:   Gerald Litwack (Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States<br>Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Volume:   91
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780124077669

ISBN 10:   0124077668
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   25 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Hormonal Regulation of Lipogenesis Laura L. Gathercole, Stuart A. Morgan and Jeremy W. Tomlinson Genetic Determinants of Obesity and Related Vascular Diseases Yaroslav Winter, Roman Sankowski and Tobias Back Brd2 Gene Disruption Causes ‘Metabolically Healthy’ Obesity: Epigenetic and Chromatin-Based Mechanisms that Uncouple Obesity from Type 2 Diabetes Fangnian Wang, Jude T. Deeney and Gerald V. Denis The TBC1D1 Gene: Structure, Function and Association with Obesity and Related Traits Luca Fontanesi and Francesca Bertolini Replication Initiator 1 (Repin1) In Adipose Tissue Function and Human Obesity John T. Heiker and Nora Klöting Adipokines in Childhood Obesity Gabriel Ángel Martos-Moreno, Vicente Barrios, Julie A. Chowen and Jesús Argente Gut Hormones and Obesity: Physiology and Therapies Rebecca Scott, Tricia Tan and Stephen Bloom Neuroinflammation in Overnutrition-Induced Diseases Dongsheng Cai P66shcA : Linking Mammalian Longevity with Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance Sofia Chiatamone Ranieri, Salvatore Fusco and Giovambattista Pani The Emerging Role of Constitutive Androstane Receptor (CAR) and its Crosstalk with Liver X Receptors (LXRs) and Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor a (PPARa) in Lipid Metabolism Lei Xiao, Jing Wang, Mengxi Jiang, Wen Xie and Yonggong Zhai Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency Protects from Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance and Obesity – Novel Insights from Mouse Models Dominic S. Ng Sphingolipids in Lipid Microdomains and Obesity Susumu Mitsutake and Yasuyuki Igarashi Ghrelin: At the Interface of Obesity and Reward Harriët Schellekens, Timothy G. Dinan, and John F. Cryan Endocannabinoids and Obesity Guoxun Chen and Zhen Pang Lipocalin 13 Regulation of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Obesity Yingjiang Zhou and Liangyou Rui Sirtuin 1 Deacetylase: A Key Regulator of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism Jongsook Kim Kemper, Sung-E Choi and Dong Hyun Kim Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) and Obesity Hyeongjin Cho Nomilin as an Anti-Obesity and Anti-Hyperglycemic Agent Ryuichiro Sato

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Trained in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Litwack worked on enzymology and the effects of hormones on enzyme systems. Then he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at the Biochemical Institute of the Sorbonne in Paris. Dr. Litwack's first position was as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Rutgers University in 1954. Six years later, he joined the University of Pennsylvania as associate professor and four years later went to the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, as full professor, eventually becoming Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991, he accepted the Chair of Pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University where he is also Deputy Director of the Jefferson Cancer Institute and Associate Director for Basic Science in the Jefferson Cancer Center. Dr. Litwack's work has been in the area of mechanisms of steroid receptor action involving especially the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, immunophi.

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