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Is type II diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) a surgical disease?
(East Carolina University, 1992-06)
Since February 1, 1980, 515 morbidly obese patients have undergone
the Greenville gastric bypass (GGB) operation. Of these,
212 (41.2%) were euglycemic, 288 (55.9%) were either diabetic
or had glucose intolerance, and ...
Restoration of insulin responsiveness in skeletal muscle of morbidly obese patients after weight loss. Effect on muscle glucose transport and glucose transporter GLUT4.
(East Carolina University, 1992-02)
A major defect contributing to impaired insulin action in human obesity is reduced glucose transport activity in skeletal muscle. This study was designed to determine whether the improvement in whole body glucose disposal ...
Method of treatment using chemotherapy and erythropoietin
(1999-07-13)
The use of human erythropoietin (EPO) to prevent or treat endothelial injury due to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, mechanical trauma, or to a disease state which damages the endothelium (such as inflammation, heart disease ...
Healthy Habits for Healthy Living
(1995)
This is a patient education brochure designed to describe the development of food habits of the people of eastern North Carolina (written in collaboration with Kristen Borree, PhD, anthropology. It then localizes the ...
Method for nerve growth induction
(1993-03-16)
A composition comprising nerve growth factor and 2-amino-1,1,3-tricyano-1-propene useful for the induction, stimulation, and maintenance of nerve growth, and methods of potentiating choline O-acetyltransferase and tyrosine ...
Attenuated viruses and method of making the same
(1996-04-18)
Disclosed are attenuated viruses, not naturally occurring, that contain one or more additional methylation sites in the genome of the virus compared to the corresponding wild-type virus. Preferably, the methylation sites ...
Multiple target hybridizing nucleic acids, their preparation, compositions, formulation, kits and applications
(1999-03-25)
Antisense oligonucleotides which bind to two or more RNA targets are disclosed.
Extracellular matrix induction method to produce pancreatic islet tissue
(1990-06-19)
A method and composition of regenerating tissue. More specifically, a method for regenerating pancreatic islet tissue having the histological and insulin-containing properties of islets typically found in neonatal or adult ...
Purification and Partial Characterization of Relaxin and Relaxin Precursors from the Hamster Placenta
(East Carolina University, 1993-07)
Previous immunological studies have indicated that the molecular structure of hamster relaxin is
quite different from that of porcine relaxin. In the present study, hamster relaxin was purified from
placentas and ...