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Mitchell A. Lazar

- Verified email at pennmedicine.upenn.edu - Cited by 90288

Mariana Lazar

- Verified email at nyumc.org - Cited by 10356

[HTML][HTML] The many faces of PPARγ

M Lehrke, MA Lazar - Cell, 2005 - cell.com
In an era marked by the increasing prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease,
the nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) has emerged …

Forming functional fat: a growing understanding of adipocyte differentiation

AG Cristancho, MA Lazar - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2011 - nature.com
Adipose tissue, which is primarily composed of adipocytes, is crucial for maintaining energy
and metabolic homeostasis. Adipogenesis is thought to occur in two stages: commitment of …

Thyroid hormone receptors: multiple forms, multiple possibilities

MA Lazar - Endocrine reviews, 1993 - academic.oup.com
… Davis KD, Lazar MA 1992 Selective antagonism of thyroid hormone action by retinoic acid.
Lazar MA 1990 Sodium butyrate selectively alters thyroid hormone receptor gene expression …

The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes

…, CM Wright, HR Patel, RS Ahima, MA Lazar - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that leads to complications including heart disease,
stroke, kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage. Type 2 diabetes, characterized by target-…

White matter tractography using diffusion tensor deflection

M Lazar, DM Weinstein, JS Tsuruda… - Human brain …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor MRI provides unique directional diffusion information that can be used to
estimate the patterns of white matter connectivity in the human brain. In this study, the behavior …

Feminist critical discourse analysis: Articulating a feminist discourse praxis

MM Lazar - Critical discourse studies, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This article outlines a ‘feminist critical discourse analysis’ at the nexus of critical discourse
analysis and feminist studies, with the aim of advancing rich and nuanced analyses of the …

A family of tissue-specific resistin-like molecules

…, X Wen, GD Wu, MA Lazar - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
We have identified a family of resistin-like molecules (RELMs) in rodents and humans.
Resistin is a hormone produced by fat cells. RELMα is a secreted protein that has a restricted …

Kappa distributions: Theory and applications in space plasmas

V Pierrard, M Lazar - Solar physics, 2010 - Springer
The plasma particle velocity distributions observed in the solar wind generally show enhanced
(non-Maxwellian) suprathermal tails, decreasing as a power law of the velocity and well …

An inflammatory cascade leading to hyperresistinemia in humans

…, SC Millington, N Iqbal, DJ Rader, MA Lazar - PLoS …, 2004 - journals.plos.org
… Mitchell A Lazar … Mitchell A Lazar … individuals, in whom resistin levels independently
correlated with coronary atherosclerotic disease (MP Reilly, M. Lehrke, ML Wolfe, A. Rohatgi, MA …

Circadian time signatures of fitness and disease

J Bass, MA Lazar - Science, 2016 - science.org
Biological clocks are autonomous anticipatory oscillators that play a critical role in the
organization and information processing from genome to whole organisms. Transformative …