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Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, DSc

Christos Mantzoros is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He serves as the Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Boston VA Healthcare System and the Director of the Human Nutrition Unit of the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Joslin Diabetes Center.
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Brief Reports

  • Metabolic syndrome in a Mediterranean pediatric cohort: prevalence using International Diabetes Federation–derived criteria and associations with adiponectin and leptin
    February 2012(Vol. 61 | No. 2 | Pages 140-145)

    Constantina Papoutsakis, Mary Yannakoulia, Ioanna Ntalla, George V. Dedoussis

  • Effects of high-fat diet and regular aerobic exercise on global gene expression in skeletal muscle of C57BL/6 mice
    February 2012(Vol. 61 | No. 2 | Pages 146-152)

    Li Fu, Xiaolei Liu, Yanmei Niu, Hairui Yuan, Ning Zhang, Ehud Lavi

  • Acute resistance exercise augments integrative myofibrillar protein synthesis
    February 2012(Vol. 61 | No. 2 | Pages 153-156)

    Heath G. Gasier, James D. Fluckey, Stephen F. Previs, Michael P. Wiggs, Steven E. Riechman

  • Vitamin D and insulin sensitivity: can gene association and pharmacogenetic studies of the vitamin D receptor provide clarity?
    10 February 2012

    Anand Vaidya, Jonathan S. Williams

  • The effects of daily consumption of grapefruit on body weight, lipids, and blood pressure in healthy, overweight adults
    10 February 2012

    Caitlin A. Dow, Scott B. Going, Hsiao-Hui S. Chow, Bhimanagouda S. Patil, Cynthia A. Thomson

  • A brief history of insulin resistance: from the first insulin radioimmunoassay to selectively targeting protein kinase C pathways
    10 February 2012

    Konstantinos N. Aronis, Christos S. Mantzoros

  • Human taurine metabolism: fluxes and fractional extraction rates of the gut, liver, and kidneys
    10 February 2012

    Mireille F.M. van Stijn, Mechteld A.R. Vermeulen, Michiel P.C. Siroen, Leanne N. Wong, M. Petrousjka van den Tol, Gerdien C. Ligthart-Melis, Alexander P.J. Houdijk, Paul A.M. van Leeuwen

  • Novel diagnostics of metabolic dysfunction detected in breath and plasma by selective isotope-assisted labeling
    10 February 2012

    Julia A. Haviland, Marco Tonelli, Dermot T. Haughey, Warren P. Porter, Fariba M. Assadi-Porter

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