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Welcome to the Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute (DORI) at the University of Southern California. Established in 2012, the DORI is a multi-disciplinary collaborative of investigators seeking to link basic, clinical, and public health research to advance the understanding of obesity and its relationship to type II diabetes. The Institute was designed to foster interactions across disciplinary boundaries; embrace methods and techniques from diverse fields of study; and develop effective approaches to risk assessment, prevention and treatment of the international co-epidemics of diabetes and obesity.
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Central Dicer-miR-103/107 controls developmental switch of POMC progenitors into NPY neurons and impacts glucose homeostasis
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Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons are major negative regulators of energy balance. A distinct developmental property of POMC neurons is that they can adopt an orexigenic neuropeptide Y (NPY) phenotype. However, the mechanisms underlying the differentiation of Pomc progenitors remain unknown. Here,....
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Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and the composition of the gut microbiota in overweight and obese adolescents. - PubMed - NCBI
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Environ Res. 2018 Feb;161:472-478. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.11.046.
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