Publications

Alonso LC, Yokoe T, Zhang P, Scott DK, Kim SK, O'Donnell CP, Garcia-Ocaña A.  2007.  Glucose infusion in mice: a new model to induce beta-cell replication.. Diabetes. 56(7):1792-801.

Levitt HE, Cyphert TJ, Pascoe JL, Hollern DA, Abraham N, Lundell RJ, Rosa T, Romano LC, Zou B, O'Donnell CP et al..  2011.  Glucose stimulates human beta cell replication in vivo in islets transplanted into NOD-severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice.. Diabetologia. 54(3):572-82.

Alonso L, Fuchs E.  2006.  The hair cycle.. J Cell Sci. 119(Pt 3):391-3.

MacMillan HJ, Kong Y, Calvo-Roitberg E, Alonso LC, Pai AA.  2022.  High-throughput analysis of ANRIL circRNA isoforms in human pancreatic islets.. Sci Rep. 12(1):7745.

Jurczyk A, Bortell R, Alonso LC.  2014.  Human β-cell regeneration: progress, hurdles, and controversy.. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 21(2):102-8.

Reiterer M, Rajan M, Gómez-Banoy N, Lau JD, Gomez-Escobar LG, Ma L, Gilani A, Alvarez-Mulett S, Sholle ET, Chandar V et al..  2021.  Hyperglycemia in acute COVID-19 is characterized by insulin resistance and adipose tissue infectivity by SARS-CoV-2.. Cell Metab. 33(11):2174-2188.e5.

Woodske ME, Yokoe T, Zou B, Romano LC, Rosa TC, Garcia-Ocaña A, Alonso LC, O'Donnell CP, McVerry BJ.  2009.  Hyperinsulinemia predicts survival in a hyperglycemic mouse model of critical illness.. Crit Care Med. 37(9):2596-603.

Levasseur EM, Yamada K, Piñeros AR, Wu W, Syed F, Orr KS, Anderson-Baucum E, Mastracci TL, Maier B, Mosley AL et al..  2019.  Hypusine biosynthesis in β cells links polyamine metabolism to facultative cellular proliferation to maintain glucose homeostasis.. Sci Signal. 12(610)

Charbord J, Ren L, Sharma RB, Johansson A, Ågren R, Chu L, Tworus D, Schulz N, Charbord P, Stewart AF et al..  2021.  In vivo screen identifies a SIK inhibitor that induces β cell proliferation through a transient UPR.. Nat Metab. 3(5):682-700.

Choudhury SR, Fitzpatrick Z, Harris AF, Maitland SA, Ferreira JS, Zhang Y, Ma S, Sharma RB, Gray-Edwards HL, Johnson JA et al..  2016.  In Vivo Selection Yields AAV-B1 Capsid for Central Nervous System and Muscle Gene Therapy.. Mol Ther. 24(7):1247-57.

Tchang BG, Askin G, Sahagun A, Hwang J, Huang H, Curanaj FAMendelso, Seley JJ, Safford MM, Alonso LC, Aronne LJ et al..  2021.  The independent risk of obesity and diabetes and their interaction in COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study.. Obesity (Silver Spring).

Sharma RB, O'Donnell AC, Stamateris RE, Ha B, McCloskey KM, Reynolds PR, Arvan P, Alonso LC.  2015.  Insulin demand regulates β cell number via the unfolded protein response.. J Clin Invest. 125(10):3831-46.

Iiyori N, Alonso LC, Li J, Sanders MH, Garcia-Ocaña A, O'Doherty RM, Polotsky VY, O'Donnell CP.  2007.  Intermittent hypoxia causes insulin resistance in lean mice independent of autonomic activity.. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 175(8):851-7.

Yokoe T, Alonso LC, Romano LC, Rosa TC, O'Doherty RM, Garcia-Ocaña A, Minoguchi K, O'Donnell CP.  2008.  Intermittent hypoxia reverses the diurnal glucose rhythm and causes pancreatic beta-cell replication in mice.. J Physiol. 586(3):899-911.

Sharma RB, Darko C, Alonso LC.  2020.  Intersection of the ATF6 and XBP1 ER stress pathways in mouse islet cells.. J Biol Chem. 295(41):14164-14177.

Kong Y, Sharma RB, Nwosu BU, Alonso LC.  2016.  Islet biology, the CDKN2A/B locus and type 2 diabetes risk.. Diabetologia. 59(8):1579-93.

Kilic G, Alvarez-Mercado AI, Zarrouki B, Opland D, Liew CWee, Alonso LC, Myers MG, Jonas J-C, Poitout V, Kulkarni RN et al..  2014.  The islet estrogen receptor-α is induced by hyperglycemia and protects against oxidative stress-induced insulin-deficient diabetes.. PLoS One. 9(2):e87941.

Sharma RB, Alonso LC.  2014.  Lipotoxicity in the pancreatic beta cell: not just survival and function, but proliferation as well? Curr Diab Rep. 14(6):492.

Sharma RB, Landa-Galván HV, Alonso LC.  2021.  Living Dangerously: Protective and Harmful ER Stress Responses in Pancreatic β-Cells.. Diabetes. 70(11):2431-2443.

Kong Y, Hsieh C-H, Alonso LC.  2018.  : A lncRNA at the CDKN2A/B Locus With Roles in Cancer and Metabolic Disease.. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 9:405.

Demirci C, Ernst S, Alvarez-Perez JC, Rosa T, Valle S, Shridhar V, Casinelli GP, Alonso LC, Vasavada RC, Garcia-Ocaña A.  2012.  Loss of HGF/c-Met signaling in pancreatic β-cells leads to incomplete maternal β-cell adaptation and gestational diabetes mellitus.. Diabetes. 61(5):1143-52.

Alonso LC, Rosenfield RL.  2003.  Molecular genetic and endocrine mechanisms of hair growth.. Horm Res. 60(1):1-13.

Stamateris RE, Landa-Galván HV, Sharma RB, Darko C, Redmond D, Rane SG, Alonso LC.  2023.  Noncanonical CDK4 signaling rescues diabetes in a mouse model by promoting β cell differentiation.. J Clin Invest. 133(18)

Zeng X, Wang Y, Farias K, Rappa A, Darko C, Sauve A, Huang Q, Alonso LC, Yang Y.  2025.  NRH, a potent NAD+ enhancer, improves glucose homeostasis and lipid metabolism in diet-induced obese mice through an active adenosine kinase pathway.. Metabolism. 164:156110.

Alonso LC, Rosenfield RL.  2002.  Oestrogens and puberty.. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 16(1):13-30.