Publications

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, Watanabe Y, Stefanovski D, Lee EJ, Singamsetty S, Romano LC, Zou B, Garcia-Ocaña A, Bergman RN, O'Donnell CP.  2012.  Simultaneous measurement of insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion, and the disposition index in conscious unhandled mice.. Obesity (Silver Spring). 20(7):1403-12.

Velazquez-Garcia S, Valle S, Rosa TC, Takane KK, Demirci C, Alvarez-Perez JC, Mellado-Gil JM, Ernst S, Scott DK, Vasavada RC et al..  2011.  Activation of protein kinase C-ζ in pancreatic β-cells in vivo improves glucose tolerance and induces β-cell expansion via mTOR activation.. Diabetes. 60(10):2546-59.

Mellado-Gil J, Rosa TC, Demirci C, Gonzalez-Pertusa JA, Velazquez-Garcia S, Ernst S, Valle S, Vasavada RC, Stewart AF, Alonso LC et al..  2011.  Disruption of hepatocyte growth factor/c-Met signaling enhances pancreatic beta-cell death and accelerates the onset of diabetes.. Diabetes. 60(2):525-36.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Alonso L, Okada H, Pasolli HAmalia, Wakeham A, You-Ten AItie, Mak TW, Fuchs E.  2005.  Sgk3 links growth factor signaling to maintenance of progenitor cells in the hair follicle.. J Cell Biol. 170(4):559-70.

Kobielak K, H Pasolli A, Alonso L, Polak L, Fuchs E.  2003.  Defining BMP functions in the hair follicle by conditional ablation of BMP receptor IA.. J Cell Biol. 163(3):609-23.

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

Alonso L, Fuchs E.  2003.  Stem cells in the skin: waste not, Wnt not.. Genes Dev. 17(10):1189-200.

Alonso L, Fuchs E.  2003.  Stem cells of the skin epithelium.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100 Suppl 1:11830-5.

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

Rosengard AM, Alonso LC, Korb LC, Baldwin WM, Sanfilippo F, Turka LA, Ahearn JM.  1999.  Functional characterization of soluble and membrane-bound forms of vaccinia virus complement control protein (VCP).. Mol Immunol. 36(10):685-97.

Judge TA, Desai NM, Yang Z, Rostami S, Alonso L, Zhang H, Chen Y, Markman JF, DeMateo RP, Barker CF et al..  1998.  Utility of adenoviral-mediated Fas ligand gene transfer to modulate islet allograft survival.. Transplantation. 66(4):426-34.