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Charles J. Billington

Charles J. Billington

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15175
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Overview

Charles J. Billington is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study in Billington's work include Medicine with 47 publications and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 27 publications. Their subfields of focus cover Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Genetics.

Key topics addressed in their work are Diabetes Treatment and Management, Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment, Williams Syndrome Research, Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, Diabetes Management and Research, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research.

Billington has contributed frequently to several publication venues. These include the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A with five publications, Annals of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics and Metabolism with two each, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with two publications, and Obesity with one publication.

Prominent co-authors collaborating with Billington include Beth A. Kozel with seven joint works, Delong Liu with five, Tyler Drake with four, Phoebe C. R. Parrish with four, and Barbara R. Pober with four publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Billington include:

  • Exenatide for weight-loss maintenance in adolescents with severe obesity: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 2022, Obesity
  • Newer Pharmacologic Treatments in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis for the American College of Physicians, 2024, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Social, neurodevelopmental, endocrine, and head size differences associated with atypical deletions in Williams-Beuren syndrome, 2020, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • A case of VEXAS syndrome associated with EBV-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, 2021, Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases
  • Homozygous splice-variants in human ARV1 cause GPI-anchor synthesis deficiency, 2020, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Best Publications

  • Orexin activation counteracts decreases in nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) caused by high-fat diet

    P. E. Bunney;A. N. Zink;A. A. Holm;Charles J Billington

  • Overweight, obesity, and health risk.

    C. J. Billington;L. H. Epstein;N. J. Goodwin;J. O. Hill

  • Weight Bias among Health Professionals Specializing in Obesity

    Marlene B. Schwartz;Heather O Neal Chambliss;Kelly D. Brownell;Steven N. Blair

  • Roux-en-Y gastric bypass vs intensive medical management for the control of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia: The diabetes surgery study randomized clinical trial

    Sayeed Ikramuddin;Judith Korner;Wei Jei Lee;John E. Connett

  • Effects of intracerebroventricular injection of neuropeptide Y on energy metabolism

    C. J. Billington;J. E. Briggs;M. Grace;A. S. Levine

  • Effect of Protein Ingestion on the Glucose and Insulin Response to a Standardized Oral Glucose Load

    Frank Q Nuttall;Arshag D Mooradian;Mary C Gannon;Charles Billington

  • Neuropeptide Y in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus: a center coordinating energy metabolism

    C. J. Billington;J. E. Briggs;S. Harker;M. Grace

  • Feeding response to central orexins.

    Donald C Sweet;Allen S Levine;Allen S Levine;Charles J Billington;Charles J Billington;Catherine M Kotz;Catherine M Kotz

  • The lighter side of BDNF

    Emily E. Noble;Charles J. Billington;Catherine M. Kotz;ChuanFeng Wang

  • Obesity as a Disease: A White Paper on Evidence and Arguments Commissioned by the Council of The Obesity Society

    David B. Allison;Morgan Downey;Richard L. Atkinson;Charles J. Billington

  • Effects of gastric bypass surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes and only mild obesity

    R. V. Cohen;J. C. Pinheiro;C. A. Schiavon;J. E. Salles

  • Lifestyle Intervention and Medical Management With vs Without Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Control of Hemoglobin A1c, LDL Cholesterol, and Systolic Blood Pressure at 5 Years in the Diabetes Surgery Study.

    Sayeed Ikramuddin;Judith Korner;Wei Jei Lee;Avis J. Thomas

  • Feeding effects of hypothalamic injection of melanocortin 4 receptor ligands.

    Silvia Q Giraudo;Charles J Billington;Charles J Billington;Allen S Levine;Allen S Levine

  • Opioids and food intake: distributed functional neural pathways?

    M. J. Glass;Charles J Billington;Allen S Levine

  • Effect of reversible intermittent intra-abdominal vagal nerve blockade on morbid obesity: The ReCharge randomized clinical trial

    Sayeed Ikramuddin;Robin P. Blackstone;Anthony Brancatisano;James Toouli

  • Orphanin FQ, agonist of orphan opioid receptor ORL1, stimulates feeding in rats

    James D. Pomonis;Charles J. Billington;Allen S. Levine;Allen S. Levine

  • Opioids and consummatory behavior

    A.S. Levine;A.S. Levine;J.E. Morley;J.E. Morley;B.A. Gosnell;B.A. Gosnell;C.J. Billington;C.J. Billington

  • Palatability-induced hyperphagia increases hypothalamic Dynorphin peptide and mRNA levels

    Catherine C. Welch;Eun Mee Kim;Martha K. Grace;Charles J. Billington;Charles J. Billington

  • Dieting and the development of eating disorders in overweight and obese adults

    Susan Z. Yanovski;Charles J. Billington;Leonard H. Epstein;Norma J. Goodwin

  • Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for diabetes (the Diabetes Surgery Study): 2-year outcomes of a 5-year, randomised, controlled trial

    Sayeed Ikramuddin;Charles J Billington;Wei Jei Lee;John P Bantle

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen S. Levine
Allen S. Levine University of Minnesota
Catherine M. Kotz
Catherine M. Kotz University of Minnesota
John E. Morley
John E. Morley Saint Louis University
Timothy J. Bartness
Timothy J. Bartness Georgia State University
John E. Connett
John E. Connett University of Minnesota
Michael A. Kuskowski
Michael A. Kuskowski University of Minnesota
Robert W. Jeffery
Robert W. Jeffery University of Minnesota
Michael G. Sarr
Michael G. Sarr Mayo Clinic
Lee-Ming Chuang
Lee-Ming Chuang National Taiwan University

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