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147
Citations
68779
World Ranking
1303
National Ranking
752

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Roger H Unger was affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research spanned key areas within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on surgery, genetics, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their primary topics of work included pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes and associated disorders, and diabetes management and research. This thematic focus highlighted the intersection of metabolic regulation and disease mechanisms.

One of the documented research papers by Roger H Unger is titled "Glucagon blockade restores functional β-cell mass in type 1 diabetic mice and enhances function of human islets", published in 2021 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This work was cited 44 times and involved collaboration with co-author May-Yun Wang.

Frequent collaborators in their research included May-Yun Wang, E. Danielle Dean, Ezekiel Quittner-Strom, Yi Zhu, and Kamrul Hasan Chowdhury.

Their publications were frequently featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, illustrating a focus on high-impact journals in the biomedical sciences.

Roger H Unger received recognition as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986 and was also a member of the Association of American Physicians.

  • Glucagon blockade restores functional β-cell mass in type 1 diabetic mice and enhances function of human islets (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

  • May-Yun Wang
  • E. Danielle Dean
  • Ezekiel Quittner-Strom
  • Yi Zhu
  • Kamrul Hasan Chowdhury

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Diabetes Management and Research

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

  • Surgery
  • Genetics
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Best Publications

  • Lipotoxicity in the pathogenesis of obesity-dependent NIDDM: Genetic and clinical implications

    Roger H Unger

  • Fatty acid-induced β cell apoptosis: A link between obesity and diabetes

    Michio Shimabukuro;Yan Ting Zhou;Yan Ting Zhou;Moshe Levi;Roger H Unger

  • Lipotoxic heart disease in obese rats: implications for human obesity.

    Yan Ting Zhou;Paul Grayburn;Paul Grayburn;Asad Karim;Asad Karim;Michio Shimabukuro;Michio Shimabukuro

  • Studies of pancreatic alpha cell function in normal and diabetic subjects

    Roger H. Unger;E. Aguilar-Parada;Walter A. Müller;Anna M. Eisentraut

  • Minireview: Weapons of Lean Body Mass Destruction: The Role of Ectopic Lipids in the Metabolic Syndrome

    Roger H Unger

  • DIRECT ANTIDIABETIC EFFECT OF LEPTIN THROUGH TRIGLYCERIDE DEPLETION OF TISSUES

    Michio Shimabukuro;Kazunori Koyama;Guoxun Chen;May-Yun Wang

  • Glucagonocentric restructuring of diabetes: a pathophysiologic and therapeutic makeover.

    Roger H. Unger;Alan D. Cherrington

  • Abnormal alpha-cell function in diabetes. Response to carbohydrate and protein ingestion.

    Walter A. Müller;Gerald R. Faloona;Eugenio Aguilar-Parada;Roger H. Unger

  • Studies of muscle capillary basement membranes in normal subjects, diabetic, and prediabetic patients

    M. D. Siperstein;Roger H Unger;L. L. Madison

  • Pancreatic Glucagon Secretion in Normal and Diabetic Subjects

    E. Aguilar-Parada;A. M. Eisentraut;Roger H Unger

  • THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF GLUCAGON IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF DIABETES MELLITUS

    Roger H Unger;Lelio Orci

  • Lipid homeostasis, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome.

    Roger H. Unger;Gregory O. Clark;Philipp E. Scherer;Lelio Orci

  • Hyperglycaemia as an inducer as well as a consequence of impaired islet cell function and insulin resistance: implications for the management of diabetes.

    Roger H Unger;Scott M Grundy

  • Cardiac Steatosis in Diabetes Mellitus A 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study

    Jonathan M. McGavock;Ildiko Lingvay;Ivana Zib;Tommy Tillery

  • Lipotoxicity of beta-cells in obesity and in other causes of fatty acid spillover.

    Roger H Unger;Yan Ting Zhou

  • Echocardiographic Destruction of Albumin Microbubbles Directs Gene Delivery to the Myocardium

    Ralph V. Shohet;Shuyuan Chen;Yan Ting Zhou;Zhuowei Wang

  • Regulation of fatty acid homeostasis in cells: Novel role of leptin

    Roger H Unger;Yan Ting Zhou;Yan Ting Zhou;Lelio Orci

  • Diseases of liporegulation: new perspective on obesity and related disorders

    Roger H. Unger;Roger H. Unger;Lelio Orci

  • Functional subdivision of islets of Langerhans and possible role of D cells.

    Lelio Orci;Roger H Unger

  • Comparison of a high-carbohydrate diet with a high-monounsaturated-fat diet in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

    Abhimanyu Garg;Andrea Bonanome;Scott M. Grundy;Zu-Jun Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Lelio Orci
Lelio Orci University of Geneva
Young Hee Lee
Young Hee Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Christopher B. Newgard
Christopher B. Newgard Duke University
Philip Raskin
Philip Raskin The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mariella Ravazzola
Mariella Ravazzola University of Geneva
Philipp E. Scherer
Philipp E. Scherer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
William L. Holland
William L. Holland University of Utah
Michael G. Roth
Michael G. Roth The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Wylie Vale
Wylie Vale Salk Institute for Biological Studies
J. Michael Conlon
J. Michael Conlon University of Ulster

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