May, 2020
Could pancreatitis be a stress hormone deficiency?
Mangelsdorf/Kliewer researchers find that humans and mice with pancreatitis are deficient in a stress hormone called FGF21.
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November, 2016
Researchers’ international study zeros in on gene that limits desire to drink alcohol
In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and colleagues in Europe identified a gene variant that suppresses the desire to drink alcohol.
“The findings are based on the largest genome-wide association meta-analysis and replication study to date mapping and comparing the genetics – the DNA – of more than 105,000 light and heavy social drinkers,” said Dr. David Mangelsdorf, Chair of Pharmacology at UT Southwestern and a corresponding author of the study.
February, 2015
Kliewer awarded prestigious Windaus Prize
Dr. Steven Kliewer, Professor of Molecular Biology and of Pharmacology, recently became the third faculty member from UT Southwestern Medical Center to be honored with the Adolf Windaus Prize for Bile Acid Research.
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