Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Endocrinology
Dr. Rexford S. Ahima, MD
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Rexford Ahima practices Endocrinology. He researched medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received 1 awards: "Elected Member". Rexford S. Ahima is also a published MD. He has 101 publication published. The most recent publication is: Pathophysiology of lipid droplet proteins in liver diseases.
Publications
- Pathophysiology of lipid droplet proteins in liver diseases.
- Effect of isolated hyperglycemia on native mechanical and biologic shoulder joint properties in a rat model.
- Pancreatic islet neuropeptide Y overexpression has minimal effect on islet morphology and beta cell adaptation to high fat diet.
- Physiology of leptin: energy homeostasis, neuroendocrine function and metabolism.
- Editorial: molecular obesity research: lessons learned?
- Targeting adipose tissue via systemic gene therapy.
- Physiology. The health risk of obesity--better metrics imperative.
- Temporal Effects of Ethanol Consumption on Energy Homeostasis, Hepatic Steatosis, and Insulin Sensitivity in Mice.
- Effects of perilipin 2 antisense oligonucleotide treatment on hepatic lipid metabolism and gene expression.
- Reduction of TIP47 improves hepatic steatosis and glucose homeostasis in mice.
- Alteration of hypothalamic cellular dynamics in obesity.
- Metabolic dysfunction associated with adiponectin deficiency enhances kainic Acid-induced seizure severity.
- Maternal obesity associated with inflammation in their children.
- Loss of IL-15 receptor ? alters the endurance, fatigability, and metabolic characteristics of mouse fast skeletal muscles.
- Bariatric Surgery: Metabolic Benefits Beyond Weight Loss.
- Adiponectin suppresses gluconeogenic gene expression in mouse hepatocytes independent of LKB1-AMPK signaling.
- Digging deeper into obesity.
- Estrogen Sulfotransferase Is Expressed in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue of Obese Humans in Association with TNF-{alpha} and SOCS3.
- Fractalkine is a novel human adipochemokine associated with type 2 diabetes.
- Inflammatory induction of human resistin causes insulin resistance in endotoxemic mice.
- Targeting the activin type IIB receptor to improve muscle mass and function in the mdx mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
- No Kiss1ng by leptin during puberty?
- TNF-alpha antagonism with etanercept decreases glucose and increases the proportion of high molecular weight adiponectin in obese subjects with features of the metabol...
- Estrogen sulfotransferase regulates body fat and glucose homeostasis in female mice.
- Boosting gut endocrinology with brain imaging.
- Alas! Ileal interposition surgery for diabetes prevention?
- Akt deficiency attenuates muscle size and function but not the response to ActRIIB inhibition.
- Antidiabetic effects of IGFBP2, a leptin-regulated gene.
- High-fat diet determines the composition of the murine gut microbiome independently of obesity.
- Connecting obesity, aging and diabetes.
- Intestinal lipids as signaling molecules.
- Macrophage-derived human resistin exacerbates adipose tissue inflammation and insulin resistance in mice.
- Circadian rhythm profiles in women with night eating syndrome.
- Analysis of gene expression in pancreatic islets from diet-induced obese mice.
- Brain regulation of appetite and satiety.
- The natural history of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: insights from children and mice.
- Inhibition of ADRP prevents diet-induced insulin resistance.
- Loss of resistin ameliorates hyperlipidemia and hepatic steatosis in leptin-deficient mice.
- Revisiting leptin's role in obesity and weight loss.
- Adipokines and the peripheral and neural control of energy balance.
- Linking adiponectin to proteinuria.
- Should eligibility for bariatric surgery be expanded?
- Insulin secretion is increased in pancreatic islets of neuropeptide Y-deficient mice.
- Divergent metabolic adaptations to intestinal parasitic nematode infection in mice susceptible or resistant to obesity.
- Central resistin induces hepatic insulin resistance via neuropeptide Y.
- Antagonism of ghrelin for glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus?
- Effects of TNF-alpha neutralization on adipocytokines and skeletal muscle adiposity in the metabolic syndrome.
- Innate immunity modulates adipokines in humans.
- Obesity: much silence makes a mighty noise.
- Reduction of hepatosteatosis and lipid levels by an adipose differentiation-related protein antisense oligonucleotide.
- Insulin resistance: cause or consequence of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis?
- Brain adipocytokine action and metabolic regulation.
- Neuropeptide Y deficiency attenuates responses to fasting and high-fat diet in obesity-prone mice.
- Loss of resistin improves glucose homeostasis in leptin deficiency.
- Obesity epidemic in need of answers.
- Area postrema neurons are modulated by the adipocyte hormone adiponectin.
- Adipose tissue as an endocrine organ.
- Overcoming insulin resistance with CNTF.
- Ghrelin--a new player in glucose homeostasis?
- Metabolic actions of adipocyte hormones: focus on adiponectin.
- Neuroendocrine profiles associated with energy intake, sleep, and stress in the night eating syndrome.
- Mouse and human resistins impair glucose transport in primary mouse cardiomyocytes, and oligomerization is required for this biological action.
- Central actions of adipocyte hormones.
- Foxa2 integrates the transcriptional response of the hepatocyte to fasting.
- Adipocytokine changes caused by low-carbohydrate compared to conventional diets in obesity.
- Gut peptides and other regulators in obesity.
- Body fat, leptin, and hypothalamic amenorrhea.
- Regulation of resistin expression and circulating levels in obesity, diabetes, and fasting.
- Adiponectin acts in the brain to decrease body weight.
- Ciliary neurotrophic factor and leptin induce distinct patterns of immediate early gene expression in the brain.
- Leptin signaling.
- Regulation of fasted blood glucose by resistin.
- Dominant inhibition of thyroid hormone action selectively in the pituitary of thyroid hormone receptor-beta null mice abolishes the regulation of thyrotropin by thyroi...
- Role of endogenous glucagon-like peptide-1 in islet regeneration after partial pancreatectomy.
- Appetite suppression and weight reduction by a centrally active aminosterol.
- Expression profiling reveals metabolic and structural components of extraocular muscles.
- Deletion of murine Arv1 results in a lean phenotype with increased energy expenditure.
- Low 24-hour adiponectin and high nocturnal leptin concentrations in a case-control study of community-dwelling premenopausal women with major depressive disorder: the ...
- CRTC2 (TORC2) contributes to the transcriptional response to fasting in the liver but is not required for the maintenance of glucose homeostasis.
- Adipokines in obesity.
- Nuclear receptor corepressor and histone deacetylase 3 govern circadian metabolic physiology.
- Adiponectin selectively inhibits oxytocin neurons of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus.
- Adipokines that link obesity and diabetes to the hypothalamus.
- Glomerular and tubular epithelial defects in kd/kd mice lead to progressive renal failure.
- Neuroendocrine and metabolic effects of adipocyte-derived hormones.
- Leptin and appetite control in lipodystrophy.
- A novel aminosterol reverses diabetes and fatty liver disease in obese mice.
- Functional improvement of dystrophic muscle by myostatin blockade.
- Divergent effects of leptin in mice susceptible or resistant to obesity.
- Hormonal and metabolic defects in a prader-willi syndrome mouse model with neonatal failure to thrive.
- Adiponectin complexes in human cerebrospinal fluid: distinct complex distribution from serum.
- Type I corticosteroid receptor-like immunoreactivity in the rat salivary glands and distal colon: modulation by corticosteroids.
- Glucocorticoid regulation of preproenkephalin gene expression in the rat forebrain.
- Glucocorticoid receptors in LHRH neurons.
- Intracellular localization of corticosteroid receptors in brain: potential interactions with signal transduction pathways.
- Sexual dimorphism in regulation of type II corticosteroid receptor immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus.
- Regulation of glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity in the rat hippocampus by androgenic-anabolic steroids.
- Type II corticosteroid receptor-like immunoreactivity in the rat cerebellar cortex: differential regulation by corticosterone.
- Postnatal development of corticosteroid receptor immunoreactivity in the rat cerebellum and brain stem.
- Charting of type II glucocorticoid receptor-like immunoreactivity in the rat central nervous system.
Schools
University of Ghana Medical School
BmhcAlbert Einstein College Med
Beth Israel DeaconessBrighamwomens Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Elected Member
Education
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Albert Einstein College of Medicine -
University of Ghana Medical School
Hospital
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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania -
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
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