Dr. Roger H. Unger M.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
4500 S Lancaster Rd 151a Dallas TX, 75216About
Dr. Roger Unger practices Endocrinology in Dallas, TX. Dr. Unger specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Unger examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1947
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lipotoxic diseases.
- Effects of leptin, troglitazone, and dietary fat on stearoyl CoA desaturase.
- The physiology of cellular liporegulation.
- Lipoapoptosis: its mechanism and its diseases.
- Insig-1 "brakes" lipogenesis in adipocytes and inhibits differentiation of preadipocytes.
- Effects of leptin on endothelial function with OB-Rb gene transfer in Zucker fatty rats.
- Minireview: weapons of lean body mass destruction: the role of ectopic lipids in the metabolic syndrome.
- Lipid overload and overflow: metabolic trauma and the metabolic syndrome.
- Increased expression and activity of 11beta-HSD-1 in diabetic islets and prevention with troglitazone.
- Rapid transformation of white adipocytes into fat-oxidizing machines.
- Biochemical mechanism of lipid-induced impairment of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and reversal with a malate analogue.
- The hyperleptinemia of obesity-regulator of caloric surpluses.
- Hepatic insig-1 or -2 overexpression reduces lipogenesis in obese Zucker diabetic fatty rats and in fasted/refed normal rats.
- Demonstration of reverse fatty acid transport from rat cardiomyocytes.
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