Fuel Homeostasis and the Nervous System

Methods to Study Fuel Homeostasis in the Brain.- The Metabolic Requirements of Functional Activity in the Human Brain: A Positron Emission Tomography Study.- High Resolution NMR Studies of Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Rats and Humans.- Use of Peptide Probes to Study Brain Regulation of Glucose Metabolism.- Brain Fuel Metabolism, Regulation of Food Intake.- Measurement of Local Cerebral Glucose Utilization and Its Relation to Local Functional Activity in the Brain.- Blood-Brain Barrier Transport of Glucose, Free Fatty Acids, and Ketone Bodies.- The Blood-Brain Barrier and the Regulation of Amino Acid Uptake and Availability to Brain.- Energy and Macronutrient Intake Regulation: Independent or Interrelated Mechanisms?.- Peptide Signals in the Nervous System and Fuel Homeostasis.- Novel Peptides and Islet Function.- Relationship Between the Hypothalamus and Adipose Tissue Mass.- Neural Control of Islet Function by Norepinephrine and Sympathetic Neuropeptides.- Neuropeptides in the Regulation of Islet Hormone Secretion — Localization, Effects and Mode of Action.- Proglucagon-Derived Peptides in the Neuroendocrine System.- Effect of Stress on Glucoregulation in Physiology and Diabetes.- Neural Responses to Abnormalities in Fuel Homeostasis.- Search for the Hypoglycemia Receptor Using the Local Irrigation Approach.- Hypoglycemia, Gluconeogenesis and the Brain.- Metabolism of Glucose in the Brain of IDDM Subjects: Brain Metabolism in Diabetes.- Eating Disorders as Assessed by Cranial Computerized Tomography (CCT, dSPECT, PET).- Abnormal Brain Glucose Metabolism in Alzheimer’s Disease, as Measured by Positron Emission Tomography.- A Correlation Between Gene Transcriptional Activity and Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Alzheimer’s Disease-Affected Neocortex: Cause orEffect?.- Optic Neuropathy in the Diabetic BB-Rat.- Peripheral Nerve Repair Following ARI Treatment.