Metabolic Diseases Branch - (MDB)
The Metabolic Diseases Branch includes investigators in two broad areas of research. One group, which includes Stephen Marx, William Simonds, and Lee Weinstein, studies signal transduction, particularly as it relates to normal and abnormal endocrine function. Basic research performed in the Branch on heterotrimeric G proteins, G protein-coupled receptors, transcription factors, and the MEN 1 tumor suppressor gene has also been extended into clinical areas involving hormone resistance disorders and endocrine hyperfunction disorders, autoimmune thyroid diseases, and inherited and sporadic endocrine neoplasia.
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