BettyCVillafuerteMD

Diabetes, Lipid Metabolism

Associate Professor, Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine

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Emory University School of MedicineFellowship, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, 1989 - 1990
University at Buffalo (Mercy Hospital)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1986 - 1989
University of the Philippines College of MedicineClass of 1981

PubMed

34 citations
Expressions of Leptin and Insulin‐Like Growth Factor‐I Are Highly Correlated and Region‐Specific in Adipose Tissue of Growing Rats
Betty C. Villafuerte, Jacqueline B. Fine, Yaohui Bai, Weidong Zhao, Shea S. Fleming
Obesity Research. 2000-12-01
71 citations
Coculture of primary rat hepatocytes and nonparenchymal cells permits expression of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 in vitro.
Betty C. Villafuerte, B. L. Koop, Ching-I Pao, Luming Gu, G. G. Birdsong
Endocrinology. 1994-05-01
78 citations
Molecular Regulation of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I and Its Principal Binding Protein, IGFBP-3
Lawrence S. Phillips, Ching-I Pao, Betty C. Villafuerte
Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology. 1998-01-01