Jeanine Albu, Co-Director

• Segal KR., Albu J.., Chun A., Edano A., Legaspi B., Pi-Sunyer FX. : Independent effects of obesity and insulin resistance on postprandial thermogenesis in men. J. Clin. Invest., 89: 824-833, 1992.

• Lieberman SA., Bukar J., Chen SA., Celnikar AC., Compton PG., Cook J., Albu J.., Perlman AJ., Hoffman AR.: Effects of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-I (rhIGF-I) on total and free IGF-I concentration, IGF binding proteins and glycemic response in humans. J. Clin. Endo. Metab.,75:30-36, 1992.
• Albu J.., Smolowitz J., Lichtman S., Heymsfield S., Wang J., Pierson RN., Pi-Sunyer FX.: Composition of weight loss in severely obese women: a new look at old methods. Metabolism. 41:1068-1074, 1992.
• Albu J.., Reed G.: Weight cycling: more questions than answers. Endocrine Practice.1:346-352,1995.
  Shur M, Murphy L, Oster M, Albu J.. Low concentrations of IGF-1 relate to increased age, visceral obesity and insulin resistance in obese, premenopausal women. Obesity Research, 4(Suppl. 1): 22S, 1996
• Albu J.., Murphy L., Fraeger D., Johnson JA, Pi-Sunyer FX: Visceral fat and race-dependent health risks in obese, nondiabetic, premenopausal women. Diabetes, 46:456-462, 1997.
• Albu J., Shur M, Murphy L, Curi M, Heymsfield S, Pi-Sunyer FX. Resting metabolic rate in obese, premenopausal black women.. Am J Clin Nutr, 66:531-538, 1997
• Albu J., Pi-Sunyer FX. Obesity and Diabetes. Chapter in Handbook of Obesity, Bray and Bouchard, Eds, 1997.
• Allison DB, Nathan JS, Albu J., Heymsfield SB, Duprat LJ, Pi-Sunyer FX. Measurement challenges and other practical concerns when studying massively obese individuals. Int J of Eating Disorders. 24:275-284, 1998.
• Albu J.. Reply to HH Sandstead. Letter to the Editor. Am J Clin Nutr, 67:741, 1998.
• Marcus MA, Murphy L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Albu J.. Insulin sensitivity and serum triglyceride level in white and black obese women: relationship to visceral and truncal subcutaneous fat. Metabolism, 48:194-199, 1999.
• Albu J., Curi M, Shur M, Murphy L, Matthews DE, Pi-Sunyer FX. Systemic resistance to the antilipolytic effect of insulin in black and white women with visceral obesity. Am. J. Physiol. 277(Endocrinol. Metab. 40):E551-E560, 1999.
• Gu W, Tu Z, Kleyn P, Kissebah A, Duprat L, Lee J, Chin W, Maruti S, Deng N, Fisher S, Franco LS, Burn P, Yagaloff KA, Nathan J, Heymsfield SB, Albu J., Pi-Sunyer FX, Allison DB. A MC4-R gene variant functionally implicated in human obesity. Diabetes 48:635-639, 1999.
• Kelechi L, Taylor RR, Johnson JA, Albu J., Gillies P. Hydroxy-steroid dehydrogenase –1 (HSD1) expression is not dysregulated in obesity. Obesity Research. 7(suppl.1):72S, 1999
• Albu J., Kovera AJ, Johnson JA. Fat distribution and health in obesity: In vivo Body Composition Studies, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 904:491-501, 2000
• Gallagher D, Kovera AJ, Clay-Williams G, Agin D, Leone J, Albu J., Matthews DE, Heymsfield SB. Weight loss in post-menopausal women: no evidence of adverse alterations in body composition. Am J Physiol, Endocrinol Metab, 279: E124-E131, 2000
• Reda TK, Kovera AJ, Fried S, Ashan A, Boozer C, Zhang K, Pi-Sunyer FX, Albu J.. Differential effects of muscle lipoprotein lipase in lean and obese women. Presented at the Experimental Biology meeting, San Diego, CA, 2000
• Gallagher D, Albu J. , Kovera AJ, Janumala F, Wong S, Heshka S. Smaller mass of high metabolically active organ-tissues in African American women. Obesity Research 8(1):17S, 2000
• Johnson JA, Ng KW, Albu J., Vasselli. High fat fed rats resistant to the feeding inhibitory effect of leptin are responsive to its lipolytic effect in adipose tissue. Obesity Research, 8(1):22S, 2000
• Kovera AJ, Bichis C, Reda T, Albu J.. Body composition predictors of insulin resistance: studies using whole body multi-slice magnetic resonance imaging. Obesity Research, 8(1):47S, 2000
• Albu J., Kovera AJ, Heymsfield SB, Allison DB. Effect of fat distribution on lipid levels in women: studies using whole body MRI technique. Obesity Research. 8(1):121S, 2000
• Zahng K, Sun M, Kovera AJ, Werner P, Albu J., Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN. A new way to examine sleeping metabolic rate. Obesity Research, 8(1):124S, 2000
• Johnson JA, Fried SK, Pi-Sunyer FX, Albu J.. Impaired insulin action in subcutaneous adipocytes from women with visceral obesity. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 280:E40-E49, 2001
• Johnson JA, Ynada Y, Flancbaum LJ, Albu J.. Cytokine release in deep subcutaneous abdominal and visceral adipose tissue depots. Diabetes, 50(S2): A88, 2001
• Albu J., Johnson JA, Kovera A, Fried SK, Pi-Sunyer FX. Visceral adiposity and regional variation in lipolysis in obese non-diabetic women. Diabetes, 50(S2): A403, 2001
• Kovera A, Johnson JA, Pi-Sunyer FX , Albu J.. The independent effect of abdominal adipocyte size on insulin sensitivity in premenopausal non-diabetic women. Diabetes, 50(S2): A516, 2001
• Johnson JA, Ng KW, Albu J., Vaselli JR. Leptin dose-dependently decreases the nonesterified fatty acid/glycerol ratio in adipocytes from rats fed high- and low-fat diets. Obesity Research, 9(S3): 64S, 2001
• Fernandez JR, Shriver MD, Rafla-Demetrious N, Para E, Albu J., Nicklas B, Ryan AS, Allison DB. Is African genetic admixture associated with BMI and resting metabolic rate in African American females? Obesity Research, 9(S3): 87S, 2001
• Lee VJ, Albu J., Kovera AJ, Johnson JA, Pi-Sunyer FX, Kim SM. Do Asian women have higher increasing rates of fasting insulin by BMI? Racial differences among Korean, Caucasian and African American women. Obesity Research, 9(S3): 98S, 2001
• Benjamin B, Cobb K, Thornton J, Allen L, Gallagher D, Albu J., Pi-Sunyer FX, Laferrere B. Newly defined abdominal region by DXA predicts abdominal fat by MRI. Obesity Research, 9(S3): 168S, 2001
• Engelson ES, Glesby M, Sheikhan J, Albu J., Wang J, Heymsfield SB, Kotler DP. Effect of recombinant human growth hormone in the treatment of visceral fat accumulation in HIV infection: interim analysis. JAIDS in revision, 2001