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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on November 6,2024. Core that maintains a centralized facility for the generation and propagation of reprogrammed iPS cells for use in molecular and cellular pathologies underlying diabetes and its complications.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides services related to the application of genetic methodologies to research related to diabetes. Services include generation of targeted genetic mouse models, using CRISPR/Cas9 system in mouse or rat embryos, generation of specialty viral vectors, specialty viral reagents, and specialty mouse models.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Provides MDRC researchers with expert consultation, training and support for routine and advanced microscopy and image analysis techniques. Services include Consultation and Advice on Microscopy and Immunohistochemistry, Cryosection Service, Confocal Microscopy, Image Analysis, Widefield Light Microscopy,Live Cell Microscopy,Training and Education.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on November 6,2024. Core that supports the use of the OMICS technologies by MDRC members (specifically on projects relevant to diabetes and related endocrine and metabolic disorders, including their complications) by supporting pilot studies that utilize these technologies.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on November 6,2024. Core that provides services in genotyping, sequencing, biobanks, and genetic epidemiology. It also offers access to the Amish exome variant database, basic molecular services, and viral vector construction and development.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Administration Core of the Michigan Diabetes Research Center (MDRC) provides leadership, infrastructure, and resources to support and enhance diabetes research, including the translation of scientific discoveries from bench to bedside. Establishes, promotes, and enhances multidisciplinary and collaborative basic biomedical and clinical research among member investigators studying diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Center which promotes multidisciplinary research in diabetes through raising awareness and interest in fundamental and clinical research, enhancing diabetes research, education and training opportunities, and providing core services that leverage funding and unique expertise.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which promotes redox biology in diabetes-related research. It promotes research in areas common to the metabolic and vascular aspects of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The core provides services in mitochondrial damage, function, proteomics, and oxidative stress assessment support for investigators carrying out diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiometabolic disease (CMD) research at UAB.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Multidisciplinary unit of the University of Michigan funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Institute of Health. Promotes new discoveries and enhance scientific progress through the support of basic and clinical research related to diabetes, its complications, and related disorders. Creates environment that supports innovative research; attracts and retains early stage investigators and investigators new to diabetes research; provides core services that leverage funding and unique expertise; fosters interdisciplinary collaborations; raises awareness and interest in fundamental and clinical diabetes research at their institutions, as well as locally, regionally, and nationally.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core which incorporates and combines expertise and technology for assessment of hormones and other analytes in both humans and animal models; body composition and fat distribution; insulin sensitivity and substrate metabolism; energy expenditure; and cardiovascular function.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that provides diabetes researches with diabetes related phenotyping in small animal models. Their services offered include the assessment of body composition, energy balance, glucose homeostasis, cardiovascular assessment, imaging, and transgenic animals models.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on November 5,2024. Core that provides a shared resource for the establishment of mutant mouse models for DRC research. It coordinates DRC members with contacts to a number of UCSF-wide facilities for knock-out/knock-in and transgenic mouse generation.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core responsible for the scientific, education/enrichment, and fiscal operations of the DRC. Their goal is to assure the growing vitality of an intellectual community and a highly productive research program in diabetes by effective deployment of DRC resources for the benefit of our investigators, patients, and trainees.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Research center which operates in collaboration with the University of Alabama Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center to promote excellence in diabetes research and patient care. The DRC supports the areas of animal physiology, human biology and intervention and translational research. It focuses on developing new methods to treat, prevent, and ultimately cure diabetes and its complications.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that enables clinical and basic research that analyzes the function of isolated pancreatic islets. It coordinates and delivers purified human islets to investigators when research need matches the availability of a human pancreas.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that assists investigators whose research requires molecular marker characterization of cells in suspension as well as the isolation of cells based on those markers. Experts in the core perform advanced cell sorting and cytometric analyses.University of California San Francisco Parnassus Flow Cytometry Core Facility.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on November 5,2024. Core that provides reagents, equipment, training, supervision, and monitoring of investigators wishing to ensure the proper compliance with biosafety containment required for lentiviral-based research, lentiviral preparation services for investigators, and education on RNAi experimentation, through the lentiviral core website, and through protocols available at the facility.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

Core that consolidates, enhances and disseminates Diabetes Center resources and expertise in tissue and cell imaging technologies. Confocal fluorescence, widefield fluorescence, high throughput fluorescence and brightfield microscopes are available directly within the DRC Microscopy Core. Image quantification and analysis is performed at dedicated workstations.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

One of sixteen research centers established by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases that fosters research and training in the areas of diabetes and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on October 10,2024. Core which provides technical support for UCSF investigators to conduct metabolic studies using a 12-chambered Comprehensive Lab Animal Monitoring System (CLAMS), an EchoMRI, and Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, which together allow measurement of food intake, water intake, motor activities, core temperature, and body composition in live mice. It also helps to identify emerging technologies that will enhance multiple research programs and coordinates the acquisition and maintenance of those facilities.

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• 10 years ago - submitted by Kristen Jensen