Robert Hsiu-Ping Chow
Expert in hormone systems, nerve cell communication, and the neuroscience of diabetes
Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Member, Neurogenetic Institute and Diabetes Research Institute
Contact at: (323) 442-2901, (323) 442-0099 or rchow@hsc.usc.edu
Expertise:
- molecular biology of hormone secretion
- cellular mechanism of abnormal secretion
and cell death in diabetes mellitus
- insulin secretion from healthy and
diseased pancreatic beta cells
- exocytosis (protein secretions) of
neuroendocrine cells
- nerve cell communication
- physiology of synaptic transmission
- endocrinology (study of the endocrine
glands and the hormones they secrete)
- cellular and molecular neurobiology
- biophysical chemistry
Foreign Languages:
German
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http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=8
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