Karla F. Leavens

Insulin regulates liver metabolism in vivo in the absence of hepatic Akt and Foxo1

Mingjian Lu, Min Wan, Karla F. Leavens et al. · Nature Medicine · 2012 · 380 citations

Metabolic Syndrome, Hepatology, Biochemistry +11

Akt2 Is Required for Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Models of Insulin Resistance

Karla F. Leavens, Rachael Easton, Gerald I. Shulman et al. · Cell Metabolism · 2009 · 276 citations · Full text

Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, Hepatology +11

Postprandial Hepatic Lipid Metabolism Requires Signaling though Akt2 Independent of the Transcription Factors FoxA2, FoxO1 and SREBP1c

Min Wan, Karla F. Leavens, Danish Saleh et al. · PubMed Central · 2011 · 136 citations · Full text

Modeling Monogenic Diabetes using Human ESCs Reveals Developmental and Metabolic Deficiencies Caused by Mutations in HNF1A

Fabian L. Cardenas‐Diaz, Catherine Osorio-Quintero, Maria Alejandra Diaz‐Miranda et al. · Cell stem cell · 2019 · 83 citations · Full text

Metabolic Syndrome, Genetic Determinant, Genetics +11

A Noncanonical, GSK3-Independent Pathway Controls Postprandial Hepatic Glycogen Deposition

Min Wan, Karla F. Leavens, Roger W. Hunter et al. · Cell Metabolism · 2013 · 75 citations · Full text

Signal Transduction, Hepatology, Liver Physiology +7