Barron's How to Prepare for the Toefl Test: Test of English As a Foreign Language

by Sharpe, Pamela J., Phd

• ISBN13: 9780764174674
• ISBN10: 0764174673
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series

Summary

The audio-only CD and book package provides the Listening Comprehension portions of all TOEFL tests in the written manual.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Keynote address
Pathogenesis of common diseases viewed from an evolutionary standpoint	3	(10)
H. Imura
Adipogenesis and obesity
Leptin and the neural circuit regulating body weight	13	(8)
J.M. Friedman
Potential usefulness of leptin for the treatment of diabetes	21	(10)
K. Nakao
Y. Ogawa
H. Masuzaki
M. Aizawa-Abe
K. Ebihara
N. Matsuoka
N. Satoh
T. Hayashi
K. Hosoda
G. Inoue
Y. Yoshimasa
Critical early events of adipogenesis	31	(6)
G. Ailhaud
C. Dani
J. Aubert
N. Belmonte
P. Saint-Marc
R. Negrel
Molecular mechanism of obesity-related diseases: importance of adipocytokines	37	(10)
Y. Matsuzawa
t. Funahashi
H. Kuriyama
S. Kihara
Diabetes mellitus	47	(224)
The role of pancreatic β cell ATP-sensitive K+ channels in insulin secretion
S. Seino
N. Ozaki
T. Shibasaki
H. Yano
Downstream effectors of PI 3-kinase in insulin action	53	(8)
M. Kasuga
T. Kitamura
K. Kotani
W. Ogawa
Insulin signaling and the molecular mechanisms of insulin resistance	61	(18)
C.R. Kahn
Role of PPARγ in high-fat diet-induced adipocyte hypertrophy and insulin resistance	79	(6)
T. Kadowaki
N. Kubota
Y. Terauchi
H. Miki
H. Tamemoto
T. Yamauchi
K. Komeda
K. Tobe
S. Kimura
Variability of clinical features of HNF-1 α-deficient diabetes (MODY3) due to different functional properties of mutant proteins	85	(8)
J. Takeda
H. Tomura
S. Yamada
H. Nishigori
K. Sho
H. Onda
Z. Zhang
L. Yu
L. Jin
Y-J. Si
Y. Murayama
T. Narita
N. Tonooka
Y. Yang
T. Kohama
K. Onigata
A. Morikawa
I. Inoue
Positional cloning of Wolfram syndrome (diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy) gene: possible role in pancreatic β cell survival	93	(8)
Y. Oka
Y. Tanizawa
H. Inoue
Studies of the etiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Pima Indians	101	(6)
C. Bogardus
L. Baier
R. Pratley
M. Prochazka
R. Hanson
Maturity-onset diabetes of the young - a model for genetic studies of diabetes mellitus	107	(16)
G.I. Bell
N.J. Cox
J.C. Daniel
L. del Bosque Plata
S.S. Fajans
M. Hara
Y. Horikawa
Y. Horikawa
Y. Iwamoto
N. Iwasaki
X. Li
H. Mashima
P.R. Njolstad
M. Ogata
B. Patterson
V.P. Paz
K.S. Polonsky
W.Y. So
X. Wang
H. Ye
Hyperlipidemia
Common susceptibility genes to dyslipidemia and coronary artery disease in Japanese people	123	(8)
H. Hamaguchi
K. Yamakawa-Kobayashi
H. Amemiya
K. Kawata
H. Fuziwara
T. Arinami
Degradation enzymes for sterol regulatory element binding protein	131	(8)
H. Shirai
M. Yamaguchi
R. Sato
Y. Kawabe
R. Fukuda
T. Kodama
T. Hamakubo
Molecular and physiological studies of the HDL receptor SR-BI	139	(12)
B. Trigatti
Molecular basis for cellular cholesterol efflux and regulation of plasma HDL levels	151	(8)
S. Yokoyama
M. Tsujita
R. Arakawa
S. Dohmae
J. Ito
PPAR γ: cross-talk with membrane receptors and control of energy homeostasis	159	(10)
W. Wahli
S. Kersten
P. Devchand
B. Desvergne
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ, the ultimate liaison between fat and transcription	169	(12)
S. Rocchi
J. Auwerx
Regulation of macrophage gene expression and lipid metabolism by the nuclear receptor PPARγ	181	(10)
P. Tontonoz
L. Nagy
R.M. Evans
Hypertension
Genetics of essential hypertension	191	(10)
A.M. Sharma
Genetic susceptibility to essential hypertension in Japanese people	201	(8)
T. Katsuya
J. Higaki
S. Baba
K. Ishikawa
T. Mannami
N. Sato
J. Ogata
T. Ogihara
Mapping nephropathy susceptibility genes using kidney specific chromosome transfer	209	(10)
P.C. Churchill
M.C. Churchill
A.K. Bidani
K.A. Griffin
M. Picken
M. Pravenec
V. Kren
E. St. Lezin
T.W. Kurtz
Genetic analysis of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), an animal model of hypertension and insulin resistance	219	(8)
T. Gotoda
Y. Iizuka
N. Yamada
Role of LOX-1, an endothelial oxidized low-density lipoprotein receptor, in vascular disorders	227	(10)
M. Nagase
K. Ando
T. Fujita
Genetic analysis of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in patients with coronary spasm	237	(14)
H. Yasue
M. Yoshimura
M. Nakayama
Y. Shimasaki
K. Kugiyama
H. Ogawa
Y. Saito
Y. Ogawa
Y. Miyamoto
K. Nakao
General molecular biology in common disease
Genomic searches for genes that influence common disease in human and nonhuman primate families	251	(10)
J.E. Hixson
Roles of prostanoids in health and disease; lessons from receptor-knockout mice	261	(10)
S. Narumiya
Index of authors	271	(2)
Keyword index	273