Dr Peter C Butler, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Center Director
(310) 206-7312

pbutler@mednet.ucla.edu
Dr. Peter Butler's research is focused on abnormal insulin secretion in diabetes, the causes of beta cell death in diabetes and the possibility to foster islet regeneration in humans with diabetes. After obtaining his MD at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1980, Dr Peter Butler under went training in internal medicine in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He then underwent training in Endocrinology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and then at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN where he was also a research fellow. He was then appointed to a clinical faculty position at Mayo Clinic in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He was also the Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center and led an NIH funded research program. After six years on the faculty at the Mayo Clinic he was appointed to the Chair of Diabetes at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he established the first Clinical Research Center in the UK. He returned to the USA in 1999 when he was appointed to Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at the University of Southern California moving to the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. At UCLA he has established the Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center, a free standing building that houses investigators with a wide range of skills focused on revealing the mechanisms of beta cell loss and potential regeneration in people with type 1 and 2 diabetes. He is director of the LHIRC islet isolation and physiology core. He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Diabetes. He is also the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension. His clinical practice at UCLA focuses on care of patients with diabetes.
 

 

Peter Butler Publications

1. Vore SJ, Aycock ED, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Anesthesia suppresses insulin pulse mass but increases orderliness of insulin concentration. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 281: E93-E99, 2001.
Abstract

2. Kjems L, Kirby BM, Welsh EM, Veldhuis JD, McIntyre SS, Yang DC, Lefèbvre P, Butler PC. Decrease in b-cell mass leads to impaired pulsatile insulin secretion, reduced post-prandial hepatic insulin clearance, and relative hyperglucagonemia in the minipig. Diabetes 50: 2001-2012, 2001.
Abstract

3. Song SH, Kjems L, McIntyre SM, Johnson ML, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Pulsatile insulin secretion by human pancreatic islets. J.Clin.Endocrinol. Metab. 87(1):213-221, 2002.
Abstract

4. Juhl C, Grøfte T, Butler PC, Veldhuis JD, Schmitz O, Pørksen N. Effects of fasting physiologically pulsatile insulin release in healthy humans. Diabetes 51 (S1): S255-S257, 2002.
Abstract

5. Butler AE, Janson J, Bonner-Weir S, Ritzel R, Rizza RA, Butler PC. b-cell deficit and increased apoptosis in humans with type-2 diabetes. Diabetes 52 (1):102-110, 2003.
Abstract

6. Ritzel RA, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Glucose stimulates pulsatile insulin secretion from human pancreatic islets by increasing secretory burst mass; dose-response relationships. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 88(2):742-747, 2003.
Abstract

7. Song SH, Rhodes CJ, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Diazoxide attenuates glucose-induced defects in first phase insulin release and pulsatile insulin secretion in human islets. Endocrinology. 144(8):3399-3405, 2003.
Abstract

8. Ritzel RA, Butler, PC. Replication increases beta cell vulnerability to human islet amyloid polypeptide induced apoptosis. Diabetes. 52:1701-1708, 2003.
Abstract

9. Butler AE, Janson J, Soeller WC, Butler PC. Increased beta cell apoptosis prevents adaptive increase in beta cell mass in mouse model of type-2 diabetes, evidence for role of islet amyloid formation rather than direct action of amyloid. Diabetes. 52:2304-2314, 2003.
Abstract

10. Ritzel RA, Hansen JB, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Induction of beta-cell rest by a KIR6.2/SUR1 selective KATP-channel opener preserves beta-cell insulin stores and insulin secretion in human islets cultured at high (11mM) glucose. J.Clin.Endocrinol Metab. 89:795-805, 2004.
Abstract

11. Janson J, Laedtke T, Parisi JE, O'Brien P, Petersen RC, Butler PC. Increased risk of type 2 diabetes in Alzheimer disease. Diabetes. 53:474-481, 2004.
Abstract

12. Butler AE, Jang J, Gurlo T, Carty MD, Soeller WS, Butler PC. Diabetes due to a progessive defect in beta cell mass in rats transgenic for human islet amyloid polypeptide (HIP rat). A new model for type-2 diabetes. Diabetes 53:1509-1516, 2004.
Abstract

13. Meier JJ, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Pulsatile insulin secretion dictates systemic insulin delivery by regulating hepatic insulin extraction in humans. Diabetes 54:1649-1656, 2005.
Abstract

14. Meier JJ, Bhushan A, Butler AE, Rizza RA, Butler PC. Sustained beta-cell apoptosis in patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes: Indirect evidence for islet regeneration? Diabetologia 48:2221-2228, 2005.
Abstract

15. Lin CY, Gurlo T, Haataja L, Hsueh WA, Butler PC. Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-g (PPAR-g) by rosiglitazone protects human islet cells against human-islet amyloid polypeptide toxicity by a PI3 kinase-dependent pathway. JCEM, 90:6678-6686, 2005.
Abstract

16. Meier JJ, Ritzel RA, Maedler K, Gurlo T, Butler PC. Increased vulnerability of newly forming beta-cells to cytokine-induced cell death. Diabetologia, 49:83-89, 2006.
Abstract

17. Meier JJ, Nauck MA, Butler PC. Comment to: Patti ME, Mcmahon G, Mun EC et al. (2005) Severe hypoglycaemia post-gastric bypass requiring partial pancreatectomy: evidence for inappropriate insulin secretion and pancreatic islet hyperplasia. Diabetologia, 48:2236-2240, 2006.
Abstract

18. Ritzel RA, Butler AE, Rizza RA, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Relationship between ß-cell mass and fasting blood glucose concentration in humans. Diabetes Care, 29 (3):717-718, 2006.
Abstract

19. Meier JJ, Bhushan A, Butler PC. The potential for stem cell therapy in diabetes. Pediatr Res, 59 (4):65R-73R, 2006.
Abstract

20. Meier JJ, Kjems LL, Veldhuis JD, Lefebvre P, Butler PC. Post prandial suppression of glucagon secretion depends on intact pulsatile insulin secretion: Further evidence for the intra-islet insulin hypothesis. Diabetes, 55:1051-1056, 2006.
Abstract

21. Ritzel RA, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. The Mass but Not the Frequency, of Insulin Secretory Bursts in Isolated Human Islets is Entrained by Oscillatory Glucose Exposure. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 290:E750-E756, 2006.
Abstract

22. Matveyenko A, Butler PC. IAPP transgenic rodents as models for Type 2 Diabetes. ILAR Journal, 47 (3):225-233, 2006.
Abstract

23. Meier JJ, Butler AE, Galasso R, Butler PC. Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia after Gastric Bypass Surgery is not accompanied by Islet Hyperplasia or increased Beta-cell Turnover. Diabetes Care, 29 (7):1554-1559, 2006.
Abstract

24. Meier JJ, Lin JC, Butler AE, Galasso R, Martinez DS, Butler PC. Direct evidence of attempted beta-cell regeneration in an 89-year old patient with recent onset Type 1 diabetes. Diabetologia, 49 (8):1838-1844, 2006.
Abstract

25. Matveyenko AV, Butler PC. b-cell Deficit Due To Increased Apoptosis in the Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Transgenic (HIP) Rat Recapitulates the Metabolic Defects Present In Type-2 Diabetes. Diabetes, 55:2106-2114, 2006.
Abstract

26. Matveyenko AV, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Mechanisms of impaired fasting glucose and glucose intolerance induced by a ~50% pancreatectomy. Diabetes 55:2347-2356, 2006.
Abstract

27. Meier JJ, Hong-McAtee I, Galasso R, Veldhuis JD, Moran A, Hering BJ, Butler PC. Intrahepatic Transplanted Islets in Humans Secrete Insulin in a Coordinate Pulsatile Manner Directly Into the Liver. Diabetes 55:2324-2332, 2006.
Abstract

28. Meier JJ, Nauk MA, Butler PC. Severe hypoglycemia post-gastric bypass surgery requiring partial pancreatectomy: evidence for inappropriate insulin secretion and pancreatic islet hyperplasia. Diabeteologia, In Press, 2006.
Abstract: Pending

29. Meier JJ, Kayed R, Lin CY, Gurlo T, Haataja L, Jayasinghe S, Langen R, Glabe CC, Butler PC. Inhibition of hIAPP fibril formation does not prevent beta-cell death: Evidence for distinct actions of oligomers and fibrils of hIAPP. Am J Physiol, In Press, 2006.
Abstract

30. Meier JJ, Butler AE, Galasso R, Rizza RA, Butler PC. Increased islet beta cell replication adjacent to intrapancreatic Gastrinomas in humans. Diabetologia, In Press 2006.
Abstract

31. Ritzel RA, Meier JJ, Lin CY, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC. Human islet amyloid polypeptide oligomers disrupts cell coupling, induces apoptosis, and impair insulin secretion in isolated human islets. Diabetes (56):65-71, 2007.
Abstract

Reviews

32. Butler AE, Butler PC. Life and death of ß-cells in the islet of Langerhans in type 2 diabetes. International Diabetes Monitor, 18 (4), 2006.

Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Thompson CJ, Davies SN, Butler PC, Charlton JA, Baylis PH.
Osmoregulation of thirst and vasopressin secretion in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Clin. Sci. 74: 599-606, 1988.

2. Møller N, Butler PC, Antsiferov MA, Alberti KGMM.
Effects of growth hormone on insulin sensitivity and forearm metabolism in normal man. Diabetologia 32: 105-110, 1989.

3. Møller N, Beckwith R, Butler PC, Christensen NJ, Ørskov H, Alberti KGMM.
Metabolic and hormonal responses to exogenous hyperthermia in man.
Clin. Endocrinol. 30: 651-660, 1989.

4. Bartlett K, Bhuiyan AKM J, Aynsley-Green A, Butler PC, Alberti KGMM.
Human forearm arteriovenous differences of carnitine, short-chain acylcarnitine and long-chain acylcarnitine.
Clin. Sci. 77: 413-416, 1989.

5. Miller AR, Barr D, Marsh CL, Kryshak EJ, Butler PC, Rizza RA, Perkins JD.
Diversion of the gastroduodenal vein: An in situ model of systemic insulin drainage.
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 7: 109-114, 1989.

6. Butler PC, Kryshak EJ, Schwenk WF, Haymond MW, Rizza RA.
Hepatic and extrahepatic responses to insulin in NIDDM and nondiabetic humans: Assessment in absence of artifact introduced by tritiated nonglucose contaminants.
Diabetes 39: 217-225, 1990.

7. Kryshak EJ, Butler PC, Marsh C, Miller A, Barr D, Polonsky K, Perkins JD, Rizza RA.
Pattern of postprandial carbohydrate metabolism and effects of portal and peripheral insulin delivery.
Diabetes 39: 142-148, 1990.

8. Schwenk WF, Butler PC, Haymond MW, Rizza RA.
Underestimation of glucose turnover corrected with high-performance liquid chromatography purification of [6 3H] glucose.
Am. J. Physiol. 258: E228-E233, 1990.

9. Goodship THJ, Butler PC, Rodham D, Clayton B, Home PD, Alberti KGMM.
Total body potassium in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Clin. Sci. 78: 377-381, 1990.

10. Barr D, Miller AR, Marsh CL, Kryshak EJ, Butler PC, Rizza RA, Perkins JD.
Diversion of the gastroduodenal vein: A canine model for comparing portal versus systemic insulin delivery.
Transplant Proc. 22: 702-703, 1990.

11. Conover CA, Butler PC, Wang M, Rizza RA, Lee PDK.
Lack of growth hormone effect on insulin-associated suppression of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 in humans.
Diabetes 39: 1251-1256, 1990.

12. Butler PC, Kryshak EJ, Marsh M, Rizza RA.
Effect of insulin on oxidation of intracellularly and extracellularly derived glucose in patients with NIDDM: Evidence for a primary defect in glucose transport and/or phosphorylation but not glucose oxidation.
Diabetes 39: 1373-1380, 1990.

13. Butler PC, Chou J, Carter WB, Wang YN, Bu BH, Chang D, Chang JK, Rizza RA.
Effects of meal ingestion on plasma amylin concentration in NIDDM and nondiabetic humans.
Diabetes 39: 752-756, 1990.

14. Ebeling PR, Butler PC, Eastell R, Rizza RA, Riggs BL.
The nocturnal increase in growth hormone is not the cause of the nocturnal increase in serum osteocalcin.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 73: 368-372, 1991.

15. Butler PC, Rizza RA.
Contribution to postprandial hyperglycemia and effect on initial splanchnic glucose clearance of hepatic glucose cycling in glucose-intolerant or NIDDM patients.
Diabetes 40: 73-81, 1991.

16. Butler PC, Kryshak EJ, Rizza RA.
Mechanism of growth hormone-induced postprandial carbohydrate intolerance in humans. Am. J. Physiol. 260: E513-E520, 1991.

17. Homan M, Nicholson CP, Katz H, Perkins J, Haymond MW, Miles J, Jansen M, Butler PC, Rizza RA.
Effects of chronic insulin delivery on insulin action in dogs.
Diabetologia 34: 702-708, 1991.

18. Davis SN, Butler PC, Brown M, Beer S, Sobey W, Hanning I, Home PD, Hales CN, Alberti KGMM.
The effects of human proinsulin on glucose turnover and intermediary metabolism.
Metabolism 40: 953-961, 1991.

19. Katz H, Homan M, Butler PC, Rizza RA.
Use of [3-3H] glucose and [6-14C] glucose to measure glucose turnover and glucose metabolism in humans.
Am. J. Physiol. 263: E17-E22, 1992.

20. Møller N, Schmitz O, Møller J, Butler PC.
Effects of a physiological growth hormone pulse on substrate metabolism in insulin-dependent (Type I) diabetic subjects.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 75: 432-436, 1992.

21. Usala A-L, Madigan T, Burguera B, Sinha MK, Caro JF, Cunningham PR, Powell JG, and Butler PC.
Treatment of insulin-resistant diabetic ketoacidosis with insulin-like growth factor I in an adolescent with insulin-dependent diabetes.
N. Engl. J. Med. 327: 853-857, 1992.

22. Butler PC, Caumo A, Zerman A, O'Brien PC, Cobelli C, Rizza RA.
Methods for assessment of the rate of onset and offset of insulin action during nonsteady state in humans.
Am. J. Physiol. 264 Endocrinol. Metab. 27: E548-E560, 1993.

23. Katz H, Butler PC, Homan H, Zerman A. Caumo A, Cobelli C, Rizza RA.
Hepatic and extrahepatic insulin action in humans: Measurement in the absence of nonsteady-state error.
Am. J. Physiol. 264 Endocrinol. Metab. 27: E561-E566, 1993.

24. O'Brien TD, Butler AE, Roche PC, Johnson KH, Butler PC.
Islet amyloid polypeptide in human insulinomas: Evidence for intracellular amyloidogenesis.
Diabetes 43: 329-336, 1994.

25. Pørksen N, Munn S, Ferguson D, O'Brien T, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Coordinate pulsatile insulin secretion by chronic intraportally transplanted islets in the isolated perfused rat liver.
J. Clin. Invest. 94: 219-227, 1994.

26. Schmitz O, Pedersen SB, Mengel A, Pørksen N, Bak J, Møller N, Richelsen B, Alberti KGMM, Butler PC, Ørskov H.
Augmented effect of short-term pulsatile versus continuous insulin delivery on lipid metabolism but similar effect on whole-body glucose metabolism in obese subjects.
Metabolism 43: 842-846, 1994.

27. O'Brien TD, Rizza RA, Carney JA, Butler PC.
Islet amyloidosis in a patient with chronic massive insulin resistance due to antiinsulin receptor antibodies.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 79: 290-292, 1994.

28. Rother KI, Carney JA, Couce M, Charlesworth J, Butler PC.
Islet amyloid polypeptide in pancreatic tissue of children with persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia caused by primary islet hyperplasia and nesidioblastosis.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 80: 1956-1959, 1995.

29. Carter WB, Heath H, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Measurement of plasma calcitonin gene-related peptide concentration in healthy humans and patients with Type II diabetes mellitus: responses to meal ingestion and hyperinsulinemia.
Endocrinology and Metabolism 2: 99-103, 1995.

30. O'Brien TD, Butler PC, Kreutter DK, Kane LA, Eberhardt NL.
Human islet amyloid polypeptide expression in COS-1 cells: a model of intracellular amyloidogenesis.
Am. J. Pathol. 147: 609-616, 1995.

31. Pørksen N, Munn S, Steers J, Vore S, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Pulsatile insulin secretion accounts for 70% of total insulin secreted during fasting.
Am. J. Physiol. 269 Endocrinol. Metab. 32: E478-E488, 1995.

32. Pørksen N, Munn S, Steers J, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Impact of sampling technique on appraisal of pulsatile insulin secretion by deconvolution and cluster analysis.
Am. J. Physiol. 269 Endocrinol. Metab. 32: E1106-E1114, 1995.

33. Couce M, O'Brien TD, Moran A, Roche PC, Butler PC.
Diabetes mellitus in cystic fibrosis is characterized by islet amyloidosis.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 81: 1267-1272, 1996.

34. Gray RO, Butler PC, Beers TR, Kryshak EJ, Rizza RA.
Comparison of the ability of bread versus bread plus meat to treat and prevent subsequent hypoglycemia in patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 81: 1508-1511, 1996.

35. Vore SJ, Aycock ED, Butler PC.
Measurement of insulin pulsatility by sampling directly from the portal vein: A surgical model for placement of long-term prehepatic vascular sampling catheters.
Lab. Anim. Sci. 46: 202-205, 1996.

36. Pørksen N, Munn S, Steers J, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Effects of somatostatin on pulsatile insulin secretion; selective inhibition of insulin burst mass.
Am. J. Physiol. 270 Endocrinol.Metab.33: E1043-E1049, 1996.

37. Couce M, Kane LA, O'Brien TD, Charlesworth J, Soeller W, McNeish J, Kreutter D, Roche P, Butler PC.
Treatment with growth hormone and dexamethasone in mice transgenic for human islet amyloid polypeptide causes islet amyloidosis and b-cell dysfunction.
Diabetes 45: 8 1094-1101, 1996.

38. Janson J, Soeller WC, Roche PC, Nelson RT, Torchia AJ, Kruetter DK, Butler PC. Spontaneous diabetes mellitus in transgenic mice expressing human islet amyloid polypeptide.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93: 7283-7288, 1996.

39. Pørksen N, Munn S, Steers J, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Effects of glucose ingestion versus infusion on pulsatile insulin secretion: the incretin effect is achieved by amplification of insulin secretory burst mass.
Diabetes 45: 1317-1323, 1996.

40. Pørksen N, Munn S, Steers J, Schmitz O, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Mechanisms of Sulfonylurea's Stimulation of Insulin Secretion In Vivo: selective amplification of insulin secretory burst mass.
Diabetes 45: 1792-1797, 1996.

41. O'Brien TD, Wagner JD, Litwak KN, Carlson CS, Cefalu WT, Jordan KH, Johnson KH, Butler PC.
Islet amyloid and islet amyloid polypeptide in cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis): an animal model of human non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
Vet. Pathol. 33: 479-485, 1996.

42. Schmitz O, Pørksen N, Nyholm B, Skjærbæk C, Butler PC, Veldhuis JD, Pincus SM. Disorderly and Nonstationary Insulin Secretion in Relatives of Patients with NIDDM. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol Metab. 35: E218-E226, 1997.

43. Pørksen N, Hussain MA, Bianda TL, Nyholm B, Christianen JS, Butler PC, Veldhuis JD, Froesch ER and Schmitz O.
IGF-I inhibits burst mass of pulsatile insulin secretion at supraphysiological and low IGF-I infusion rates.
Am. J. Physiol. 272 Endocrinol Metab. 35: E352-E358, 1997.

44. Pørksen N, Nyholm B, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC, Schmitz O.
In humans at least seventy-five percent of overall insulin secretion arises from punctuated high-frequency insulin secretory bursts.
Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol Metab. 36: E908-914, 1997.

45. Kudva YC, Hiddinga HB, Butler PC, Mueske CS, Eberhardt NL.
Small heat shock proteins inhibit in vitro A 1-42 amyloidogenesis.
FEBS Letters 416: 117-121, 1997.

46. Pørksen N, Grøfte T, Nyholm B, Holst JJ, Pincus SM, Veldhuis JD, Schmitz O, Butler PC.
Glucagon-like peptide 1 increases mass but not frequency or orderliness of pulsatile insulin secretion.
Diabetes 47: 45-49, 1998

47. Soeller W, Janson J, Hart SE, Parker JC, Carty MD, Stevenson RW, Kreutter DK, Butler PC.
Islet Amyloid-Associated Diabetes Mellitus in Obese Avy/a Mice Expressing Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide.
Diabetes 47: 743-750, 1998.

48. Kudva YG, Mueske C, Butler PC, Eberhardt NL.
A novel assay in vitro of human islet amyloid polypeptide amyloidogenesis and effects of insulin secretory vesicle peptides on amyloid formation.
Biochemical Journal 331: 809-813, 1998.

49. Janson J, Ashley RH, Harrison D, McIntyre S, Butler PC.
The mechanism of islet amyloid polypeptide toxicity is membrane disruption by intermediate-sized toxic amyloid particles.
Diabetes 48: 491-498, 1999.

50. Laedtke T, Kjems L, Pørksen N, Schmitz, O, Veldhuis JD, Kao PC, Butler PC.
Overnight inhibition of insulin secretion restores pulsatility and the proinsulin/insulin ratio in Type 2 diabetes.
Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 279:E 520-528, 2000.

51. Song SH, McIntyre SM, Shah H, Veldhuis, JD, Hayes, PC, Butler PC.
Direct measurement of pulsatile insulin secretion from the portal vein in human subjects. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 85: 4491-4499, 2000.

52. Nyholm B, Pørksen N, Juhl CB, Gravhold CH, Butler PC, Weeke J, Veldhuis JD, Pincus S, Schmitz O. Assessment of insulin secretion in relatives of patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent, NIDDM) diabetes mellitus: evidence of early -cell dysfunction.
Metabolism: Clinical & Experimental 49: (7): 896-905, 2000.

53. Vore SJ, Aycock ED, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Anesthesia suppresses insulin pulse mass but increases orderliness of insulin concentration.
Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 281: E93-E99, 2001.

54. Kjems L, Kirby BM, Welsh EM, Veldhuis JD, McIntyre SS, Yang DC, Lefèbvre P, Butler PC.
Decrease in -cell mass leads to impaired pulsatile insulin secretion, reduced post-prandial hepatic insulin clearance, and relative hyperglucagonemia in the minipig.
Diabetes 50: 2001-2012, 2001.
55. Song SH, Kjems L, McIntyre SM, Johnson ML, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Pulsatile insulin secretion by human pancreatic islets.
J.Clin.Endocrinol. Metab. 87(1):213-221, 2002.

56. Pørksen N., Hollingdal M, Juhl C, Butler PC, Veldhuis JD, Schmitz, O.
Pulsatile insulin secretion: detection, regulation, and role in diabetes.
Diabetes 51 (S1): S245-S254, 2002.

57. Juhl C, Grøfte T, Butler PC, Veldhuis JD, Schmitz O, Pørksen N.
Effects of fasting physiologically pulsatile insulin release in healthy humans.
Diabetes 51 (S1): S255-S257, 2002.

58. Butler AE, Janson J, Bonner-Weir S, Ritzel R, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
-cell deficit and increased apoptosis in humans with type-2 diabetes.
Diabetes 52 (1):102-110, 2003.

59. Ritzel RA, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Glucose stimulates pulsatile insulin secretion from human pancreatic islets by increasing secretory burst mass; dose-response relationships.
J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 88(2):742-747, 2003.

60. Song SH, Rhodes CJ, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Diazoxide attenuates glucose-induced defects in first phase insulin release and pulsatile insulin secretion in human islets.
Endocrinology. 144(8):3399-3405, 2003.

61. Ritzel RA, Butler, PC.
Replication increases beta cell vulnerability to human islet amyloid polypeptide induced apoptosis.
Diabetes. 52:1701-1708, 2003.

62. Butler AE, Janson J, Soeller WC, Butler PC.
Increased beta cell apoptosis prevents adaptive increase in beta cell mass in mouse model of type-2 diabetes, evidence for role of islet amyloid formation rather than direct action of amyloid.
Diabetes. 52:2304-2314, 2003.

63. Ritzel RA, Hansen JB, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Induction of beta-cell rest by a KIR6.2/SUR1 selective KATP-channel opener preserves beta-cell insulin stores and insulin secretion in human islets cultured at high (11mM) glucose.
J.Clin.Endocrinol Metab. 89:795-805, 2004.

64. Janson J, Laedtke T, Parisi JE, O'Brien P, Petersen RC, Butler PC.
Increased risk of type 2 diabetes in Alzheimer disease.
Diabetes. 53:474-481, 2004.

65. Butler AE, Jang J, Gurlo T, Carty MD, Soeller WS, Butler PC.
Diabetes due to a progessive defect in beta cell mass in rats transgenic for human islet amyloid polypeptide (HIP rat). A new model for type-2 diabetes.
Diabetes 53:1509-1516, 2004.

66. Meier JJ, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Pulsatile insulin secretion dictates systemic insulin delivery by regulating hepatic insulin extraction in humans.
Diabetes 54:1649-1656, 2005.

67. Meier JJ, Bhushan A, Butler AE, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Sustained beta-cell apoptosis in patients with long-standing type 1 diabetes: Indirect evidence for islet regeneration?
Diabetologia 48:2221-2228, 2005.

68. Lin CY, Gurlo T, Haataja L, Hsueh WA, Butler PC.
Activation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors- (PPAR- ) by rosiglitazone protects human islet cells against human-islet amyloid polypeptide toxicity by a PI3 kinase-dependent pathway.
JCEM, 90:6678-6686, 2005.

69. Meier JJ, Ritzel RA, Maedler K, Gurlo T, Butler PC.
Increased vulnerability of newly forming beta-cells to cytokine-induced cell death.
Diabetologia, 49:83-89, 2006.

70. Meier JJ, Nauck MA, Butler PC.
Comment to: Patti ME, Mcmahon G, Mun EC et al. (2005) Severe hypoglycaemia post-gastric bypass requiring partial pancreatectomy: evidence for inappropriate insulin secretion and pancreatic islet hyperplasia.
Diabetologia, 48:2236-2240, 2006.

71. Ritzel RA, Butler AE, Rizza RA, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Relationship between ß-cell mass and fasting blood glucose concentration in humans.
Diabetes Care, 29 (3):717-718, 2006.

72. Meier JJ, Bhushan A, Butler PC.
The potential for stem cell therapy in diabetes.
Pediatr Res, 59 (4):65R-73R, 2006.

73. Meier JJ, Kjems LL, Veldhuis JD, Lefebvre P, Butler PC.
Post prandial suppression of glucagon secretion depends on intact pulsatile insulin secretion: Further evidence for the intra-islet insulin hypothesis.
Diabetes, 55:1051-1056, 2006.

74. Ritzel RA, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
The Mass but Not the Frequency, of Insulin Secretory Bursts in Isolated Human Islets is Entrained by Oscillatory Glucose Exposure.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, 290:E750-E756, 2006.

75. Butler AE, Butler PC.
Life and death of ß-cells in the islet of Langerhans in type 2 diabetes.
International Diabetes Monitor, 18 (4), 2006.

76. Matveyenko A, Butler PC.
IAPP transgenic rodents as models for Type 2 Diabetes.
ILAR Journal, 47 (3):225-233, 2006.

77. Meier JJ, Butler AE, Galasso R, Butler PC.
Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia after Gastric Bypass Surgery is not accompanied by Islet Hyperplasia or increased Beta-cell Turnover.
Diabetes Care, 29 (7):1554-1559, 2006.

78. Meier JJ, Lin JC, Butler AE, Galasso R, Martinez DS, Butler PC.
Direct evidence of attempted beta-cell regeneration in an 89-year old patient with recent onset Type 1 diabetes.
Diabetologia, 49 (8):1838-1844, 2006.

79. Matveyenko AV, Butler PC.
-cell Deficit Due To Increased Apoptosis in the Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Transgenic (HIP) Rat Recapitulates the Metabolic Defects Present In Type-2 Diabetes.
Diabetes, 55:2106-2114, 2006.

80. Matveyenko AV, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Mechanisms of impaired fasting glucose and glucose intolerance induced by a ~50% pancreatectomy.
Diabetes 55:2347-2356, 2006.

81. Meier JJ, Hong-McAtee I, Galasso R, Veldhuis JD, Moran A, Hering BJ, Butler PC.
Intrahepatic Transplanted Islets in Humans Secrete Insulin in a Coordinate Pulsatile Manner Directly Into the Liver.
Diabetes 55:2324-2332, 2006.

82. Meier JJ, Kayed R, Lin CY, Gurlo T, Haataja L, Jayasinghe S, Langen R, Glabe CG, Butler PC.
Inhibition of human IAPP fibril formation does not prevent beta-cell death: Evidence for distinct actions of oligomers and fibrils of human IAPP.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 291: E1317-24, 2006.

83. Meier JJ, Butler AE, Galasso R, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Increased islet beta cell replication adjacent to intrapancreatic Gastrinomas in humans.
Diabetologia 49(11):2689-96, 2006.

84. Ritzel RA, Meier JJ, Lin CY, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Human islet amyloid polypeptide oligomers disrupts cell coupling, induces apoptosis, and impair insulin secretion in isolated human islets.
Diabetes 56(1):65-71, 2007.

85. Cobelli C, Toffolo GM, Man CD, Campioni M, Denti P, Caumo A, Butler P, Rizza R. Assessment of beta-cell function in humans, simultaneously with insulin sensitivity and hepatic extraction, from intravenous and oral glucose tests. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 293:E1-E15, 2007

86. Lin CY, Gurlo T, Kayed R, Butler AE, Haataja L, Glabe CG, Butler PC.
Toxic Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (h-IAPP) Oligomers are Intracellular, and Vaccination to Induce Anti-Toxic Oligomer Antibodies Does not Prevent h-IAPP Induced ß-Cell Apoptosis in h-IAPP Transgenic Mice.
Diabetes 56(5):1324-32, 2007.

87. Butler AE, Huang CJ, Rao N, Bhushan A, Hogan WJ, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Hematopoietic stem cells derived from adult donors are not a source of pancreatic beta cells in adult non diabetic humans.
Diabetes 56(7):1810-1816, 2007.

88. Huang CJ, Lin CY, Haataja L, Gurlo T, Butler AE, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
High expression rates of human islet amyloid polypeptide induce endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated beta cell apoptosis, a characteristic of humans with Type 2 but not Type 2 Diabetes.
Diabetes, 56(8):2016-27, 2007.

89. Butler AE, Galasso R, Meier JJ, Basu R, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Modestly increased beta cell apoptosis but no increased beta cell replication in recent-onset type 1 diabetic patients who died of diabetic ketoacidosis.
Diabetologia. 50(11):2323-31, 2007.

90. Saisho Y, Butler AE, Meier JJ, Monchamp T, Allen-Auerbach M, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Pancreas volumes in humans from birth to age one hundred taking into account sex, obesity, and presence of type-2 diabetes.
Clin Anat. 20(8):933-42, 2007.

91. Kayed R, Head E, Sarsoza F, Saing T, Cotman CW, Necula M, Margol L, Wu J, Breydo L, Thompson JL, Rasool S, Gurlo T, Butler P, Glabe CG.
Fibril specific, conformation dependent antibodies recognize a generic epitope common to amyloid fibrils and fibrillar oligomers that is absent in prefibrillar oligomers.
Mol Neurodegener. 2(1):18, 2007.

92. Huang CJ, Haataja L, Galasso R, Gurlo T, Butler AE, Wu X, Soeller W, Butler PC.
Induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress induced beta cell apoptosis and accumulation of polyubiquinated proteins by human islet amyloid polypeptide.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 293(6):E1656-62, 2007.

93. Butler PC, Meier JJ, Bhushan A.
The replication of beta cells in normal physiology, in disease and for therapy.
Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 3(11):758-68, 2007.

94. Haataja L, Gurlo T, Huang CJ, Butler PC.
Islet amyloid in type 2 diabetes, and the toxic oligomer hypothesis.
Endocrine Reviews. 29(3):303-16, 2008.

95. Meier JJ, Butler AE, Saisho Y, Monchamp T, Galasso R, Bhushan A, Rizza RA, Butler PC.
Beta-cell replication is the primary mechanism subserving the postnatal expansion of beta-cell mass in humans.
Diabetes. 57(6):1584-94, 2008.

96. Saisho Y, Butler AE, Butler PC.
Pancreatic fat content and beta-cell function in men with and without type 2 diabetes: response to Tushuizen et al.
Diabetes Care. 31(5):e38; author reply e39, 2008.

97. Matveyenko AV, Veldhuis JD, Butler PC.
Measurement of pulsatile insulin secretion in the rat, direct sampling from the hepatic portal vein.
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2008 Jun 24 [Epub ahead of print].