Dr. Janet H. Prystowsky, MD, PhD
Dermatologist | Procedural Dermatology
2701 Queens Plz N Floor 10 Long Island City NY, 11101About
Dr. Janet Hill Prystowsky is a board-certified dermatologist with over 20 years of experience and additional certification in Mohs Surgery, providing patients with comprehensive dermatologic surgery services ...
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1983
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med 1983
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1979
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- MD-PhDs in dermatology.
- Factors influencing the pursuit of careers in academic medicine: a survey of MD-PhD residents in dermatology programs in the United States.
- Acitretin plus UVB therapy for psoriasis. Comparisons with placebo plus UVB and acitretin alone.
- Present status of pyoderma gangrenosum. Review of 21 cases.
- Pityriasis rubra pilaris: a review of diagnosis and treatment.
- The attraction of MD-PhDs to dermatology.
- Keratinocyte urokinase-type plasminogen activator is secreted as a single chain precursor.
- Photoprotection and the vitamin D status of the elderly. A concern for dermatologists.
- Bullous eruption in a woman with lupus erythematosus. Bullous systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Rat liver retinyl palmitate hydrolase activity. Relationship to cholesteryl oleate and triolein hydrolase activities.
- Retinyl palmitate hydrolase activity in normal rat liver.
- Regulation of the induction of ornithine decarboxylase in keratinocytes by retinoids.
- Epidermal growth factor induces ornithine decarboxylase in SV40-immortalized human keratinocytes.
- UVB radiation induces phosphorylation of the epidermal growth factor receptor, decreases EGF binding and blocks EGF induction of ornithine decarboxylase gene expression in SV40-transformed human keratinocytes.
- Inhibition of ornithine decarboxylase activity and cell proliferation by ultraviolet B radiation in EGF-stimulated cultured human epidermal keratinocytes.
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