Dr. Scott Brian Snapper MD PHD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
55 Fruit Street Blk 4 Boston MA, 02114Rating
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About
Dr. Scott Snapper is a gastroenterologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Snapper specializes in the digestive system and its diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract, which include organs from the mouth to the anus as well as liver disorders. Gastroenterology includes conditions such as hepatitis, peptic ulcer disease, colitis, nutritional problems and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr. Snapper performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Albert Einstein Medicine
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Gastroenterology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The cytoskeleton in lymphocyte signaling.
- Phosphoinositide 3-kinase knockout mice: role of p85alpha in B cell development and proliferation.
- Cbl-b is a negative regulator of receptor clustering and raft aggregation in T cells.
- Cdc42, Rac1, and the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein are involved in the cytoskeletal regulation of B lymphocytes.
- Efficient uptake of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis via integrin receptors involves a Rac1-Arp 2/3 pathway that bypasses N-WASP function.
- Cdc42 facilitates invasion but not the actin-based motility of Shigella.
- Gene therapy for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: rescue of T-cell signaling and amelioration of colitis upon transplantation of retrovirally transduced hematopoietic stem cells in mice.
- A defect in hematopoietic stem cell migration explains the nonrandom X-chromosome inactivation in carriers of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
- A new method for rapidly generating gene-targeting vectors by engineering BACs through homologous recombination in bacteria.
- Innate immune response to encephalomyocarditis virus infection mediated by CD1d.
- Inducible clustering of membrane-targeted SH3 domains of the adaptor protein Nck triggers localized actin polymerization.
- Identification of expression signals of the mycobacteriophages Bxb1, L1 and TM4 using the Escherichia-Mycobacterium shuttle plasmids pYUB75 and pYUB76 designed to create translational fusions to the lacZ gene.
- Cortactin regulates cell migration through activation of N-WASP.
- The NF2 tumor suppressor Merlin and the ERM proteins interact with N-WASP and regulate its actin polymerization function.
- A crucial role for macrophages in the pathology of K/B x N serum-induced arthritis.
Treatments
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease And More
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