Dr. Ronald M Lechan M.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
750 Washington St Bx 268 New England Med Cent Boston MA, 02111Rating
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Dr. Ronald Lechan practices Endocrinology in Boston, MA. Dr. Lechan specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Lechan examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1976
University of Vermont College of Medicine 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Agouti-related protein containing nerve terminals innervate thyrotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.
- alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone is contained in nerve terminals innervating thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and prevents fasting-induced suppression of prothyrotropin-releasing hormo
- DARPP-32 and CREB are present in type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase-producing tanycytes: implications for the regulation of type 2 deiodinase activity.
- Hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the human hypothalamus are innervated by neuropeptide Y, agouti-related protein, and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
- alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone prevents fasting-induced suppression of corticotropin-releasing hormone gene expression in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.
- Association of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript-immunoreactive elements with thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and its role in the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyr
- Hypothalamic dorsomedial nucleus neurons innervate thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus.
- Neuropeptide Y has a central inhibitory action on the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis.
- Regional physiological adaptation of the central nervous system deiodinases to iodine deficiency.
- Hypothalamic melanocortin signaling in cachexia.
- Conditional deletion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the postnatal brain leads to obesity and hyperactivity.
- Efferent projections of ProTRH neurons in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray.
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons of the human hypothalamus receive neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive innervation from neurons residing primarily outside the infundibular nucleus.
- Effect of precipitated morphine withdrawal on post-translational processing of prothyrotropin releasing hormone (proTRH) in the ventrolateral column of the midbrain periaqueductal gray.
- Medullary adrenergic neurons contribute to the neuropeptide Y-ergic innervation of hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the rat.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Vascular Disease
- Goiter
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