Dr. John I Gallin M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
10 Center Dr Bldg 10, Rm 6-2551 Bethesda MD, 20892Rating
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Dr. John Gallin is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Gallin specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neutrophil-specific granule deficiency results from a novel mutation with loss of function of the transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer binding protein epsilon.
- Kinetic analysis of chemotactic factor generation in human serum via activation of the classical and alternate complement pathways.
- Suppression of cellular immune responses following transfer factor: report of a case.
- Defective mononuclear leukocyte chemotaxis in the Chediak-Higashi syndrome of humans, mink, and cattle.
- Immunodeficiency diseases caused by defects in phagocytes.
- Fibrinogen induces IL-8 synthesis in human neutrophils stimulated with formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine or leukotriene B(4).
- IFN-gamma is effective in reducing infections in the mouse model of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD).
- Leucocyte chemotaxis: physiological considerations and abnormalities.
- Functional abnormalities of human neutrophils collected by continuous flow filtration leukopheresis.
- Distinct mutations in IRAK-4 confer hyporesponsiveness to lipopolysaccharide and interleukin-1 in a patient with recurrent bacterial infections.
- Retroviral expression of recombinant p47phox protein by Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B lymphocytes from a patient with autosomal chronic granulomatous disease.
- Successful treatment of Paecilomyces varioti infection in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease and a review of Paecilomyces species infections.
- A novel post-translational incorporation of tyrosine into multiple proteins in activated human neutrophils. Correlation with phagocytosis and activation of the NADPH oxidase-mediated respiratory burst.
- Inhibition of human neutrophil IL-8 production by hydrogen peroxide and dysregulation in chronic granulomatous disease.
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