Dr. Roger L Berkow MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
1600 7th Ave S Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
4/5
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Dr. Roger Berkow is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Berkow specializes in treating children that have a blood disease or cancer. Such blood diseases include disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets. The types of cancers that Dr. Berkow treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Berkow can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Education and Training
Loyola Univ of Chicago Stritch Sch of Med, Maywood Il 1976
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
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- Tailored chemotherapy for malignant lymphoma arising in the setting of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder after solid organ transplantation.
- Neutrophil function in chronic neutrophilic leukemia: defective respiratory burst in response to phorbol esters.
- Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor induces a staurosporine inhibitable tyrosine phosphorylation of unique neutrophil proteins.
- Tyrosine-specific protein phosphorylation during activation of human neutrophils.
- Shwachman-Diamond syndrome presenting in a premature infant as pancytopenia.
- Alterations in tyrosine protein kinase activities upon activation of human neutrophils.
- Lipopolysaccharide modulates chemotactic peptide-induced actin polymerization in neutrophils.
- 5-Azacytidine: acute central nervous system toxicity.
- Tumor necrosis factor and interleukin 1 alpha increase vascular endothelial permeability.
- Human neutrophils contain distinct cytosolic and particulate tyrosine kinase activities: possible role in neutrophil activation.
- Calcium-dependent activation of human neutrophils by a synthetic ionophore.
- Characterization of a new G6PD variant: G6PD Titusville.
- Volume-dependent human blood polymorphonuclear leukocyte heterogeneity demonstrated with counterflow centrifugal elutriation.
- Bryostatin, a non-phorbol macrocyclic lactone, activates intact human polymorphonuclear leukocytes and binds to the phorbol ester receptor.
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