Dr. Raj Bala DO, MS

Expert Publications

• A somatomedin assay using normal rabbit cartilage in clinical studies.
• Size heterogeneity of human serum somatomedin.
• Size heterogeneity of human serum somatomedin.
• PITUITARY REGULATION OF TARGET GLANDS.
• Potentiation of epidermal growth factor-induced differentiation of cultured human placental cells by insulin-like growth factor-I.
• Differential effects of insulin-like growth factors I and II on growth, differentiation and glucoregulation in differentiating chondrocyte cells in culture.
• Epidermal growth factor enhancement of insulin-like growth factor-I-induced down-regulation of insulin-like growth factor I receptor in cultured placental trophoblastic cells.
• Effect of ovine prolactin on serum somatomedin bioactivity in hypophysectomized female rats.
• Effect of ovine prolactin on serum somatomedin bioactivity in hypophysectomized female rats.
• Insulin-like growth factor inhibition of growth hormone secretion.
• Altered release of growth hormone from dispersed adenohypophysial cells of streptozotocin diabetic rats. II. Effects of a phorbol ester and secretagogues which increase cyclic AMP.
• Effects of melatonin and hypothyroidism on somatomedin levels of female Syrian hamsters.
• Altered release of growth hormone from dispersed adenohypophysial cells of streptozotocin diabetic rats. I. Effects of growth hormone releasing factor and somatostatin.
• Increased autophosphorylation of insulin-like growth factor-I and insulin receptors in placentas of diabetic women.
• Cycloheximide blocks insulin-like growth factor I but not somatostatin inhibition of growth hormone secretion.

Media Releases

Get to know Emergency Physician Dr. Raj Bala, who serves patients in Chicago, Illinois.

A devoted emergency physician, Dr. Bala works with patients at Medicus in Chicago, Illinois.

Before embarking on his professional journey, he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Physiology from UCLA in 2004, and received his Master’s Degree in Pharmacology from Tulane University in 2006. He then went on to graduate with his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in 2011.

Among his other roles, Dr. Bala can be found on staff at Riverside Medical Center, and Ingalls Hospital.

Emergency medicine, also known as accident and emergency medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. An emergency physician works in an emergency department to care for acutely ill or injured patients on an unscheduled basis.

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