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Dr. Michael Joseph Burkitt M.D.
Internist
4727 Friendship Ave Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA, 15224About
Dr. Michael Burkitt is an internist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Burkitt specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Burkitt provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
Georgetown University in Washington DC 2008
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Extent of incorporation of hydroxycinnamaldehydes into lignin in cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase-downregulated plants.
- trans-resveratrol protects embryonic mesencephalic cells from tert-butyl hydroperoxide: electron paramagnetic resonance spin trapping evidence for a radical scavenging mechanism.
- Effects of trans-resveratrol on copper-dependent hydroxyl-radical formation and DNA damage: evidence for hydroxyl-radical scavenging and a novel, glutathione-sparing mechanism of action.
- A simple, highly sensitive and improved method for the measurement of bleomycin-detectable iron: the 'catalytic iron index' and its value in the assessment of iron status in haemochromatosis.
- Cytochrome C is a potent catalyst of dichlorofluorescin oxidation: implications for the role of reactive oxygen species in apoptosis.
- A critical overview of the chemistry of copper-dependent low density lipoprotein oxidation: roles of lipid hydroperoxides, alpha-tocopherol, thiols, and ceruloplasmin.
- Kinetics of superoxide scavenging by glutathione: an evaluation of its role in the removal of mitochondrial superoxide.
- Calcium ions and oxidative cell injury.
- The autoxidation of iron(II) in aqueous systems: the effects of iron chelation by physiological, non-physiological and therapeutic chelators on the generation of reactive oxygen species and the inducement of biomolecular damage.
- Direct evidence for in vivo hydroxyl-radical generation in experimental iron overload: an ESR spin-trapping investigation.
- Model studies of the iron-catalysed Haber-Weiss cycle and the ascorbate-driven Fenton reaction.
- The control of iron-induced oxidative damage in isolated rat-liver mitochondria by respiration state and ascorbate.
- Generation of 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide hydroxyl and scavenger radical adducts from copper/H2O2 mixtures: effects of metal ion chelation and the search for high-valent metal-oxygen intermediates.
- Iron supplementation generates hydroxyl radical in vivo. An ESR spin-trapping investigation.
- Detection of oxygen-derived radicals in biological systems using electron spin resonance.
Treatments
- Pancreatitis
- Heart Disease
- Pneumonia
- Pain
- Osteomyelitis
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200 LOTHROP STREET PITTSBURGH PA 15213