Dr. Nabih I Abdou M.D., PH. D.
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
4330 Wornall Rd Med Plaza Ii, 4th Fl Kansas City MO, 64111About
Dr. Nabih Abdou is a rheumatologist practicing in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Abdou specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Abdou treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Kasr El Aini Fac Med Cairo Univ- Cairo 1957
Board Certification
Allergy and ImmunologyAmerican Board of Allergy and ImmunologyABAI- Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular mechanisms involved in the estrogen-dependent regulation of calcineurin in systemic lupus erythematosus T cells.
- Lack of T-cell immune abnormalities in peripheral blood lymphocytes in patients with Graves' disease or hypothyroidism.
- Cellular and humoral immune parameters of synovial fluid and blood in rheumatoid arthritis.
- T and B lymphocytes in multiple sclerosis.
- Human bone marrow lymphocytes: B and T cell precursors and subpopulations.
- Acquired angioedema with lymphoproliferative disorder: association of C1 inhibitor deficiency with cellular abnormality.
- Suppressor T-cell abnormality in idiopathic systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Null cells in peripheral blood of normals and systemic lupus erythematosus.
- "Warm" E rosettes as an index of activation of T lymphocytes.
- The monoclonal nature of lymphocytes in multiple myeloma. Effects of therapy.
- In vitro-activated human lupus T cells express normal estrogen receptor proteins which bind to the estrogen response element.
- Gender differences in autoimmunity: molecular basis for estrogen effects in systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Vasculitis.
- Estrogen increases CD40 ligand expression in T cells from women with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Modulation of HL-A antigens by anti-HLA antiserum: effects on the cytotoxicity assay and mixed leukocyte reaction.
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