Dr. Justin R Connor MD
Orthopedist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
1057 S BRADFORD ST DOVER DE, 19904About
Dr. Justin Connor is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Connor specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system in children. As a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Connor tends to childrens bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can treat newborns to teenagers. Some conditions Dr. Connor treats include gait abnormalities like limping, limp and spine deformities, broken bones and bone and joint infections.
Education and Training
Washington Center / School of Medicine 2005
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 2005
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Changes in iron histochemistry after hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in the neonatal rat.
- Influence of calcium and iron on cell death and mitochondrial function in oxidatively stressed astrocytes.
- Receptor for interleukin 13 is a marker and therapeutic target for human high-grade gliomas.
- Reduction in the structural changes of experimental osteoarthritis by a nitric oxide inhibitor.
- Distribution of transferrin and ferritin binding in normal and multiple sclerotic human brains.
- Expression of cathepsin K messenger RNA in giant cells and their precursors in human osteoarthritic synovial tissues.
- Cellular distribution of iron in the brain of the Belgrade rat.
- Selective inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase in experimental osteoarthritis is associated with reduction in tissue levels of catabolic factors.
- Influence of nitric oxide on cellular and mitochondrial integrity in oxidatively stressed astrocytes.
- Screening of transcriptionally regulated genes following iron chelation in human astrocytoma cells.
- Transferrin is required for normal distribution of 59Fe and 54Mn in mouse brain.
- Bone structural and mechanical properties are affected by hypotransferrinemia but not by iron deficiency in mice.
- Identification of iron responsive genes by screening cDNA libraries from suppression subtractive hybridization with antisense probes from three iron conditions.
- CKbeta-8 [CCL23], a novel CC chemokine, is chemotactic for human osteoclast precursors and is expressed in bone tissues.
Treatments
- Cerebral Palsy
- Birth Defects
- Down Syndrome
- Pain
- Abnormal Gait
- Blepharoplasty-eyelids
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