Dr. Heather R Macdonald M.D.
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
1510 San Pablo St Suite 514 Los Angeles CA, 90033Rating
4/5
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Dr. Heather Macdonald is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Macdonald specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Macdonald can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Macdonald can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Tucom-Ca 1999
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dramatic influence of V beta gene polymorphism on an antigen-specific CD8+ T cell response in vivo.
- In vivo T-lymphocyte tolerance in the absence of thymic clonal deletion mediated by hematopoietic cells.
- Cutting edge: apoptosis of superantigen-activated T cells occurs preferentially after a discrete number of cell divisions in vivo.
- Tissue-specific segregation of CD1d-dependent and CD1d-independent NK T cells.
- Deficient T cell fate specification in mice with an induced inactivation of Notch1.
- Absolute requirement for the pre-T cell receptor alpha chain during NK1.1+ TCRalphabeta cell development.
- CD28-negative cytolytic effector T cells frequently express NK receptors and are present at variable proportions in circulating lymphocytes from healthy donors and melanoma patients.
- Protection from radiation-induced colitis requires MHC class II antigen expression by cells of hemopoietic origin.
- In vivo expression of natural killer cell inhibitory receptors by human melanoma-specific cytolytic T lymphocytes.
- Unexpectedly late expression of intracellular CD3epsilon and TCR gammadelta proteins during adult thymus development.
- Cutting edge: NKT cell development is selectively impaired in Fyn- deficient mice.
- Hierarchal utilization of different T-cell receptor Vbeta gene segments in the CD8(+)-T-cell response to an immunodominant Moloney leukemia virus-encoded epitope in vivo.
- Notch1 deficiency dissociates the intrathymic development of dendritic cells and T cells.
- Selective induction of NK cell proliferation and cytotoxicity by activated NKT cells.
- Serum potentiation of granulocyte and macrophage colony formation in vitro.
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