Dr. Richard M. Locksley M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
521 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143Rating
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Dr. Richard Locksley is an infectious disease specialist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Locksley specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ of Rochester Sch of Med & Dentistry, Rochester Ny 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Susceptibility to infectious diseases: Leishmania as a paradigm.
- Altered ligands reveal limited plasticity in the T cell response to a pathogenic epitope.
- Leishmania major infection of inbred mice: unmasking genetic determinants of infectious diseases.
- Impaired NFATc translocation and failure of Th2 development in Itk-deficient CD4+ T cells.
- CD1, tuberculosis, and the evolution of major histocompatibility complex
- Identification of a coordinate regulator of interleukins 4, 13, and 5 by cross-species sequence comparisons.
- Faithful expression of the human 5q31 cytokine cluster in transgenic mice.
- In BALB/c mice, IL-4 production during the initial phase of infection with Leishmania major is necessary and sufficient to instruct Th2 cell development resulting in progressive disease.
- Baseline airway hyperreactivity in A/J mice is not mediated by cells of the adaptive immune system.
- Requirements for the maintenance of Th1 immunity in vivo following DNA vaccination: a potential immunoregulatory role for CD8+ T cells.
- Coordinate regulation of the IL-4, IL-13, and IL-5 cytokine cluster in Th2 clones revealed by allelic expression patterns.
- Flying doctors.
- The TNF and TNF receptor superfamilies: integrating mammalian biology.
- Early transcription and silencing of cytokine genes underlie polarization of T helper cell subsets.
- Functional plasticity of the LACK-reactive Vbeta4-Valpha8 CD4(+) T cells normally producing the early IL-4 instructing Th2 cell development and susceptibility to Leishmania major in BALB / c mice.
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