Dr. Steven D Douglas M.D.
Allergist and Immunologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Allergy/Immunology
34th & Civic Center Blvd Children's Hospital Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Steven D. Douglas has been investigating cellular immune mechanisms and monocyte-macrophages over many years. He and his group investigate the interaction between neuropeptides, monocyte-macrophag ...
Education and Training
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1963
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Methadone enhances human immunodeficiency virus infection of human immune cells.
- Quantification of substance p mRNA in human immune cells by real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay.
- Real-time RT-PCR for quantitation of hepatitis C virus RNA.
- HIV enhances substance P expression in human immune cells.
- A non-peptide substance P antagonist down-regulates SP mRNA expression in human mononuclear phagocytes.
- Peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets in adolescents: a longitudinal analysis from the REACH project.
- Efavirenz liquid formulation in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children.
- Mimic-based RT-PCR quantitation of substance P mRNA in human mononuclear phagocytes and lymphocytes.
- Nested RT-PCR. Sensitivity controls are essential to determine the biological significance of detected mRNA.
- Morphine enhances HIV infection of human blood mononuclear phagocytes through modulation of beta-chemokines and CCR5 receptor.
- Substance P up-regulates macrophage inflammatory protein-1beta expression in human T lymphocytes.
- Increased proliferation within T lymphocyte subsets of HIV-infected adolescents.
- Human neuronal cells (NT2-N) express functional substance P and neurokinin-1 receptor coupled to MIP-1 beta expression.
- Interleukin-1beta stimulates macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha and -1beta expression in human neuronal cells (NT2-N).
- CCR5 expression and beta-chemokine production during placental neonatal monocyte differentiation.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
Fellowships
- Immunology - University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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