Dr. David Charles Merz MD, PHD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
10201 SE MAIN ST STE 29 PORTLAND OR, 97216Rating
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Dr. David Merz is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Marquette, MI. Dr. Merz 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
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1983
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regulation of the UNC-5 netrin receptor initiates the first reorientation of migrating distal tip cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Genetic analysis of growth cone migrations in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Multiple signaling mechanisms of the UNC-6/netrin receptors UNC-5 and UNC-40/DCC in vivo.
- Getting directions: axon guidance receptors find the way.
- UNC-52/perlecan affects gonadal leader cell migrations in C. elegans hermaphrodites through alterations in growth factor signaling.
- Cell-specific contact selects transmitter responses in an identified leech neuron.
- C. elegans seu-1 encodes novel nuclear proteins that regulate responses to UNC-6/netrin guidance cues.
- Distinct receptors, second messengers and conductances underlying the dual responses to serotonin in an identified leech neurone.
- C. elegans mig-6 encodes papilin isoforms that affect distinct aspects of DTC migration, and interacts genetically with mig-17 and collagen IV.
- SDN-1/syndecan regulates growth factor signaling in distal tip cell migrations in C. elegans.
- The C. elegans hyaluronidase: a developmentally significant enzyme with chondroitin-degrading activity at both acidic and neutral pH.
- Analysis of polypeptide disposition in human erythrocyte membranes employing membrane inversion.
- Analysis of polypeptide disposition in human erythrocyte membranes employing membrane inversion.
- Intracellular maturation of mumps virus hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein: conformational changes detected with monoclonal antibodies.
- A functional examination of hapten-binding derivatives from a murine myeloma protein with immunoglobulin features.
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