Dr. Wajahat Zafar Mehal MD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
800 Howard Ave Dana Building - 3rd New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. Wajahat Mehal is a gastroenterologist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Mehal specializes in the digestive system and its diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract, which include organs from the mouth to the anus as well as liver disorders. Gastroenterology includes conditions such as hepatitis, peptic ulcer disease, colitis, nutritional problems and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr. Mehal performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Oxford Univ Med Sch, Oxford, Uk 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Selective retention of activated CD8+ T cells by the normal liver.
- Immunology of the healthy liver: old questions and new insights.
- Antigen presentation by liver cells controls intrahepatic T cell trapping, whereas bone marrow-derived cells preferentially promote intrahepatic T cell apoptosis.
- A survey of cytomegalovirus (CMV) DNA in primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) liver tissues using a sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based assay.
- Intrahepatic T cell survival versus death: which one prevails and why?
- Phosphatidylserine receptor is required for clearance of apoptotic cells.
- Kupffer cells required for high affinity peptide-induced deletion, not retention, of activated CD8+ T cells by mouse liver.
- Requirement of voltage-gated calcium channel beta4 subunit for T lymphocyte functions.
- Retraction.
- Blocking intrahepatic deletion of activated CD8+ T cells by an altered peptide ligand.
- Caspases 3 and 7: key mediators of mitochondrial events of apoptosis.
- Activation-induced cell death of hepatic stellate cells by the innate immune system.
- In vitro and in vivo protection of stellate cells from apoptosis by leptin.
- Modulation of cell adhesion and motility in the immune system by Myo1f.
- Critical role for the beta regulatory subunits of Cav channels in T lymphocyte function.
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