Dr. Paul Hunter Plotz M.D.
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
9000 ROCKVILLE PIKE BETHESDA MD, 20892About
Dr. Paul Plotz is a rheumatologist practicing in BETHESDA, MD. Dr. Plotz specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Plotz treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Novel mutations in African American patients with glycogen storage disease Type II. Mutations in brief no. 209. Online.
- Inclusion body myositis long after dermatomyositis: a report of two cases.
- Costimulatory markers in muscle of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and in cultured muscle cells.
- Artificial support systems for liver failure.
- Transcriptional regulation of the human acid alpha-glucosidase gene. Identification of a repressor element and its transcription factors Hes-1 and YY1.
- Cyclophosphamide or azathioprine in lupus glomerulonephritis. A controlled trial: results at 28 months.
- Health-care workers positive for hepatitis B surface antigen. Are their contacts at risk?
- Workshop on inflammatory myopathy Bethesda, 5-6 April 2000.
- Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. Physiologic evaluation and experimental approaches to therapy.
- Intercellular transfer of the virally derived precursor form of acid alpha-glucosidase corrects the enzyme deficiency in inherited cardioskeletal myopathy Pompe disease.
- Editorial: Asymptomatic chronic hepatitis.
- Identification and characterization of a tissue-specific silencer element in the first intron of the human acid maltase gene.
- Conditional tissue-specific expression of the acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA) gene in the GAA knockout mice: implications for therapy.
- Hes-1, a known transcriptional repressor, acts as a transcriptional activator for the human acid alpha-glucosidase gene in human fibroblast cells.
- Histidyl-tRNA synthetase and asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase, autoantigens in myositis, activate chemokine receptors on T lymphocytes and immature dendritic cells.
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