Dr. Peter Nicholas Kao M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
300 Pasteur Dr Stanford CA, 94305Rating
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Dr. Peter Kao practices Pulmonology in Stanford, CA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Kao manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease- 1994
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine- 1995
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare pulmonary infection in HIV-negative patients without preexisting lung disease: diagnostic and management limitations.
- Immunosuppressant PG490 (triptolide) inhibits T-cell interleukin-2 expression at the level of purine-box/nuclear factor of activated T-cells and NF-kappaB transcriptional activation.
- PG490 (triptolide) cooperates with tumor necrosis factor-alpha to induce apoptosis in tumor cells.
- Diaphragmatic paralysis due to Lyme disease.
- Nuclear factor-90 of activated T-cells: A double-stranded RNA-binding protein and substrate for the double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase, PKR.
- Tick-borne pulmonary disease: update on diagnosis and management.
- Erythromycin inhibits transcriptional activation of NF-kappaB, but not NFAT, through calcineurin-independent signaling in T cells.
- Autoantibodies define a family of proteins with conserved double-stranded RNA-binding domains as well as DNA binding activity.
- Protein-arginine methyltransferase I, the predominant protein-arginine methyltransferase in cells, interacts with and is regulated by interleukin enhancer-binding factor 3.
- Anti-inflammatory effects of triptolide in human bronchial epithelial cells.
- Triptolide attenuates pulmonary arterial hypertension and neointimal formation in rats.
- 40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin attenuates pulmonary arterial hypertension and neointimal formation in rats.
- Simvastatin attenuates smooth muscle neointimal proliferation and pulmonary hypertension in rats.
- Immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of triptolide, the principal active diterpenoid from the Chinese medicinal herb Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f.
- Emerging therapies for pulmonary hypertension: striving for efficacy and safety.
Fellowships
- Stanford University School of Medicine CA 1992
Publications
- JOURL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINENF90 regulates inducible IL-2 gene expression in T cells2007
- NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCHDymic binding of Ku80, Ku70 and NF90 to the IL-2 promoter in vivo in activated T-cells2007
- BLOODThrombin-activatable procarboxypeptidase B regulates activated complement C5a in vivo2007
- BMC pulmory medicineAerosolized amikacin for treatment of pulmory Mycobacterium avium infections2007
- CHESTProspective alysis of cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator mutations2006
- BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONSSimvastatin enhances bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II expression2006
- AMERICAN JOURL OF RESPIRATORY CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGYLung surfactant gelation induced by epithelial cells exposed to air pollution or oxidative stress2005
- ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISMGranzyme B is dispensable for immunologic tolerance to self2005
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYNF90 regulates cell cycle exit2005
- EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCHNF45/ILF2 tissue expression, promoter alysis, and interleukin-2 transactivating function2005
- CHESTSimvastatin treatment of pulmory hypertension - An observatiol case series2005
- PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICSLongitudil transcriptiol alysis of developing neointimal vascular occlusion2004
- EMBO JOURLMembers of the NF90/NFAR protein group are involved in the life cycle of a positive-strand R virus2003
- CIRCULATIONSimvastatin rescues rats from fatal pulmory hypertension by inducing apoptosis of neointimal smooth2003
- JOURL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGYSelective regulation of gene expression by nuclear factor 1102003
- CRITICAL CARE MEDICINEEffect of a surgical aortocaval fistula on mono crotaline-induced pulmory hypertension2003
- Drugs in R&DImmunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of triptolide2003
- AMERICAN JOURL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINESimvastatin attenuates smooth muscle neointimal proliferation and pulmory hypertension in rats2002
- CHESTHigh prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease in pulmory arterial hypertension2002
- AMERICAN JOURL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE40-O-(2-hydroxyethyl)-rapamycin attenuates pulmory arterial hypertension and neointimal formation2001
- AMERICAN JOURL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINETriptolide attenuates pulmory arterial hypertension and neointimal formation in rats2000
- AMERICAN JOURL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGYAnti-inflammatory effects of triptolide in human bronchial epithelial cells2000
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYProtein-arginine methyltransferase I, the predomint protein-arginine methyltransferase in cells2000
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYAutoantibodies define a family of proteins with conserved double-str1999
- ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPYErythromycin inhibits transcriptiol activation of NF-kappa B, but not NFAT1999
- CHESTTick-borne pulmory disease - Update on diagnosis and magement1999
- BIOCHEMISTRYNuclear factor-90 of activated T-cells1999
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYPG490 (triptolide) cooperates with tumor necrosis factor-alpha to induce apoptosis in tumor cells1999
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYImmunosuppressant PG4901999
- CHESTMycobacterium avium-intracellulare pulmory infection in HIV1999
- EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURLDiaphragmatic paralysis due to Lyme disease1999
- AMERICAN JOURL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGYCsA-sensitive purine-box transcriptiol regulator in bronchial epithelial cells contains NF45, NF901998
- AMERICAN JOURL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGYLeukotriene B-4 mediates histamine induction of NF-kappa B1998
- AMERICAN JOURL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINEAlyses of the NRAMP11998
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYD-dependent protein kise interacts with antigen receptor response element binding proteins NF901998
- BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONSCyclosporin A-sensitive calcium sigling represses NF kappa B activation in human bronchial1997
- AMERICAN JOURL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGYHuman airway epithelial cells express interleukin-2 in vitro1997
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYPURIFICATION BY D AFFINITY-CHROMATOGRAPHY OF 2 POLYPEPTIDES THAT CONTACT THE NF1994
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYCLONING AND EXPRESSION OF CYCLOSPORINE-A1994
- JOURL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR BINDING1986
- jourl of biological chemistryIdentification of the alpha subunit half1984
- PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURL OF PHYSIOLOGYTHE ACTIVE GUANIDINIUM GROUP OF SAXITOXIN AND NEOSAXITOXIN IDENTIFIED BY THE EFFECTS OF PH ON THEIR1983
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