Dr. Frank F Davidson M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
20 Hope Ave Waltham MA, 02453About
Dr. Frank Davidson practices Pulmonology in Waltham, MA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Davidson 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
Boston University School of Medicine 1965
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Pulmonary Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of extracts of blue-green algae on pigment production by Serratia marcescens.
- Limitations of phosphatidylcholine/deoxycholate mixtures for the analysis of phospholipase A2 inhibition and activation: illustration with annexins.
- Evolutionary relationships and implications for the regulation of phospholipase A2 from snake venom to human secreted forms.
- Binding and inhibition studies on lipocortins using phosphatidylcholine vesicles and phospholipase A2 from snake venom, pancreas, and a macrophage-like cell line.
- Phospholipase A2 and lipocortin effects.
- Amino acid sequence and circular dichroism of Indian cobra (Naja naja naja) venom acidic phospholipase A2.
- Biological relevance of lipocortins and related proteins as inhibitors of phospholipase A2.
- Inhibition of phospholipase A2 by "lipocortins" and calpactins. An effect of binding to substrate phospholipids.
- 1-Stearyl,2-stearoylaminodeoxy phosphatidylcholine, a potent reversible inhibitor of phospholipase A2.
- Short-chain phosphatidylethanolamines: physical properties and susceptibility of the monomers to phospholipase A2 action.
- Isoniazid chemoprophylaxis.
- Isoniazid chemoprophylaxis of tuberculosis.
- Use of pulmonary diffusing capacity measurements to detect unsuspected fat embolism.
- Reduction of the beta-Cys-gamma-Glu thiol ester bond of human C3 with sodium borohydride.
- Structure and function in rhodopsin: replacement by alanine of cysteine residues 110 and 187, components of a conserved disulfide bond in rhodopsin, affects the light-activated metarhodopsin II state.
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