Dr. Joseph I Shapiro M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
3120 Glendale Ave Medicine Toledo OH, 43614Rating
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Dr. Joseph Shapiro is a nephrologist practicing in Toledo, OH. Dr. Shapiro specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Shapiro most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Rutgers 1980
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Absence of a dose-response of cyclosporine levels to clinically used doses of diltiazem and verapamil.
- Ischemic preconditioning attenuates functional, metabolic, and morphologic injury from ischemic acute renal failure in the rat.
- Intracellular reactive oxygen species mediate the linkage of Na+/K+-ATPase to hypertrophy and its marker genes in cardiac myocytes.
- Time course of response to pulse methylprednisolone therapy in renal transplant recipients with acute allograft rejection.
- Factors maintaining a pH gradient within the kidney: role of the vasculature architecture.
- Ouabain interaction with cardiac Na+/K+-ATPase initiates signal cascades independent of changes in intracellular Na+ and Ca2+ concentrations.
- Effects of hypokalemia on cardiac growth.
- Cardiac performance in inbred rat genetic models of low and high running capacity.
- Effects of enhanced oxygen release from hemoglobin by RSR13 in an acute renal failure model.
- Effects of uremic serum on isolated cardiac myocyte calcium cycling and contractile function.
- Effects of reduction of renal mass on renal oxygen tension and erythropoietin production in the rat.
- Rapid effects of aldosterone and spironolactone in the isolated working rat heart.
- Effects of cardiac glycosides on sodium pump expression and function in LLC-PK1 and MDCK cells.
- Effect of chronic renal failure on cardiac contractile function, calcium cycling, and gene expression of proteins important for calcium homeostasis in the rat.
- Involvement of mitogen-activated protein kinases and reactive oxygen species in the inotropic action of ouabain on cardiac myocytes. A potential role for mitochondrial K(ATP) channels.
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