Dr. Okja K Kim M.D.
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
239 Bridge St Metuchen NJ, 08840About
Dr. Okja Kim is a physiatrist practicing in Metuchen, NJ. Dr. Kim is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Kim focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Kim can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
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Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of coumarins from the fruit of Citrus hystrix DC as inhibitors of nitric oxide generation in mouse macrophage RAW 264.7 cells.
- Modifying effects of carotenoids on superoxide and nitric oxide generation from stimulated leukocytes.
- Novel nitric oxide and superoxide generation inhibitors, persenone A and B, from avocado fruit.
- Advances in DNA gyrase inhibitors.
- Inhibition by (+)-persenone [corrected] A-related compounds of nitric oxide and superoxide generation from inflammatory leukocytes.
- An avocado constituent, persenone A, suppresses expression of inducible forms of nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase in macrophages, and hydrogen peroxide generation in mouse skin.
- Counting the cost to world's wildlife.
- Abortion and fertility control in Korea.
- Molecular variability and genetic structure of the population of Onion yellow dwarf virus infecting garlic in Iran.
- The "ABO cross-transplantation problem" in liver transplantation in Korea.
- Estimation of adult mortality in Korea: levels, trends, and socioeconomic differentials.
- A reactive aspartyl residue of pepsin.
- Effect of early weaning and prolonged nursing on development of the rat pancreas.
- Oligosaccharide microscale analysis by circular dichroic spectroscopy: reference spectra for chromophoric D-fructofuranoside derivatives.
- False lateralization of seizure perceived by a patient with infarction of the right parietal lobe who showed the neglect syndrome.
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