Dr. Roberto Ariel Gomez M.D.
Nephrologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Nephrology
2nd Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Roberto Gomez is a pediatric nephrologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Gomez specializes in caring for children with chronic conditions such as hypertension, kidney disease, and chronic dialysis. Pediatric nephrologists have extensive knowledge on the dialysis and transplant processes, while simultaneously developing lasting relationships with the families of their young patients.
Education and Training
Univ De Buenos Aires- Fac De Med- Buenos Aires- Argentina 1975
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A genetically clamped renin transgene for the induction of hypertension.
- The embryo makes red blood cell progenitors in every tissue simultaneously with blood vessel morphogenesis.
- Studies of cell lineage in the developing kidney.
- Ablation of renin-expressing juxtaglomerular cells results in a distinct kidney phenotype.
- The role of angiotensin II in kidney embryogenesis and kidney abnormalities.
- Renin cells are precursors for multiple cell types that switch to the renin phenotype when homeostasis is threatened.
- Ren1c homozygous null mice are hypotensive and polyuric, but heterozygotes are indistinguishable from wild-type.
- Homeostatic responses in the adrenal cortex to the absence of aldosterone in mice.
- Kidney function in mice lacking aldosterone.
- Regulation of renin in mice with Cre recombinase-mediated deletion of G protein Gsalpha in juxtaglomerular cells.
- Disturbed homeostasis in sodium-restricted mice heterozygous and homozygous for aldosterone synthase gene disruption.
- Identity of the renin cell is mediated by cAMP and chromatin remodeling: an in vitro model for studying cell recruitment and plasticity.
- Who and where is the renal baroreceptor?: the connexin hypothesis.
- CBP and p300 are essential for renin cell identity and morphological integrity of the kidney.
- Development of vascular renin expression in the kidney critically depends on the cyclic AMP pathway.
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