Dr. John William Leidy M.D.-PH.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
1249 15TH STREET HUNTINGTON WV, 25701About
Dr. John Leidy practices Endocrinology in Huntington, WV. Dr. Leidy specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Leidy examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
University of Washington School of Medicine 1979
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1982
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Signal transduction systems in growth hormone-releasing hormone and somatostatin release from perifused rat hypothalamic fragments.
- Altered pituitary growth hormone (GH) regulation in streptozotocin-diabetic rats: a combined defect of hypothalamic somatostatin and GH-releasing factor.
- Effect of hypophysectomy and growth hormone administration on hypothalamic growth hormone-releasing hormone and somatostatin content: relationship to age-related growth rate.
- Influence of food deprivation in the rat on hypothalamic expression of growth hormone-releasing factor and somatostatin.
- Dramatic response of follicular thyroid carcinoma with superior vena cava
- A mysterious parathyroid adenoma.
- Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic purification of 125I-labeled rat growth hormone-releasing hormone for radioimmunoassay.
- Protective effects of retinyl palmitate on streptozotocin- and alloxan-induced beta cell toxicity and diabetes in the rat.
- Acetaminophen attenuates glomerulosclerosis in obese Zucker rats via reactive
- Regional distribution of human growth hormone-releasing hormone in the human hypothalamus by radioimmunoassay.
- Immunohistochemical localization of GRF-containing neurons in rat brain.
- Growth hormone-releasing factor immunoreactivity in the hypothalamus and cortex of the rat: in vivo and in vitro studies.
- Insulin receptors on cultured hypothalamic cells: functional and structural differences from receptors on peripheral target cells.
- A post-thyroidectomy convulsion: an unusual presentation of chronic hypoparathyroidism.
- High sensitivity two-site immunoradiometric and immunochemiluminometric assays for rat growth hormone-releasing hormone. Development of an acridinium ester based chemiluminescence assay for the avidin-coated bead system.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Dermatitis
- High Cholesterol
- Osteoporosis
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
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