Dr. Elaine O Petrof MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
180 Harvester Dr Suite 110 Willowbrook IL, 60527About
Dr. Elaine Petrof is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Willowbrook, IL. Dr. Petrof specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ of Toronto, Fac of Med, Toronto, Ont, Canada 1996
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The glucosidic pathways and glucose production by frog muscle.
- Soluble factors from Lactobacillus GG activate MAPKs and induce cytoprotective heat shock proteins in intestinal epithelial cells.
- Developmentally regulated tumor necrosis factor-alpha induced nuclear factor-kappaB activation in intestinal epithelium.
- Salmonella effector AvrA regulation of colonic epithelial cell inflammation by deubiquitination.
- Platelet-activating factor-induced chloride channel activation is associated with intracellular acidosis and apoptosis of intestinal epithelial cells.
- Salmonella type III effector AvrA stabilizes cell tight junctions to inhibit inflammation in intestinal epithelial cells.
- Cross, but not direct, presentation of cell-associated virus antigens by spleen macrophages is influenced by their differentiation state.
- Salmonella typhimurium infection increases p53 acetylation in intestinal epithelial cells.
- Probiotics and Gastrointestinal Disease: Clinical Evidence and Basic Science.
- Erythropoietin protects intestinal epithelial barrier function and lowers the incidence of experimental neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Mother's milk-induced Hsp70 expression preserves intestinal epithelial barrier function in an immature rat pup model.
- Influence of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 on TLR4-induced activation of antigen presenting cells is dependent on the order of receptor engagement.
- Axin1 prevents Salmonella invasiveness and inflammatory response in intestinal epithelial cells.
- A Canadian Working Group report on fecal microbial therapy: microbial ecosystems therapeutics.
- Probiotics in the critically ill: a systematic review of the randomized trial evidence.
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