Dr. Courtney W Houchen MD
Gastroenterologist | Gastroenterology
825 Ne 10th St Oupb 2300 Oklahoma City OK, 73104Rating
5/5
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Dr. Courtney Houchen is a gastroenterologist practicing in Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Houchen specializes in the digestive system and its diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract, which include organs from the mouth to the anus as well as liver disorders. Gastroenterology includes conditions such as hepatitis, peptic ulcer disease, colitis, nutritional problems and irritable bowel syndrome. Dr. Houchen performs colonoscopy and endoscopy procedures and provides accurate and thorough care for patients suffering from digestive issues.
Education and Training
Temple University School of Medicine 1990
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical implications of prostaglandin inhibition in the small bowel.
- FGF-20: FGFs--they keep growing and growing and growing!
- Azoxymethane protects intestinal stem cells and reduces crypt epithelial mitosis through a COX-1-dependent mechanism.
- EP4 mediates PGE2 dependent cell survival through the PI3 kinase/AKT pathway.
- Functional antagonism between RNA binding proteins HuR and CUGBP2 determines the fate of COX-2 mRNA translation.
- Identification of a novel putative gastrointestinal stem cell and adenoma stem cell marker, doublecortin and CaM kinase-like-1, following radiation injury and in adenomatous polyposis coli/multiple intestinal neoplasia mice.
- Novel intestinal splice variants of RNA-binding protein CUGBP2: isoform-specific effects on mitotic catastrophe.
- Translation inhibition during cell cycle arrest and apoptosis: Mcl-1 is a novel target for RNA binding protein CUGBP2.
- CUGBP2 downregulation by prostaglandin E2 protects colon cancer cells from radiation-induced mitotic catastrophe.
- Diphenyl difluoroketone: a curcumin derivative with potent in vivo anticancer activity.
- Gastrin-mediated interleukin-8 and cyclooxygenase-2 gene expression: differential transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms.
- Translation regulatory factor RBM3 is a proto-oncogene that prevents mitotic catastrophe.
- Knockdown of RNA binding protein musashi-1 leads to tumor regression in vivo.
- Activation of apoptosis by 1-hydroxy-5,7-dimethoxy-2-naphthalene-carboxaldehyde, a novel compound from Aegle marmelos.
- Loss of p21Waf1/Cip1/Sdi1 enhances intestinal stem cell survival following radiation injury.
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