Dr. Frederick A Cruickshank M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
14330 Oak Hill Park Ln Suite 202 Huntersville NC, 28078About
Dr. Frederick Cruickshank is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Huntersville, NC. Dr. Cruickshank 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
St George',s University MD
Mechanical Engineering 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Elastase digestion of normal and pseudoxanthoma elasticum lesional skin elastins.
- Topical all-trans retinoic acid stimulates collagen synthesis in vivo.
- Determination of desmosines in elastin-related skin disorders by isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography.
- Alterations in dermal collagen in ultraviolet irradiated hairless mice.
- Characterization of a dermal derived malignant mesenchymal tumor arising in ultraviolet irradiated mice.
- Elastase-like protease and elastolytic activities expressed in cultured dermal fibroblasts derived from lesional skin of patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum, actinic elastosis, and cutis laxa.
- Collagen alterations in chronically sun-damaged human skin.
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