Dr. Katherine P Ponder MD
Hematologist (Blood Specialist) | Hematology
4921 Parkview Pl 7th Floor Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Katherine Ponder is a hematology internist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Ponder specializes in cases of suspected blood disorders when a diagnosis is unclear and further medical care is needed. Hematology internists work with other specialists such as surgeons, radiation therapists and gynecologists in order to get a better understanding on the cases. Often, patients are asked to participate in clinical research that could result in more efficient treatment methods.
Education and Training
Washington Center / School of Medicine 1983
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Embolization of portal vein branches induces hepatocyte replication in swine: a potential step in hepatic gene therapy.
- Intramuscular injection of an adenoviral vector expressing hepatocyte growth factor facilitates hepatic transduction with a retroviral vector in mice.
- Lipopolysaccharide potentiates the effect of hepatocyte growth factor on hepatocyte replication in rats by augmenting AP-1 activity.
- Systemic gene therapy for cardiovascular disease.
- Lovastatin decreases mortality and improves liver functions in fulminant hepatic failure from 90% partial hepatectomy in rats.
- Delivery of a retroviral vector expressing human beta-glucuronidase to the liver and spleen decreases lysosomal storage in mucopolysaccharidosis VII mice.
- Lipopolysaccharide potentiates the effect of hepatocyte growth factor upon
- Lipopolysaccharide results in a marked decrease in hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha in rat liver.
- Absence of a desmopressin response after therapeutic expression of factor VIII in hemophilia A dogs with liver-directed neonatal gene therapy.
- Human gene therapy: present and future.
- Mucopolysaccharidosis I cats mount a cytotoxic T lymphocyte response after neonatal gene therapy that can be blocked with CTLA4-Ig.
- Gene therapy for hemophilia.
- Effect of neonatal administration of a retroviral vector expressing alpha-L-iduronidase upon lysosomal storage in brain and other organs in mucopolysaccharidosis I mice.
- Cutting edge: treatment of complement regulatory protein deficiency by retroviral in vivo gene therapy.
- Immune response after neonatal transfer of a human factor IX-expressing retroviral vector in dogs, cats, and mice.
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