
Dr. Brian T Hawkins MD
Emergency Physician
2501 Kentucky Ave Paducah KY, 42003About
Dr. Brian Hawkins practices Emergency Medicine in Paducah, KY. Dr. Hawkins assesses patients who seek immediate medical attention at any time of day or night. Emergency Medicine Physicians are trained to efficiently work with each patient and situation no matter how acute or life-threatening. Dr. Hawkins examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses conditions, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Georgetown University in Washington DC 2000
Board Certification
Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Smoking and ischemic stroke: a role for nicotine?
- Nicotine and cotinine modulate cerebral microvascular permeability and protein expression of ZO-1 through nicotinic acetylcholine receptors expressed on brain endothelial cells.
- Modulation of cerebral microvascular permeability by endothelial nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
- Chronic inflammatory pain leads to increased blood-brain barrier permeability and tight junction protein alterations.
- The blood-brain barrier/neurovascular unit in health and disease.
- Fluorescence imaging of blood-brain barrier disruption.
- Decreased blood-brain barrier permeability to fluorescein in streptozotocin-treated rats.
- Comparative changes in the blood-brain barrier and cerebral infarction of SHR and WKY rats.
- Pathophysiology of the blood-brain barrier: animal models and methods.
- Rapid, reversible modulation of blood-brain barrier P-glycoprotein transport activity by vascular endothelial growth factor.
- Activation of PKC isoform beta(I) at the blood-brain barrier rapidly decreases P-glycoprotein activity and enhances drug delivery to the brain.
- Rapid loss of blood-brain barrier P-glycoprotein activity through transporter internalization demonstrated using a novel in situ proteolysis protection assay.
- Throwing out the thromboemboli.
- Aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated up-regulation of ATP-driven xenobiotic efflux transporters at the blood-brain barrier.
- Activating PKC-β1 at the blood-brain barrier reverses induction of P-glycoprotein activity by dioxin and restores drug delivery to the CNS.
Dr. Brian T Hawkins MD's Practice location
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