Dr. Richard Lewis Hurwitz MD
Surgeon
118 Northport Ave Belfast ME, 04915About
Dr. Richard Hurwitz is a general surgeon practicing in Belfast, ME. Dr. Hurwitz specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Hurwitz provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1967
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Retinoblastoma: from bench to bedside.
- Efficient gene transfer into retinal cells using adenoviral vectors: dependence on receptor expression.
- Response of retinoblastoma with vitreous tumor seeding to adenovirus-mediated delivery of thymidine kinase followed by ganciclovir.
- Extensively necrotic retinoblastoma is associated with high-risk prognostic factors.
- Modulation of adenoviral transduction in vitro and in vivo by hyaluronan and its receptor CD44.
- Treatment of invasive retinoblastoma in a murine model using an oncolytic picornavirus.
- Absence of systemic immune response to adenovectors after intraocular administration to children with retinoblastoma.
- A single intravenous injection of oncolytic picornavirus SVV-001 eliminates medulloblastomas in primary tumor-based orthotopic xenograft mouse models.
- Establishment and propagation of human retinoblastoma tumors in immune deficient mice.
- Embryonic retinal tumors in SV40 T-Ag transgenic mice contain CD133+ tumor-initiating cells.
- The liberation of CD44 intracellular domain modulates adenoviral vector transgene expression.
- A new vision of mesenchymal stromal cells.
- Tumorspheres but not adherent cells derived from retinoblastoma tumors are of malignant origin.
- Versican G1 domain enhances adenoviral-mediated transgene expression and can be modulated by inhibitors of the Janus kinase (JAK)/STAT and Src family kinase pathways.
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