Dr. Andrea J Pennington MD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
17144 Kentucky St Detroit MI, 48221About
Dr. Andrea Pennington is a physiatrist practicing in Detroit, MI. Dr. Pennington is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. Pennington focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. Pennington can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
Wayne State Univ Sch of Med, Detroit Mi 1986
Board Certification
Physical Medicine and RehabilitationAmerican Board of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationABPMR
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [3H]dofetilide binding in SHSY5Y and HEK293 cells expressing a HERG-like K+ channel?
- The physiology and pharmacology of neuromuscular transmission in the nematode parasite, Ascaris suum.
- Surface properties of membrane vesicles prepared from muscle cells of Ascaris suum.
- A patch-clamp study of acetylcholine-activated ion channels in Ascaris suum muscle.
- Energy utilization and gluconeogenesis in isolated leech segmental ganglia:
- Neuropeptides modulate the transmitter-induced glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis
- A patch-clamp study of effects of dihydroavermectin on Ascaris muscle.
- Transmitter-induced glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis in leech segmental ganglia.
- The action of pyrantel as an agonist and an open channel blocker at acetylcholine receptors in isolated Ascaris suum muscle vesicles.
- Selective enhancement of an A type potassium current by dexamethasone in a corticotroph cell line.
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