Dr. James M Markert MD
Neurosurgeon
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
4/5
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Dr. James Markert practices Neurological Surgery in Birmingham, AL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Markert prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1988
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Oncolytic viruses: clinical applications as vectors for the treatment of malignant gliomas.
- Initial treatment of melanoma brain metastases using gamma knife radiosurgery: an evaluation of efficacy and toxicity.
- Biologic warfare for a good cause: HSV-1 anti-tumor therapy.
- Enhanced inhibition of syngeneic murine tumors by combinatorial therapy with genetically engineered HSV-1 expressing CCL2 and IL-12.
- Surface expression of ASIC2 inhibits the amiloride-sensitive current and migration of glioma cells.
- Bilateral metastatic renal hemangiopericytoma ten years after primary intracranial lesion.
- Serial passage through human glioma xenografts selects for a Deltagamma134.5 herpes simplex virus type 1 mutant that exhibits decreased neurotoxicity and prolongs survival of mice with experimental brain tumors.
- Effects of G207, a conditionally replication-competent oncolytic herpes simplex virus, on the developing mammalian brain.
- Herpes simplex virus oncolytic therapy for pediatric malignancies.
- Engineered herpes simplex viruses efficiently infect and kill CD133+ human glioma xenograft cells that express CD111.
- Oncolytic viral therapy of malignant glioma.
- The relationship between INR and development of hemorrhage with placement of ventriculostomy.
- Acquisition of temozolomide chemoresistance in gliomas leads to remodeling of mitochondrial electron transport chain.
- Risk factors for conversion to permanent ventricular shunt in patients receiving therapeutic ventriculostomy for traumatic brain injury.
- Meta-analysis of hemorrhagic complications from ventriculostomy placement by neurosurgeons.
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