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Dr. Phillip K Peterson MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
701 Park Ave O5 Minneapolis MN, 55415About
Dr. Phillip Peterson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Peterson specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1970
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Kappa-opioid receptor agonist inhibition of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein-mediated membrane fusion and CXCR4 expression on CD4(+) lymphocytes.
- Morphine induces apoptosis of human microglia and neurons.
- Early detection of central nervous system tuberculosis with the gen-probe nucleic Acid amplification assay: utility in an inner city hospital.
- Glial cell responses to herpesvirus infections: role in defense and immunopathogenesis.
- U50,488 inhibits HIV-1 Tat-induced monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (CCL2) production by human astrocytes.
- Opioid G protein-coupled receptors: signals at the crossroads of inflammation.
- CXCL10 production from cytomegalovirus-stimulated microglia is regulated by both human and viral interleukin-10.
- Kappa-opioid receptor ligands inhibit cocaine-induced HIV-1 expression in microglial cells.
- High-level expression of functional chemokine receptor CXCR4 on human neural precursor cells.
- Synthetic cannabinoid WIN55,212-2 inhibits generation of inflammatory mediators by IL-1beta-stimulated human astrocytes.
- Role of microglia in central nervous system infections.
- Morphine potentiates HIV-1 gp120-induced neuronal apoptosis.
- Anti-HIV-1 activity of propolis in CD4(+) lymphocyte and microglial cell cultures.
- Neural precursor cell susceptibility to human cytomegalovirus diverges along glial or neuronal differentiation pathways.
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced cytokine and chemokine expression by human microglia and astrocytes: effects of dexamethasone.
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