Dr. Peter Robert Hoffmann MD
Internist
MEDICAL CENTER BLVD WINSTON SALEM NC, 27157About
Dr. Peter Hoffmann is an internist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Hoffmann specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Hoffmann provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
Columbia Univ Coll of Physicians And Surgeons, New York Ny 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hematology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- West Nile virus surveillance: A simple method for verifying the integrity of RNA in mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) pools.
- Interaction between phosphatidylserine and the phosphatidylserine receptor inhibits immune responses in vivo.
- Selenoprotein synthesis: a unique translational mechanism used by a diverse family of proteins.
- The selenoproteome exhibits widely varying, tissue-specific dependence on selenoprotein P for selenium supply.
- Mechanisms by which selenium influences immune responses.
- The influence of selenium on immune responses.
- Selenium and asthma: a complex relationship.
- The human selenoproteome: recent insights into functions and regulation.
- Dietary selenium modulates activation and differentiation of CD4+ T cells in mice through a mechanism involving cellular free thiols.
- Selenoprotein K knockout mice exhibit deficient calcium flux in immune cells and impaired immune responses.
- Specific antioxidant selenoproteins are induced in the heart during hypertrophy.
- Selenoprotein K is a novel target of m-calpain, and cleavage is regulated by Toll-like receptor-induced calpastatin in macrophages.
- The role of selenium in inflammation and immunity: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities.
- Selenium and asthma.
- Stimulation of unprimed macrophages with immune complexes triggers a low output of nitric oxide by calcium-dependent neuronal nitric-oxide synthase.
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