Dr. Stephan R Targan M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
8700 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles CA, 90048About
Dr. Stephan Targan is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Targan 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
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1971
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The utility of ANCA and ASCA in inflammatory bowel disease.
- Fas activates the JNK pathway in human colonic epithelial cells: lack of a direct role in apoptosis.
- Linkage of Crohn's disease to the major histocompatibility complex region is detected by multiple non-parametric analyses.
- Definition of ocular antigens in ciliary body and retinal ganglion cells by the marker antibody pANCA.
- CD28 costimulation augments IL-2 secretion of activated lamina propria T cells by increasing mRNA stability without enhancing IL-2 gene transactivation.
- Current theories on the causes of inflammatory bowel disease.
- A soluble factor produced by lamina propria mononuclear cells is required for TNF-alpha enhancement of IFN-gamma production by T cells.
- Identification of a novel mycobacterial histone H1 homologue (HupB) as an antigenic target of pANCA monoclonal antibody and serum immunoglobulin A from patients with Crohn's disease.
- A genome-wide search identifies potential new susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease.
- An open-label pilot study of low-dose thalidomide in chronically active, steroid-dependent Crohn's disease.
- Introduction: anti-TNF strategies in the treatment of Crohn's disease.
- Familial expression of anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae mannan antibodies in affected and unaffected relatives of patients with Crohn's disease.
- Mast cell and neuroendocrine cytoplasmic autoantigen(s) detected by monoclonal pANCA antibodies.
- Mucosa-specific targets for regulation of IFN-gamma expression: lamina propria T cells use different cis-elements than peripheral blood T cells to regulate transactivation of IFN-gamma expression.
- Identification of histone H1 as a cognate antigen of the ulcerative colitis-associated marker antibody pANCA.
Treatments
- Crohn's Disease
- Gastroenteritis
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