Dr. Stephen R Hammes MD PHD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
601 Elmwood Ave Box Med Rochester NY, 14642Rating
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Dr. Stephen Hammes practices Endocrinology in Rochester, NY. Dr. Hammes specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Hammes examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Duke University School of Medicine 1992
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism- 2008
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Xenopus laevis ovarian CYP17 is a highly potent enzyme expressed exclusively in oocytes. Evidence that oocytes play a critical role in Xenopus ovarian androgen production.
- The further redefining of steroid-mediated signaling.
- Selective modulation of genomic and nongenomic androgen responses by androgen receptor ligands.
- Expression of the germ cell-specific transcription factor ALF in Xenopus oocytes compensates for translational inactivation of the somatic factor TFIIA.
- Androgens promote maturation and signaling in mouse oocytes independent of transcription: a release of inhibition model for mammalian oocyte meiosis.
- Steroids and oocyte maturation--a new look at an old story.
- Xenopus laevis CYP17 regulates androgen biosynthesis independent of the cofactor cytochrome b5.
- The modulator of nongenomic actions of the estrogen receptor (MNAR) regulates transcription-independent androgen receptor-mediated signaling: evidence that MNAR participates in G protein-regulated meiosis in Xenopus laevis oocytes.
- Specific modulation of nongenomic androgen signaling in the ovary.
- Oocyte maturation: the coming of age of a germ cell.
- Epidermal growth factor receptor signaling is required for normal ovarian steroidogenesis and oocyte maturation.
- The physiology of the Xenopus laevis ovary.
- Ovarian steroids: the good, the bad, and the signals that raise them.
- The enantiomer of progesterone acts as a molecular neuroprotectant after traumatic brain injury.
- GLP-1: a novel zinc finger protein required in somatic cells of the gonad for germ cell development.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Goiter
- Graves' Disease
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