Dr. Alpha A Fowler M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
1250 E Marshall St Internal Medicine Richmond VA, 23298Rating
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About
Dr. Alpha Fowler practices Pulmonology in Richmond, VA. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Fowler manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Reoxygenating microvascular endothelium exhibits temporal dissociation of NF-kappaB and AP-1 activation.
- Atypical mechanism of NF-kappaB activation during reoxygenation stress in microvascular endothelium: a role for tyrosine kinases.
- 'My doctor said I had an abnormal chest X-ray'...
- Regulation of hypoxia inducible factor-1 by nitric oxide in contrast to hypoxia in microvascular endothelium.
- HIF-1 activation attenuates postischemic myocardial injury: role for heme oxygenase-1 in modulating microvascular chemokine generation.
- Hypoxia inducible factor-1: regulation by nitric oxide in posthypoxic microvascular endothelium.
- Hypoxia inducible factor-1 activation by prolyl 4-hydroxylase-2 gene silencing attenuates myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury.
- Clinical practice. Acute bronchitis.
- Hypoxia inducible factor-1 modulates hemin-induced IL-8 secretion in microvascular endothelium.
- Activation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 via prolyl-4 hydoxylase-2 gene silencing attenuates acute inflammatory responses in postischemic myocardium.
- Hypoxia inducible factor-1 upregulates adiponectin in diabetic mouse hearts and attenuates post-ischemic injury.
- Prolyl hydroxylase inhibition attenuates post-ischemic cardiac injury via induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress genes.
- Ascorbic acid attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury.
- Mechanisms of attenuation of abdominal sepsis induced acute lung injury by ascorbic acid.
- Characterization of eicosanoid synthesis in a genetic ablation model of ceramide kinase.
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