Dr. Peter Bruce Bitterman M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
University Of Minnesota Physicians 516 Delaware Street Minneapolis MN, 55455About
Dr. Peter Bitterman, MD is one of the country's best rated doctors, specializing in internal medicine and pulmonary disease. MD Bitterman currently treats patients in Maple grove, Minnesota and Minneapolis, ...
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Critical Care Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Translational control of the antiapoptotic function of Ras.
- Translational control of cell fate: availability of phosphorylation sites on translational repressor 4E-BP1 governs its proapoptotic potency.
- Translation factor eIF4E rescues cells from Myc-dependent apoptosis by inhibiting cytochrome c release.
- Obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation: a fibroproliferative disorder associated with platelet-derived growth factor.
- Molecular targets in drugs discovery in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Work in progress.
- Translation initiation factor 4E blocks endoplasmic reticulum-mediated apoptosis.
- Activation of translation complex eIF4F is essential for the genesis and
- Hyperplasia of type II pneumocytes in acute lung injury. Cytologic findings of sequential bronchoalveolar lavage.
- Synthesis and evaluation of potential inhibitors of eIF4E cap binding to 7-methyl GTP.
- Pathogenesis of fibrosis in acute lung injury.
- Apoptosis resistance downstream of eIF4E: posttranscriptional activation of an anti-apoptotic transcript carrying a consensus hairpin structure.
- Mechanisms of alveolar fibrosis after acute lung injury.
- The cap-dependent translation apparatus integrates and amplifies cancer pathways.
- Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E induced progression of primary human mammary epithelial cells along the cancer pathway is associated with targeted translational deregulation of oncogenic drivers and inhibitors.
- Histone deacetylase inhibitors suppress TF-kappaB-dependent agonist-driven tissue factor expression in endothelial cells and monocytes.
Treatments
- Interstitial Lung Disease, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Intensive Care
Dr. Peter Bruce Bitterman M.D.'s Practice location
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