
Edward Kenneth Weir MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
1 Veterans Dr Va Medical Center 11 Minneapolis MN, 55417About
Dr. Edward Weir is a cardiologist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Weir specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Weir also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Oxford Univ Med Sch, Oxford, Uk 1967
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division 1967
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Endotoxin and prevention of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.
- O2 sensing is preserved in mice lacking the gp91 phox subunit of NADPH oxidase.
- Dexfenfluramine increases pulmonary artery smooth muscle intracellular Ca2+, independent of membrane potential.
- GTP (gammaS) and GDP (betaS) as electron donors: new wine in old bottles.
- Dexfenfluramine elevates systemic blood pressure by inhibiting potassium currents in vascular smooth muscle cells.
- Molecular identification of O2 sensors and O2-sensitive potassium channels in the pulmonary circulation.
- Anorectic drugs and pulmonary hypertension from the bedside to the bench.
- Potassium channels regulate tone in rat pulmonary veins.
- Redox control of oxygen sensing in the rabbit ductus arteriosus.
- Alterations in a redox oxygen sensing mechanism in chronic hypoxia.
- 15-Methylation augments the cardiovascular effects of prostaglandin F-2alpha.
- Triple-bonded unsaturated fatty acids are redox active compounds.
- The pathobiology of pulmonary hypertension. Smooth muscle cells and ion channels.
- Prostaglandin E1 inhibits the pulmonary vascular pressor response to hypoxia and prostaglandin F2alpha.
- Redox signaling in oxygen sensing by vessels.
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