Dr. Richard Jay Hershcopf M.D.
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
2 Dean Dr 2nd Floor Tenafly NJ, 07670Rating
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Dr. Richard Hershcopf is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Tenafly, NJ. Dr. Hershcopf specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
University At Buffalo SUNY School Of Med and Biomedical Sciences Buffalo Ny 1974
University at Buffalo State University of New York School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 1974
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Food intake of very obese persons: quantitative and qualitative aspects.
- Cigarette smoking alters hepatic estrogen metabolism in men: implications for atherosclerosis.
- Radioimmunoassay of 16 alpha-hydroxyestrone in human urine.
- Increased urinary catechol estrogen excretion in female smokers.
- Estradiol 16 alpha-hydroxylation in the mouse correlates with mammary tumor incidence and presence of murine mammary tumor virus: a possible model for the hormonal etiology of breast cancer in humans.
- Effect of massive weight loss on hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal function in obese men.
- Prostaglandin H synthase catalyzes regiospecific release of tritium from labeled estradiol.
- Increased 2-hydroxylation of estradiol as a possible mechanism for the anti-estrogenic effect of cigarette smoking.
- Obesity, diet, endogenous estrogens, and the risk of hormone-sensitive cancer.
- Differential hydroxylations of estrone and estradiol in man.
- Biochemical epidemiology of breast cancer.
- Metabolism of estradiol fatty acid esters in man.
Treatments
- Acne
- Celiac Disease
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hyperthyroidism
- Thyroiditis
- Graves' Disease
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