Dr. Ronald Pierce Messner MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
516 Delaware Street Se, Clinic 6a University Of Minnes Minneapolis MN, 55455About
Dr. Ronald Messner is a rheumatologist practicing in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Messner specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Messner treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1961
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular mechanisms of coxsackievirus persistence in chronic inflammatory myopathy: viral RNA persists through formation of a double-stranded complex without associated genomic mutations or evolution.
- Genome screening in human systemic lupus erythematosus: results from a second Minnesota cohort and combined analyses of 187 sib-pair families.
- Anti-nucleic acid antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus patients and their families. Incidence and correlation with lymphocytotoxic antibodies.
- Family distribution of lymphocytotoxins in Hodgkin's disease.
- Immunologic regulation of spontaneous antibodies to DNA and RNA I. Significance of IgM and IgG antibodies in SLE patients and asymptomatic relatives.
- Pulmonary dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematosus without pulmonary symptoms.
- Recent observations on central nervous system lupus erythematosus.
- Antilymphocyte antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus. Effect on lymphocyte surface characteristics.
- Alterations in T- and B-cells in human disease states.
- Systemic lupus erythematosus presenting as panniculitis (lupus profundus).
- Lymphocytotoxic antibodies in family members of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Genetic linkage and transmission disequilibrium of marker haplotypes at chromosome 1q41 in human systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Beneficial effects of a polyamine biosynthesis inhibitor on lupus in MRL-lpr/lpr mice.
- Anti-dsDNA antibodies in laboratory workers handling blood from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Coxsackievirus B1-induced chronic inflammatory myopathy: differences in induction of autoantibodies to muscle and nuclear antigens by cloned myopathic and amyopathic viruses.
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Practice At 516 Delaware Street Se, Clinic 6a University Of Minnesota Physicians
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