Dr. Steven Wei-hung Hwang MD
Neurosurgeon
750 Washington St Boston MA, 02111About
Dr. Steven Hwang practices Neurological Surgery in Boston, MA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Hwang prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
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- Regulation of testosterone secretion by prolactin in male rats.
- Quantitative high performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometric analysis of the four classes of F(2)-isoprostanes in human urine.
- Mortality among men using homeless shelters in Toronto, Ontario.
- Direct activation of capsaicin receptors by products of lipoxygenases: endogenous capsaicin-like substances.
- Barriers to appropriate diabetes management among homeless people in Toronto.
- Physician payment for the care of homeless people.
- High-level expression of antimicrobial peptide mediated by a fusion partner reinforcing formation of inclusion bodies.
- Intracellular ATP increases capsaicin-activated channel activity by interacting with nucleotide-binding domains.
- Plasma and hepatic binding of indocyanine green in guinea pigs of different ages.
- Differences in sensitivity of vanilloid receptor 1 transfected to human embryonic kidney cells and capsaicin-activated channels in cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurons to capsaicin receptor agonists.
- Homelessness and health.
- A novel method for simultaneous anterograde and retrograde labeling of spinal cord motor tracts in the same animal.
- Nucleoside analogue-induced fatal lactic acidosis in two HIV-infected patients in Singapore.
- Comparison of myocardial infarction with sequential ligation of the left anterior descending artery and its diagonal branch in dogs and sheep.
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