Dr. Robert Jay Boorstein MD
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
462 1st Ave Room 4w1 New York NY, 10016About
Dr. Robert Boorstein is a pathologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Boorstein is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Boorstein can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Boorstein may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1983
Harvard Medical School 1983
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- 5-chloro-2'-deoxyuridine cytotoxicity results from base excision repair of uracil
- Excessive base excision repair of 5-hydroxymethyluracil from DNA induces apoptosis in Chinese hamster V79 cells containing mutant p53.
- Stimulation of human endonuclease III by Y box-binding protein 1 (DNA-binding protein B). Interaction between a base excision repair enzyme and a transcription factor.
- Definitive identification of mammalian 5-hydroxymethyluracil DNA N-glycosylase activity as SMUG1.
- Expression of the human DNA glycosylase hSMUG1 in Trypanosoma brucei causes DNA damage and interferes with J biosynthesis.
- Synthesis of the diastereomers of thymidine glycol, determination of concentrations and rates of interconversion of their cis-trans epimers at equilibrium and demonstration of differential alkali lability within DNA.
- A mammalian cell line deficient in activity of the DNA repair enzyme 5-hydroxymethyluracil-DNA glycosylase is resistant to the toxic effects of the thymidine analog 5-hydroxymethyl-2'-deoxyuridine.
- Enzymatic repair of oxidative DNA damage.
- Phylogenetic evidence of a role for 5-hydroxymethyluracil-DNA glycosylase in the maintenance of 5-methylcytosine in DNA.
- The repairability of oxidative free radical mediated damage to DNA: a review.
- Effects of 5-hydroxymethyluracil and 3-aminobenzamide on the repair and toxicity of 5-hydroxymethyl-2'-deoxyuridine in mammalian cells.
- Mutagenicity of 5-hydroxymethyl-2'-deoxyuridine to Chinese hamster cells.
- 5-Hydroxymethyluracil-DNA glycosylase activity may be a differentiated mammalian function.
- Toxicity of 3-aminobenzamide to Chinese hamster cells containing 5-hydroxymethyluracil in their DNA.
- Coordinate inhibition of DNA synthesis and thymidylate synthase activity following DNA damage and repair.
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