Dr. David James Thornton M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1400 Vfw Pkwy West Roxbury MA, 02132Rating
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Dr. David Thornton is an infectious disease specialist practicing in West Roxbury, MA. Dr. Thornton specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Stanford Univ Sch Of Med- Stanford Ca 1997
Stanford University School of Medicine 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Heterogeneity of airways mucus: variations in the amounts and glycoforms of the major oligomeric mucins MUC5AC and MUC5B.
- Concentrated solutions of salivary MUC5B mucin do not replicate the gel-forming properties of saliva.
- A reproducible protocol for analysis of the proteome of Trypanosoma brucei by 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis.
- Calcium-dependent protein interactions in MUC5B provide reversible cross-links in salivary mucus.
- Identification of molecular intermediates in the assembly pathway of the MUC5AC mucin.
- Partial characterisation of high-molecular weight glycoconjugates in the trail mucus of the freshwater pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis.
- From mucins to mucus: toward a more coherent understanding of this essential barrier.
- Endothelial function in HIV-infected persons.
- Proteomic analysis of mouse growth plate cartilage.
- Muc5b and Muc5ac are the major oligomeric mucins in equine airway mucus.
- Collagen XXVII is developmentally regulated and forms thin fibrillar structures distinct from those of classical vertebrate fibrillar collagens.
- The alternatively spliced type III connecting segment of fibronectin is a zinc-binding module.
- Decreased chondrocyte proliferation and dysregulated apoptosis in the cartilage growth plate are key features of a murine model of epiphyseal dysplasia caused by a matn3 mutation.
- Reduced cell proliferation and increased apoptosis are significant pathological mechanisms in a murine model of mild pseudoachondroplasia resulting from a mutation in the C-terminal domain of COMP.
- MUC16 is produced in tracheal surface epithelium and submucosal glands and is present in secretions from normal human airway and cultured bronchial epithelial cells.
Treatments
- Hives
- Pain
- Cellulitis
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