Dr. Chinwe Dorothy John M.D
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
21475 Ridgetop Cir Suite 150 Sterling VA, 20166Rating
4/5
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Dr. Chinwe John is a physiatrist practicing in Sterling, VA. Dr. John is a medical doctor specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. As a physiatrist, Dr. John focuses on a patients ability to function, and can treat multiple conditions that affect the brain, nerves, spine, bones, muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. Dr. John can diagnose and treat pain that is a result of injury, disease or a disabling condition. Physiatrists often lead a team of physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians in a patients treatment or prevention plan.
Education and Training
University Lagos MD
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Annexin 1 (lipocortin 1) mediates the glucocorticoid inhibition of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate-stimulated prolactin secretion.
- Opposing influences of glucocorticoids and interleukin-1beta on the secretion of growth hormone and ACTH in the rat in vivo: role of hypothalamic annexin 1.
- Kinase-dependent regulation of the secretion of thyrotrophin and luteinizing hormone by glucocorticoids and annexin 1 peptides.
- Perinatal glucocorticoid treatment produces molecular, functional, and morphological changes in the anterior pituitary gland of the adult male rat.
- Perinatal glucocorticoid treatment disrupts the hypothalamo-lactotroph axis in adult female, but not male, rats.
- The long-term effects of perinatal glucocorticoid exposure on the host defence system of the respiratory tract.
- Time-specific effects of perinatal glucocorticoid treatment on anterior pituitary morphology, annexin 1 expression and adrenocorticotrophic hormone secretion in the adult female rat.
- Formyl peptide receptors and the regulation of ACTH secretion: targets for annexin A1, lipoxins, and bacterial peptides.
- Evidence from in vitro and in vivo studies showing that nuclear factor-κB within the pituitary folliculostellate cells and corticotrophs regulates adrenocorticotrophic hormone secretion in experimental endotoxaemia.
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