Dr. William Wan Kao M.D.
Urologist
1221 MERCANTILE LN LARGO MD, 20774About
Dr. William Kao is a urologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Kao specializes in diseases of the urinary tract and the male reproductive system. This includes areas of the bladder, urethra, kidneys, penis and prostate. Urology is a surgical specialty and requires knowledge in other areas of expertise such as gynecology and internal medicine due to the variety of clinical problems that are involved.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Corneal epithelium-specific mouse keratin K12 promoter.
- Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural analysis of dysplastic epithelium of human ocular surface: basement membrane and intermediate filament.
- Immunolocalization of transcription factor AP1 in human ocular surface epithelia.
- Ectopic gland induction by lens-specific expression of keratinocyte growth factor (FGF-7) in transgenic mice.
- Role of lumican in the corneal epithelium during wound healing.
- Identification of a 3.2 kb 5'-flanking region of the murine keratocan gene that directs beta-galactosidase expression in the adult corneal stroma of transgenic mice.
- Retinal degeneration in cone photoreceptor cell-ablated transgenic mice.
- Analysis of the human lumican gene promoter.
- Impression cytology of pterygium.
- Characterization of Corn1 mice: Alteration of epithelial and stromal cell gene expression.
- Expression of involucrin by ocular surface epithelia of patients with benign and malignant disorders.
- MK/T-1, an immortalized fibroblast cell line derived using cultures of mouse
- Immunohistochemical study of subepithelial haze after phototherapeutic keratectomy.
- Corneal epithelial wound healing.
- TGFbeta2 in corneal morphogenesis during mouse embryonic development.
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