Dr. Devin E Eckhoff MD
Surgeon
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
4/5
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Dr. Devin Eckhoff is a general surgeon practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Eckhoff specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Eckhoff provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.
Education and Training
Univ of Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1986
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Surgical Critical Care
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Reversal of naturally occuring diabetes in primates by unmodified islet xenografts without chronic immunosuppression.
- Long-term functional islet mass and metabolic function after xenoislet transplantation in primates.
- Durable donor-specific T and B cell tolerance in rhesus macaques induced with peritransplantation anti-CD3 immunotoxin and deoxyspergualin: absence of chronic allograft nephropathy.
- Successful reversal of streptozotocin-induced diabetes with stable allogeneic islet function in a preclinical model of type 1 diabetes.
- Use of preserved vascular homografts in liver transplantation: hepatic artery aneurysms and other complications.
- 17-Beta-estradiol protects the liver against warm ischemia/reperfusion injury and is associated with increased serum nitric oxide and decreased tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
- Simvastatin induces activation of the serine-threonine protein kinase AKT and increases survival of isolated human pancreatic islets.
- 17beta-Estradiol protects isolated human pancreatic islets against proinflammatory cytokine-induced cell death: molecular mechanisms and islet functionality.
- Coupling endoplasmic reticulum stress to cell death program in isolated human
- Double genetic modification of adenovirus fiber with RGD polylysine motifs significantly enhances gene transfer to isolated human pancreatic islets.
- Peripheral mobilization of recipient bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells enhances pancreatic islet revascularization and engraftment after intraportal transplantation.
- Brain death significantly reduces isolated pancreatic islet yields and functionality in vitro and in vivo after transplantation in rats.
- Whither living donors?
- Nonhuman primate models in type 1 diabetes research.
- Cytoprotection of PEG-modified adult porcine pancreatic islets for improved xenotransplantation.
Professional Memberships
- Fellow Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
- Fellow American College of Surgeons
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