Dr. Herbert Yah-fuu Lin MD PHD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
55 Fruit Street Renal Associates Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Herbert Lin is a nephrologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Lin specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Lin most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1995
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Phosphorylation of threonine 276 in Smad4 is involved in transforming growth
- DRAGON: a member of the repulsive guidance molecule-related family of neuronal- and muscle-expressed membrane proteins is regulated by DRG11 and has neuronal adhesive properties.
- In the absence of type III receptor, the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta type II-B receptor requires the type I receptor to bind TGF-beta2.
- BMP signaling mediated by ALK2 in the visceral endoderm is necessary for the generation of primordial germ cells in the mouse embryo.
- Differential actions of follistatin and follistatin-like 3.
- Reconstitution and analysis of soluble inhibin and activin receptor complexes in a cell-free system.
- DRAGON, a bone morphogenetic protein co-receptor.
- Localization and action of Dragon (repulsive guidance molecule b), a novel bone morphogenetic protein coreceptor, throughout the reproductive axis.
- Repulsive guidance molecule (RGMa), a DRAGON homologue, is a bone morphogenetic protein co-receptor.
- Bone morphogenetic protein signaling by hemojuvelin regulates hepcidin expression.
- Evidence for a role of transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 in the induction of postglomerular albuminuria in diabetic nephropathy: amelioration by soluble TGF-beta type II receptor.
- Repulsive guidance molecule RGMa alters utilization of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) type II receptors by BMP2 and BMP4.
- Modulation of bone morphogenetic protein signaling in vivo regulates systemic iron balance.
- Dorsomorphin inhibits BMP signals required for embryogenesis and iron metabolism.
- Hemojuvelin regulates hepcidin expression via a selective subset of BMP ligands and receptors independently of neogenin.
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