Mr. Donald M Foster MA, CCC/SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
6420 CLAYTON RD SAINT LOUIS MO, 63117About
Dr. Donald Foster is a speech language pathologist practicing in SAINT LOUIS, MO. Dr. Foster specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Foster evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Foster helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Stretch-induced regulation of angiotensinogen gene expression in cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts: opposing roles of JNK1/2 and p38alpha MAP kinases.
- Anthrax toxin: pathologic effects on the cardiovascular system.
- Rac1 and RhoA differentially regulate angiotensinogen gene expression in stretched cardiac fibroblasts.
- Caveolin and β1-integrin coordinate angiotensinogen expression in cardiac myocytes.
- Anthrax lethal toxin induces acute diastolic dysfunction in rats through disruption of the phospholamban signaling network.
- Production of spontaneously beating neonatal rat heart tissue for calcium and contractile studies.
- Paracrine communication between mechanically stretched myocytes and fibroblasts.
- Mechanosensing and Regulation of Cardiac Function.
- p38α MAPK inhibits stretch-induced JNK activation in cardiac myocytes through MKP-1.
- Isolated neonatal rat papillary muscles: a new model to translate neonatal rat myocyte signaling into contractile mechanics.
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