Dr. Richard A Zager M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Harborview Medical Center 325 9th Ave Seattle WA, 98104Rating
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Dr. Richard Zager is a nephrologist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Zager specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Zager 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Expression and role of parathyroid hormone-related protein in human renal proximal tubule cells during recovery from ATP depletion.
- Calcitriol directly sensitizes renal tubular cells to ATP-depletion- and iron-mediated attack.
- Renal cortical ceramide patterns during ischemic and toxic injury: assessments by HPLC-mass spectrometry.
- Sphingomyelinase and membrane sphingomyelin content: determinants ofProximal tubule cell susceptibility to injury.
- Plasma membrane cholesterol: a critical determinant of cellular energetics and tubular resistance to attack.
- Polyene antibiotics: relative degrees of in vitro cytotoxicity and potential effects on tubule phospholipid and ceramide content.
- Changes in free and esterified cholesterol: hallmarks of acute renal tubular injury and acquired cytoresistance.
- Hypocalcemia: a pervasive metabolic abnormality in the critically ill.
- Ethylene glycol-mediated tubular injury: identification of critical metabolites and injury pathways.
- Renal cholesterol accumulation: a durable response after acute and subacute renal insults.
- P glycoprotein-mediated cholesterol cycling determines proximal tubular cell viability.
- Renal cortical cholesterol accumulation is an integral component of the systemic stress response.
- Altered cholesterol localization and caveolin expression during the evolution of acute renal failure.
- Dephosphorylation of cell cycle-regulated proteins correlates with anoxia-induced suspended animation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- Parenteral iron formulations: a comparative toxicologic analysis and mechanisms of cell injury.
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