Dr. Christian Fischer Ockenhouse M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
6900 Georgia Ave Nw Wramc Bldg 2 Departm Washington DC, 20307About
Dr. Christian Ockenhouse is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Ockenhouse specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to chondroitin 4-sulfate.
- Expression, purification and characterization of a functional region of the Plasmodium vivax Duffy binding protein.
- Characterization of proteoglycans of human placenta and identification of unique chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans of the intervillous spaces that mediate the adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to the placenta.
- Structural requirements for the adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans of human placenta.
- Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors of Plasmodium falciparum: molecular characterization and naturally elicited antibody response that may provide immunity to malaria pathogenesis.
- Purification, characterization, and immunogenicity of a disulfide cross-linked Plasmodium vivax vaccine candidate antigen, merozoite surface protein 1, expressed in Escherichia coli.
- Gravidity-dependent production of antibodies that inhibit binding of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to placental chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan during pregnancy.
- Plasmodium falciparum cytoadherence to human placenta: evaluation of hyaluronic acid and chondroitin 4-sulfate for binding of infected erythrocytes.
- Identification, expression, and functional characterization of MAEBL, a sporozoite and asexual blood stage chimeric erythrocyte-binding protein of Plasmodium falciparum.
- Effect of codon optimization on expression levels of a functionally folded malaria vaccine candidate in prokaryotic and eukaryotic expression systems.
- Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes bind ICAM-1 at a site distinct from LFA-1, Mac-1, and human rhinovirus.
- Membrane glycoprotein CD36: a review of its roles in adherence, signal transduction, and transfusion medicine.
- Human vascular endothelial cell adhesion receptors for Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes: roles for endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecule 1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule 1.
- Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1-immunoglobulin G1 immunoadhesin mediates phagocytosis of malaria-infected erythrocytes.
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