Dr. Brett Joseph Chiasson M.D.
Orthopedist
1000 J.W. DAVIS DRIVE HAMMOND LA, 70454About
Dr. Brett Chiasson is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Hammond, LA. Dr. Chiasson specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Chiasson tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
La State Univ Sch of Med In New Orleans, New Orleans La 1991
Louisiana State Univ School Of Medicine In New Orleans
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adult mammalian forebrain ependymal and subependymal cells demonstrate proliferative potential, but only subependymal cells have neural stem cell characteristics.
- An irreducible knee dislocation: a case report.
- Retinal stem cells in the adult mammalian eye.
- Antisense oligonucleotide eliminates in vivo expression of c-fos in mammalian brain.
- Distribution of catecholamines and of immunoreactivity to substances like vertebrate enzymes for the synthesis of catecholamines within the central nervous system of the snail, Lymnaea stagnalis.
- Antisense Therapeutics in the Central Nervous System : The Induction of c-fos.
- Postembryonic development of serotoninlike immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the snail, Lymnaea stagnalis.
- The application of antisense oligonucleotide technology to the brain: some pitfalls.
- Infusion into the brain of an antisense oligonucleotide to the immediate-early gene c-fos suppresses production of fos and produces a behavioral effect.
- Amygdala kindling and immediate-early genes.
- Morphological changes and functional recovery following axotomy of a serotonergic cerebrobuccal neurone in the land snail Achatina fulica.
- Putative roles for the inducible transcription factor c-fos in the central nervous system: studies with antisense oligonucleotides.
- Intra-amygdala infusion of an end-capped antisense oligodeoxynucleotide to c-fos accelerates amygdala kindling.
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