Dr. Donald B Bloch MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
55 Fruit St Yaw 2100 Rheumatolog Boston MA, 02114Rating
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Dr. Donald Bloch is a rheumatologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Bloch specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Bloch treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Rheumatology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Recognition of a dominant epitope in bovine heat-shock protein 70 in inner ear disease.
- Structural and functional heterogeneity of nuclear bodies.
- Sp110 localizes to the PML-Sp100 nuclear body and may function as a nuclear hormone receptor transcriptional coactivator.
- Anti-heat shock protein 70 antibodies in Meniere's disease.
- Cytokines decrease sGC in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells via NO-dependent and NO-independent mechanisms.
- Implication of the lymphocyte-specific nuclear body protein Sp140 in an innate response to human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
- Physical and functional interactions between PML and MDM2.
- Cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding human endothelium-derived relaxing factor/nitric oxide synthase.
- Cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding human endothelium-derived relating factor/nitric oxide synthase.
- Restoration of promyelocytic leukemia protein-nuclear bodies in neuroblastoma cells enhances retinoic acid responsiveness.
- Do antinuclear antibodies in primary biliary cirrhosis patients identify increased risk for liver failure?
- Structure/function analysis of tristetraprolin (TTP): p38 stress-activated protein kinase and lipopolysaccharide stimulation do not alter TTP function.
- Mediation of Epstein-Barr virus EBNA-LP transcriptional coactivation by Sp100.
- Ge-1 is a central component of the mammalian cytoplasmic mRNA processing body.
- RNA-associated protein 55 (RAP55) localizes to mRNA processing bodies and stress granules.
Awards
- National Institutes Clinical Investigator Award
- National Institutes Of Health First Award
- Arthritis Foundation Arthritis Investigator Award
Treatments
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Sjogren's Syndrome
Fellowships
- Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow 1986
- Mass General Hospital, Fellow:Rheumatology 1989
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