Dr. Ricardo O Castillo MD
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
300 Pasteur Dr Stanford CA, 94305About
Dr. Ricardo Castillo is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Stanford, CA. Dr. Castillo specializes in digestive system, liver or nutritional problems in children from the newborn period to their teens. Conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, chronic constipation or obesity can all be treated by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Diego, Sch of Med, La Jolla Ca 1975
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Gastroenterology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Paediatric liver transplantation: indications, timing and medical complications.
- Ontogeny of intestinal lactase: posttranslational regulation by thyroxine.
- Maturation of jejunoileal gradients in rat intestine: the role of intraluminal nutrients.
- Mechanism of maturational decline of rat intestinal lactase-phlorizin hydrolase.
- Alterations in postnatal intestinal function during chronic hypoxemia.
- Risk factors for small bowel bacterial overgrowth in cystic fibrosis.
- Ontogeny of membrane and soluble amino-oligopeptidases in rat intestine.
- Synthesis and accumulation of protein and carbohydrases along the rat villus column.
- Absorption of zinc deuteroporphyrin IX 2,4-bis-glycol by the neonatal rat small intestine in vivo.
- Factors affecting survival to intestinal transplantation in the very young pediatric patient.
- Pituitary regulation of postnatal small intestinal ontogeny in the rat: differential regulation of digestive hydrolase maturation by thyroxine and growth hormone.
- Altered maturation of small intestinal function in the absence of intraluminal nutrients: rapid normalization with refeeding.
- Intestinal lactase in the neonatal rat. Maturational changes in intracellular processing and brush-border degradation.
- Regulation of intestinal ontogeny by intraluminal nutrients.
- An evaluation of food group intakes by Mexican-American children.
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