Dr. William Allen Banks M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
915 N Grand Blvd Saint Louis MO, 63106Rating
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Dr. William Banks practices Geriatric Medicine in Saint Louis, MO. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Banks works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Transmission routes of HIV-1 gp120 from brain to lymphoid tissues.
- Uptake and degradation of blood-borne insulin by the olfactory bulb.
- Effects of peptides: a cross-listing of peptides and their central actions published in the journal Peptides from 1994 through 1998.
- Peptide transport system-1 (PTS-1) for Tyr-MIF-1 and Met-enkephalin differs from the receptors for either.
- Characterization of interleukin-1alpha binding to mouse brain endothelial cells.
- Effect of cardiac arrest on brain weight and the permeability of the blood-brain and blood-spinal cord barrier to albumin and tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
- Physiology and pathology of the blood-brain barrier: implications for microbial pathogenesis, drug delivery and neurodegenerative disorders.
- The effect of cardiac arrest on the permeability of the mouse blood-brain and blood-spinal cord barrier to pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP).
- Impaired transport of leptin across the blood-brain barrier in obesity.
- Peptides crossing the blood-brain barrier: some unusual observations.
- Designing stable blood-brain barrier-permeable prosaptide peptides for treatment of central nervous system neurodegeneration.
- Estradiol potentiates acetylcholine and glutamate-mediated post-trial memory processing in the hippocampus.
- Partial saturation and regional variation in the blood-to-brain transport of leptin in normal weight mice.
- Biology and control of imported fire ants.
- Persistence of blood-to-brain transport of leptin in obese leptin-deficient and leptin receptor-deficient mice.
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