Joseph Michael Gertner MB, BCHIR
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
333 Longwood Ave 6th Floor Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Joseph Gertner is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Gertner specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- HIV-associated immune dysfunction and delayed pubertal development in a cohort of young hemophiliacs. Hemophilia Growth and Development Study.
- Autosomal dominant growth hormone (GH) deficiency type II: the Del32-71-GH deletion mutant suppresses secretion of wild-type GH.
- Growth hormone actions on fat distribution and metabolism.
- Effects of housing on the thymic deficiency in dwarf mice and its reversal by growth hormone administration.
- Insulin insensitivity in adrenal hyperplasia due to nonclassical steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
- Effects of growth hormone on abnormal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and dyslipidemia in HIV-infected patients.
- Lack of effect of recombinant human growth hormone on the in vitro activities of antiretroviral drugs against human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
- Effect of recombinant human growth hormone on exercise capacity in patients with HIV-associated wasting on HAART.
- Effects of systemic growth hormone (GH) administration on regional adipose tissue in children with non-GH-deficient short stature.
- Growth hormone, glutamine, and an optimal diet reduces parenteral nutrition in patients with short bowel syndrome: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial.
- Effects of growth hormone on visceral adipose tissue and dyslipidemia in HIV, an erratum.
- Growth hormone treatment in children.
- 1-Alpha-hydroxycholecalciferol in the treatment of hypocalcaemic psychosis.
- 1-Alpha-hydroxycholecalciferol in the treatment of hypocalcaemic psychosis.
- 25-Hydroxyvitamin D levels in patients treated with high-dosage ergo- and cholecalciferol.
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