Dr. Peter I. Lobo M.D.
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Uva Hospital W Hospital Drive, 3rd Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Peter Lobo is a nephrologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Lobo specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Lobo most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Makerere Univ, Med Sch, Kampala, Uganda (- Prior /) 1966
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Nephrology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Immunomodulatory effect of Nigella sativa proteins fractionated by ion exchange chromatography.
- Racial disparities in renal transplant outcomes.
- An appraisal of Fc receptors on human peripheral blood B and L lymphocytes.
- Identification of two populations of immunoglobulin-bearing lymphocytes in man.
- Racial disparities in access to simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation in the United States.
- Inhibition of humoral and cell-mediated immune responses in man by distinct suppressor cell systems.
- Inhibition of humoral and cell-mediated immune responses in man by distinct suppressor cell systems.
- Use of anti-HLA antibodies to mask major histocompatibility complex gene products on tumor cells can enhance susceptibility of these cells to lysis by natural killer cells.
- Interactions between MSCs and immune cells: implications for bone healing.
- Role of Natural IgM Autoantibodies (IgM-NAA) and IgM Anti-Leukocyte Antibodies (IgM-ALA) in Regulating Inflammation.
- In vitro assays to study role of T cell-derived factors on human B lymphocytes should take into consideration inhibiting effect of large granular lymphocyte subset (CD5-,CD16+) that can contaminate B cell preparations.
- Fc receptor heterogeneity: immunofluorescent studies of B, T, and "third population" lymphocytes in human blood with rabbit IgG b4/anti-b4 complexes.
- Fc receptor heterogeneity: immunofluorescent studies of B, T, and "third population" lymphocytes in human blood with rabbit IgG b4/anti-b4 complexes.
- Kidney transplantation across positive B and T cell crossmatches.
- Kidney transplantation across positive B and T cell crossmatches.
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Practice At Uva Hospital W Hospital Drive, 3rd Floor
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