Professor, Pediatrics, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Dr. Barry K. Wershil, MD
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Barry Wershil practices Pediatric Gastroenterology. He went to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He received 1 awards: "Super Doctor". Barry Wershil is a published doctor. He has 70 publications published. The most current publication "Gastric inflammation during systemic anaphylaxis: neutrophil recruitment in stomach wall of mice does not require mast cell participation."
Publications
- Nestle Nutrition Young Investigator Research Development Award: NASPGHAN Foundation Report on a 13-Year Partnership.
- Eosinophilic esophagitis: Updated consensus recommendations for children and adults.
- Evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders in individuals with ASDs: a consensus report.
- Recommendations for evaluation and treatment of common gastrointestinal problems in children with ASDs.
- Exploring the role of mast cells in eosinophilic esophagitis.
- Gastrointestinal symptoms in children with an autism spectrum disorder and language regression.
- Enteral feeding.
- Direct evidence of mast cell participation in acute acid-induced esophageal inflammation in mice.
- 4. Gastrointestinal mucosal immunity.
- The ontogeny and developmental physiology of gastric acid secretion.
- Summary of the First International Gastrointestinal Eosinophil Research Symposium.
- In brief: fecal overflow incontinence.
- In brief: hirschsprung Disease.
- Frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorders and association with family history of autoimmune Disease.
- Lack of neurokinin-1 receptor expression affects tissue mast cell numbers but not their spatial relationship with nerves.
- Mast cells mediate substance P-induced bladder inflammation through an NK(1) receptor-independent mechanism.
- Allergy and immunologic Disease: Working Group Report of the First World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition.
- Transcription factor network downstream of protease activated receptors (PARs) modulating mouse bladder inflammation.
- Pyloric stenosis and eosinophilic gastroEnteritis in infants.
- Generation and recognition of vasoactive intestinal peptide by cells of the immune system.
- Mast cell regulation of inflammation and gene expression during antigen-induced bladder inflammation in mice.
- Eosinophil granule-derived major basic protein induces IL-8 expression in human intestinal myofibroblasts.
- IX. Mast cell-deficient mice and intestinal biology.
- Stem cell factor influences neuro-immune interactions: the response of mast cells to pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide is altered by stem cell factor.
- Mast cells contribute to PACAP-induced dermal oedema in mice.
- Helicobacter pylori infection in children--an update.
- Gastric inflammation during systemic anaphylaxis: neutrophil recruitment in stomach wall of mice does not require mast cell participation.
- Eotaxin modulates myelopoiesis and mast cell development from embryonic hematopoietic progenitors.
- Colonic mucin release in response to immobilization stress is mast cell dependent.
- Stem cell factor influences mast cell mediator release in response to eosinophil-derived granule major basic protein.
- Direct evidence of mast cell involvement in Clostridium difficile toxin A-induced Enteritis in mice.
- Eotaxin influences the development of embryonic hematopoietic progenitors in the mouse.
- Mast cell-dependent tumor necrosis factor alpha production participates in allergic gastric inflammation in mice.
- Distinct expression and function of the novel mouse chemokine monocyte chemotactic protein-5 in lung allergic inflammation.
- The regulation of tumor necrosis factor-alpha production in murine mast cells: pentoxifylline or dexamethasone inhibits IgE-dependent production of TNF-alpha by distin...
- Mast cell-dependent neutrophil and mononuclear cell recruitment in immunoglobulin E-induced gastric reactions in mice.
- The two faces of the mast cell.
- Mouse mast cell cytokine production: rôle in cutaneous inflammatory and immunological responses.
- Variants of vasoactive intestinal peptide in mouse mast cells and rat basophilic leukemia cells.
- Mast cell cytokines in allergy and inflammation.
- Mast cells augment lesion size and persistence during experimental Leishmania major infection in the mouse.
- Allergic Colitis in infants.
- Dexamethasone or cyclosporin A suppress mast cell-leukocyte cytokine cascades. Multiple mechanisms of inhibition of IgE- and mast cell-dependent cutaneous inflammation...
- The c-kit receptor, stem cell factor, and mast cells. What each is teaching us about the others.
- Dexamethasone and cyclosporin A suppress mast cell-leukocyte cytokine cascades by multiple mechanisms.
- Role of mast cells and basophils in gastrointestinal inflammation.
- Substance P induces ion secretion in mouse small intestine through effects on enteric nerves and mast cells.
- Regulation of mouse and human mast cell development, survival and function by stem cell factor, the ligand for the c-kit receptor.
- The analysis of mast cell function in vivo using mast cell-deficient mice.
- For better or for worse: does stem cell factor importantly regulate mast cell function in pulmonary physiology and pathology?
- The c-kit ligand, stem cell factor, promotes mast cell survival by suppressing apoptosis.
- 125I-fibrin deposition in IgE-dependent immediate hypersensitivity reactions in mouse skin. Demonstration of the role of mast cells using genetically mast cell-deficie...
- Ethanol-induced acute gastric injury in mast cell-deficient and congenic normal mice. Evidence that mast cells can augment the area of damage.
- Analysis of mast cell function in biological responses not involving IgE.
- Higher susceptibility of mast-cell-deficient W/WV mutant mice to brain thromboembolism and mortality caused by intravenous injection of India ink.
- Studies of the role of mast cells in contact sensitivity responses. Passive transfer of the reaction into mast cell-deficient mice locally reconstituted with cultured ...
- Role of mast cells in ion transport abnormalities associated with intestinal anaphylaxis. Correction of the diminished secretory response in genetically mast cell-defi...
- Recruitment of neutrophils during IgE-dependent cutaneous late phase reactions in the mouse is mast cell-dependent. Partial inhibition of the reaction with antiserum a...
- Gastrointestinal mast cells. New approaches for analyzing their function in vivo.
- Cytokine production by mast cells and basophils.
- The mucosal barrier, IgE-mediated gastrointestinal events, and eosinophilic gastroEnteritis.
- The rat c-kit ligand, stem cell factor, induces c-kit receptor-dependent mouse mast cell activation in vivo. Evidence that signaling through the c-kit receptor can ind...
- Analyzing mast cell development and function using mice carrying mutations at W/c-kit or Sl/MGF (SCF) loci.
- Mast cell-dependent amplification of an immunologically nonspecific inflammatory response. Mast cells are required for the full expression of cutaneous acute inflammat...
- Mast cells: immunologically specific effectors and potential sources of multiple cytokines during IgE-dependent responses.
- Substance P-induced augmentation of cutaneous vascular permeability and granulocyte infiltration in mice is mast cell dependent.
- Partial protection against Helicobacter pylori in the absence of mast cells in mice.
- Research agenda for pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition: allergy and immunology. Report of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, ...
- Lesional and nonlesional skin from patients with untreated juvenile dermatomyositis displays increased numbers of mast cells and mature plasmacytoid dendritic cells.
Schools
Washington Center School of Medicine
St Louis Childrens Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
Conditions Treated
- Anemia
- Crohn's Disease (Regional Enteritis)
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Ulcerative Colitis
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Assurant Health
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Blue Cross Accord
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Coventry Health Care of Illinois PPO
- Health and Life PPO
- Platinum PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Missouri PPO
- First Choice Health
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- HealthLink PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Sagamore Plus
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Super Doctor
Education
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Boston Children's Hospital -
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hospital
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Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago -
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital -
Northwestern Memorial Hospital -
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children?
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