Professor, Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School, Houston

Pediatric Pulmonology

Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, MD practices Pediatric Pulmonology. He received 1 awards: "Top MD". Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, MD is a published physician as well. He has 43 publications published. The latest was: Human respiratory syncytial virus produces prolonged alterations of neural control in airways of developing ferrets.

Publications

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• Dysanaptic growth of lung and airway in children with post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans.
• Effects of infant formula on cell homeostasis and cytokine levels in an in vivo and in vitro murine aspiration model.
• Respiratory syncytial virus infection alters surfactant protein A expression in human pulmonary epithelial cells by reducing translation efficiency.
• Modulation of airway responses by prostaglandins in young and fully grown rabbits.
• Antioxidant treatment ameliorates respiratory syncytial virus-induced disease and lung inflammation.
• Decreased bacterial clearance from the lungs of mice following primary respiratory syncytial virus infection.
• Respiratory syncytial virus infection in a murine model of cystic fibrosis.
• Effects of RSV infection on pulmonary surfactant protein SP-A in cultured human type II cells: contrasting consequences on SP-A mRNA and protein.
• Immune and functional role of nitric oxide in a mouse model of respiratory syncytial virus infection.
• Serum KL-6 and surfactant proteins A and D in pediatric interstitial lung disease.
• Mechanisms determining cholinergic neural responses in airways of young and mature rabbits.
• Immunocytochemical detection of milk proteins in tracheal aspirates of ventilated infants: a pilot study.
• Meconium aspiration produces airway hyperresponsiveness and eosinophilic inflammation in a murine model.
• Influence of lipopolysaccharide exposure on airway function and allergic responses in developing mice.
• Enhanced release of thromboxane A(2) after exposure of human airway epithelial cells to meconium.
• Eosinophilic pneumonia in an infant.
• Airway obstruction in congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.
• IL-13 is associated with reduced illness and replication in primary respiratory syncytial virus infection in the mouse.
• Lack of long-term effects of respiratory syncytial virus infection on airway function in mice.
• Role of cysteinyl leukotrienes in airway inflammation and responsiveness following RSV infection in BALB/c mice.
• Phosphodiesterase IV and neutral endopeptidase in airways from developing and allergen sensitized rabbits.
• Hyperresponsiveness to inhaled but not intravenous methacholine during acute respiratory syncytial virus infection in mice.
• Airway responsiveness after acute exposure to urban particulate matter 1648 in a DO11.10 murine model.
• New evidence for transmitter role of VIP in the airways: impaired relaxation by a catalytic antibody.
• Day/night variations of airway reactivity after drug premedication.
• Substance P-induced contraction of airway smooth muscle in young and adult rabbits. Effects of epithelium removal and neutral endopeptidase inhibition.
• Modulation of acetylcholine release in rabbit airways in vitro.
• SP-induced contraction of airway smooth muscle in normal and allergen-sensitized rabbits: mechanism of action.
• Human respiratory syncytial virus affects nonadrenergic noncholinergic inhibition in cotton rat airways.
• Maturation of nonadrenergic noncholinergic inhibitory system in normal and allergen-sensitized rabbits.
• Decrease in the airways' nonadrenergic noncholinergic inhibitory system in allergen sensitized rabbits.
• Effect of aspiration of milk on mechanisms of neural control in the airways of developing rabbits.
• Human respiratory syncytial virus produces prolonged alterations of neural control in airways of developing ferrets.
• Neural control mechanisms within airways: disruption by respiratory syncytial virus.
• Isolation of Stachybotrys from the lung of a child with pulmonary hemosiderosis.
• A novel diagnostic method for pulmonary aspiration in a murine model. Immunocytochemical staining of milk proteins in alveolar macrophages.
• Recurrent milk aspiration produces changes in airway mechanics, lung eosinophilia, and goblet cell hyperplasia in a murine model.
• Induction and regulation of nitric oxide synthase in airway epithelial cells by respiratory syncytial virus.
• Use of alternative and complementary therapies for pediatric asthma.
• Adenosine-dependent airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness in partially adenosine deaminase-deficient mice.
• Time course of hemosiderin production by alveolar macrophages in a murine model.
• Mechanisms of cholinergic dysfunction in rabbits following recurrent aspiration of cow's milk.

Schools

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• University Tex Med Br

• University Of Colorado

Doctors Specialties

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• Pediatric Pulmonology

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Choice Plus POS II
• Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
• Blue Card PPO
• Blue Choice
• Cigna HMO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Emblem Health
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Choice Care PPO
• Preferred PPO
• Houston Area HMO-Standard
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• MHealth Insured
• Tricare
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO

Awards

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• Top MD

Education

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• University of Colorado
• University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals

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