Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch SOM
Infectious Disease
Dr. Peter Melby, MD
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Peter Melby works in the field of Infectious Disease. Peter Melby is a published MD as well. He has 22 publications published. The latest was: A Novel Molecular Test to Diagnose Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis at the Point of Care.
Publications
- A Novel Molecular Test to Diagnose Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis at the Point of Care.
- Antileishmanial activity of disulfiram and thiuram disulfide analogs in an ex vivo model system is selectively enhanced by the addition of divalent metal ions.
- Growth factor and Th2 cytokine signaling pathways converge at STAT6 to promote arginase expression in progressive experimental visceral leishmaniasis.
- Deficiency of lymph node resident dendritic cells and dysregulation of DC chemoattractants in a malnourished mouse model of Leishmania donovani infection.
- Development of an ex vivo lymph node explant model for the identification of novel molecules active against Leishmania (L.) major.
- The Malnutrition-Related Increase in Early Visceralization of Leishmania donovani Is Associated with a Reduced Number of Lymph Node Phagocytes and Altered Conduit Syst...
- Immunopathogenesis of non-healing American cutaneous leishmaniasis and progressive visceral leishmaniasis.
- Identification of small molecule lead compounds for visceral leishmaniasis using a novel ex vivo splenic explant model system.
- CCR2 plays a critical role in dendritic cell maturation: possible role of CCL2 and NF-kappa B.
- Clinical, parasitologic, and immunologic evolution in dogs experimentally infected with sand fly-derived Leishmania chagasi promastigotes.
- WISP1, a pro-mitogenic, pro-survival factor, mediates tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-stimulated cardiac fibroblast proliferation but inhibits TNF-alpha-induce...
- Pregnancy enhances the innate immune response in experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis through hormone-modulated nitric oxide production.
- Leishmania amazonensis infections in Oryzomys acritus and Oryzomys nitidus from Bolivia.
- Biological activity of hamster interferon-gamma is modulated by the carboxyl-terminal tail.
- Reduced nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) promoter activity in the Syrian hamster renders the animal functionally deficient in NOS2 activity and unable to control an intr...
- Multinutrient undernutrition dysregulates the resident macrophage proinflammatory cytokine network, nuclear factor-kappaB activation, and nitric oxide production.
- Short report: a disseminated infection of Leishmania mexicana in an eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana, collected in Texas.
- Chemokine-cytokine cross-talk. The ELR+ CXC chemokine LIX (CXCL5) amplifies a proinflammatory cytokine response via a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-NF-kappa B pathway.
- Regulation of reticuloendothelial iron transporter MTP1 (Slc11a3) by inflammation.
- Recent developments in leishmaniasis.
- Gender is a major determinant of the clinical evolution and immune response in hamsters infected with Leishmania spp.
Schools
University Of Colorado School Of Medicine
University Hospital S Tx Med Center
University Hosps and Clinics
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
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Education
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center -
University of Missouri-Columbia
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1700898624 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | MELBY |
| First Name Of The Provider | PETER |
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