Professor of Allergy and Immunology, University Iowa College of Medicine
Allergy & Immunology
Dr. Zuhair K. Ballas, MD
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Zuhair Ballas practices Allergy & Immunology. He received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Elected Member" and "Fellow (FAAAAI)". Zuhair K. Ballas is a published MD. He published 100 publications, including: 'Defective expression of p56lck in an infant with severe combined immunodeficiency.' Zuhair Ballas accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Localized Increase of Chemokines in the Lumen of Human Cerebral Aneurysms.
- A phase i trial of immunostimulatory CpG 7909 oligodeoxynucleotide and (90) yttrium ibritumomab tiuxetan radioimmunotherapy for relapsed B-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma.
- Neurohormonal Modulation of the Innate Immune System is Pro-inflammatory in the Pre-hypertensive Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat, a Genetic Model of Essential Hypertens...
- A Dynamic Flux in Natural Killer Cell Subsets as a Function of the Duration of Alcohol Ingestion.
- A Phase I Clinical Trial of CpG Oligonucleotide 7909 (PF-03512676) in Patients with Previously Treated Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
- High prevalence of humoral immunodeficiency patients with refractory Chronic rhinosinusitis.
- Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome: novel therapy for acute attacks.
- Hypereosinophilia: a case with an elusive etiology.
- Eosinophilic fasciitis masquerading as angioedema.
- A novel therapy for lymphedema.
- Antibody response to pneumococcal vaccination as a function of preimmunization titer.
- Assessing siRNA pharmacodynamics in a luciferase-expressing mouse.
- Reversible panHypogammaglobulinemia associated with the antiepileptic agent levetiracetam.
- Immunomodulators: a brave new world.
- Assessment of natural killer (NK) and NKT cells in murine spleens and livers.
- Effectiveness of delayed epinephrine in anaphylaxis.
- Evaluation of the adult with suspected immunoDeficiency.
- Modulation of NK cell activity by CpG oligodeoxynucleotides.
- Oligodeoxynucleotide CpG 7909 delivered as intravenous infusion demonstrates immunologic modulation in patients with previously treated non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Recalcitrant warts, associated with natural killer cell dysfunction, treated with systemic IFN-alpha.
- Natural killer cells in human health and disease.
- Caseating granulomatous disease in Common variable immunodeficiency treated with infliximab.
- Perilesional GM-CSF therapy of a Chronic leg ulcer in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency.
- Rapid intravenous cephalosporin desensitization.
- Association of Immune abnormalities with telomere shortening in autosomal-dominant dyskeratosis congenita.
- T-cell activation after Chronic ethanol ingestion in mice.
- The presentation and natural history of immunoDeficiency caused by nuclear factor kappaB essential modulator mutation.
- Chronic ethanol ingestion by mice increases expression of CD80 and CD86 by activated macrophages.
- Natural killer cells: emerging concepts in immunity to infection and implications for assessment of immunoDeficiency.
- Acute thromboembolic events associated with intravenous immunoglobulin infusion in antibody-deficient patients.
- Structural characterization of the inhibitory DNA motif for the type A (D)-CpG-induced cytokine secretion and NK-cell lytic activity in mouse spleen cells.
- Chronic ethanol consumption by mice results in activated splenic T cells.
- Aberrant T-cell antigen receptor-mediated responses in autoImmune lymphoproliferative syndrome.
- Highly immunostimulatory CpG-free oligodeoxynucleotides for activation of human leukocytes.
- Deficient natural killer cell cytotoxicity in patients with IKK-gamma/NEMO mutations.
- DNA immunomodulation of asthma.
- Divergent therapeutic and immunologic effects of oligodeoxynucleotides with distinct CpG motifs.
- Thymocytes, pre-B cells, and organ changes in a mouse model of Chronic ethanol ingestion--absence of subset-specific glucocorticoid-induced immune cell loss.
- Glycosylation contributes to variability in expression of murine cytomegalovirus m157 and enhances stability of interaction with the NK-cell receptor Ly49H.
- Omalizumab pretreatment decreases acute reactions after rush immunotherapy for ragweed-induced seasonal allergic rhinitis.
- Ontogeny of thymic NK1.1+ cells.
- Effect of a single ethanol exposure on HIV replication in human lymphocytes.
- Ethanol and natural killer cells. I. Activity and immunophenotype in alcoholic humans.
- Ethanol and natural killer cells. II. Stimulation of human natural killer activity by ethanol in vitro.
- Preoperative steroids confuse the diagnosis of allergic fungal Sinusitis.
- Practice parameter for the diagnosis and management of primary immunoDeficiency.
- Generation of H-2 restricted cytotoxic T cells by trinitrophenylated proteins in vitro: specificity and requirements.
- Studies on the mechanism of lymphocyte-mediated cytolysis. XI. The role of lectin in lectin-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
- NK1.1+ thymocytes. Adult murine CD4-, CD8- thymocytes contain an NK1.1+, CD3+, CD5hi, CD44hi, TCR-V beta 8+ subset.
- Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells. V. 8-Mercaptoguanosine as an IL-2-sparing agent in LAK generation.
- Pseudoephedrine reaction presenting as recurrent toxic shock syndrome.
- Induction of NK activity in murine and human cells by CpG motifs in oligodeoxynucleotides and bacterial DNA.
- Anti-pneumococcal antibody response in normal subjects: a meta-analysis.
- Natural killer cell function in women with vestibulitis.
- Localization and regulation of IFN-gamma production within the granulomas of murine schistosomiasis in IL-4-deficient and control mice.
- Defective expression of p56lck in an infant with severe combined immunoDeficiency.
- NK cytokine secretion and cytotoxicity occur independently of the SLP-76 adaptor protein.
- CpG oligodeoxynucleotides do not require TH1 cytokines to prevent eosinophilic airway inflammation in a murine model of asthma.
- Delineation of a CpG phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide for activating primate Immune responses in vitro and in vivo.
- Murine natural killer cell cloning from fetal thymic organ cultures.
- Immune dysfunction in refractory Sinusitis in a tertiary care setting.
- The Glycophosphatidylinositol Anchor of the MCMV Evasin, m157, Facilitates Optimal Cell Surface Expression and Ly49 Receptor Recognition.
- Identification of CpG oligonucleotide sequences with high induction of IFN-alpha/beta in plasmacytoid dendritic cells.
- CpG DNA induces cyclooxygenase-2 expression and prostaglandin production.
- TH1 cytokine response of CD57+ T-cell subsets in healthy controls and patients with alcoholic liver disease.
- Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells. VI. NK1.1+, CD3+ LAK effectors are derived from CD4-, CD8-, NK1.1- precursors.
- Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells. IV. Characterization of murine LAK effector subpopulations.
- The effects of intravenous endotoxin on various host-effector molecules.
- Evaluation of symptom relief, nasal airflow, nasal cytology, and acceptability of two formulations of flunisolide nasal spray in patients with perennial allergic rhini...
- A patient with simultaneous absence of "classical" natural killer cells (CD3-, CD16+, and NKH1+) and expansion of CD3+, CD4-, CD8-, NKH1+ subset.
- Murine natural killer cells express the Ly24 (Pgp-1) marker on their surface.
- Interleukin 2 inhibits in vitro granulocyte-macrophage colony formation.
- Monocyte suppressor factor is plasminogen activator inhibitor inhibition of membrane bound but not soluble IL-1.
- Inhibition of lymphocyte activation with anti-transferrin receptor Mabs: a comparison of three reagents and further studies of their range of effects and mechanism of ...
- Serious adverse reactions to protamine sulfate: are alternatives needed?
- Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells. II. Delineation of distinct murine LAK-precursor subpopulations.
- Role of the transferrin receptor in lymphocyte growth: a rat IgG monoclonal antibody against the murine transferrin receptor produces highly selective inhibition of T ...
- Alteration of bronchoalveolar cells during murine cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis.
- Interleukin 2 induces interferon alpha/beta production in mouse bone marrow cells.
- Interleukin 1 induces T cell mediated differentiation of murine Peyer's patch B cells to IgA secretion.
- Alteration of human accessory cell function by heat treatment: role of IL-1 and class II MHC antigens.
- Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells. I. Differential recovery of LAK, natural killer cells, and cytotoxic T lymphocytes after a sublethal dose of cyclophosphamide.
- Lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells. III. Characterization of LAK precursors and susceptible target cells within the murine thymus.
- Lymphokine-like activity of 8-mercaptoguanosine: induction of T and B cell differentiation.
- Amebic liver abscess in Lebanon. A report of 37 cases and a review of the literature.
- Limitations of recognition of modified-self by alloantigen-activated cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
- Generation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes against modified self in the absence of antigen by interleukin 2-containing preparations.
- Complement inhibits Immune responses: C3 preparations inhibit the generation of human cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
- The use of 5-azacytidine to establish constitutive interleukin 2-producing clones of the EL4 thymoma.
- Role of complement in the Immune response.
- Quantitative appraisal of H-2 products in T cell-mediated lysis by allogeneic and syngeneic effector cells.
- Studies on the mechanism of T-Cell-mediated lysis. XIII. Lectin-dependent T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity is supported by con A-coupled sepharose beads.
- Inhibition of human lymphocyte blastogenesis by C3: the role of serum in the tissue culture medium.
- Sulindac-induced aseptic meningitis.
- Naturally occurring antibodies directed to TNBS-modified cell surface but not the trinitrophenyl moiety.
- Fine T-cell subsets in alcoholics as determined by the expression of L-selectin, leukocyte Common antigen, and beta-integrin.
- Modulation of T-cell adhesion markers, and the CD45R and CD57 antigens in human alcoholics.
- Lymphokine-activated killer cells. VII. IL-4 induces an NK1.1+CD8 alpha+beta- TCR-alpha beta B220+ lymphokine-activated killer subset.
- Idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia in a patient with mycosis fungoides.
Schools
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
American University
Jefferson University
Johns Hopkins University
Rutgers Med School
Fred H Cancer Res Center
Conditions Treated
- Chronic Sinusitis
- Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID)
- Hypogammaglobulinemia
Doctors Specialties
- Allergy
- Immunology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Elected Member
- Fellow (FAAAAI)
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Thomas Jefferson University -
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1316935943 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BALLAS |
| First Name Of The Provider | ZUHAIR |
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