Dr. Alexander Sloan Townes MD
Internist
1310 24th Ave South Va Medical Center Nashville TN, 37212About
Dr. Alexander Townes is an internist practicing in Nashville, TN. Dr. Townes specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Townes provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1953
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Letter: Cause of adult toxic epidermal necrolysis.
- Proceedings: Comparison of early patterns of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in juveniles and young adults: data supporting a unified disease concept.
- Performance of a rosette assay between lymphocytes and sheep erythrocytes at elevated temperatures to study patients with cancer and other diseases.
- Duration of the Q-T interval during the anoxemia test.
- Immunologic studies of systemic lupus erythematosus. I. Quantitative estimations of nucleoprotein-reactive gamma globulin in systemic lupus erythematosis and other diseases.
- Immunologic studies of systemic lupus erythematosus. II. Variations of nucleoprotein-reactive gamma globulin and hemolytic serum complement levels with disease activity.
- QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEOPROTEIN-REACTIVE GAMMA GLOBULINS IN SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS AND RELATED DISEASES.
- RECENT ADVANCES IN THE REHABILITATION OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID FACTOR.
- Drug evaluation in angina pectoris: khellin, heparin, peritrate.
- Collagen-induced arthritis in rats. Examination of the epitope specificities of circulating and cartilage-bound antibodies produced by outbred and inbred rats using cyanogen bromide-derived peptides purified from heterologous and homologous type II c
- Acceleration of onset of collagen-induced arthritis by intra-articular injection of tumour necrosis factor or transforming growth factor-beta.
- Immunity to type XI collagen in mice. Evidence that the alpha 3(XI) chain of type XI collagen and the alpha 1(II) chain of type II collagen share arthritogenic determinants and induce arthritis in DBA/1 mice.
- Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) induced neutrophil recruitment to synovial tissues: implications for TGF-beta-driven synovial inflammation and hyperplasia.
- Adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats. Evidence that autoimmunity to homologous collagens types I, II, IX and XI is not involved in the pathogenesis of arthritis.
- Collagen-induced arthritis in mice. Localization of an arthritogenic determinant to a fragment of the type II collagen molecule.
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