Dr. Christine T Pham MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
4921 Parkview Pl 5th Floor Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. Christine Pham is a rheumatologist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Pham specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Pham treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Rheumatology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Dipeptidyl peptidase I activates neutrophil-derived serine proteases and regulates the development of acute experimental arthritis.
- Characterization of murine cathepsin W and its role in cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
- Serine protease cathepsin G regulates adhesion-dependent neutrophil effector functions by modulating integrin clustering.
- Dipeptidyl peptidase I regulates the development of collagen-induced arthritis.
- Neutrophil-derived serine proteases in immune complex-mediated diseases.
- Neutrophil serine proteases: specific regulators of inflammation.
- Pathophysiology of abdominal aortic aneurysms: insights from the elastase-induced model in mice with different genetic backgrounds.
- Critical role of dipeptidyl peptidase I in neutrophil recruitment during the development of experimental abdominal aortic aneurysms.
- Neutrophil serine proteases fine-tune the inflammatory response.
- Dipeptidyl peptidase I-dependent neutrophil recruitment modulates the inflammatory response to Sendai virus infection.
- Neutrophil secretion products pave the way for inflammatory monocytes.
- Dipeptidyl-peptidase I does not functionally compensate for the loss of tripeptidyl-peptidase I in the neurodegenerative disease late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.
- Complement-dependent neutrophil recruitment is critical for the development of elastase-induced abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Alphavbeta3-targeted nanotherapy suppresses inflammatory arthritis in mice.
- Inflammatory arthritis in caspase 1 gene-deficient mice: contribution of proteinase 3 to caspase 1-independent production of bioactive interleukin-1beta.
Fellowships
- Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 1997
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