Dr. Juan M Saavedra MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
10401 Old Georgetown Rd 208 Bethesda MD, 20814Rating
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About
Dr. Juan Saavedra is a psychiatrist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Saavedra is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Saavedra diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Saavedra may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Saavedra treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ De Buenos Aires- Fac De Med- Buenos Aires- Argentina 1965
Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Medicina 1965
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Site-directed mutagenesis of the gerbil and human angiotensin II AT(1) receptors
- Protection against ischemia and improvement of cerebral blood flow in genetically hypertensive rats by chronic pretreatment with an angiotensin II AT1 antagonist.
- Increased angiotensin II AT(1) receptor expression in paraventricular nucleus and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stimulation in AT(2) receptor gene disrupted mice.
- Estrogen upregulates renal angiotensin II AT(2) receptors.
- Exaggerated adrenomedullary response to immobilization in mice with targeted disruption of the serotonin transporter gene.
- Increased expression of cardiac angiotensin II type 1 (AT(1)) receptors decreases myocardial microvessel density after experimental myocardial infarction.
- The future of Latin American science.
- Intracisternal administration of Angiotensin II AT1 receptor antisense oligodeoxynucleotides protects against cerebral ischemia in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
- Normalization of endothelial and inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in brain microvessels of spontaneously hypertensive rats by angiotensin II AT1 receptor inhibition.
- Anti-inflammatory effects of angiotensin II AT1 receptor antagonism prevent stress-induced gastric injury.
- Angiotensin II AT(1) and AT(2) receptors contribute to maintain basal adrenomedullary norepinephrine synthesis and tyrosine hydroxylase transcription.
- Molecular cloning, characterization, and distribution of the gerbil angiotensin II AT2 receptor.
- Stress and angiotensin II: novel therapeutic opportunities.
- Angiotensin II AT1 receptor blockade reverses pathological hypertrophy and inflammation in brain microvessels of spontaneously hypertensive rats.
- Life-long serotonin reuptake deficiency results in complex alterations in adrenomedullary responses to stress.
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