Catherine R Abbott O.D.
Optometrist
689a New Highway 68 Sweetwater TN, 37874About
Dr. Catherine Abbott is an optometrist practicing in Sweetwater, TN. Dr. Abbott specializing in providing eye care services to patients. As an optometrist, Dr. Abbott performs eye exams, tests vision, corrects vision by prescribing eye glasses or contacts, detects certain eye disorders and manages and treats vision problems. Optometrists often work closely with ophthalmologists who may need to further treat patients with surgical procedures.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Granulomatous vasculitis in diversion procto-colitis.
- Breaking the barriers to transplantation.
- Macrophage accumulation within the cap of carotid atherosclerotic plaques is associated with the onset of cerebral ischemic events.
- Acute leukaemia after four years of melphalan treatment for melanoma.
- Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript, glucagon-like peptide-1 and corticotrophin releasing factor inhibit feeding via agouti-related protein independent pathways in the rat.
- Investigation of the melanocyte stimulating hormones on food intake. Lack Of evidence to support a role for the melanocortin-3-receptor.
- Central administration of orexin A suppresses basal and domperidone stimulated plasma prolactin.
- Actions of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) peptide on regulation of appetite and hypothalamo-pituitary axes in vitro and in vivo in male rats.
- The central effects of orexin-A in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in vivo and in vitro in male rats.
- Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) suppresses thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) release, in vivo and in vitro, via the hypothalamus and the pituitary.
- Differences in the detection of cyclo-oxygenase 1 and 2 proteins in symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid plaques.
- Evidence of an orexigenic role for cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript after administration into discrete hypothalamic nuclei.
- PRL-releasing peptide inhibits food intake in male rats via the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus and not the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus.
- Ghrelin causes hyperphagia and obesity in rats.
- Effects of melanocortin receptor ligands on thyrotropin-releasing hormone release: evidence for the differential roles of melanocortin 3 and 4 receptors.
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