Dr. Robert James Plunkett MD
Neurosurgeon
Elm and Carlton St Buffalo NY, 14263About
Dr. Robert Plunkett practices Neurological Surgery in Buffalo, NY. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Plunkett prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neural stem cell detection, characterization, and age-related changes in the subventricular zone of mice.
- Expression and localization of different forms of DMT1 in normal and tumor astroglial cells.
- 2-Methoxyestradiol inhibits proliferation of normal and neoplastic glial cells, and induces cell death, in vitro.
- Stereotactic gamma knife surgery for trigeminal neuralgia: detailed analysis of treatment response.
- Elevation of osteopontin levels in brain tumor cells reduces burden and promotes survival through the inhibition of cell dispersal.
- Estrogen increases survival in an orthotopic model of glioblastoma.
- Approach for tunneling the lead in deep brain stimulation.
- Experimental model and immunohistochemical comparison of U87 human glioblastoma cell xenografts on the chicken chorioallantoic membrane and in rat brains.
- Distal baclofen pump catheter migration associated with far-lateral paraspinal
- Intrathecal medications in post-herpetic neuralgia.
- A murine model of targeted infusion for intracranial tumors.
- Anticancer drug candidate CBL0137, which inhibits histone chaperone FACT, is efficacious in preclinical orthotopic models of temozolomide-responsive and -resistant glioblastoma.
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