Dr. Marcia White Leonard M.D.
Neurologist (Pediatric) | Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
1001 Farmington Ave 301 West Hartford CT, 06107About
Dr. Marcia Leonard is a child neurologist practicing in West Hartford, CT. Dr. Leonard specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the nervous system in children from birth to young adulthood. With combined understanding of childhood illness and the special needs of each individual child and their family, Dr. Leonard is able to help each patient improve the status of their health. Conditions such as seizures, delayed speech, weakness or frequent headaches are treated by child neurologists.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Understanding and modulating apoptosis in industrial cell culture.
- cis and trans regulation of tissue-specific transcription.
- Large twins; report of a case.
- Cesarean section; an eleven-year review.
- [Postmortem cesarean section].
- Transcription factor regulation of hematopoietic lineage cells.
- Evidence for torsional stress in transcriptionally activated chromatin.
- Murine and human T-lymphocyte GATA-3 factors mediate transcription through a cis-regulatory element within the human T-cell receptor delta gene enhancer.
- Primer extension analysis of mRNA isolated from transfected cell lines.
- Quantitation of RNA using the polymerase chain reaction.
- Targeted disruption of the GATA3 gene causes severe abnormalities in the nervous system and in fetal liver haematopoiesis.
- A GATA family transcription factor is expressed along the embryonic dorsoventral axis in Drosophila melanogaster.
- Embryonic expression and cloning of the murine GATA-3 gene.
- Trichloroethylene "burn".
- Primer extension analysis of mRNA.
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