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Dr. Jose Francisco Cara M.D.
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
235 E 42nd St 219 - 8/7 New York NY, 10017About
Dr. Jose Cara is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Cara specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
National University of Cordoba / Faculty of Medical Sciences 1979
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Growth hormone therapy of Turner syndrome: the impact of age of estrogen replacement on final height. Genentech, Inc., Collaborative Study Group.
- Ease of use and preference for a new disposable self-injection pen compared with a reusable pen for administering recombinant human growth hormone: A multicenter, 2-month, single-arm, open-label clinical trial in patient-caregiver dyads.
- Growth hormone for short stature not due to classic growth hormone deficiency.
- Insulin-like growth factor-I enhances luteinizing hormone binding to rat ovarian theca-interstitial cells.
- Structural determinants of ligand recognition by type I insulin-like growth factor receptors: use of semisynthetic insulin analog probes.
- Insulin-like growth factor I and insulin potentiate luteinizing hormone-induced androgen synthesis by rat ovarian thecal-interstitial cells.
- A monoclonal antibody to the type 1 insulin-like growth factor and insulin receptors stimulates deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis in human and murine fibroblasts.
- Quantitation of urinary somatomedin-C and growth hormone in preterm and fullterm infants and normal children.
- Somatomedin-C/insulin-like growth factor-I as a modulator of growth during childhood and adolescence.
- A longitudinal study of the relationship of plasma somatomedin-C concentration to the pubertal growth spurt.
- The prolactin response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone does not distinguish teenaged males with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism from those with constitutional delay of growth and development.
- Insulin-like growth factors, insulin-like growth factor binding proteins and ovarian androgen production.
- Gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (nafarelin) test to differentiate gonadotropin deficiency from constitutionally delayed puberty in teen-age boys--a clinical research center study.
- Growth hormone in adolescence. Normal and abnormal.
- Importance of receptor occupancy, concentration differences, and ligand exchange in the insulin-like growth factor I receptor system.
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