Dr. Benjamin Jay Frankfort M.D., PH.D.
Ophthalmologist
7200b Cambridge St Suite E3. 100 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Benjamin Frankfort is an ophthalmologist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Frankfort specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Frankfort can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Frankfort can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 2005
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- senseless repression of rough is required for R8 photoreceptor differentiation in the developing Drosophila eye.
- R8 development in the Drosophila eye: a paradigm for neural selection and differentiation.
- Senseless represses nuclear transduction of Egfr pathway activation.
- Regulation of R7 and R8 differentiation by the spalt genes.
- A genetic screen in Drosophila for genes interacting with senseless during neuronal development identifies the importin moleskin.
- Topical silver nanoparticles result in improved bleb function by increasing filtration and reducing fibrosis in a rabbit model of filtration surgery.
- Rapidly progressing glaucoma associated with monoclonal gammopathy.
- Prolonged elevation of intraocular pressure results in retinal ganglion cell loss and abnormal retinal function in mice.
- Elevated intracranial pressure causes optic nerve and retinal ganglion cell degeneration in mice.
- Trabeculectomy Outcomes by Supervised Trainees in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
- Effects of Chronic and Acute Intraocular Pressure Elevation on Scotopic and Photopic Contrast Sensitivity in Mice.
- Elevated IOP alters the space-time profiles in the center and surround of both ON and OFF RGCs in mouse.
- Validity of code based algorithms to identify primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative databases.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Diabetes
- Glaucoma
- Type 2 Diabetes
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