Dr. Anita Joan Dekker MD, MPH
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
3469 Hilyard St Eugene OR, 97405About
Dr. Anita Dekker practices Pain Medicine in Eugene, OR. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Dekker serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Abia State University Faculty of Medicine 1979
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delayed treatment with nerve growth factor improves acquisition of a spatial task in rats with lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis: evaluation of the involvement of different neurotransmitter systems.
- Effect of delayed treatment with nerve growth factor on choline acetyltransferase activity in the cortex of rats with lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis: dose requirements.
- Binding of the neurotrophic peptide Org 2766 to rat spinal cord sections is affected by a sciatic nerve crush.
- Acceleration of recovery from sciatic nerve damage by the ACTH (4-9) analog Org 2766: different routes of administration.
- Effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on peripheral nerve regeneration in the rat: histological aspects and comparison with the effect of gangliosides.
- Subtypes of HLA-B27 detected by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and their role in self-recognition.
- Independent effects of cholinergic and serotonergic lesions on acetylcholine and serotonin release in the neocortex of the rat.
- Grafting of nerve growth factor-producing fibroblasts reduces behavioral deficits in rats with lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis.
- Effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nerve growth factor on remaining neurons in the lesioned nucleus basalis magnocellularis.
- In vivo production and release of acetylcholine from primary fibroblasts genetically modified to express choline acetyltransferase.
- Nerve growth factor increases cortical choline acetyltransferase-positive fiber staining without affecting cortical cholinergic neurons.
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