Dr. John Alan Carver MD
Ophthalmologist
1055 N 300 W Physicians Plaza Sui Provo UT, 84604Rating
5/5
About
Dr. John Carver is an ophthalmologist practicing in Provo, UT. Dr. Carver specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Carver 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. Carver 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
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1976
University of California 1976
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evidence that clusterin has discrete chaperone and ligand binding sites.
- Structural investigation of the hedamycin:d(ACCGGT)2 complex by NMR and restrained molecular dynamics.
- Clusterin is an extracellular chaperone that specifically interacts with slowly aggregating proteins on their off-folding pathway.
- The eye lens protein alphaA-crystallin of the blind mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi: effects of altered functional constraints.
- The interaction of the molecular chaperone alpha-crystallin with unfolding alpha-lactalbumin: a structural and kinetic spectroscopic study.
- Mildly acidic pH activates the extracellular molecular chaperone clusterin.
- Decreased heat stability and increased chaperone requirement of modified human betaB1-crystallins.
- The solution structures and activity of caerin 1.1 and caerin 1.4 in aqueous trifluoroethanol and dodecylphosphocholine micelles.
- The selective inhibition of serpin aggregation by the molecular chaperone, alpha-crystallin, indicates a nucleation-dependent specificity.
- The solution structure of frenatin 3, a neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitor from the giant tree frog, Litoria infrafrenata.
- Amyloid fibril formation by lens crystallin proteins and its implications for cataract formation.
- Investigating the importance of the flexible hinge in caerin 1.1: solution structures and activity of two synthetically modified caerin peptides.
- Small heat-shock proteins and clusterin: intra- and extracellular molecular chaperones with a common mechanism of action and function?
- Host-defence peptides of Australian anurans: structure, mechanism of action and
- Interaction of the molecular chaperone alphaB-crystallin with alpha-synuclein: effects on amyloid fibril formation and chaperone activity.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Diabetes
- Macular Degeneration
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Retinal Detachment
- Macular Hole
- Type 2 Diabetes
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