Dr. Michael Thornton Longaker MD MBA
Plastic Surgeon
257 Campus Dr Stanford CA, 94305About
Dr. Michael Longaker is a cosmetic medicine and surgery specialist practicing in Stanford, CA. Dr. Longaker specializes in the enhancement of appearance. Improving aesthetic, symmetry and proportion are key goals in cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic medicine has nothing to do with these specific areas not functioning properly; therefore, this elective field solely focuses on aesthetics and anti-aging.
Board Certification
Plastic SurgeryAmerican Board of Plastic SurgeryABPS- 1998
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Controlled multiplanar distraction of the mandible, Part II: Laboratory studies of sagittal (anteroposterior) and vertical (superoinferior) movements.
- Nasal expansion in the fetal lamb: a first step toward management of cleft nasal deformity in utero.
- Angiogenesis during mandibular distraction osteogenesis.
- Gene expression of insulin-like growth factors I and II in rat membranous osteotomy healing.
- Analysis of TGF-beta production by fusing and nonfusing mouse cranial sutures in vitro.
- Expression of high-affinity receptors for TGF-beta during rat cranial suture fusion.
- Human cartilage engineering: chondrocyte extraction, proliferation, and characterization for construct development.
- Hypoxia upregulates VEGF production in keloid fibroblasts.
- Thrombospondin 1 and its specific cysteine-serine-valine-threonine-cysteine-clycine receptor in fetal wounds.
- Cutaneous rat wounds express c49a, a novel gene with homology to the human melanoma differentiation associated gene, mda-7.
- Expression of transforming growth factor beta 1, 2, and 3 proteins in keloids.
- A long-term, controlled-outcome analysis of in utero versus neonatal cleft lip repair using an ovine model.
- Hypoxia regulates VEGF expression and cellular proliferation by osteoblasts in vitro.
- Adenovirus-mediated gene therapy of osteoblasts in vitro and in vivo.
- Fetal wound repair: where do we go from here?
Professional Memberships
- Member American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Fellowships
- UCLA - School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 1996
- UCLA - School of Medicine CA 1996
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