Dr. Victor L Schuster MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
Montefiore Medical Park 1515 Blondell Avenue Bronx NY, 10461About
Dr. Victor Schuster is a nephrologist practicing in Bronx, NY. Dr. Schuster specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Schuster most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Washington Univ Sch Of Med- St Louis Mo 1977
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mapping the substrate binding site of the prostaglandin transporter PGT by cysteine scanning mutagenesis.
- Cloning of mouse prostaglandin transporter PGT cDNA: species-specific substrate affinities.
- Expression of PGT in MDCK cell monolayers: polarized apical localization and induction of active PG transport.
- Identification of lactate as a driving force for prostanoid transport by prostaglandin transporter PGT.
- Prostaglandin transporter PGT is expressed in cell types that synthesize and release prostanoids.
- Mutation analysis in the candidate Möbius syndrome genes PGT and GATA2 on chromosome 3 and EGR2 on chromosome 10.
- Role of conserved transmembrane cationic amino acids in the prostaglandin transporter PGT.
- Prostaglandin transport.
- The two-step model of prostaglandin signal termination: in vitro reconstitution with the prostaglandin transporter and prostaglandin 15 dehydrogenase.
- Augmented heme oxygenase-1 induces prostaglandin uptake via the prostaglandin transporter in micro-vascular endothelial cells.
- Prostaglandin signaling in the renal collecting duct: release, reuptake, and oxidation in the same cell.
- Coordinate control of prostaglandin E2 synthesis and uptake by hyperosmolarity in renal medullary interstitial cells.
- Identification of a new class of prostaglandin transporter inhibitors and characterization of their biological effects on prostaglandin E2 transport.
- Achieving diversity in academic internal medicine: recommendations for leaders.
- A 45-kDa protein antigenically related to band 3 is selectively expressed in kidney mitochondria.
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Practice At Montefiore Medical Park 1515 Blondell Avenue, Ste. 220
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