Dr. Charlotte J. Sumner M.D.
Neurologist | Neurology
600 N Wolfe St Meyer 5-1196 Baltimore MD, 21287Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Charlotte Sumner cares for patients with a variety of neuromuscular disorders. Her practice is notable for a particular focus on individuals with inherited neuromuscular diseases of peripheral ner ...
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 1995
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- 2011
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Should thrombolysis be contraindicated in patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations?
- Indoprofen upregulates the survival motor neuron protein through a cyclooxygenase-independent mechanism.
- The role of histone acetylation in SMN gene expression.
- Adult botulism type F in the United States, 1981-2002.
- Therapeutics development for spinal muscular atrophy.
- Trichostatin A increases SMN expression and survival in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy.
- Molecular mechanisms of spinal muscular atrophy.
- Targeting splicing in spinal muscular atrophy.
- Lack of spartin protein in Troyer syndrome: a loss-of-function disease mechanism?
- Sustained improvement of spinal muscular atrophy mice treated with trichostatin A plus nutrition.
- Impaired synaptic vesicle release and immaturity of neuromuscular junctions in spinal muscular atrophy mice.
- Emerging treatment options for spinal muscular atrophy.
- Mutations in TRPV4 cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2C.
- Dominant mutations in the cation channel gene transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 cause an unusual spectrum of neuropathies.
- The genetics of spinal muscular atrophies.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Neurological Disorders, Peripheral Neuropathy
Fellowships
- National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 2006
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Neuromuscular Medicine 2001
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