Dr. Frances Josephine Northington M.D.
Pediatrician
1800 Orleans St Baltimore MD, 21287Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Frances Northington is a pediatrician practicing in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Northington is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Northington diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Northington can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Ga Sch of Med, Augusta Ga 1985
Georgia Regents University Medical
Board Certification
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Brain O2 consumption and glutamate release during hypoglycemic coma in piglets are temperature sensitive.
- Delayed presentation of pulmonary interstitial emphysema.
- Differential expression of a(2a), A(1)-adenosine and D(2)-dopamine receptor genes in rat peripheral arterial chemoreceptors during postnatal development.
- Delayed neurodegeneration in neonatal rat thalamus after hypoxia-ischemia is apoptosis.
- Early Neurodegeneration after Hypoxia-Ischemia in Neonatal Rat Is Necrosis while Delayed Neuronal Death Is Apoptosis.
- Neurodegeneration in the thalamus following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia is programmed cell death.
- Increased morbidity in severe early intrauterine growth restriction.
- Neonatal mice lacking functional Fas death receptors are resistant to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
- Brief update on animal models of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and neonatal stroke.
- White matter injury correlates with hypertonia in an animal model of cerebral palsy.
- Antioxidant status alters levels of Fas-associated death domain-like IL-1B-converting enzyme inhibitory protein following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia.
- X chromosome-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein reduces oxidative stress after cerebral irradiation or hypoxia-ischemia through up-regulation of mitochondrial antioxidants.
- Aortic thrombosis after umbilical artery catheterization in neonates: prevalence of complications on long-term follow-up.
- Delayed neural network degeneration after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia.
- White-gray matter echogenicity ratio and resistive index: sonographic bedside markers of cerebral hypoxic-ischemic injury/edema?
Treatments
- Neonatology
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