Dr. Paul B Mccray MD
Pulmonologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Pulmonology
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Paul Mccray practices Pediatric Pulmonology in Iowa City, IA. Dr. Mccray treats children who have breathing problems, or a problem with his or her lungs. Pediatric pulmonologists often treat children with chronic cough, difficulty breathing, recurring pneumonia, asthma, cystic fibrosis, apnea, chronic lung disease in premature infants, noisy breathing, and conditions that require special equipment to monitor and/or help with breathing at home.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 1981
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Pulmonology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Development of the innervation and airway smooth muscle in human fetal lung.
- Production of beta-defensin antimicrobial peptides by the oral mucosa and salivary glands.
- Efficient killing of inhaled bacteria in DeltaF508 mice: role of airway surface liquid composition.
- Molecular cloning and characterization of rat genes encoding homologues of human beta-defensins.
- Human beta-defensin-1 mRNA is transcribed in tympanic membrane and adjacent auditory canal epithelium.
- KGF and FGF-10 stimulate liquid secretion in human fetal lung.
- Feline immunodeficiency virus vectors persistently transduce nondividing airway epithelia and correct the cystic fibrosis defect.
- Increasing epithelial junction permeability enhances gene transfer to airway epithelia In vivo.
- Keratinocyte growth factor induced epithelial proliferation facilitates retroviral-mediated gene transfer to distal lung epithelia in vivo.
- Fetal airway smooth-muscle contractility and lung development. A player in the band or just someone in the audience?
- A novel murine beta -defensin expressed in tongue, esophagus, and trachea.
- Human coronavirus 229E infects polarized airway epithelia from the apical surface.
- Synergistic and additive killing by antimicrobial factors found in human airway surface liquid.
- The ovine cathelicidin SMAP29 kills ovine respiratory pathogens in vitro and in an ovine model of pulmonary infection.
- Abundant human beta-defensin-1 expression in milk and mammary gland epithelium.
Treatments
- Asthma
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (copd)
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