Dr. Deidre Marie-francoise Defoe M.D.,MPH
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Obstetrics
2 E Glebe Rd Anhsi Alexandria VA, 22305About
Dr. Deidre Defoe is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Alexandria, VA. Dr. Defoe specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Defoe can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Defoe can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Education and Training
Howard University College of Medicine 1994
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Survival of the retinal pigment epithelium in vitro: comparison of freshly isolated and subcultured cells.
- Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor stimulates Ca2+-activated membrane K+ current and migration of MDCK II cells.
- Reconstitution of the photoreceptor-pigment epithelium interface: L-glutamate stimulation of adhesive interactions and rod disc shedding after recombination of dissociated Xenopus laevis eyecups.
- An improved method for isolation and culture of pigment epithelial cells from rat retina.
- Membrane turnover in rod photoreceptors: ensheathment and phagocytosis of outer segment distal tips by pseudopodia of the retinal pigment epithelium.
- Cytochalasin D inhibits L-glutamate-induced disc shedding without altering L-glutamate-induced increase in adhesiveness.
- Membrane assembly in retinal photoreceptors. II. Immunocytochemical analysis of freeze-fractured rod photoreceptor membranes using anti-opsin antibodies.
- Membrane assembly in retinal photoreceptors. III. Distinct membrane domains of the connecting cilium of developing rods.
- Tunicamycin-induced dysgenesis of retinal rod outer segment membranes. II. Quantitative freeze-fracture analysis.
- Rhodopsin chromophore exchanges among opsin molecules in the dark.
- Reattachment of retinas to cultured pigment epithelial monolayers from Xenopus laevis.
- Light-evoked shedding in recombined eyecups from Xenopus laevis.
- Autoradiographic and biochemical assessment of rod outer segment renewal in the vitiligo (C57BL/6-mivit/mivit) mouse model of retinal degeneration.
- Reduction of phagosomes in the vitiligo (C57BL/6-mivit/mivit) mouse model of retinal degeneration.
- Retinal pigment epithelial cells from dystrophic rats form normal tight junctions in vitro.
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