Dr. Gay Miriam Crooks MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
10833 Le Conte Ave Site 265 Los Angeles CA, 90095About
Dr. Gay Crooks is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Crooks specializes in treating children that have a blood disease or cancer. Such blood diseases include disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets. The types of cancers that Dr. Crooks treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Crooks can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Education and Training
University of Western Australia / School of Medicine 1981
University of Western Australia / School of Medicine 1982
University of Western Sydney School of Medicine 1982
University of Western Australia Faculty of Medicine 1981
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Stable transduction of quiescent CD34(+)CD38(-) human hematopoietic cells by HIV-1-based lentiviral vectors.
- Designing solutions for securing patient privacy--meeting the demands of health care in the 21st century.
- Spontaneous apoptosis in lymphocytes from patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: correlation of accelerated cell death and attenuated bcl-2 expression.
- The number and generative capacity of human B lymphocyte progenitors, measured in vitro and in vivo, is higher in umbilical cord blood than in adult or pediatric bone marrow.
- IL-3 increases production of B lymphoid progenitors from human CD34+CD38- cells.
- Identification of a novel, human multilymphoid progenitor in cord blood.
- Detection of leukemic cells in the CD34(+)CD38(-) bone marrow progenitor population in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Cutting edge: predominant expression of a novel Ikaros isoform in normal human hemopoiesis.
- The AFT024 stromal cell line supports long-term ex vivo maintenance of engrafting multipotent human hematopoietic progenitors.
- Human hematopoietic lineage commitment.
- Expression from second-generation feline immunodeficiency virus vectors is impaired in human hematopoietic cells.
- Albumin-expressing hepatocyte-like cells develop in the livers of immune-deficient mice that received transplants of highly purified human hematopoietic stem cells.
- Ikaros isoform x is selectively expressed in myeloid differentiation.
- Dynamic tracking of human hematopoietic stem cell engraftment using in vivo bioluminescence imaging.
- Distinct homeostatic requirements of CD4+ and CD4- subsets of Valpha24-invariant natural killer T cells in humans.
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