Dr. Arnold E Postlethwaite MD
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
1910 Nonconnah Blvd Suite 120 Memphis TN, 38132About
Dr. Arnold Postlethwaite is a rheumatologist practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Postlethwaite specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Postlethwaite treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lack of efficacy of oral bovine type II collagen added to existing therapy in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Autoantibodies to the extracellular matrix microfibrillar protein, fibrillin-1, in patients with scleroderma and other connective tissue diseases.
- Intracellular IL-1 receptor antagonist is elevated in human dermal fibroblasts that overexpress intracellular precursor IL-1 alpha.
- Induction of immune tolerance to human type I collagen in patients with systemic sclerosis by oral administration of bovine type I collagen.
- Characterization of chemotactic activity produced in vivo by a cell-mediated immune reaction in the guinea pig.
- Can we induce tolerance in rheumatoid arthritis?
- Juvenile arthritis and autoimmunity to type II collagen.
- Proceedings: Evidence of cell-mediated immunity to collagen in patients with progressive systemic sclerosis.
- Infarct scar as living tissue.
- Collagen-and collagen peptide-induced chemotaxis of human blood monocytes.
- Aldosteronism: an immunostimulatory state precedes proinflammatory/fibrogenic cardiac phenotype.
- Somnogenic, pyrogenic, and anorectic activities of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and TNF-alpha fragments.
- Human fibroblasts synthesize elevated levels of extracellular matrix proteins in response to interleukin 4.
- Aldosteronism and peripheral blood mononuclear cell activation: a neuroendocrine-immune interface.
- Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist blocks somnogenic and pyrogenic responses to an interleukin 1 fragment.
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