Dr. Rodney J Folz M.D., PH.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
550 S Jackson St Acb - A3r43 Louisville KY, 40202Rating
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Dr. Rodney Folz practices Pulmonology in Louisville, KY. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Folz manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Extracellular superoxide dismutase in the airways of transgenic mice reduces inflammation and attenuates lung toxicity following hyperoxia.
- Mechanisms of lung injury after bone marrow transplantation.
- Pulmonary toxicity of induction chemotherapy prior to standard or high-dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic support.
- Poly(A) cDNA-specific (PACS) RT-PCR: a quantitative method for the measurement of any poly(A)-containing mRNA not affected by contaminating genomic DNA.
- Prevention of influenza-induced lung injury in mice overexpressing extracellular superoxide dismutase.
- Surfactant Protein A: regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses in lung inflammation.
- Amiodarone and cyclophosphamide: potential for enhanced lung toxicity.
- Rhizopus presenting as an endobronchial obstruction following bone marrow transplant.
- Overexpression of extracellular superoxide dismutase decreases lung injury after exposure to oil fly ash.
- Oxidative stress and inflammation contribute to lung toxicity after a common breast cancer chemotherapy regimen.
- Superoxide dismutase multigene family: a comparison of the CuZn-SOD (SOD1), Mn-SOD (SOD2), and EC-SOD (SOD3) gene structures, evolution, and expression.
- Fatal re-expansion pulmonary edema associated with increased lung IL-8 levels following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant.
- Myeloid zinc finger (MZF)-like, Kruppel-like and Ets families of transcription factors determine the cell-specific expression of mouse extracellular superoxide dismutase.
- Extracellular superoxide dismutase protects lung development in hyperoxia-exposed newborn mice.
- Idiopathic pneumonia syndrome after syngeneic bone marrow transplant in mice.
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