Dr. Alan W Thomas MD
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
500 West Broadway Missoula MT, 59802Rating
4/5
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Dr. Alan Thomas is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Missoula, MT. Dr. Thomas specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Univ of Az Coll of Med, Tucson Az 1989
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Plasmodium knowlesi provides a rapid in vitro and in vivo transfection system that enables double-crossover gene knockout studies.
- A class of potent antimalarials and their specific accumulation in infected erythrocytes.
- A novel and sensitive method to monitor helminth infections by faecal sampling.
- High-level expression of the malaria blood-stage vaccine candidate Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 and induction of antibodies that inhibit erythrocyte invasion.
- Comparative characterization of hexose transporters of Plasmodium knowlesi, Plasmodium yoelii and Toxoplasma gondii highlights functional differences within the apicomplexan family.
- Juvenile rhesus monkeys have lower type 2 cytokine responses than adults after primary infection with Schistosoma mansoni.
- Evidence for diversifying selection on erythrocyte-binding antigens of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax.
- Transfected Plasmodium knowlesi produces bioactive host gamma interferon: a new perspective for modulating immune responses to malaria parasites.
- Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (PfAMA-1) is translocated within micronemes along subpellicular microtubules during merozoite development.
- Experimental infection of the olive baboon (Paplio anubis) with Plasmodium knowlesi: severe disease accompanied by cerebral involvement.
- Heterologous promoter activity in stable and transient Plasmodium knowlesi transgenes.
- A role for apical membrane antigen 1 during invasion of hepatocytes by Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites.
- Plasmodium falciparum-activated chloride channels are defective in erythrocytes from cystic fibrosis patients.
- Antibodies to malaria peptide mimics inhibit Plasmodium falciparum invasion of erythrocytes.
- New selectable markers and single crossover integration for the highly versatile Plasmodium knowlesi transfection system.
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