Dr. Jon Marc Rhoads MD
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
6410 Fannin St Suite 500 Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Jon Rhoads is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Rhoads specializes in digestive system, liver or nutritional problems in children from the newborn period to their teens. Conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, chronic constipation or obesity can all be treated by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Oral bovine serum concentrate improves cryptosporidial enteritis in calves.
- Inducible nitric oxide synthase mediates early epithelial repair of porcine ileum.
- Research agenda for pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition: secretion and diarrhea. Report of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition for the Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundati
- Persistent and chronic diarrhea and malabsorption: Working Group report of the
- Arginine deficiency in preterm infants: biochemical mechanisms and nutritional implications.
- Corticosteroid-responsive enteropathy of infancy.
- Intestinal ribosomal p70(S6K) signaling is increased in piglet rotavirus enteritis.
- Arginine activates intestinal p70(S6k) and protein synthesis in piglet rotavirus enteritis.
- Arginine stimulates cdx2-transformed intestinal epithelial cell migration via a mechanism requiring both nitric oxide and phosphorylation of p70 S6 kinase.
- Changes in intestinal Toll-like receptors and cytokines precede histological injury in a rat model of necrotizing enterocolitis.
- Human-derived probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri strains differentially reduce intestinal inflammation.
- Lactobacillus reuteri strains reduce incidence and severity of experimental necrotizing enterocolitis via modulation of TLR4 and NF-κB signaling in the intestine.
- Impaired gastric emptying and small bowel transit in children with mitochondrial disorders.
- Alpers syndrome: an unusual etiology of failure to thrive.
- Safety and tolerability of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 and effects on biomarkers in healthy adults: results from a randomized masked trial.
Treatments
- Celiac Disease
- Crohn's Disease
- Constipation
- Malnutrition
- Pain
- Gas
- Jaundice
Fellowships
- Toronto Hospital for Sick Children 1986
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