Dr. James Douglas Kretlow M.D., PH.D.
Plastic Surgeon
2102 Macarthur St Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. James Kretlow is a cosmetic medicine and surgery specialist practicing in Houston, TX. Dr. Kretlow specializes in the enhancement of appearance. Improving aesthetic, symmetry and proportion are key goals in cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic medicine has nothing to do with these specific areas not functioning properly; therefore, this elective field solely focuses on aesthetics and anti-aging.
Education and Training
Baylor College of Medicine 2011
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Review: mineralization of synthetic polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.
- Injectable matrices and scaffolds for drug delivery in tissue engineering.
- Synthesis and characterization of injectable, thermally and chemically gelable, amphiphilic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based macromers.
- Donor age and cell passage affects differentiation potential of murine bone marrow-derived stem cells.
- Adenoviral transduction of hTGF-beta1 enhances the chondrogenesis of bone marrow derived stromal cells.
- Cytocompatibility evaluation of amphiphilic, thermally responsive and chemically crosslinkable macromers for in situ forming hydrogels.
- Purification of Schwann cells from adult rats by differential detachment.
- Injectable biomaterials for regenerating complex craniofacial tissues.
- 2007 AIChE Alpha Chi Sigma Award: From Material to Tissue: Biomaterial Development, Scaffold Fabrication, and Tissue Engineering.
- Harvesting and cryopreservation of lymphatic endothelial cells for lymphatic tissue engineering.
- Reconstruction of lymph vessel by lymphatic endothelial cells combined with polyglycolic acid scaffolds: a pilot study.
- Evaluation of lymphatic function by means of dynamic Gd-BOPTA-enhanced MRL in experimental rabbit limb lymphedema.
- Surface characteristics of biomaterials used for space maintenance in a mandibular defect: a pilot animal study.
- Infection and tissue engineering in segmental bone defects--a mini review.
- Founder's award to Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D., 2011 Society for Biomaterials annual meeting and exposition, Orlando, Florida, April 13-16, 2011: Bones to biomaterials and back again--20 years of taking cues from nature to engineer synthetic polymer sca
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