Melissa Jean Parsons
Speech-Language Pathologist
555 AMORY ST JAMAICA PLAIN MA, 02130About
Dr. Melissa Parsons is a speech language pathologist practicing in JAMAICA PLAIN, MA. Dr. Parsons specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Parsons evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Parsons helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The BCL-2 family reunion.
- Resistance to caspase-independent cell death requires persistence of intact mitochondria.
- Mitochondria in cell death.
- Mitochondria and apoptosis: a quick take on a long view.
- Death receptors and mitochondria: life depends on the liver.
- Measuring initiator caspase activation by bimolecular fluorescence complementation.
- Measuring caspase activity by Förster resonance energy transfer.
- Imaging-based methods for assessing caspase activity in single cells.
- Limited mitochondrial permeabilization causes DNA damage and genomic instability in the absence of cell death.
- BOK Is a Non-canonical BCL-2 Family Effector of Apoptosis Regulated by ER-Associated Degradation.
- Detection of Initiator Caspase Induced Proximity in Single Cells by Caspase Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation.
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