Dr. Carroll M Harmon MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233About
Dr. Carroll Harmon practices Pediatric Surgery in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Harmon treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Harmondiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Vanderbilt Univ Sch of Med, Nashville Tn 1983
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Molecular determinants of human melanocortin-4 receptor responsible for antagonist SHU9119 selective activity.
- Effect of bowel resection and high-fat diet on heart CD36/fatty-acid translocase expression in a rat model of short-bowel syndrome.
- Effect of a high fat diet on lipid absorption and fatty acid transport in a rat model of short bowel syndrome.
- Molecular determination of agouti-related protein binding to human melanocortin-4
- Low-fat diet impairs postresection intestinal adaptation in a rat model of short bowel syndrome.
- Effect of dietary fat on early morphological intestinal adaptation in a rat with short bowel syndrome.
- Molecular mechanism of the intracellular segments of the melanocortin-4 receptor for NDP-MSH signaling.
- Molecular characterization of human melanocortin-3 receptor ligand-receptor interaction.
- Functional characterization of the modified melanocortin peptides responsible for ligand selectivity at the human melanocortin receptors.
- Right congenital diaphragmatic hernia associated with fusion of the liver and the lung.
- Molecular basis of melanocortin-4 receptor for AGRP inverse agonism.
- The role of hyperglycemia in FAT/CD36 expression and function.
- Mechanism of oleoylethanolamide on fatty acid uptake in small intestine after food intake and body weight reduction.
- A rat model of childhood diet-induced obesity: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass induced changes in metabolic parameters and gastric peptide ghrelin.
- Regulation of FAT/CD36 mRNA gene expression by long chain fatty acids in the differentiated 3T3-L1 cells.
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