Dr. Manuel Alberto Franco MD
Family Practitioner
1431 N Western Ave 508 Chicago IL, 60622Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Manuel Franco is a family practitioner practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Franco specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Franco possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Univ Metropolitana- Fac De Med- Barranquilla- Colombia 1986
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Frequencies of virus-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T lymphocytes secreting gamma interferon after acute natural rotavirus infection in children and adults.
- Rotavirus-specific B cells induced by recent infection in adults and children predominantly express the intestinal homing receptor alpha4beta7.
- Human rotavirus specific T cells: quantification by ELISPOT and expression of homing receptors on CD4+ T cells.
- Distribution and phenotype of murine rotavirus-specific B cells induced by intranasal immunization with 2/6 virus-like particles.
- Interaction of rotavirus with human myeloid dendritic cells.
- Interaction of rotavirus with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells: plasmacytoid dendritic cells play a role in stimulating memory rotavirus specific T cells in vitro.
- Evaluation of circulating intestinally committed memory B cells in children vaccinated with attenuated human rotavirus vaccine.
- Characterization of rotavirus specific B cells and their relation with serological memory.
- Immunomodulators released during rotavirus infection of polarized caco-2 cells.
- A TGF-beta mediated regulatory mechanism modulates the T cell immune response to rotavirus in adults but not in children.
- Membrane vesicles released by intestinal epithelial cells infected with rotavirus inhibit T-cell function.
- Human myeloid dendritic cells treated with supernatants of rotavirus infected Caco-2 cells induce a poor Th1 response.
- Human rotavirus-specific IgM Memory B cells have differential cloning efficiencies and switch capacities and play a role in antiviral immunity in vivo.
- Rotavirus specific plasma secretory immunoglobulin in children with acute gastroenteritis and children vaccinated with an attenuated human rotavirus vaccine.
- Paliperidone extended-release in patients with non-acute schizophrenia previously unsuccessfully treated with other oral antipsychotics.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Obesity
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (copd)
- Bronchitis
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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