Dr. Kenneth Sikkwong Tung M.D.
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
Uva Old Medical School Hospital Drive Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Kenneth Tung is a pathologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Tung is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Tung can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Tung may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Melbourne University
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A contraceptive peptide vaccine targeting sulfated glycoprotein ZP2 of the mouse zona pellucida.
- Autoimmune ovarian inflammation triggered by proinflammatory (Th1) T cells is compatible with normal ovarian function in mice.
- Persistence of physiological self antigen is required for the regulation of self tolerance.
- Retargeting T cell-mediated inflammation: a new perspective on autoantibody action.
- The pachytene checkpoint prevents accumulation and phosphorylation of the meiosis-specific transcription factor Ndt80.
- Human sperm antigens and antisperm antibodies I. Studies on vasectomy patients.
- Autoimmune ovarian disease: mechanism of induction and prevention.
- Intestinal parasitism terminates self tolerance and enhances neonatal induction of autoimmune disease and memory.
- Endogenous oocyte antigens are required for rapid induction and progression of autoimmune ovarian disease following day-3 thymectomy.
- Glomerulonephritis in agammaglobulinaemia.
- NZM2328: a new mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus with unique genetic susceptibility loci.
- Induction and immunohistology of autoimmune ovarian disease in cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis).
- Interacting quantitative trait loci control loss of peripheral tolerance and susceptibility to autoimmune ovarian dysgenesis after day 3 thymectomy in mice.
- Identification of Bphs, an autoimmune disease locus, as histamine receptor H1.
- Differential effect of neonatal thymectomy on systemic and organ-specific autoimmune disease.
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