Dr. Richard T Cook MD, MPH
Emergency Physician (Pediatric) | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
1540 Brookline Dr Hummelstown PA, 17036About
Dr. Richard Cook is a pediatric emergency medicine physician practicing in Hummelstown, PA. Dr. Cook specializes in providing care for critically ill and injured children. Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians possess a vast amount of knowledge in areas such as neonatology, critical care and forensic pediatrics. Children involved in automobile accidents, child abuse or near-drowning episodes are frequent cases treated by pediatric emergency medicine physicians.
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Emergency MedicineAmerican Board of Emergency MedicineABEM- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A laboratory evaluation of the palatability of legumes to the field slug, Deroceras reticulatum Müller.
- Activation of extracellular-signal regulated kinase is required for phagocytosis by Lymnaea stagnalis haemocytes.
- Carbohydrates that mimic schistosome surface coat components affect ERK and PKC signalling in Lymnaea stagnalis haemocytes.
- A laboratory-based comparison of a molluscicide and an alternative food source (red clover) as means of reducing slug damage to winter wheat.
- Phagocytosis by Lymnaea stagnalis haemocytes: a potential role for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase but not protein kinase A.
- Integrin engagement modulates the phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase, phagocytosis, and cell spreading in molluscan defence cells.
- Potential environmental and host gender influences on prevalence of Haemogregarina platessae (Adeleorina:Haemogregarinidae) and suspected Haemohormidium terraenovae (incertae sedis) in Brazilian flounder from the Patos Lagoon Estuary, southern Brazil
- Identification of a major causative agent of human cercarial dermatitis, Trichobilharzia franki (Müller and Kimmig 1994), in southern England and its evolutionary relationships with other European populations.
- Unravelling the riddle of Radix: DNA barcoding for species identification of freshwater snail intermediate hosts of zoonotic digeneans and estimating their inter-population evolutionary relationships.
- Multiple roles for protein kinase C in gastropod embryogenesis.
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