Dr. Stephen J Usala MD PHD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
1215 S Coulter St Suite 405 Amarillo TX, 79106About
Dr. Stephen Usala practices Endocrinology in Amarillo, TX. Dr. Usala specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Usala examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1982
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1982
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An arginine to histidine mutation in codon 315 of the c-erbA beta thyroid hormone receptor in a kindred with generalized resistance to thyroid hormones results in a receptor with significant 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine binding activity.
- Generalized thyroid hormone resistance: identification of an arginine to cystine mutation in codon 315 of the c-erb A beta thyroid hormone receptor.
- Variable transcriptional activity and ligand binding of mutant beta 1 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine receptors from four families with generalized resistance to thyroid hormone.
- Molecular diagnosis and characterization of thyroid hormone resistance syndromes.
- Homozygosity for a dominant negative thyroid hormone receptor gene responsible for generalized resistance to thyroid hormone.
- Diverse abnormalities of the c-erbA beta thyroid hormone receptor gene in generalized thyroid hormone resistance.
- Isolation and characterization of the human thyrotropin beta-subunit gene. Differences in gene structure and promoter function from murine species.
- IgG and IgA content of vaginal fluid during the menstrual cycle.
- The effect of thyroid hormone on the chromatin structure and expression of the malic enzyme gene in hepatocytes.
- Polyadenylation and reverse transcription of bacteriophage phi 6 double-stranded RNA.
- Volumetric self-sampling of cervicovaginal fluid: a new approach to ovulation timing.
- Displacement of parental RNA strands during in vitro transcription by bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids.
- Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship.
- Nomenclature of thyroid hormone receptor beta gene mutations in resistance to thyroid hormone. First workshop on thyroid hormone resistance, July 10-11, 1993, Cambridge, U.K.
- Resistance to thyroid hormone in children.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- High Cholesterol
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroid Cancer
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Goiter
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