Dr. Byron L Riggs M.D.
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905Rating
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Dr. Byron Riggs practices Endocrinology in Rochester, MN. Dr. Riggs 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. Riggs examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Univ of Ar Coll of Med, Little Rock Ar 1955
University Of Arkansas For Medical Sciences College Of Medicine, Uams, University Of Arkansas For Me 1955
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine 1955
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Leptin acts on human marrow stromal cells to enhance differentiation to osteoblasts and to inhibit differentiation to adipocytes.
- The actions and interactions of sex steroids and growth factors/cytokines on the skeleton.
- Osteoporosis: gender differences and similarities.
- Estrogen stimulates gene expression and protein production of osteoprotegerin in human osteoblastic cells.
- Differentiation of human marrow stromal precursor cells: bone morphogenetic protein-2 increases OSF2/CBFA1, enhances osteoblast commitment, and inhibits late adipocyte maturation.
- Primary hyperparathyroidism and the risk of fracture: a population-based study.
- The assembly of the adult skeleton during growth and maturation: implications for senile osteoporosis.
- Interleukin-1beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, but not interleukin-6, stimulate osteoprotegerin ligand gene expression in human osteoblastic cells.
- Stimulation of osteoprotegerin ligand and inhibition of osteoprotegerin production by glucocorticoids in human osteoblastic lineage cells: potential paracrine mechanisms of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.
- Vertebral fractures predict subsequent fractures.
- Response of bipotential human marrow stromal cells to insulin-like growth factors: effect on binding protein production, proliferation, and commitment to osteoblasts and adipocytes.
- Practical clinical application of biochemical markers of bone turnover: Consensus of an expert panel.
- The roles of osteoprotegerin and osteoprotegerin ligand in the paracrine regulation of bone resorption.
- Determinants of bone loss from the femoral neck in women of different ages.
- Are biochemical markers for bone turnover clinically useful for monitoring therapy in individual osteoporotic patients?
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