Mrs. Christiana Santos OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
131 W Grace St Rm 1100 Harrisonburg VA, 22807About
Dr. Christiana Santos practices Occupational Medicine in ROCKINGHAM, VA. Dr. Santos evaluates the interaction between work and health. Occupational medicine physicians have general knowledge of worksite operations and are familiar with the toxic properties of materials used by employees and the potential hazards and stressors of work processes; in addition to being qualified to determine an employees physical and emotional fitness for work; diagnosing and treating occupational diseases; handling work related injuries; and having an understanding of rehabilitation methods, health education techniques, sanitation, and workers compensation laws.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Plasma free fatty acids and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha in the control of myocardial uncoupling protein levels.
- Insulin resistance, abnormal energy metabolism and increased ischemic damage in the chronically infarcted rat heart.
- Fatty acid transporter levels and palmitate oxidation rate correlate with ejection fraction in the infarcted rat heart.
- Increased mitochondrial uncoupling proteins, respiratory uncoupling and decreased efficiency in the chronically infarcted rat heart.
- Pharmacological PKA inhibition: all may not be what it seems.
- Epac mediates cyclic AMP-dependent axon growth, guidance and regeneration.
- cGMP promotes neurite outgrowth and growth cone turning and improves axon regeneration on spinal cord tissue in combination with cAMP.
- Deterioration of physical performance and cognitive function in rats with short-term high-fat feeding.
- Human placental metabolic adaptation to chronic hypoxia, high altitude: hypoxic preconditioning.
- Studying Cerebellar Circuits by Remote Control of Selected Neuronal Types with GABA(A) Receptors.
- Metabolic adaptation of skeletal muscle to high altitude hypoxia: how new technologies could resolve the controversies.
- Cardiac response to hypobaric hypoxia: persistent changes in cardiac mass, function, and energy metabolism after a trek to Mt. Everest Base Camp.
- Short-term consumption of a high-fat diet impairs whole-body efficiency and cognitive function in sedentary men.
- Parvalbumin-positive CA1 interneurons are required for spatial working but not for reference memory.
- A high fat diet increases mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and uncoupling to decrease efficiency in rat heart.
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