Dr. Ace Assaf Ovil M.D
Trauma Surgeon | Trauma Surgery
16601 N 40TH ST STE 204 PHOENIX AZ, 85032About
Dr. Ace Ovil is a trauma surgeon practicing in PHOENIX, AZ. Dr. Ovil specializes in both operative and non-operative management to treat life threatening, traumatic injuries. Some commonly operated areas include the stomach, colon, spleen and pancreas and trauma surgeons also work with other surgeons to stabilize patients in critical condition. Typically, trauma surgeons work in the emergency care area of a hospital.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Immunisation of mice against neosporosis.
- IL-4 dependent alternatively-activated macrophages have a distinctive in vivo gene expression phenotype.
- The FAR proteins of filarial nematodes: secretion, glycosylation and lipid binding characteristics.
- IL-4 is required to prevent filarial nematode development in resistant but not susceptible strains of mice.
- Macrophages in chronic type 2 inflammation have a novel phenotype characterized by the abundant expression of Ym1 and Fizz1 that can be partly replicated in vitro.
- Cytokine-dependent inflammatory cell recruitment patterns in the peritoneal cavity of mice exposed to the parasitic nematode Brugia malayi.
- Both free-living and parasitic nematodes induce a characteristic Th2 response that is dependent on the presence of intact glycans.
- Most of the response elicited against Wolbachia surface protein in filarial nematode infection is due to the infective larval stage.
- Interferon gamma suppresses glucocorticoid augmentation of macrophage clearance of apoptotic cells.
- Helminth parasites--masters of regulation.
- Chitinase and Fizz family members are a generalized feature of nematode infection with selective upregulation of Ym1 and Fizz1 by antigen-presenting cells.
- Malaria-filaria coinfection in mice makes malarial disease more severe unless filarial infection achieves patency.
- Removal of regulatory T cell activity reverses hyporesponsiveness and leads to filarial parasite clearance in vivo.
- Quantitative appraisal of murine filariasis confirms host strain differences but reveals that BALB/c females are more susceptible than males to Litomosoides sigmodontis.
- Simvastatin promotes Th2-type responses through the induction of the chitinase family member Ym1 in dendritic cells.
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