Chief Medical Officer

Pediatric Pulmonology

Dr. Elizabeth A. Perkett practices Pediatric Pulmonology. She went to University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Elizabeth A. Perkett is a published doctor and has 41 publications published. The lastest was: 'Vascular endothelial growth factor expression is decreased in rat lung following exposure to 24 or 48 hours of hyperoxia: implications for endothelial cell survival.'

Publications

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• Effect of Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Exacerbations on Systemic Inflammation.
• Non-physician providers as clinical providers in cystic fibrosis: Survey of US programs.
• Transport of the neonate.
• Evidence for a laryngeal chemoreflex in some human preterm infants.
• Follow-up of the very low birth weight infant (less than 1251 grams).
• Lymphocyte and granulocyte migration across the endothelial layer of bovine pulmonary artery intimal explants towards lymphocyte conditioned medium.
• Continuous air embolization into sheep causes sustained pulmonary hypertension and increased pulmonary vasoreactivity.
• Early structural changes in sheep lung following thoracic irradiation.
• Inflammation and models of chronic pulmonary hypertension.
• Correlation of permeability with the structure of the endothelial layer of pulmonary artery intimal explants.
• Increased vasoreactivity and chronic pulmonary hypertension following thoracic irradiation in sheep.
• The sequence of cellular and hemodynamic changes of chronic pulmonary hypertension induced by hypoxia and other stimuli.
• Granulocyte depletion attenuates sustained pulmonary hypertension and increased pulmonary vasoreactivity caused by continuous air embolization in sheep.
• Transforming growth factor-beta activity in sheep lung lymph during the development of pulmonary hypertension.
• Expression of transforming growth factor-beta 1, -beta 2, and -beta 3 mRNA and protein in the murine lung.
• Human carcinoid cell production of paracrine growth factors that can stimulate fibroblast and endothelial cell growth.
• Sequence of structural changes and elastin peptide release during vascular remodelling in sheep with chronic pulmonary hypertension induced by air embolization.
• Insulin-like growth factor I and pulmonary hypertension induced by continuous air embolization in sheep.
• Vascular endothelial growth factor level correlates with transforming growth factor-beta isoform levels in pleural effusions.
• Vascular endothelial growth factor in pleural fluid.
• Exposure to hyperoxia decreases the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in adult rat lungs.
• Vascular endothelial growth factor expression is decreased in rat lung following exposure to 24 or 48 hours of hyperoxia: implications for endothelial cell survival.
• Vascular endothelial growth factor is expressed in ovine pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro and regulated by hypoxia and dexamethasone.
• Pulmonary veins and bronchial vessels undergo remodeling in sustained pulmonary hypertension induced by continuous air embolization into sheep.
• Transforming growth factor-beta protein and messenger RNA expression is increased in the closing ductus arteriosus.
• Secretory leukoprotease inhibitor attenuates lung injury induced by continuous air embolization into sheep.
• Expression of transforming growth factor-beta mRNAs and proteins in pulmonary vascular remodeling in the sheep air embolization model of pulmonary hypertension.
• Role of growth factors in lung repair and diseases.
• Care of the premature infant.
• Use of meperidine for obstetric analgesia.
• Severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a retrospective review.
• Regionalization of perinatal care: results of a cooperative community based program.
• Amniotic fluid optical density following maternal betamethasone treatment.
• Elevated furin levels in human cystic fibrosis cells result in hypersusceptibility to exotoxin A-induced cytotoxicity.
• Pharmacological modulation of cGMP levels by phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors as a therapeutic strategy for treatment of respiratory pathology in cystic fibrosis.
• Chloroquine normalizes aberrant transforming growth factor beta activity in cystic fibrosis bronchial epithelial cells.
• Endosomal hyperacidification in cystic fibrosis is due to defective nitric oxide-cylic GMP signalling cascade.
• Perception of risk associated with asthma research procedures among adolescents, parents, and pediatricians.
• Hyperacidification in cystic fibrosis: links with lung disease and new prospects for treatment.
• VEGF regulates remodeling during permanent anatomic closure of the ductus arteriosus.

Schools

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• University of Mi Med Sch

• University Oreg

• Fell Vanderbilt

• Vanderbilt

Doctors Specialties

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• Neonatal Medicine
• Pediatric Pulmonology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Vanderbilt University
• Oregon Health & Science University
• University of Michigan Medical School

Hospital

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• Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics

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