Assistant Professor, Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine

Pulmonology

Doctor Kamran Atabai, MD works in the field of Pulmonology. Kamran Atabai is a published doctor and has 16 publications published. The lastest was: 'Mfge8 promotes obesity by mediating the uptake of dietary fats and serum fatty acids.'

Publications

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• Functional genomic screen identifies novel mediators of collagen uptake.
• Mfge8 promotes obesity by mediating the uptake of dietary fats and serum fatty acids.
• Always cleave up your mess: targeting collagen degradation to treat tissue fibrosis.
• Mfge8 suppresses airway hyperresponsiveness in Asthma by regulating smooth muscle contraction.
• The Pulmonary physician in critical care. 5: Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome: definitions and epidemiology.
• Human eosinophils induce mucin production in airway epithelial cells via epidermal growth factor receptor activation.
• Pulmonary edema fluid from patients with acute lung injury augments in vitro alveolar epithelial repair by an IL-1beta-dependent mechanism.
• Increased expression of CD23 (Fc(epsilon) receptor II) by peripheral blood monocytes of aids patients.
• Interleukin-1beta augments in vitro alveolar epithelial repair.
• Mfge8 diminishes the severity of tissue fibrosis in mice by binding and targeting collagen for uptake by macrophages.
• Essential role for MFG-E8 as ligand for alphavbeta5 integrin in diurnal retinal phagocytosis.
• Roles of the innate immune system in mammary gland remodeling during involution.
• Mfge8 is critical for mammary gland remodeling during involution.
• Aerosolized beta(2)-adrenergic agonists achieve therapeutic levels in the Pulmonary edema fluid of ventilated patients with acute respiratory failure.
• Keratinocyte growth factor can enhance alveolar epithelial repair by nonmitogenic mechanisms.

Schools

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• Suny Downstate Medical Center

• University Calif San Francisco

• Harvard Med School

Procedures Preformed

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• Bronchoscopy
• Thoracentesis
• Ventilation Management

Conditions Treated

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• Acidosis
• Alkalosis
• Asthma
• Bronchitis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Medicine
• Pulmonology

Accepted Insurances

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Hospital

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• San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
• UCSF Medical Center

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