Associate Professor, Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Nawfal W. Istfan, MD
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Nawfal W. Istfan practices Internal Medicine. Nawfal W. Istfan is also a published doctor. He has 62 publication published. The most recent publication is: Effect of fish oil on glucose metabolism in the interleukin-1 alpha-treated rat. He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Consuming a hypocaloric high fat low carbohydrate diet for 12weeks lowers C-reactive protein, and raises serum adiponectin and high density lipoprotein-cholesterol in ...
- Fructose consumption and cancer: is there a connection?
- Preoperative weight gain might increase risk of gastric bypass surgery.
- Weight loss and health outcomes in African Americans and whites after gastric bypass surgery.
- Inhibition of DNA replication by fish oil-treated cytoplasm is counteracted by fish oil-treated nuclear extract.
- Fish oil slows S phase progression and may cause upstream shift of DHFR replication origin ori-beta in CHO cells.
- Best practice guidelines on informed consent for weight loss surgery patients.
- Effect of medical and surgical weight loss on endothelial vasomotor function in obese patients.
- Relation of cumulative weight burden to vascular endothelial dysfunction in obesity.
- Evaluation of the effect of fish oil on cell kinetics: implications for clinical immunosuppression.
- Docosahexaenoic acid, a major constituent of fish oil diets, prevents activation of cyclin-dependent kinases and S-phase entry by serum stimulation in HT-29 cells.
- Docosahexaenoic acid is a potent inducer of apoptosis in HT-29 colon cancer cells.
- Effect of fish oil on glucose metabolism in the interleukin-1 alpha-treated rat.
- Evaluation of antitumor effect of tumor necrosis factor in terms of protein metabolism and cell cycle kinetics.
- Insulin modulates circulating endothelin-1 levels in humans.
- Influence of interleukin-2 infusion on cell cycle kinetics in the Walker-256 carcinosarcoma.
- Effects of systemic infusions of endotoxin, tumor necrosis factor, and interleukin-1 on glucose metabolism in the rat: relationship to endogenous glucose production an...
- DNA replication time accounts for tumor growth variation induced by dietary fat in a breast carcinoma model.
- Insulin-like growth factor-1 is not mitogenic for the Walker-256 carcinosarcoma.
- Differential effects of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist in cytokine- and endotoxin-treated rats.
- IGF-I alters energy expenditure and protein metabolism during parenteral feeding in rats.
- Fish oil and cell proliferation kinetics in a mammary carcinoma tumor model.
- Fish oil feeding improves muscle glucose uptake in tumor necrosis factor-treated rats.
- Measurement of 68Zn and 70Zn in human blood in reference to the study of zinc metabolism.
- Absorption of dietary zinc in man: comparison of intrinsic and extrinsic labels using a triple stable isotope method.
- Nitrate biosynthesis in man.
- Bioavailability of zinc from a diet based on isolated soy protein: application in young men of the stable isotope tracer, 70Zn.
- Simultaneous determination of absorption of selenium from poultry meat and selenite in young men: application of a triple stable-isotope method.
- Absorption of stable70 Zn in healthy young men in relation to zinc intake.
- The nutritional value of a soy protein concentrate (STAPRO-3200) for long-term protein nutritional maintenance in young men.
- An evaluation of the nutritional value of a soy protein concentrate in young adult men using the short-term N-balance method.
- Evaluation of the protein quality of diets containing medium- and long-chain triglyceride in healthy rats.
- Effect of fetal growth on maternal protein metabolism in postabsorptive rat.
- Influence of the Walker 256 carcinosarcoma on muscle, tumor, and whole-body protein synthesis and growth rate in the cancer-bearing rat.
- Effect of burn and first-pass splanchnic leucine extraction on protein kinetics in rats.
- Enhanced skeletal muscle and liver protein synthesis with structured lipid in enterally fed burned rats.
- Effects of branched chain amino acid-enriched total parenteral nutrition on amino acid utilization in rats bearing Yoshida sarcoma.
- Systemic exchangeability of enteral leucine: relationship to plasma flux.
- Infusion of tumor necrosis factor/cachectin promotes muscle catabolism in the rat. A synergistic effect with interleukin 1.
- Determinants of the pressor effect of phenylpropanolamine in healthy subjects.
- Effects of long-chain triglyceride emulsions on reticuloendothelial system function in humans.
- Enteral nutrition with structured lipid: effect on protein metabolism in thermal injury.
- Effect of continuous feeding on maternal protein metabolism and fetal growth in the rat.
- The effects of chronic fish oil feeding in rats on protein catabolism induced by recombinant mediators.
- Effect of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor/cachectin on glucose turnover in the rat.
- Parenteral infusion of long- and medium-chain triglycerides and reticuloendothelial system function in man.
- Comparative effects of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids on protein metabolism in rats bearing the mammary adenocarcinoma.
- Structured lipid made from fish oil and medium-chain triglycerides alters tumor and host metabolism in Yoshida-sarcoma-bearing rats.
- Enhancement of tumor proteolysis by TNF-alpha: correlation of in vivo isotope estimates with growth.
- Flow cytometric measurement of cell cycle kinetics in rat Walker-256 carcinoma following in vivo and in vitro pulse labelling with bromodeoxyuridine.
- Influence of omega-3 fatty acids on splanchnic blood flow and lactate metabolism in an endotoxemic rat model.
- Cytokines, muscle proteolysis, and the catabolic response to infection and inflammation.
- Insulin resistance versus insulin secretion in the hypertension of obesity.
- Effects of different lipid sources in total parenteral nutrition on whole body protein kinetics and tumor growth.
- Disparate effects of weight loss on insulin sensitivity and erythrocyte sodium-lithium countertransport activity.
- Tumor and host response to arginine and branched chain amino acid-enriched total parenteral nutrition. A study involving Walker 256 carcinosarcoma-bearing rats.
- Nutrition and tumor promotion: in vivo methods for measurement of cellular proliferation and protein metabolism.
- Bromocriptine fails to stop growth of eosinophilic adenomas in acromegaly.
- Fish oil enhances the antiproliferative effect of 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 on liver cancer cells.
- 1alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D and fish oil synergistically inhibit G1/S-phase transition in prostate cancer cells.
- Cell-cycle kinetics of permanent glioma-cells measured by pulse labeling with bromodeoxyuridine.
Schools
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
Am University Mc
New Eng Deaconess Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Fallon Community Health Plan
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Neighborhood Health Plan
- Tufts Health Plans
- Tufts PPO
- UniCare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1740248301 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | ISTFAN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | NAWFAL | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021182656 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Internal Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 477.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1740248301 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ISTFAN |
| First Name Of The Provider | NAWFAL |
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