
Dr. Miguel Angel Pappolla MD, PHD
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
2426 S Loop West Suite 104 Houston TX, 77054About
Dr. Miguel Pappolla practices Pain Medicine in Houston, TX. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Pappolla serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Universidad De Buenos Aires, Facultad De Ciencias Medicas MD
Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Medicina 1978
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- RNA oxidation is a prominent feature of vulnerable neurons in Alzheimer's disease.
- Potent neuroprotective properties against the Alzheimer beta-amyloid by an endogenous melatonin-related indole structure, indole-3-propionic acid.
- Alzheimer beta protein mediated oxidative damage of mitochondrial DNA: prevention by melatonin.
- An assessment of the antioxidant and the antiamyloidogenic properties of melatonin: implications for Alzheimer's disease.
- Hypercholesterolemia accelerates the Alzheimer's amyloid pathology in a transgenic mouse model.
- Amyloid deposition in diffuse plaques may or may not start at the neuronal cell surface membrane.
- Catecholamines inhibit lipid peroxidation in young, aged, and Alzheimer's disease brain.
- A cholesterol-lowering drug reduces beta-amyloid pathology in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
- Melatonin reverses the profibrillogenic activity of apolipoprotein E4 on the Alzheimer amyloid Abeta peptide.
- The neuroprotective activities of melatonin against the Alzheimer beta-protein are not mediated by melatonin membrane receptors.
- Cholesterol, oxidative stress, and Alzheimer's disease: expanding the horizons of pathogenesis.
- Development of indole-3-propionic acid (OXIGON) for Alzheimer's disease.
- Deficiency of chaperonin 60 in Down's syndrome.
- Melatonin increases survival and inhibits oxidative and amyloid pathology in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease.
- The Alzheimer's amyloid precursor is cleaved intracellularly in the trans-Golgi network or in a post-Golgi compartment.
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Neuropathy
- Fibromyalgia
- Neck Pain
- Sciatica
- Pinched Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Pain
Dr. Miguel Angel Pappolla MD, PHD's Practice location
St Michael's Pain and Spine Center
2426 S Loop West Suite 104 -Houston, TX 77054Get Direction
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Nearby Providers
- Dr. Donald Baxter M.D.8928 Kirby Dr Houston TX 77054
- Katherine H Thompson MD7400 Fannin St Houston TX 77054
Nearest Hospitals
UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITALl
7501 FANNIN HOUSTON TX 77054UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITALl
7501 FANNIN HOUSTON TX 77054