Melissa Boltz ST
Speech-Language Pathologist
2011 BROADWAY ST STE 130 PEARLAND TX, 77581About
Dr. Melissa Boltz is a speech language pathologist practicing in PEARLAND, TX. Dr. Boltz specializes in speech, language and swallowing disorders in patients. As a speech language pathologist, Dr. Boltz evaluates, diagnoses and treats patients with communication and swallowing troubles. These conditions may be due to developmental delay, brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke or other diseases and injuries. Dr. Boltz helps patients make sounds and improve their voices through various methods. Speech language pathologists also work with patients to strengthen muscles used to speak and swallow, and work with individuals and families to help cope with their conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Capacity of a low calcium diet to induce the renal vitamin D 1a-hydroxylase is
- Intestinal plasma membrane calcium pump protein and its induction by 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) decrease with age.
- Effect of age on calcium-dependent proteins in hippocampus of senescence-accelerated mice.
- Differential responsiveness of intestinal epithelial cells to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3--role of protein kinase C.
- Differences in intestinal calcium and phosphate transport between low and high bone density mice.
- Development of a vitamin D-responsive organ culture system for adult and old rat intestine.
- Hormonal regulation of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3-1alpha-hydroxylase and 24-hydroxylase gene transcription in opossum kidney cells.
- PTH increases renal 25(OH)D3-1alpha -hydroxylase (CYP1alpha) mRNA but not renal 1,25(OH)2D3 production in adult rats.
- Expression of 25-hydroxyvitamin D 24-hydroxylase cytochrome P450 in kidney and
- Characterization and regulation of the vitamin D hydroxylases.
- Effect of age on parathyroid hormone and forskolin stimulated adenylate cyclase and protein kinase activity in the renal cortex.
- Effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and phorbol ester on 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 24-hydroxylase cytochrome P450 messenger ribonucleic acid levels in primary cultures of rat renal cells.
- Expression of plasma membrane calcium pump mRNA in rat intestine: effect of age and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D.
- Nurse's guide to identifying cardiac rhythms.
- Phorbol ester markedly increases the sensitivity of intestinal epithelial cells to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3.
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