Dr. Ali S Calikoglu MD
Endocronologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Endocrinology
101 Manning Dr Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Ali Calikoglu is a pediatric endocrinologist practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Calikoglu specializes in growth, puberty, diabetes or other disorders related to hormones that produce certain conditions in children and growing young adults. Pediatric endocrinologists possess copious knowledge on hormone chemicals and how they can affect other parts of the body and their functions.
Education and Training
Ankara Universitesi, Tip Fakultesi,Ankara, Turkey 1982
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Endocrinology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) ameliorates and IGF binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) exacerbates the effects of undernutrition on brain growth during early postnatal life: studies in IGF-I and IGFBP-1 transgenic mice.
- Should boys with micropenis be reared as girls?
- The effects of the estrogen receptor blocker, Faslodex (ICI 182,780), on estrogen-accelerated bone maturation in mice.
- Nutritional rickets in African American breast-fed infants.
- Effects of hypothyroidism on insulin-like growth factor-I expression during brain development in mice.
- Insulin-like growth factor-I overexpression attenuates cerebellar apoptosis by altering the expression of Bcl family proteins in a developmentally specific manner.
- Androgen-accelerated bone maturation in mice is not attenuated by Faslodex, an
- Type I diabetes mellitus in a patient with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.
- Editorial review: the case of local versus endocrine IGF-I actions: the jury is still out.
- Adrenocorticotropic hormone, a new player in the control of testicular steroidogenesis.
- Prophylactic vitamin D supplementation.
- Pediatrician patterns of prescribing vitamin supplementation for infants: do they contribute to rickets?
- Novel mutation in the SLC19A2 gene in an African-American female with thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome.
- A new challenge in pediatric obesity: pediatric hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome.
- Continuous subcutaneous glucose monitoring in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a single-blind, randomized, controlled trial.
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