David George Standaert MD PHD
Neurosurgeon
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35255Rating
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Dr. David Standaert practices Neurological Surgery in Birmingham, AL. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Standaert prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Washington Center / School of Medicine 1988
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Immunohistochemical localization of N-methyl-D-aspartate and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate receptor subunits in the substantia nigra pars compacta of the rat.
- NMDA receptors and nitric oxide synthase.
- Neuroprotective therapies.
- Association of AMPA receptors with a subset of glutamate receptor-interacting protein in vivo.
- Localization of alternatively spliced NMDAR1 glutamate receptor isoforms in rat striatal neurons.
- Localization of metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 mRNA and mGluR7a protein in the rat basal ganglia.
- Distribution of the mRNAs encoding torsinA and torsinB in the normal adult human brain.
- Alterations in subunit expression, composition, and phosphorylation of striatal N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in a rat 6-hydroxydopamine model of Parkinson's disease.
- Expression of NMDA receptor subunit mRNAs in neurochemically identified projection and interneurons in the human striatum.
- Localization of dopaminergic markers in the human subthalamic nucleus.
- alpha-actinin-2 in rat striatum: localization and interaction with NMDA glutamate receptor subunits.
- Dopamine D1 receptor-dependent trafficking of striatal NMDA glutamate receptors to the postsynaptic membrane.
- Gene expression profiling in the post-mortem human brain--no cause for dismay.
- Dystonia and its disorders.
- Expression and activity of antioxidants in the brain in progressive supranuclear palsy.
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