Dr. Roger C Wiggins MD
Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) | Nephrology
1500 East Medical Center Dr 3rd Floor Taubman Ct Ann Arbor MI, 48109About
Dr. Roger Wiggins is a nephrologist practicing in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Wiggins specializes in the care and treatment of the kidneys. As a nephrologist, Dr. Wiggins most typically treats conditions like kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, acute renal failure, polycystuc kidney disease, high blood pressure and more. Nephrologists are also experts on kidney transplantation and dialysis. They are usually referred to by primary care physicians for problems related to the kidneys, and while they can perform tests to diagnose kidney disorders, they do not perform surgeries.
Education and Training
Univ of London, The Middlesex Hosp Med Sch 1971
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delayed oligodendrocyte degeneration induced by brief exposure to hydrogen peroxide.
- Differentiation dependent activation of the myelin genes in purified oligodendrocytes is highly resistant to hypoglycemia.
- Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides targeted to MAG mRNA profoundly alter BP and PLP mRNA expression in differentiating oligodendrocytes: a caution.
- Molecular cloning, expression, and distribution of glomerular epithelial protein 1 in developing mouse kidney.
- Hydrogen peroxide induces rapid digestion of oligodendrocyte chromatin into high molecular weight fragments.
- Altered podocyte structure in GLEPP1 (Ptpro)-deficient mice associated with hypertension and low glomerular filtration rate.
- The membrane-associated guanylate kinase protein MAGI-1 binds megalin and is present in glomerular podocytes.
- Reconstructive ultrasound elasticity imaging for renal transplant diagnosis: kidney ex vivo results.
- Up-regulation of transcription of smooth muscle myosin alkali light chain by ethanol in human breast cancer cells.
- Appearance of myelin proteins in rat sciatic nerve during development.
- Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of myelin proteins: a caution.
- Lack of correlation between facility-based standardized rates of transplantation and mortality.
- Myelin synthesis during postnatal nutritional deprivation and subsequent rehabilitation.
- Differential upregulation of PLP and MAG genes in C6 glioma cells by N2A neuroblastoma conditioned medium.
- Ascorbic acid upregulates myelin gene expression in C6 glioma cells.
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