
Dr. Robert Lewis Schelonka M.D.
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Specialist | Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
525 Nhb 619 South 19th Stree Birmingham AL, 35249About
Dr. Robert Schelonka is a Neonatal-Perinatal Physician practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Schelonka cares for the critically ill newborn and premature infants. Neonatal-Perinatal Physicians treat conditions such as breathing disorders, birth defects, infections, and any other life-threatening medical problems. They coordinate with their young patients families and other physicians to determine appropriate treatment.
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regulation and chance in the ontogeny of B and T cell antigen receptor repertoires.
- Time to positive culture results in neonatal Candida septicemia.
- Development of the expressed Ig CDR-H3 repertoire is marked by focusing of constraints in length, amino acid use, and charge that are first established in early B cell progenitors.
- Mycoplasmas and ureaplasmas as neonatal pathogens.
- Forced usage of positively charged amino acids in immunoglobulin CDR-H3 impairs B cell development and antibody production.
- Estimating blood needs for very-low-birth-weight infants.
- Categorical selection of the antibody repertoire in splenic B cells.
- Détente in the war against bugs.
- Identification of serious congenital heart disease in neonates after initial hospital discharge.
- Preferential use of DH reading frame 2 alters B cell development and antigen-specific antibody production.
- Regulation of repertoire development through genetic control of DH reading frame preference.
- Congenital and opportunistic infections: Ureaplasma species and Mycoplasma hominis.
- Plasma concentrations of inflammatory cytokines rise rapidly during ECMO-related SIRS due to the release of preformed stores in the intestine.
- Genetic control of DH reading frame and its effect on B-cell development and antigen-specifc antibody production.
- DH and JH usage in murine fetal liver mirrors that of human fetal liver.
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