Dr. Saul Joseph Karpen MD PHD
Gastroenterologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Gastroenterology
2015 Uppergate Dr Ne Suite 208b Atlanta GA, 30322About
Dr. Saul Karpen is a pediatric gastroenterologist practicing in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Karpen specializes in digestive system, liver or nutritional problems in children from the newborn period to their teens. Conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, lactose intolerance, chronic constipation or obesity can all be treated by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Education and Training
Mt Sinai Sch of Med of The City Univ of Ny, New York Ny 1989
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Genetic mutations causing hereditary cholestasis.
- Short-term regulation of bile acid uptake by microfilament-dependent translocation of rat ntcp to the plasma membrane.
- Bile acids go nuclear!
- Endotoxin-stimulated macrophages decrease bile acid uptake in WIF-B cells, a rat hepatoma hybrid cell line.
- Interleukin-1beta suppresses retinoid transactivation of two hepatic transporter
- HNF3beta and GATA-4 transactivate the liver-enriched homeobox gene, Hex.
- Divergent homeobox gene hex regulates promoter of the Na(+)-dependent bile acid cotransporter.
- Bile acids regulate their own synthesis: the nuclear connection.
- TNF-alpha downregulates murine hepatic growth hormone receptor expression by inhibiting Sp1 and Sp3 binding.
- The orphan nuclear receptor, shp, mediates bile acid-induced inhibition of the rat bile acid transporter, ntcp.
- New horizons in the regulation of bile acid and lipid homeostasis: critical role of the nuclear receptor FXR as an intracellular bile acid sensor.
- Diet and disease: the "phyte" over intestinal cholesterol.
- HNF-1 alpha: have bile acid transport genes found their "master"?
- Update on the etiologies and management of neonatal cholestasis.
- Nuclear receptor regulation of hepatic function.
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Treatments
- Hepatitis
- Birth Defects
- Congenital Heart Disease
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