Chairman of Pathology
Pathology
Dr. Robert E. Mrak, MD
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Robert E. Mrak works in the field of Pathology. He went to medical school at University of California Davis School of Medicine. University of California Davis School of Medicine is ranked 43/19 in Research/PrimaryCare. Robert Mrak is also published. He has 99 publications published. The lastest publication: "Life-long overexpression of S100beta in Down's syndrome: implications for Alzheimer pathogenesis.' Doctor Robert E. Mrak, MD accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Ossification in an extra-intradural spinal meningioma-pathologic and surgical vistas.
- Reviewer acknowledgement.
- Epilepsy: neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and APOE genotype.
- Senescence-accelerated overexpression of S100beta in brain of SAMP6 mice.
- Enlarged and phagocytic, but not primed, interleukin-1 alpha-immunoreactive microglia increase with age in normal human brain.
- Glial-neuronal interactions in Alzheimer''s disease: the potential role of a ''cytokine cycle'' in disease progression.
- Aging-associated changes in human brain.
- Lesioning of the inferior olive using a ventral surgical approach. Characterization of temporal and spatial astrocytic responses at the lesion site and in cerebellum.
- The role of chronic self-propagating glial responses in neurodegeneration: implications for long-lived survivors of human immunodeficiency virus.
- In vitro 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy of postmortem brains with schizophrenia.
- Neuritic plaque evolution in Alzheimer''s disease is accompanied by transition of activated microglia from primed to enlarged to phagocytic forms.
- Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in schizophrenia: increases in cerebellar vermis.
- Glial-neuronal interactions in Alzheimer disease: progressive association of IL-1alpha+ microglia and S100beta+ astrocytes with neurofibrillary tangle stages.
- Sudden death in septo-optic dysplasia. Report of 5 cases.
- Decreased mesopontine choline acetyltransferase levels in schizophrenia. Correlations with cognitive functions.
- In vivo and in vitro evidence supporting a role for the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1 as a driving force in Alzheimer pathogenesis.
- Apolipoprotein E distribution among different plaque types in Alzheimer''s disease: implications for its role in plaque progression.
- Correlation of astrocytic S100 beta expression with dystrophic neurites in amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease.
- Human brain S100 beta and S100 beta mRNA expression increases with age: pathogenic implications for Alzheimer's disease.
- Broad A band disease: a new benign congenital myopathy.
- Cranial chordomas in children and adolescents.
- Detached single cilia: another potential pseudomicrobe seen in bronchoalveolar lavage specimens.
- Cardiac involvement in a child with unsuspected pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
- Broad A bands of striated muscle in Leber's congenital amaurosis: a new congenital myopathy?
- Rabies encephalitis in a patient with no history of exposure.
- Rabies encephalitis in humans: pathology, pathogenesis and pathophysiology.
- Origins of adenocarcinomas presenting as intracranial metastases. An ultrastructural study.
- Malignant acoustic schwannoma.
- Glial cytokines as neuropathogenic factors in HIV infection: pathogenic similarities to Alzheimer's disease.
- Gastrointestinal autonomic nerve tumor presenting as high-grade sarcoma. Case report and review of the literature.
- Malignant neurocytic tumor.
- n-Amyl alcohol partitioning in synaptic plasma membranes.
- Metastatic myxopapillary ependymoma: report of a case with fine-needle aspiration findings.
- Increased neuronal beta-amyloid precursor protein expression in human temporal lobe epilepsy: association with interleukin-1 alpha immunoreactivity.
- S100 beta protein expression in Alzheimer disease: potential role in the pathogenesis of neuritic plaques.
- Interleukin-1 expression in different plaque types in Alzheimer's disease: significance in plaque evolution.
- Images in clinical medicine. Tripolar mitotic figure.
- Microglial interleukin-1 alpha expression in human head injury: correlations with neuronal and neuritic beta-amyloid precursor protein expression.
- Overexpression of the neurotrophic cytokine S100 beta in human temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Glial cytokines in Alzheimer's disease: review and pathogenic implications.
- Microglial interleukin-1 alpha expression in brain regions in Alzheimer''s disease: correlation with neuritic plaque distribution.
- Mesopontine neurons in schizophrenia.
- Subarachnoid spinal hemorrhage in a case of systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Muscle granulomas following intramuscular injection.
- Lipid composition of sarcoplasmic reticulum from mice with muscular dystrophy.
- Neurogenic arthrogryposis in one identical twin.
- Glycogen-membrane complexes in denervated human skeletal muscle.
- Nonketotic hypoglycemia: an early indicator of systemic carnitine deficiency.
- Normal function in sarcoplasmic reticulum from mice with muscular dystrophy.
- Isolation and characterization of transverse tubule from normal and dystrophic mice.
- Calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum of normal and dystrophic mice.
- Calcium transport and fluorescence polarization of 1,6-diphenyl-1, 3,5-hexatriene in sarcoplasmic reticulum from normal and ethanol-tolerant rats.
- Evidence of necrosis in human intercostal muscle following inhalation of an organophosphate insecticide.
- Granular cell basal cell carcinoma.
- Ethanol inhibition of synaptosomal high-affinity choline uptake.
- Chlamydial salpingitis in female guinea pigs receiving oral contraceptives.
- Triphasic effects of short chain n-alcohols on synaptic membrane transport of choline and of gamma-aminobutyric acid.
- An orbital hemangiopericytoma recurrent after 33 years.
- Synaptosomal uptake of choline and of gamma-aminobutyric acid: effects of ethanol and of dimethylsulfoxide.
- Ethanol inhibition of spontaneous calcium release from isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum.
- Reperfusion injury in ischemic myocardium: protective effects of ruthenium red and of nitroprusside.
- Reperfusion injury in ischemic myocardium: effects of nifedipine and verapamil.
- Ultrastructure of metastatic rete testis adenocarcinoma.
- Orbital intramuscular schwannoma.
- Ethanol inhibition of spontaneous calcium release from isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum of alcoholic rats.
- Microvasculature sparing with controlled reperfusion of ischemic myocardium.
- Reperfusion injury in ischemic myocardium: protective effect of controlled reperfusion.
- Supraciliary hemangiopericytoma.
- Interleukin-1 and the immunogenetics of Alzheimer disease.
- Interleukin-1 promotes expression and phosphorylation of neurofilament and tau proteins in vivo.
- Association of interleukin-1 gene polymorphisms with Alzheimer's disease.
- Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the parotid gland region: report of a case with fine-needle aspiration findings.
- Neuronal-glial interactions mediated by interleukin-1 enhance neuronal acetylcholinesterase activity and mRNA expression.
- Overexpression of the neuritotrophic cytokine S100beta precedes the appearance of neuritic beta-amyloid plaques in APPV717F mice.
- S100beta induction of the proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 in neurons.
- Overexpression of s100beta in Down''s syndrome: correlation with patient age and with beta-amyloid deposition.
- Mitogen-activated protein kinases in schizophrenia.
- Increased interleukin-1beta converting enzyme expression and activity in Alzheimer disease.
- Alterations in synaptic proteins and their encoding mRNAs in prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia: a possible neurochemical basis for 'hypofrontality'.
- Is there a genetic basis for the deposition of beta-amyloid after fatal head injury?
- Life-long overexpression of S100beta in Down's syndrome: implications for Alzheimer pathogenesis.
- Grover''s disease (transient acantholytic dermatosis): relationship of acantholysis to acrosyringia.
- The pathologic spectrum of merosin deficiency.
- Distribution of interleukin-1-immunoreactive microglia in cerebral cortical layers: implications for neuritic plaque formation in Alzheimer''s disease.
- S100 beta increases levels of beta-amyloid precursor protein and its encoding mRNA in rat neuronal cultures.
- Progressive neuronal injury associated with amyloid plaque formation in Alzheimer disease.
- Progressive neuronal DNA damage associated with neurofibrillary tangle formation in Alzheimer disease.
- Alzheimer-type neuropathological changes in morbidly obese elderly individuals.
- GLUT1 immunoreaction patterns reliably distinguish hemangioblastoma from metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
- Granulovacuolar degeneration (GVD) bodies of Alzheimer''s disease (AD) resemble late-stage autophagic organelles.
- Neurotrophin receptors and heparanase: a functional axis in human medulloblastoma invasion.
- The role of activated astrocytes and of the neurotrophic cytokine S100B in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
- Interleukin-1, neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer's disease.
- Neuronal DNA damage correlates with overexpression of interleukin-1beta converting enzyme in APPV717F mice.
- Vitamin E suppression of microglial activation is neuroprotective.
- Interleukin-1 promotion of MAPK-p38 overexpression in experimental animals and in Alzheimer''s disease: potential significance for tau protein phosphorylation.
- Phospholipid abnormalities in postmortem schizophrenic brains detected by 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy: a preliminary study.
- Fibrocartilaginous embolization.
Schools
University of California At Irvine California College of Medicine amp Surgery
Vanderbilt Affil Hosps
Vanderbilt Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Neuropathology
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna
- CareSource
- Coventry Health America PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Frontpath Health Coalition
- Humana
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Paramount
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Education
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Vanderbilt University -
University of California Davis School of Medicine
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1699865188 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | MRAK |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROBERT |
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