Ross Summer, MD

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834 Walnut Street
Suite 650
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-5161
(215) 955-0830 fax

Research and Clinical Interests
Dr Summer's laboratory focuses on lung metabolism and understanding how local and systemic metabolic derangements contribute to the onset and progression of lung diseases.

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Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Cavin1; a Regulator of Lung Function and Macrophage Phenotype
2. The adipokine adiponectin has potent anti-fibrotic effects mediated via adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase: Novel target for fibrosis therapy
3. Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Epidemiology and management approaches
4. Physician perception of the impact of productivity measures on academic practice
5. Obesity: "Priming" the lung for injury
6. Adiponectin attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury through suppression of endothelial cell activation
7. Plasma adiponectin and mortality in critically ill subjects with acute respiratory failure
8. Adiponectin promotes macrophage polarization toward an anti-inflammatory phenotype
9. Adiponectin deficiency: A model of pulmonary hypertension associated with pulmonary vascular disease
10. Mesenchymal progenitor cell research limitations and recommendations
11. Alveolar macrophage activation and an emphysema-like phenotype in adiponectin-deficient mice
12. The prolonged life-span of alveolar macrophages
13. Stem cells in airway smooth muscle state of the art
14. Isolation of an adult mouse lung mesenchymal progenitor cell population
15. Adiponectin modulates inflammatory reactions via calreticulin receptor-dependent clearance of early apoptotic bodies
16. Stem and Progenitor Cells in the Formation of the Pulmonary Vasculature
17. Restoration of cardiac progenitor cells after myocardial infarction by self-proliferation and selective homing of bone marrow-derived stem cells
18. Gene expression profiling and localization of Hoechst-effluxing CD45- and CD45+ cells in the embryonic mouse lung
19. Evidence that bone marrow cells do not contribute to the alveolar epithelium
20. CD31- but not CD31+ cardiac side population cells exhibit functional cardiomyogenic differentiation

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