Physician
General Surgery
Dr. Naji Abumrad, MD
Naji Abumrad practices General Surgery. He studied medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Naji Abumrad, MD is a published physician. He has 101 publications published. The most current publication "CNI-1493 attenuates hemodynamic and pro-inflammatory responses to LPS." Naji Abumrad is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- The battle of the bulge: defense versus offense.
- Omega-3 fatty acids inhibit the up-regulation of endothelial chemokines in maintenance hemodialysis patients.
- Metabolic adaptation following massive weight loss is related to the degree of energy imbalance and changes in circulating leptin.
- Early weight regain after gastric bypass does not affect insulin sensitivity but is associated with elevated ghrelin.
- Regulation of novelty seeking by midbrain dopamine D2/D3 signaling and ghrelin is altered in obesity.
- Differential intrahepatic phospholipid zonation in simple steatosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
- The effects of acute hypercortisolemia on beta-hydroxybutyrate and glycerol metabolism during insulin deficiency.
- Impact of suprapharmacological androgenic steroid administration on basal and insulin-stimulated glucose and amino acid metabolism.
- Metabolic effects of opiates and opioid peptides.
- Effect of acute ethanol intoxication on glucoregulation during prolonged insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
- Glucose-6-phosphatase gene expression and activity are modulated in hemorrhagic shock: evidence for a new heat-sensitive activator.
- The role of glucagon in the control of protein and amino acid metabolism in vivo.
- Contribution of central and Peripheral adrenergic stimulation to IL-1 alpha-mediated glucoregulation.
- Anabolic effects of insulin and amino acids in promoting nitrogen accretion in postoperative patients.
- The opposing effects of insulin and hyperglycemia in modulating amino acid metabolism during a glucose tolerance test in lean and obese subjects.
- Differential control of glucoregulatory hormone response and glucose metabolism by NMDA and kainate.
- Central NMDA enhances hepatic glucose output and non-insulin-mediated glucose uptake by a nonadrenergic mechanism.
- Dicarboxylic acids as energy substrates in parenteral nutrition.
- Thiamin deficiency impairs endotoxin-induced increases in hepatic glucose output.
- Effects of chronic hypercortisolemia on carbohydrate metabolism during insulin deficiency.
- Nutritional and metabolic characterization of a thiamine-deficient rat model.
- Acute hyperglycemia enhances proteolysis in normal man.
- Opiate-like substances in an invertebrate, an opiate receptor on invertebrate and human immunocytes, and a role in immunosuppression.
- Role of IL-1 alpha in central nervous system immunomodulation of glucoregulation.
- Hormonal and metabolic effects of neuroglucopenia.
- Removal of glycylglutamine from plasma by individual tissues: mechanism and impact on amino acid fluxes in postabsorption and starvation.
- Effects of chronic elevation in plasma cortisol on hepatic carbohydrate metabolism.
- Regulation of gut glutamine metabolism: role of hormones and cytokines.
- Modulation of metabolic effects of morphine-6-glucuronide by morphine-3-glucuronide.
- Endogenous opiates do not modulate LPS-induced alterations in carbohydrate metabolism.
- Contribution of excitatory amino acids to morphine-induced metabolic alterations.
- Resuscitation with lactated Ringer's solution after hemorrhage: lack of cardiac toxicity.
- Central opiate modulation of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I.
- Double minutes in the papillary thyroid Cancer cell line PTC-1113A.
- Calcium beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate. 1. Potential role as a phosphate binder in uremia: in vitro study.
- Central effects of morphine and morphine-6-glucuronide on tissue protein synthesis.
- Role of acidosis in regulating hepatic nitrogen metabolism during fasting in conscious dog.
- Insulin, glucagon, and glucose as regulators of hepatic glucose uptake and production in vivo.
- Metabolism of glycylleucine and its constituent amino acids by liver, muscle, kidney and gut in conscious dogs.
- A new model to study acute and chronic renal failure.
- Aboral changes in D-glucose transport by human Intestinal brush-border membrane vesicles.
- Role of insulin in the regulation of leucine kinetics in the conscious dog.
- Effects of morphine on glucose homeostasis in the conscious dog.
- Leupeptin's effect on organ weight, RNA, DNA, and protein content after long bone fracture in the rat.
- Leupeptin inhibits adrenocorticotropic hormone-induced protein breakdown in the conscious dog.
- The effect of acute and chronic glucocorticoid excess on leucine kinetics and protein turnover in vivo.
- Beta-endorphin inhibits glucose production in the conscious dog.
- Exercise in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: the effect of continuous insulin infusion using the subcutaneous, intravenous, and intraperitoneal sites.
- The physiologic and nutritional significance of plasma-free amino acid levels.
- Near normalization of metabolism of IDDM: comparison of continuous subcutaneous (CSII) versus intraperitoneal (CIPII) insulin delivery.
- Molybdenum--is it an essential trace metal?
- Interorgan relationships of alanine and glutamine during fasting in the conscious dog.
- Acute changes in renal function: validation of a simple isotopic technique for the measurement of renal clearance.
- Amino acid intolerance during prolonged total parenteral nutrition reversed by molybdate therapy.
- The effect of thyroid hormones on gluconeogenesis and forearm metabolism in man.
- Use of a heated superficial hand vein as an alternative site for the measurement of amino acid concentrations and for the study of glucose and alanine kinetics in man.
- The disposal of an intravenously administered amino acid load across the human forearm.
- Absorption and disposition of a glucose load in the conscious dog.
- Disposal of alpha-ketoisocaproate: roles of liver, gut, and kidneys.
- The effect of leucine infusion on substrate flux across the human forearm.
- Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor prevents ethanol-induced impairment in host defense in septic rats.
- Theories and assumptions on energy expenditure. Determinations in the clinical setting.
- Gut-derived proteolysis during insulin-induced hypoglycemia: the pain that breaks down the gut.
- Effects of an acute increase in epinephrine and cortisol on carbohydrate metabolism during insulin deficiency.
- Role of insulin and branched-chain amino acids in regulating protein metabolism during fasting.
- What getting sick means.
- Efficacy of octreotide acetate in treatment of severe postgastrectomy dumping syndrome.
- Octreotide acetate induces fasting small bowel motility in patients with dumping syndrome.
- Tumors of the adrenal cortex and Cushing's syndrome.
- Adverse metabolic consequences of nutritional support: micronutrients.
- Rapid high-performance liquid chromatographic method to measure plasma leucine: importance in the study of leucine kinetics in vivo.
- Aluminum induced encephalopathy in the rat.
- Metabolism of dipeptides and their constituent amino acids by liver, gut, kidney, and muscle.
- Morphine-3-glucuronide: hyperglycemic and neuroendocrine potentiating effects.
- Dopamine D2 receptor availability in opiate-dependent subjects before and after naloxone-precipitated withdrawal.
- Renal glucose production during insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
- Relationship between subjective effects of cocaine and dopamine transporter occupancy.
- Role of the kidney in plasma glucose regulation during hyperglycemia.
- Histaminergic contribution to the metabolic effects of neuroglucopenia.
- Extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma.
- Differential effects of alpha and beta adrenergic blockade on glucose and lactate metabolism during acute stress.
- Role of glutamine in adaptations in nitrogen metabolism during fasting.
- Cocaine abusers do not show loss of dopamine transporters with age.
- Central opiate mu-receptor-mediated suppression of tissue protein synthesis.
- Early organ-specific hemorrhage-induced increases in tissue cytokine content: associated neurohormonal and opioid alterations.
- Concentration and occupancy of dopamine transporters in cocaine abusers with [11C]cocaine and PET.
- Energy metabolism and fuel mobilization: from the perioperative period to recovery.
- Differential responses of brain, liver, and muscle glycogen to opiates and surgical stress.
- Renal lactate metabolism and gluconeogenesis during insulin-induced hypoglycemia.
- Modulation of endogenous opiate production: effect of fasting.
- CNI-1493 attenuates hemodynamic and pro-inflammatory responses to LPS.
- Clinical experience over 48 years with pheochromocytoma.
- HMG-1 as a late mediator of endotoxin lethality in mice.
- Methylphenidate and cocaine have a similar in vivo potency to block dopamine transporters in the human brain.
- Mammalian opiate alkaloid synthesis: lessons derived from plant biochemistry.
- Central sympathetic modulation of tissue cytokine response to hemorrhage.
- Differential effects of hemorrhage and LPS on tissue TNF-alpha, IL-1 and associate neuro-hormonal and opioid alterations.
- Contribution of excitatory amino acids to hypoglycemic counter-regulation.
- L-tryptophan attenuation of the dopaminergic and behavioral responses to cocaine.
- Supplementation with a combination of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB), arginine, and glutamine is safe and could improve hematological parameters.
Schools
American University Of Beirut
University Hospital SUNY Health Science Center
Procedures Preformed
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Gastrotomy
- Intestinal Transplant (incl. Enterectomy)
- Laparotomy
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Conditions Treated
- Anal and Rectal Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
- Collapsed Lung (Pneumothorax)
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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SUNY Upstate Medical University -
American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics
Helpful Reviews
Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1548369978 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ABUMRAD |
| First Name Of The Provider | NAJI |
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