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WALTER BLESSING, MD
MD
Surgery Physician
NPI: 1558344093IndividualAccepts Medicare
Specialties, Licenses & Credentials
Surgery PhysicianPrimary
Surgery
Code: 208600000X
27670(SC)
CMS Specialties
PrimaryGENERAL SURGERY
Education
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Class of 1999
Research & Publications (20)
Activation of dopamine D2 receptors in the CNS inhibits sympathetic cutaneous vasomotor alerting responses (SCVARs), contributing to clozapine's SCVAR-inhibiting action.
PMID 17055139·Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry·2007
7-preclinical
Clozapine reverses increased brown adipose tissue thermogenesis induced by 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine and by cold exposure in conscious rats.
PMID 16814930·Neuroscience·2006
4-observational
Clozapine increases cutaneous blood flow and reduces sympathetic cutaneous vasomotor alerting responses (SCVARs) in rats: comparison with effects of haloperidol.
PMID 15986198·Psychopharmacology (Berl)·2005
4-observational
Clozapine and olanzapine, but not haloperidol, reverse cold-induced and lipopolysaccharide-induced cutaneous vasoconstriction.
PMID 15083260·Psychopharmacology (Berl)·2004
4-observational
5-hydroxytryptamine 1A receptor activation reduces cutaneous vasoconstriction and fever associated with the acute inflammatory response in rabbits.
PMID 14667435·Neuroscience·2004
7-preclinical
Lower brainstem pathways regulating sympathetically mediated changes in cutaneous blood flow.
PMID 14514013·Cell Mol Neurobiol·2003
7-preclinical
Clozapine reverses hyperthermia and sympathetically mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction induced by 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) in rabbits and rats.
PMID 12867524·J Neurosci·2003
7-preclinical
5-hydroxytryptamine(2A) receptors regulate sympathetic nerves constricting the cutaneous vascular bed in rabbits and rats.
PMID 12654345·Neuroscience·2003
7-preclinical
Corticotropin releasing factor antagonists--the new anti-anxiety magic bullets?
PMID 11566013·Curr Opin Investig Drugs·2001
7-preclinical
Raphe magnus/pallidus neurons regulate tail but not mesenteric arterial blood flow in rats.
PMID 11530230·Neuroscience·2001
7-preclinical
Cutaneous vascular bed is not involved in arterial pressure changes elicited by increasing or decreasing the activity of inhibitory vasomotor neurons in caudal ventrolateral medulla in rabbits.
PMID 10936697·Neurosci Lett·2000
7-preclinical
Regional blood flow and nociceptive stimuli in rabbits: patterning by medullary raphe, not ventrolateral medulla.
PMID 10747198·J Physiol·2000
7-preclinical
Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis heats brain and body as part of the brain-coordinated ultradian basic rest-activity cycle.
PMID 19679172·Neuroscience·2009
7-preclinical
Selective blockade of 5-HT2A receptors attenuates the increased temperature response in brown adipose tissue to restraint stress in rats.
PMID 18311601·Stress·2008
7-preclinical
When administered to rats in a cold environment, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine reduces brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and increases tail blood flow: effects of pretreatment with 5-HT1A and dopamine D2 antagonists.
PMID 18534763·Neuroscience·2008
7-preclinical
Fever response to intravenous prostaglandin E2 is mediated by the brain but does not require afferent vagal signaling.
PMID 18234746·Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol·2008
7-preclinical
Dopamine D2 receptor stimulation inhibits cold-initiated thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue in conscious rats.
PMID 17512675·Neuroscience·2007
7-preclinical
Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in rostral medullary raphé inhibits cutaneous vasoconstriction elicited by cold exposure in rabbits.
PMID 16455061·Brain Res·2006
4-observational
Serotonin-synthesizing neurons in the rostral medullary raphé/parapyramidal region transneuronally labelled after injection of pseudorabies virus into the rat tail.
PMID 16570210·Neurochem Res·2006
7-preclinical
Data courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Ltrl is not affiliated with or endorsed by NLM.
Contact & Hours
- Address
- 510 ALBEMARLE RD
CHARLESTON, SC 29407 - Phone
- (843) 723-6426
Quick Facts
- NPI
- 1558344093
- Entity Type
- Individual
- Gender
- Male
- Medicare
- Accepted
- Specialties
- 1
- Locations
- 1
- Years in Practice
- 27
- Publications
- 20
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