| Department of Internal Medicine
Gastroenterology-Hepatology Faculty
Bruce A. Luxon, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Division Director
James A. Clifton Chair in Gastroenterology
Dr. Luxon has a long standing clinical interest in hepatology. He has special expertise in autoimmune hepatitis and cholestatic liver diseases as well as hepatitis C. His research focuses on hepatic stellate cells and the role they play in causing liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.
Honors, Awards, and Organizations
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), 1993 -
- Fellow, American College of Gastroenterology, 1997 -
- Editor, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2002-
- Editor, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Associate Editor for Liver Diseases, 2003 -
- American Liver Foundation Research Committee, 1997 -
- Grant Reviewer
- American Liver Foundation
- American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
- Veterans Administration (VA) Merit Review Board
- Reviewer
- American Journal of Gastroenterology
- American Journal of Physiology
- Gastroenterology
- Hepatology
- Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
- Journal of Hepatology
|
Medical School:
University of Missouri
Residency:
University of Missouri
Fellowship:
University of California, San Francisco |
Recent Publications
- Milliano, M.T. and Luxon, B.A. Rat hepatic stellate cells become retinoid unresponsive during activation. Hepatology Research , 33:225-233, 2005.
- Iftikhar, R., Kladney, R., Havlioglu, N., Schmitt-Graff, A., Gusmirovic, H., Solomon, H., Luxon, B.A., Bacon, B.R. and Fimmel, C.J. Disease- and cell-specific expression of GP73 in human liver disease. Am J Gastro 99(6):1087-1095, 2004.
- Gundala, S., Wells, L.S., Milliano, M.T., Talkad, V., Luxon, B.A. and Tetri, B.A. The hepatocellular bile acid transporter Ntcp facilitates uptake of the lethal mushroom toxin alpha-amanitin. Arch Toxicol 78:68-73, 2004.
Back to Gastroenterology-Hepatology Faculty List
|
