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  General Surgery Residency

Lab (General Surgery) Residents


*Brian T. Bucher, M.D.
  Kendra D. Conzen, M.D.
  Nicholas Hamilton, M.D.
  Eric D. Jenkins, M.D.
  Enjae Jung, M.D.
  Jason D. Keune, M.D.
  Anson Lee, M.D.
  Jennifer A. Leinicke, M.D.
  Lora Melman, M.D.
  Jonathan B. Mitchem, M.D.
  Michael C. Nicoson, M.D.
  Amber L. Traugott, M.D.
  Derek S. Wakeman, M.D.
 
Brian T. Bucher M.D.

Residency in General Surgery

Medical School
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Selected or Recent Publications
Kaizu T, Ikeda A, Nakao A, Takahashi Y, Tsung A, Kohmoto J, Toykawa H, Shao L, Bucher BT, Tomiyama K, Nalesnik MA, Murase N, Geller DA. Donor Graft Adenoviral iNOS Gene Transfer Ameliorates Rat Liver Transplant Preservation Injury. Heptatology. 2006 Mar;43(3):464-73.

Kaizu T, Ikeda A, Nakao A, Takahashi Y, Tsung A, Kohmoto J, Toykawa H, Shao L, Bucher BT, Tomiyama K, Nalesnik MA, Murase N, Geller DA. Donor Graft Adenoviral iNOS Gene Transfer Ameliorates Rat Liver Transplant Preservation Injury. Heptatology. 2006 Mar;43(3):464-73.

Bucher BT, Feng X, Jeyabalan G, Shao L, Geller DA. Glycochenodeoxycholate (GCDC) Inhibits Cytokine Induced iNOS expression in Rat Hepatocytes. J. Surg. Res. 2006 Mar;138(1):15-21

Tsung A, Kaizu T, Nakao A, Shao L, Bucher BT, Fink MP, Murase N, Geller DA. Ethyl Pyruvate Ameliorated Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Decreasing Hepatic Necrosis and Apoptosis. Transplantation. 2005 Jan. 27; 79(2)

Kim PK, Armstrong M, Liu Y, Bucher BT, Yan P, Zuckerbraun BS, Gambotto A, Billiar TR, Yim JH. IRF-1 Expression Induces Apoptosis and Inhibits Tumor Growth in Mammary Cancer Cells. Oncogene. 2004 Feb 5;23(5):1125-35.

Marderstein EL, Guo Z, Sonis L, Shao L, Reid K, Bucher BT, Geller DA. Carbon monoxide (co) downregulates hepatic inducible nitric oxide synthase (inos) by a mitogen-activated protein kinase (mapk) dependent mechanism. J Surg Res. 2003 Oct; 114(2):256.

Marderstein EL, Bucher BT, Guo Z, Feng X, Reid K, Geller DA. Protection of Rat Hepatocytes from Apoptosis by Inhibition of c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase. Surgery. 2003 Aug; 134(2):280-4.

Bucher BT, Curran DP. Selective sulfonylation of 1,2-diols and derivatives catalyzed by a recoverable fluorous tin oxide. Tetrahedron Letters 2000; 41:9617-9621.

Abstracts
Bucher, BT; Fox, A; Oppedal, D; Davis, C; Dunne, M; Coopersmith, C; Buchman, TG; Hotchkiss, R; Cobb JP. Genetic Predisposition to Sepsis: Strain variance in a Mouse Model of Pneumonia. Academic Surgical Conference 2009.

Ikeda A, Kaizu T, Nakao A, Shao L, Bucher BT, Murase N, Geller DA. Donor graft adenoviral iNOS gene transfer improves transplant survival and ischemia / reperfusion injury. Academic Surgical Conference 2006.

Bucher BT, Jeyabalan G, Kaizu T, Feng XF, Shao, LF, Murase N, Geller, DA. Adenoviral iNOS Protects Rat Hepatocytes from Cholestatic Liver Injury both in vitro and in vivo. Academic Surgical Conference 2006.

Guo Z, Shao L, Marderstein E, Reid K, Bucher BT, David A Geller. Two novel DNA-protein interactions in the human inducible nitric oxide synthase promoter. Experimental Biology, 2003.
Shao L, Guo Z, Reid K, Marderstein E, Bucher BT, David A Geller. Interleukin-13 Inhibits Cytokine induced iNOS Expression in Rat Hepatocytes. Experimental Biology, 2003.

Bucher BT, Marderstein EL, Feng XF, Shao L, Reid KM, Guo Z, Geller DA. Role of Nitric Oxide in Bile Acid-Mediated Apoptosis in Rat Hepatocytes. Experimental Biology, 2003.

Marderstein EL, Kaizu T, Bucher BT, Reid KM, Guo Z, Tsoulfas G, Murase N, Geller DA. C-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Stays Activated for 48 Hours after Rat Liver Transplantation. American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, 2002.

Kaizu T, Atsunori N, Bucher BT, Otterbein LE, Liu F, Geller DA, Murase N. Donor Pretreatment with Carbon Monoxide-Inhalation Inhibits iNOS Over Expression and Attenuates Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury after Rat Liver Transplantation. American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, 2002

Kaizu T, Murase N, Yakahashi Y, Bucher BT, Reid KM, Shao L, Geller D. Adenoviral iNOS Gene Transfer to Donor Liver Grafts: Possible Protection Mediated by HO-1 Induction. American Transplant Congress Annual Meeting, 2002.

Reid KM, Bucher BT, Kaizu T, Guo, Z, Marderstein EL, Murase N, Geller D. NOR NOHA: A Novel Arginase Inhibitor that Improves Liver I/R Injury. Surgical Infection Society Annual Meeting, 2002.

Marderstein EL, Bucher BT, Guo Z, Feng X, Reid K, Geller DA. Protection of Rat Hepatocytes from Apoptosis by Inhibition of c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase (JNK). Society of University Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2002.