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Ronald S. Swerdloff, M.D.
Chief, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Director, World Health Organization Collabrative Center of Reproduction
1124 West Carson St., RB-1
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| Dr. Swerdloff is the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine and the Director of a World Health Organization Collaborative Center in Reproduction, a Mellon Foundation Center for Contraceptive Development and a NIH Contraceptive Clinical Trial Center. His research interests involve many aspects of basic male reproductive physiology and clinical reproductive investigation. Ongoing work includes the regulation of spermatogenesis, regulation of the androgen receptor gene, neuroregulation of gonadotropin secretion, development of male contraceptive agents, pharmacology of androgen hormones, regulation of apoptosis in the testis, ethnic differences in the reproductive endocrine system, role of 5-alpha reduced androgens in the prevention and treatment of cognitive dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, impaired vitality, osteoporosis and frailty in elderly men, factors influencing male fertility, molecular basis and neurobiology of cognitive dysfunction in Klinefelter's Syndrome, sex steroid effects on cognition and neurodegenerative disorders, and mutant mouse models in reproductive biology, and stem cell transplantation in the testes. Techniques include tissue culture, light, confocal and electron microscopy, morphometry, immunoassays, bioassays, transillumination for staging of spermatogenesis, laser dissection microsurgery, sperm function assessment and a broad spectrum of molecular biologic methods, including microarrays. |
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