Wilson S Colucci M.D.
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
732 Harrison Ave 3rd Floor Boston MA, 02118Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Wilson Colucci is a cardiologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Colucci specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Colucci also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Boston Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1975
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Myocardial osteopontin expression coincides with the development of heart failure.
- Inhibition of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase induces cell growth, hypertrophic phenotype, and apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes in vitro.
- Role of endothelin-1 in myocardial failure.
- Opposing effects of beta(1)- and beta(2)-adrenergic receptors on cardiac myocyte apoptosis : role of a pertussis toxin-sensitive G protein.
- Mitochondrial oxidative stress in heart failure: "oxygen wastage" revisited.
- Adrenergic regulation of myocardial apoptosis.
- p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway protects adult rat ventricular myocytes against beta -adrenergic receptor-stimulated apoptosis. Evidence for Gi-dependent activation.
- Interleukin-1beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha decrease collagen synthesis and increase matrix metalloproteinase activity in cardiac fibroblasts in vitro.
- Progressive left ventricular remodeling and apoptosis late after myocardial infarction in mouse heart.
- Impaired cell shortening and relengthening with increased pacing frequency are intrinsic to the senescent mouse cardiomyocyte.
- Altered beta-adrenergic signal transduction in nonfailing hypertrophied myocytes from Dahl salt-sensitive rats.
- Chronic alpha-adrenergic receptor stimulation modulates the contractile phenotype of cardiac myocytes in vitro.
- Inhibition of protein phosphatase 1 induces apoptosis in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes: role of adrenergic receptor stimulation.
- Survival and prognosis: investigation of Crataegus extract WS 1442 in congestive heart failure (SPICE)--rationale, study design and study protocol.
- Oxidative stress regulates collagen synthesis and matrix metalloproteinase activity in cardiac fibroblasts.
Awards
- 2011 Boston Super Doctors
- 2012 Castle Connolly's Top Doctors
- 2013 Castle Connolly's Top Doctor's
Treatments
- Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy
Fellowships
- Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Fellow:Cardiovascular Diseases 1978
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