The University of Chicago Hospitals
5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC6101, Room E-607-C
Chicago, IL 60637-1470
Phone: (773) 795 6751
Fax: (773) 702 1243 peter.pytel@uchospitals.edu
Clinical Interest
Neuropathology.
Research Interests
Neuromuscular disease and pediatric brain tumors.
Selected Publications
McNally EM, Pytel P: Muscle diseases: the muscular dystrophies . Annu Rev Pathol. 2007;2:87-109
Qahwash IM, Boire A, Lanning J, Krausz T, Pytel P, Meredith SC: Site-specific effects of peptide lipidation on beta -amyloid aggregation and cytotoxicit y. J Biol Chem. 2007 Aug 9
MacLeod H, Pytel P, Wollmann R, Chelmicka-Schorr E, Silver K, Anderson RB, Waggoner D, McNally EM: A novel FKRP mutation in congenital muscular dystrophy disrupts the dystrophin glycoprotein complex . Neuromuscul Disord. 2007 Apr;17(4):285-9. Epub 2007 Mar 1
Pytel P, Cochran EJ, Bonner G, Nyenhuis DL, Thomas C, Gorelick PB: Vascular and Alzheimer-type pathology in an autopsy study of African-Americans . Neurology. 2006 Feb 14;66(3):433-5
Lin W, Kemper A, McCarthy KD, Pytel P, Wang JP, Campbell IL , Utset MF, Popko B: Interferon-gamma induced medulloblastoma in the developing cerebellum . J Neurosci. 2004 Nov 10;24(45):10074-83