Barrow Neurological Institute of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Reference List of Clinical and Basic Science Research Manuscripts from the Barrow Neurological Institute
Listed in chronological order
Ng Y-t, Kerrigan JF, Prenger EC, Rekate HL. Successful resection of hypothalamic hamartoma and Rathke’s cleft cyst: case report. J Neurosurg 2005;102(1 Suppl):78-80.
Feiz-Erfan I, Horn EM, Rekate HL, Spetzler RF, Ng Y-t, Rosenfeld JV, Kerrigan JF. Surgical strategies to approach hypothalamic hamartomas causing gelastic seizures in the pediatric population: transventricular versus skull base approaches. J Neurosurg 2005;103(4 Suppl):325-332.
Wu J, Xu L, Kim DY, Rho JM, St. John PA, Lue L-F, Coons S, Ellsworth K, Nowak L, Johnson E, Rekate H, Kerrigan JF. Electrophysiological properties of human hypothalamic hamartomas. Ann Neurol 2005;58:371-382.
Amstutz DR, Coons SW, Kerrigan JF, Rekate HL, Heiserman JE. Hypothalamic hamartomas: correlation of MR imaging and spectroscopic findings with tumor glial content. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2006;27:794-798.
Rekate HL, Feiz-Erfan I, Ng Y-t, Gonzalez LF, Kerrigan JF. Endoscopic surgery for hypothalamic hamartomas causing medically refractory epilepsy. Childs Nerv Syst 2006,22:874-880.
Ng Y-t, Rekate HL, Prenger EC, Chung SS, Feiz-Erfan I, Wang N, Varland MR, Kerrigan JF. Transcallosal resection of hypothalamic hamartoma for intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia 2006;47:1192-1202.
Coons SW, Rekate HL, Prenger EC, Wang N, Drees C, Ng Y-t, Chung SS, Kerrigan JF. The histopathology of hypothalamic hamartomas: study of 57 cases. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2007;66:131-141.
Kerrigan JF, Ng Y-t, Prenger E, Krishnamoorthy KS, Rekate HL. Hypothalamic hamartoma and infantile spasms. Epilepsia 2007;48:89-95.
Sweetman LL, Ng Y-t, Kerrigan JF. Gelastic seizures misdiagnosed as gastro esophageal reflux disease. Clin Pediatr 2007;46:325-328.
Kerrigan JF, Kruer MC, Corneveaux J, Panganiban CB, Itty A, Reiman D, Ng Y-t, Stephan DA, Craig DW. Chromosomal abnormality at 6p25.1-25.3 identifies a susceptibility locus for hypothalamic hamartoma associated with epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 2007;55:70-73.
Wu J, Chang Y, Li G, Xue F, DeChon J, Ellsworth K, Liu Q, Yang K, Bahadroani N, Zheng C, Zhang J, Rekate H, Rho JM, Kerrigan JF. Electrophysiological properties and subunit composition of GABAA receptors in patients with gelastic seizures and hypothalamic hamartoma. J Neurophysiol 2007;98:5-15.
Craig DW, Itty A, Panganiban C, Szelinger S, Kruer M, Reiman D, Narayanan V, Stephan DA, Kerrigan JF. Identification of somatic chromosomal abnormalities in hypothalamic hamartoma tissue at the GLI3 locus. Am J Hum Genet 2008;82:366-374.
Ng Y-t, Rekate HL, Prenger EC, Wang NC, Chung SS, Feiz-Irfan I, Johnsonbaugh R, Varland MR, Kerrigan JF. Endoscopic resection of hypothalamic hamartomas for refractory symptomatic epilepsy. Neurology 2008;70:1543-1548.
Kim DY, Fenoglio KA, Simeone TA, Coons SW, Wu J, Chang Y, Kerrigan JF, Rho JM. GABAA receptor-mediated activation of L-type calcium channels induces neuronal excitation in surgically resected human hypothalamic hamartomas. Epilepsia 2008;49:861-871.
Prigatano GP, Wethe JV, Gray JA, Wang N, Chung S, Ng Y-t, Prenger E, Kerrigan JF. Intellectual functioning in presurgical patients with hypothalamic hamartoma and refractory epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2008;13:149-155.
Beggs J, Nakada S, Fenoglio K, Coons S, Kerrigan JF. Hypothalamic hamartoma associated with epilepsy: ultrastructural features. J Neuropath Exp Neurol 2008, in press.
Wu J, DeChon J, Xue F, Li G, Ellsworth K, Gao M, Liu Q, Yang K, Zheng C, He P, Tu J, Kim DY, Rho J, Rekate H, , Kerrigan JF, Chang Y. GABAA receptor-mediated excitation in dissociated neurons from human hypothalamic hamartomas. Exp Neurol 2008, in press.
Kim DY, Fenoglio KA, Kerrigan JF, Rho JM. Bicarbonate contributes to GABAA receptor-mediated neuronal excitation in surgically-resected human hypothalamic hamartomas. Submitted for publication.
Chan YM, Fenoglio KA, Paraschos S, Muhammad L, Coons SW, Kerrigan JF, Seminara SB. Precocious puberty associated with hypothalamic hamartomas correlates with hamartoma size but not with expression of GnRH, TGFα, or KISS1. Submitted for publication.
Lekovic GP, Kerrigan JF, Wait S, Rekate HL, Steinmetz P. In situ single unit recording of hypothalamic hamartoma under endoscopic direct visualization. Submitted for publication.
Fenoglio KA, Simeone TA, Kim DY, Kerrigan JF, Rho JM. Spontaneous network activity in human epileptic hypothalamic hamartoma tissue assessed using multi-electrode arrays. Submitted for publication.
