G I Tennekoon
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Bonhomme G, Waldman A, Balcer L, Daniels A, Tennekoon G, Forman S, et al.
Neurology
. 2009 Mar;
72(10):881-5.
PMID: 19273821
Background: Optic neuritis is often the initial presentation of multiple sclerosis (MS). As established by the Optic Neuritis Treatment Trial, an abnormal baseline brain MRI is a strong predictor of...
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Pierson T, Zimmerman R, Tennekoon G, Bonnemann C
Neuropediatrics
. 2008 Aug;
39(2):123-7.
PMID: 18671190
A mega-corpus callosum (CC) is not a common manifestation of neurological disease. Previous reports of patients with a constellation of findings including megalencephaly, perisylvian polymicrogyria, distinct facies, psychomotor retardation and...
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Li Y, Tennekoon G, Birnbaum M, Marchionni M, Rutkowski J
Mol Cell Neurosci
. 2001 Apr;
17(4):761-7.
PMID: 11312610
beta-Neuregulin (betaNRG) is a potent Schwann cell survival factor that binds to and activates a heterodimeric ErbB2/ErbB3 receptor complex. We found that NRG receptor signaling rapidly activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)...
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Lakkis M, Tennekoon G
J Neurosci Res
. 2000 Dec;
62(6):755-63.
PMID: 11107159
No abstract available.
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Thatikunta P, Qin W, Christy B, Tennekoon G, Rutkowski J
Mol Cell Neurosci
. 2000 Feb;
14(6):519-28.
PMID: 10656257
Id proteins are thought to act as dominant negative antagonists of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors that direct differentiation in various cell types. We found that Schwann cells express all...
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Strober J, Tennekoon G
J Child Neurol
. 1999 Dec;
14(11):691-5.
PMID: 10593543
Spinal muscular atrophy is the most common autosomal-recessive genetic disorder lethal to infants. It was first described in the 1890s. Since then our understanding of the disorder has progressed significantly....
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Rutkowski J, Tuite G, Lincoln P, Boyer P, Tennekoon G, Kunkel S
J Neuroimmunol
. 1999 Dec;
101(1):47-60.
PMID: 10580813
Wallerian degeneration is a post-traumatic process of the peripheral nervous system whereby damaged axons and their surrounding myelin sheaths are phagocytosed by infiltrating leukocytes. Our studies indicate that Schwann cells...
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Kwiatkowski J, Rutkowski J, Yamashiro D, Tennekoon G, Brodeur G
Cancer Res
. 1998 Oct;
58(20):4602-6.
PMID: 9788610
Neuroblastomas are histopathologically heterogeneous, ranging from immature malignant tumors to benign ganglioneuromas. The amount of Schwann cell stroma greatly increases with neuroblastoma differentiation, and these Schwann cells appear to be...
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Tang Y, Marwaha S, Rutkowski J, Tennekoon G, Phillips P, Field J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 1998 Jun;
95(9):5139-44.
PMID: 9560242
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a common autosomal dominant disorder caused by loss of the NF1 gene, is characterized clinically by neurofibromas and more rarely by neurofibrosarcomas. Neurofibromin, the protein encoded...