Alon Kahana, M.D., Ph.D.
Publications

Bohnsack BL, Kasprick DS, Kish PE, Goldman D, Kahana A. A zebrafish model of Axenfeld-Rieger Syndrome reveals that pitx2 regulation by retinoic acid is essential for ocular and craniofacial development. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011 Nov 28 [Epub ahead of print].

Kasprick DS, Kish PE, Junttila TL, Ward LA, Bohnsack BL, Kahana A. Microanatomy of adult zebrafish extraocular muscles. PLoS One 2011;6:e27095.

• Bohnsack BL, Gallina D, Kahana A. Phenothiourea sensitizes zebrafish cranial neural crest and extraocular muscle development to changes in retinoic acid and IGF signaling. PLoS One 2011;6:e22991.
• Bohnsack BL, Nelson CC, Kahana A. Evisceration. In: Albert DM, Lucarelli MJ, eds. The Clinical Atlas of Procedures in Ophthalmic Surgery, 2nd ed. Atlanta:AMA Press, 2011, chap. 84.
• Kish PE, Bohnsack BL, Gallina DD, Kasprick D, Kahana A. The eye as an organizer of craniofacial development. Genesis 2011;49:222-30. Epub 2011 Apr 1.
• Bohnsack BL, Gallina DD, Thompson H, Kasprick D, Lucarelli MJ, Dootz G, Nelson C, McGonnell IM, Kahana A. Development of extraocular muscles require early signals from periocular neural crest and the developing eye, revealing an important developmental window. Arch Ophthalmol 2011;129:1030-41. Epub 2011 Apr 11. Full text available (pdf)
• Bohnsack BL, Bhatt R, Kahana A. Non-Ophthalmic Symptoms Secondary to Ocular Torticollis From Severe Blepharoptosis: An Underappreciated But Treatable Condition. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2011 May 10. [Epub ahead of print]
• Kahana A, Bohnsack BL, Cho RI, Maher C. Subtotal excision with adjunctive sclerosing therapy for the treatment of severe symptomatic orbital lymphangiomas. Arch Ophthalmol 2011;129:1073-6.
• Kahana A, Dutton J. Evisceration is Useful in Certain Situations. Arch Ophthalmol 2010;128:1496.
• Kahana A, Pribila JT, Nelson CC, Elner VM, Sebaceous Cell Carcinoma. In: Albert DA, Miller JW, eds., Ocular Disease: Mechanisms and Management. 2010.
• Cho RI, Kahana A, Patel B, Sivak-Callcott J, Buerger DE, Durairaj VD, Vidor I, Mawn LA. Intraoperative fluoroscopy-guided removal of orbital foreign bodies. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2009;25:215-8.
• Koreen, IV, Kahana, A, Gausas, RE, Lemke, BN, Potter, HD, Elner, VM. Tarsal dermoid cyst: clinical presentation and treatment. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2009;25:146-7.
• Kahana A, Lucarelli MJ. Corneal protective procedures: tarsorrhaphy and lacrimal occlusion. In: Brightbill FS, McDonnell PJ, McGhee CNJ, Farjo AA, Serdarevic O, eds. Corneal Surgery, 4th ed. New York:Elsevier 2008, sec. 3, pp. 29. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A., Lucarelli, M.J. Adjunctive transcanthotomy lateral suborbicularis fat lift and orbitomalar ligament resuspension in lower eyelid ectropion repair. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2009;25:1-6. Full text available (pdf)
• Lucarelli MJ, Ahn HB, Kulkarni AD, Kahana A. Intratarsal epidermal inclusion cyst. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2008;24:357-9.
• Langenberg T, Kahana A, Wszalek JA, Halloran MC. The eye organizes neural crest cell migration. Dev Dyn 2008;237:1645-52. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Lucarelli MJ, Burkat CN, Dortzbach RK. Diagnosis and management of
  orbital fractures. In: Mallajosyula S, ed., Surgical Atlas of the Orbit. Delhi, India:Jaypee Brothers 2008. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Levin LA. Peripheral nerve tumors of the orbit. In: Albert DA, Miller JW, eds., Albert and Jakobiec's Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology, third edition. Philidelphia:Elsevier Saunders, 2007, sec. 12, pp. 236.
• Kahana A, Lucarelli MJ. Use of radiopaque intraorbital catheter in the treatment of sino-orbito-cranial mucormycosis. Arch Ophthalmol 2007;125:1714-5. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Lucarelli MJ, Grayev AM, Van Buren JJ, Burkat CN, Gentry LR. Noninvasive dynamic magnetic resonance angiography with time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics (TRICKS) in the evaluation of orbital vascular lesions. Arch Ophthalmol 2007;125:1635-42. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Lemke BN, Burkat CN, Lucarelli MJ. Subcutaneous forehead lift: technique and early results. Am J Cosmet Surg 2007;24:193-200. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Marcet MM, Albert DM, Thliveris AT. Drug-induced cicatrizing granulomatous conjunctivitis. Br J Ophthalmol 2007;91:691-2.
• Kahana A. Prevention of steroid-induced intraocular pressure elevation. Arch Ophthalmol2005;123:1019-20.
• Kahana A, Rowley HA, Weinstein JM. Cortical blindness: clinical and radiologic findings in reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome. Ophthalmology 2005;112:e7-e11.
• Ip MS, Gottlieb JL, Kahana A, Scott IU, Altaweel MA, Blodi BA, Gangnon RE, Puliafito CA . Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide for the treatment of macular edema associated with central retinal vein occlusion. Arch Ophthalmol 2004;122:131-6.
• Kahana A, Gottlieb JL. Ophthalmology on the Internet: What do our patients find? Arch Ophthalmol 2004;22:380-2.
• Ip MS, Kahana A, Altaweel MA. Treatment of central retinal vein occlusion with triamcinolone acetonide: an optical coherence tomography study. Semin Ophthalmol 2003;18:67-73.
• Kahana A. The deubiquitinating enzyme Dot4p is involved in regulating nutrient uptake. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001;282:916-20. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Gottschling DE.  Dot4p links silencing and cell growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 1999;19:6608-20. Full text available (pdf)
• Singer MS, Kahana A, Wolf AJ, Meisinger LL, Peterson SE, Goggin C, Mahowald M, Gottschling DE. Identification of high-copy disruptors of telomeric silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  Genetics 1998;150:613-32. Full text available (pdf)
• Huang H, Kahana A, Gottschling DE, Prakash L, Liebman SW. The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Rad6 (Ubc2) is required for silencing in saccharomyces cerevisiae.  Mol Cell Biol 1997;17:6693-9. Full text available (pdf)
• Kahana A, Robinson PR, Lewis LJ, Szuts EZ, Lisman JE. ATP-independent deactivation of squid rhodopsin. Vis Neurosci 1992;9:595-602.

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