Alexander Taghva, M.D.

Year: PGY –4

Undergraduate Education: University of Southern California, BS Biochemistry, 2001

Medical School Education: Johns Hopkins University, MD, 2005

Selected Abstracts/Posters/Publications:

Taghva A, Kim KA, Russin J, Giannotta SL. Use of Cerebral Oxygenation Monitoring as a guide to Triple-H therapy for SAH-induced vasospasm: Preliminary Report.
Accepted as abstract to 2007 Congress of Neurological Surgeons meeting.

Kim KA, McDonald M, Pik JHT, Taghva A, Wang MY. Dynamic intraspinous Spacer Technology (DIAM) for Posterior Dynamic Stabilization: clinical and radiographic mean 29 month follow-up.
Abstract, April 2007 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Meeting.

S. Ohara, A. Taghva, A., Kim, J.H., Lenz,F.A. Spontaneous low threshold spike (LTS) bursting in awake humans is different in different lateral thalamic nuclei. Exp. Brain Res. 2007 Jan 26

Taghva A., Patel S.H., Fernandez A., Weiss N., Lenz F.A. Thalamic Bursting Activity, Chronic Pain. In 'Thalamus and Pain' (V. Apkarian, Sect. Ed.) from 'Encyclopedia of Pain.' Eds. R Schmidt and WD Willis. Springer Verlag:Berlin. 2410-2412, 2007.

Taghva A., Patel S.H., Fernandez A., Weiss N., Lenz F.A. Central pain, human studies of Physiology. In 'Central Pain' from 'Encyclopedia of Pain.' Eds. R Schmidt and WD Willis. Springer Verlag:Berlin. 324-326, 2007.

Taghva A, Garonzik IM, Sciubba BM, Samdani AF, Wolinsky JP, Suk I, Gokaslan ZL: Frameless Stereotaxy in a Transmandibular, Circumglossal, retropharyngeal Cervical Decompression in a Klippel-Feil Patient: Technical Note. European Journal of Spinal Disorders. 2006 August 15(8): 1286-91.

Yu K, Taghva A, Ma Y, Lieber MR (2004). "Kinetic analysis of the nicking and hairpin steps in V(D)J recombination." DNA Repair. 3:67-75.

Taghva A, Ma Y, Lieber MR (2002). "Analysis of the Kinetic and Equilibrium Binding of Ku Protein to DNA." Journal of Theoretical Biology. 214: 85-97.

Yu K, Taghva A, Lieber MR (2002). "The cleavage efficiency of the human immunoglobulin heavy chain VH elements by the RAG complex: implications for the immune repertoire." Journal of Biological Chemistry 277: 5040-5046.

Lin IG, Han L, Taghva A, O'Brien LE, Hsieh CL (2002) "Murine de novo methyltransferase Dnmt3a demonstrates strand asymmetry and site preference in the methylation of DNA in vitro." Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22: 704-23.

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