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Overview

Avital Cnaan is affiliated with the Children's National Health System in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas of medicine, with a particular focus on muscle physiology and disorders as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Their scholarly output includes contributions across medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. They have published in subfields such as molecular biology, surgery, physiology, developmental and educational psychology, and genetics.

Main topics in their work include:

  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Avital Cnaan are:

  • The <scp>CINRG</scp> Becker Natural History Study: Baseline characteristics, 2020, Muscle & Nerve
  • Rasch Analysis of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Generic Core Scales Administered to Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, 2021, Value in Health
  • Model-Informed Precision Dosing Guidance of Ethosuximide Developed from a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Childhood Absence Epilepsy, 2023, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Avital Cnaan include:

  • Erik Henricson
  • Paula R. Clemens
  • Lauren P. Morgenroth
  • Ksenija Gorni
  • Anne M. Connolly

Publication venues where Avital Cnaan's work has appeared more than once include:

  • Muscle & Nerve
  • Value in Health
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Best Publications

  • ILAE treatment guidelines: evidence-based analysis of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes.

    Tracy Glauser;Elinor Ben-Menachem;Blaise Bourgeois;Avital Cnaan

  • Updated ILAE evidence review of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes

    Tracy Glauser;Elinor Ben-Menachem;Blaise Bourgeois;Avital Cnaan

  • Ethosuximide, Valproic Acid, and Lamotrigine in Childhood Absence Epilepsy

    Tracy A. Glauser;Tracy A. Glauser;Avital Cnaan;Shlomo Shinnar;Deborah G. Hirtz

  • Recurrent urinary tract infections in children: risk factors and association with prophylactic antimicrobials.

    Patrick H. Conway;Avital Cnaan;Theoklis Zaoutis;Brandon V. Henry

  • Survival and complications in thalassemia.

    Caterina Borgna-Pignatti;M. D. Cappellini;P. De Stefano;G. C. Del Vecchio

  • Inhaled nitric oxide in preterm infants undergoing mechanical ventilation.

    Roberta A. Ballard;William E. Truog;Avital Cnaan;Richard John Martin

  • Cardiac morbidity and mortality in deferoxamine- or deferiprone-treated patients with thalassemia major.

    Caterina Borgna-Pignatti;Maria Domenica Cappellini;Piero De Stefano;Giovanni Carlo Del Vecchio

  • Long-term effects of glucocorticoids on function, quality of life, and survival in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a prospective cohort study

    Craig M McDonald;Erik K Henricson;Richard T Abresch;Tina Duong

  • Treatment of posttraumatic stress symptoms in adolescent survivors of childhood cancer and their families: a randomized clinical trial.

    Anne E Kazak;Melissa A Alderfer;Randi Streisand;Steven Simms

  • Multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids and outcome of premature neonates

    Beverly A. Banks;Avital Cnaan;Mark A. Morgan;Julian T. Parer

  • Enalapril to Prevent Cardiac Function Decline in Long-Term Survivors of Pediatric Cancer Exposed to Anthracyclines

    Jeffrey H. Silber;Avital Cnaan;Bernard J. Clark;Stephen M. Paridon

  • Ethosuximide, Valproic Acid and Lamotrigine in Childhood Absence Epilepsy: Initial Monotherapy Outcomes at 12 months

    Tracy A. Glauser;Avital Cnaan;Shlomo Shinnar;Deborah G. Hirtz

  • Sertraline treatment for alcohol dependence: interactive effects of medication and alcoholic subtype.

    Helen M. Pettinati;Joseph R. Volpicelli;Henry R. Kranzler;Gary Luck

  • Non-enteropathic hemolytic uremic syndrome: causes and short-term course.

    Alex R. Constantinescu;Martin Bitzan;Lynne S. Weiss;Erica Christen

  • Differential Expression of Pleiotrophin and Midkine in Advanced Neuroblastomas

    Akira Nakagawara;Jeffrey Milbrandt;Takashi Muramatsu;Thomas F. Deuel

  • Fasting versus gradual initiation of the ketogenic diet: a prospective, randomized clinical trial of efficacy.

    A. G. Christina Bergqvist;Joan I. Schall;Paul R. Gallagher;Avital Cnaan

  • Prognostic signs in the surgical management of plexiform neurofibroma: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia experience, 1974-1994

    Michael N. Needle;Avital Cnaan;James Dattilo;Jane Chatten

  • TrkC expression predicts good clinical outcome in primitive neuroectodermal brain tumors

    M.A. Grotzer;A.J. Janss;K.-M. Fung;J.A. Biegel

  • Proliferation markers in breast carcinoma. Mitotic figure count, S-phase fraction, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, Ki-67 and MIB-1.

    Albert A. Keshgegian;Avital Cnaan

  • Urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalcin in D+HUS: a novel marker of renal injury.

    Howard Trachtman;Erica Christen;Avital Cnaan;Jilma Patrick

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig M. McDonald
Craig M. McDonald University of California, Davis
Philip L. Ballard
Philip L. Ballard University of California, San Francisco
Eric P. Hoffman
Eric P. Hoffman Binghamton University
Garrett M. Brodeur
Garrett M. Brodeur Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Tracy A. Glauser
Tracy A. Glauser Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Roger J. Packer
Roger J. Packer Children’s National Health System
Joel S. Schuman
Joel S. Schuman Wills Eye Hospital
Leslie N. Sutton
Leslie N. Sutton University of Pennsylvania
Hiroshi Ishikawa
Hiroshi Ishikawa Oregon Health & Science University
Dennis J. Dlugos
Dennis J. Dlugos Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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