PUBLICATIONS:
Hicks DG, Pitts MJ, Bagley RS, et al. In vitro biomechanical evaluation of a novel internal fixation implant and a traditional pin with polymethylmethacrylate internal fixation implant used to stabilize the C4 – 5 vertebral motion unit in canine cervical spines. (In press, Amer J Vet Res).
Israel SK, Levine JM, Kerwin SC, Levine GJ, Fosgate GT. The accuracy of computed tomography and myelography for identification of thoracolumbar disk herniation in dogs. (In Press, Vet Rad Ultrasound, Sept 2008)
Eagleston JS, Diaz J, Kent M, Levine JM, Platt SR, Sharp NJH, Schatzberg SJ. Cervical vertebral malformation-malarticulation in the bernese mountain dog: clinical and magnetic resonance imaging features. (In press, J Small Anim Pract, June 2008)
Stoica G, Levine JM, Lungu G, Waghelns S. Identification of cancer stem cells in dog glioblastoma. (In Press, Vet Pathol, Aug 2008).
Griffin JF, Young BD, Levine JM. Imaging Diagnosis: chronic distemper meningoencephalitis in a dog. (In Press, Vet Radiol Ultrasound, Sept 2008)
Griffin JF, Levine JM, Kerwin SC. Thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease part II: pathophysiology (In Press, Comp Cont Educ Pract Vet, Sept 2006)
Griffin JF, Levine JM, Kerwin SC, Cole RC. Canine Thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease part II: diagnosis, prognosis and treatment (In Press, Comp Cont Educ Pract Vet, Sept 2006)
Alonsio F, Levine JM, Edwards J. Astrocytoma in the spinal cord of a cat J Vet Diagn Invest 2008; 20: 836-838
Levine JM, Ngheim, PP, Levine GJ, Cohen ND. Gender, breed, and age distribution in horses with the diagnosis of cervical vertebral compressive myelopathy. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2008; 233:1453-1458
Budke CM, Levine JM, Kerwin SC, Levine GJ, Hettlich BF, Slater MR. Evaluation of a questionnaire for obtaining owner-perceived, weighted quality-of-life assessments for dogs with spinal cord injury. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2008; 233:925-930.
Levine JM, Budke CM, Levine GJ, Kerwin SC, Hettlich BF, Slater MR. Owner-perceived, weighted quality-of-life assessments in dogs with spinal cord injury. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2008; 233: 931-935.
Bergman RL, Levine JM, Coates JR, Bahr A, Hettlich BF, Kerwin SC. Use of cervical spinal locking plates in combination with ring allografts for a one level fusion in dogs with cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Vet Surg 2008; 37: 530-536.
Griffin JF, Levine JM, Levine GJ, Fosgate GT. Meningomyelitis in dogs: a retrospective review of 28 cases (1999-2007). Epub ahead of press Jul04, J Small Anim Pract 2008
Hicks DG, Bagley RS. Imaging Diagnosis: Spinal injury following aberrant microchip implantation. Vet Radiol & Ultrasound. 2008;49:152-153.
Levine JM, Fosgate GT, Porter B, Schatzberg SJ, Greer K. Epidemiology of Pugs with necrotizing meningoencephalitis. J Vet Intern Med 2008; 22: 961-968.
Dewey CW, Cerda-Gonzales S, Levine JM, Badgley BL, Ducote JM, Silver GM, Cooper JJ. Pregabalin for refractory idiopathic epilepsy in dogs. J Vet Intern Med 2008; 22: 765. (Abstract)
Dewey CW, Harb-Hauser MF, Cerda-Gonzales S, Levine JM, Badgley BL, Olby NJ, Kent M, Birnbaum N, Shelton GD. Mycophenolate mofetil therapy for acquired myasthenia gravis in dogs: a comparative retrospective study (1999-2007). J Vet Intern Med 2008; 22: 721. (Absract)
Baltzer WI, McMichael MA, Hosgood G, Kerwin SC, Levine JM, Steiner JM, Ruaux CG. Randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial of N-acetylcysteine in dogs with spinal cord trauma from acute intervertebral disc disease. Spine 2008; 33: 1397-1402.
Levine JM, Levine GJ, Hoffman AG, Bratton GR. Comparative neuroanatomy of the ox and horse: brain and associated vessels Equine Comp Cont Educ Pract Vet 2008; 3: 153-164.
Levine JM, Levine GJ, Boozer L, Schatzberg SJ, Platt SR, Kent M, Kerwin SC, Fosgate GT. Adverse effects and outcome associated with dexamethasone administration in dogs with acute thoracolumbar disk herniation: 161 cases (2000-2006). J Am Vet Med Assoc 2008; 232: 411-418.
Levine JM, Levine GJ, Hoffman AG, Mez J, Bratton GR. Comparative neuroanatomy of the ox and horse: the vertebral column and peripheral nerves. Equine Comp Cont Educ Pract Vet 2007; 2: 279-292.
Levine JM, Adam E, MacKay RJ, Walker MA, Frederick JD, Cohen ND. Confirmed and Presumptive Cervical Vertebral Compressive Myelopathy in Older Horses: a Retrospective Study (1992-2004) J Vet Intern Med 2007; 21:812-819
Levine JM, Levine GJ, Johnson, SI, Kerwin SC, Hettlich BF, Fosgate GT. Evaluation of medical management for presumptive thoracolumbar disk herniation. Vet Surg 2007; 36: 482-491
Levine JM, Levine GJ, Johnson SI, Kerwin SC, Hettlich BF, Fosgate GT. Evaluation of medical management for presumptive cervical disk herniation. Vet Surg 2007; 36: 492-499
Baltzer WI, Calise DV, Levine JM, Shelton GD, Edwards JF, Steiner JM. Dystrophin-deficient muscular dystrophy in a weimaraner. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 2007; 43:227-232
Griffin JF, Levine JM, Kerwin SC. Thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease. Compendium Standards of Care: Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 2007; 9.4:1-8.
Levine GJ, Bissett WT, Cole RC, Janke J, Nunes JE, Porter B, Levine JM. Imaging Diagnosis – bacterial diskospondylitis in a goat. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 2006;47:585-588.
Vinayak, A. Kerwin, SC Pool, RR. Treatment of thoracolumbar spinal cord compression associated with Histoplasma capsulatum infection in a cat. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2007. 230: 7, 1018-1023.
Hicks DG, Bagley RS, Gavin PR, Holmes SP, Tibary A. Imaging diagnosis: Corpus cavernosum, ischiocavernosus, and bulbospongiosus muscle injury in a dog. Vet Radiol & Ultrasound. 2007;48:239-242
Levine JM, Levine GJ, Hettlich BF, Kerwin SC, Fosgate GT. Association between various physical factors and acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disk extrusion or protrusion in Dachshunds. J Am Vet Med Assoc, 2006; 229: 370-375.
Levine GJ, Levine JM, Walker MA, Pool RR, Fosgate GT. Evaluation of the association between spondylosis deformans and clinical signs of intervertebral disk disease in dogs: 172 cases (1999-2000). J Am Vet Med Assoc, 2006; 228: 96-100.
Levine JM, Ruaux CG, Bergman RL, Coates JR, Steiner JM, Williams DA. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity in the cerebrospinal fluid and serum of dogs with acute spinal cord trauma from intervertebral disk disease. Am J Vet Res, 2006; 67: 283-287.
Hicks DG, Fidel J. Intranasal malignant melanoma in a dog. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 2006; 42:472-476.
McMichael M, Ruaux C, Baltzer W, Kerwin S, Hosgood G, Steiner JM, Williams DA, Concentrations of 15F2t isoprostane in urine of dogs with intervertebral disk disease. Am J Vet Res 2006;67:1226-1231
Ricker Z, Vinayak A, Kerwin S. What’s Your Diagnosis? Multiple cartilaginous exostoses in a dog. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2006;299:1083-4
Burkert B, Kerwin SC, Hosgood G, Pechman R, Fontanelle J. Signalment and clinical features of diskospondylitis in dogs: 513 cases (1980-2001). J Am Vet Med Assoc 2005 227:2, 268-275
Levine JM, Bergman RL, Coates JR, Shelton GD. Acquired myasthenia gravis in a dog with hypothyroidism and meningitis. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc, 2005; 41: 247-251.
Packer RA, Bergman, RL, Coates JR, Essman SC, Weis K, Levine JM, OBrien DP, Johnson GC. Intracranial subarachnoid hemorrhage following lumbar myelography. J Vet Intern Med, 2005; 19: 222 (Abstract).
