ORIGINAL ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  1. Auricchio A, Gao GP, Zoltick P, Shifrin A, Raper SE, Rivera V, Wilson JM. “Regulated insulin gene delivery for treatment of type I diabetes”. Molecular Therapy 1(5):S293; 2000
  2. A. Shifrin, A. Auricchio, Q-C. Yu, J. Wilson, S. Raper. "Adenoviral Vector-Mediated Insulin Gene Transfer in the Mouse Pancreas Corrects Streptozotocin Induced Hyperglycemia" Gene Therapy, 2001, Oct 8 (19): 1480-9.
  3. A. Shifrin, N. Chirmule, GP Gao, JM Wilson, S. Raper. "Innate Immune Response to Adenoviral Vector-Mediated Acute Pancreatitis". Pancreas. 2005 Mar;30(2):122-9.
  4. A. Shifrin, N. Chirmule, Ph.D. Y. Zhang, S. Raper. “Macrophage ablation attenuates adenoviral vector-induced pancreatitis”. Surgery. 2005 May;137(5):545-51
  5. Mittendorf EA, Shifrin AL, Inabnet WB, Libutti SK, McHenry CR, Demeure MJ. “Islet Cell Tumors”. Journal chapter by Shifrin AL and Inabnet WB “Surgical Approaches to Islet Cell Tumors of the Pancreas”, Current Problems in Surgery. 2006 Oct;43(10):685-765. Review.
  6. Alexander Shifrin; William Inabnet; Joseph Grossman. "Laparoscopic Left Adrenalectomy for Large 14 cm Pheochromocytoma". Cine-Med publication 2006, www.Cine-Med.com, ACS-2526. This video will demonstrate the technique of laparoscopic left adrenalectomy for a large left pheochromocytoma and will provide technical pearls for dealing with large adrenal tumors.
  7. Menon C, Bauer TW, Kelley ST, Raz DJ, Bleier JI, Patel K, Steele K, Prabakaran I, Shifrin A, Buerk DG, Sehgal CM, Fraker DL. “Tumoricidal activity of high-dose tumor necrosis factor-alpha is mediated by macrophage-derived nitric oxide burst and permanent blood flow shutdown” Int J Cancer. 2008 Jul 15;123(2):464-75.
  8. Strong VE, Shifrin AL, Inabnet WB. “Rapid Intraoperative Insulin Assay: Novel Method to Differentiate Insulinoma from Nesidioblastosis in the Pediatric Patient”. Annals of Surgical Innovation and Researc.h 2007 Oct 24;1(1):6
  9. Inabnet WB, Shifrin AL, Ahmed L, Sinha P. “Safety of same day discharge in patients undergoing sutureless thyroidectomy: a comparison of local and general anesthesia” Thyroid. 2008 Jan; 18(1): 57-61.
  10. A. Shifrin and J. Vernick, “A thyroglossal duct cyst presenting as a thyroid nodule in the lateral neck”. Thyroid. 2008 Feb; 18(2) 263-5.
  11. A. Harari, J. Allendorf, A. Shifrin, M. DiGorgi, and W. Inabnet, “Negative preoperative localization leads to greater resource utilization in the era of minimally invasive parathyroidectomy”. American Journal of Surgery. 2009 Jun;197(6): 769-73.
  12. Shifrin, AL., Xenachis, C., Fay, A., Matulewicz, T., Y.-H. Kuo, Vernick, JJ, “One hundred and seven family members with the rearranged during transfection V804M proto-oncogene mutation presenting with simultaneous medullary and papillary thyroid carcinomas, rare primary hyperparathyroidism, and no pheochromocytomas: Is this a new syndrome-MEN 2C?” Surgery. 2009, Dec 146(6):998-1005
  13. Shifrin, AL., Xenachis, C., Fay, A., Matulewicz, T., Y.-H. Kuo, Vernick, JJ. The First Letter to the Editos: “One hundred and seven family members with the rearranged during transfection V804M proto-oncogene mutation presenting with simultaneous medullary and papillary thyroid carcinomas, rare primary hyperparathyroidism, and no pheochromocytomas: Is this a new syndrome-MEN 2C?” Surgery., 2010 Jun; 147(6):896-898.
  14. Shifrin, AL., Xenachis, C., Fay, A., Vernick, JJ.. The Second Letter to the Editor: “One hundred and seven family members with the rearranged during transfection V804M proto-oncogene mutation presenting with simultaneous medullary and papillary thyroid carcinomas, rare primary hyperparathyroidism, and no pheochromocytomas: Is this a new syndrome-MEN 2C?” Surgery. 2010 Sep;148(3):611-2.
  15. Shifrin, AL, Ogilvie J, Stang, M, Xenachis, C., Fay, A., Matulewicz, T., Y.-H. Kuo, Vernick, JJ. “Single nucleotide polymorphisms act as modifiers and correlate with the development of medullary and simultaneous medullary/papillary thyroid carcinomas in two large, non-related families with the RET V804M proto-oncogene mutation”. Surgery. 2010 Dec;148(6):1274-81.
  16. Shifrin AL, Zheng, M, Vernick, J “Ectopic Adrenocortical Adenoma.” World Journal of Endocrine Surgery. January-April 2011;3(1) 45-6.
  17. A. Shifrin, A. Fay, J. Ogilvie, Y-H Kuo.Title: Letter to the Editor. Response to "Single nucleotide polymorphisms and development of hereditary medullary thyroid cancer in V804M RET families: Disease modification or linkage disequilibrium?" Surgery. 2012 Jun;151(6):902-3.
  18. Neuroendocrine Thymic Carcinoma Metastatic to the Parathyroid Gland that was Reimplanted into the Forearm in Patient with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 Syndrome: A Challenging Management Dilemma. Shifrin A, Livolsi V, Zheng M, Lann D, Fomin S, Naylor E, Mencel P, Fay A, Erler B, Matulewicz T. Endocr Pract. 2013 Sep 6:1-14.
  19. Shifrin A, Zheng M, Jurewicz S, Vernick J. Patient with Tracheal Duplication Cyst Clinically Misdiagnosed as a Thyroid Nodule. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Jan;100(1):19-20.
  20. Shifrin A, LiVolsi V, Shifrin-Douglas S, Zheng M, Erler B, Matulewicz T, Davis J. Primary and Metastatic Parathyroid Malignancies: A Rare or Underdiagnosed Condition? J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Mar; 100(3):E478-81
  21. Emmanuel Labourier, Alexander Shifrin, Anne E. Busseniers, Mark A. Lupo, Monique L. Manganelli, Bernard Andruss, Dennis Wylie, and Sylvie Beaudenon-Huibregtse. "Molecular testing for miRNA, mRNA and DNA on fine needle aspiration improves the preoperative diagnosis of thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology". J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Jul;100(7):2743-50.
  22. Alexander L. Shifrin, Michele Fischer, Trevor Paul, Brian Erler, Katherine Gheysens, Prachi Baodhankar, Joanna W. Song-Yang, Samantha Taylor, Venkata Arun Timmaraju, Arthur Topilow, Alidad Mireskandari, Gyanendra Kumar. Mutational analysis of metastatic lymph nodes from papillary thyroid carcinoma in adult and pediatric patients. Surgery 2017;161:176-87.

  23. Leema Reddy Peddareddygari, Pooja Shah, Ankit Pahwa, Angela Musial Fay, Alexander Shifrin and Raji Grewal "Positive Germline Selection in an Extended Pedigree with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 carrying V804M mutation in the RET gene" submitted to Genetics Research International
  24. Sistrunk JW, Shifrin A, Frager M, Bardales RH, Thomas J, Fishman N, Goldberg P, Guttler R, Grant E. Clinical impact of testing for mutations and microRNAs in thyroid nodules.Diagn Cytopathol. 2019 Apr 23. doi: 10.1002/dc.24190. [Epub ahead of print]


Reference of my work in national and international guidelines and literature