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• Qiuhan Huang, David Shire, Fiona Hollis, Sameera Abuaish, Martin Picard, Catherine Monk, Elif Aysimi Duman, Caroline Trumpff, Mitochondrial health, prenatal distress, and gestational age: investigation of cf-mtDNA and GDF15 in two pregnancy studies from the USA and Turkey, Mitochondrion, 84, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2025.102057
• Alabdali AN, Ben Bacha A, Alonazi M, Abuaish S, Almotairi A, Al-Ayadhi L and El-Ansary AK (2025) Impact of GABA and nutritional supplements on neurochemical biomarkers in autism: a PPA rodent model study. Front. Mol. Neurosci. 18:1553438. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2025.1553438
• Takács, L., Putnam, S. P., Monk, C., Kaňková, Š., Ullmann, J., Abuaish, S., & Kreisinger, J. (2025). The course of women’s emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2466622
• Sameera Abuaish, Vanessa Babineau, Seonjoo Lee, Benjamin Tycko, Frances A. Champagne, Elizabeth Werner, Catherine Monk, Maternal high BMI: Sex-dimorphic alterations in maternal and offspring stress indices, Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107196
• Lea Takács, Sameera Abuaish, Šárka Kaňková, Martin Hill, Jana Ullmann, Josef Včelák, Catherine Monk. Maternal negative affect in pregnancy predicts cytokine levels which in turn predict birth outcomes – A prospective longitudinal study in a low-risk population, Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.08.141.
• Barcelona, V.; Abuaish, S.; Lee, S.; Harkins, S.; Butler, A.; Tycko, B.; Baccarelli, A.A.; Walsh, K.; Monk, C.E. Stress and DNA Methylation of Blood Leukocytes among Pregnant Latina Women. Epigenomes 2023, 7, 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/epigenomes7040027
• Abuaish S, Eltayeb H, Bepari A, Hussain SA, Alqahtani RS, Alshahrani WS, Alqahtani AH, Almegbil NS, Alzahrani WN. The Association of Asthma with Anxiety, Depression, and Mild Cognitive Impairment among Middle-Aged and Elderly Individuals in Saudi Arabia. Behavioral Sciences. 2023; 13(10):842. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13100842
• Dahlawi HH, Al obaidellah MM, Rashid NA, Alotaibi AA, Al-Mussaed EM, Cheung MMM, Abuaish S, Cordero MAW. Defining Physician–Nurse Efforts toward Collaboration as Perceived by Medical Students. Healthcare. 2023; 11(13):1919. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131919
• McCormack, C., Abuaish, S. & Monk, C. Is There an Inflammatory Profile of Perinatal Depression?. Curr Psychiatry Rep (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-023-01414-y
• Abuaish, S., Al-Otaibi, N.M., Aabed, K. et al. The Efficacy of Fecal Transplantation and Bifidobacterium Supplementation in Ameliorating Propionic Acid-Induced Behavioral and Biochemical Autistic Features in Juvenile Male Rats. J Mol Neurosci 72, 372–381 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12031-021-01959-8
• Abujamel, T.S.; Al-Otaibi, N.M.; Abuaish, S.; AlHarbi, R.H.; Assas, M.B.; Alzahrani, S.A.; Alotaibi, S.M.; El-Ansary, A.; Aabed, K. Different Alterations in Gut Microbiota between Bifidobacterium longum and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Treatments in Propionic Acid Rat Model of Autism. Nutrients 2022, 14, 608. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14030608
• Abuaish S, Lavergne SG, Hing B, St-Cyr S, Spinieli RL, Boonstra R, McGowan PO. Sex-specific maternal programming of corticosteroid-binding globulin by predator odour. Proc Biol Sci. 2021 Dec 8;288(1964):20211908. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1908.
• Al Dera, Hussain, Alrafaei, Bahauddeen, AL Tamimi, Muneerah I., Alfawaz, Hanan A., Bhat, Ramesa Shafi, Soliman, Dina A., Abuaish, Sameera and El-Ansary, Afaf. “Leaky gut biomarkers in casein- and gluten-rich diet fed rat model of autism” Translational Neuroscience, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, pp. 601-610. https://doi.org/10.1515/tnsci-2020-0207
• Abuaish S, Al-Otaibi NM, Abujamel TS, Alzahrani SA, Alotaibi SM, AlShawakir YA, Aabed K, El-Ansary A. Fecal Transplant and Bifidobacterium Treatments Modulate Gut Clostridium Bacteria and Rescue Social Impairment and Hippocampal BDNF Expression in a Rodent Model of Autism. Brain Sciences. 2021; 11(8):1038. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11081038
• Abuaish, S., Al-Otaibi, N.M., Aabed, K. et al. The role of sex-differentiated variations in stress hormones, antioxidants, and neuroimmune responses in relation to social interaction impairment in a rodent model of autism. Metab Brain Dis (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11011-021-00732-5
• Abuaish, S., Tse EK, McGowan PO., 2019. Perinatal high-fat diet impairs pup retrieval and induces sex-specific changes in ultrasonic vocalization characteristics of rat pups. Dev Psychobiol. doi: 10.1002/dev.21923.
• Abuaish, S., Spinieli, R.L., McGowan, P.O., 2018. Perinatal high fat diet induces early activation of endocrine stress responsivity and anxiety-like behavior in neonates. Psychoneuroendocrinology 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.08.003
• St-Cyr, S., Abuaish, S., Spinieli, R.L., McGowan, P.O., 2018a. Maternal Predator Odor Exposure in Mice Programs Adult Offspring Social Behavior and Increases Stress-Induced Behaviors in Semi-Naturalistic and Commonly-Used Laboratory Tasks. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 12, 1–14. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00136
• St-Cyr, S., Abuaish, S., Welch, K.C., McGowan, P.O., 2018. Maternal predator odour exposure programs metabolic responses in adult offspring. Sci. Rep. 8, 1–13. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-26462-w
• Abuaish, S., McGowan, P.O., 2017. Impacts of Maternal High-Fat Diet on Stress-Related Behaviour and the Endocrine Response to Stress in Offspring, in: Rajendram, R., Preedy, V.R., Patel, V.B. (Eds.), Diet, Nutrition, and Fetal Programming. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 213–225. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60289-9_17                      
• St-Cyr, S., Abuaish, S., Sivanathan, S., & McGowan, PO., 2017. Maternal programming of sex-specific responses to predator odor stress in adult rats. Hormones and behavior. 94. 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.06.005. 
• Marcogliese, Paul & Abuaish, Sameera & Kabbach, Ghassan & Abdel-Messih, Elizabeth & Seang, Sarah & Li, Gang & S. Slack, Ruth & Haque, M Emdadul & Venderova, Katerina & S. Park, David. (2017). LRRK2(I2020T) Functional Genetic Interactors that Modify Eye Degeneration and Dopaminergic Cell Loss in Drosophila. Human Molecular Genetics. 26. 10.1093/hmg/ddx030.