PuSH Lab

Puberty, Stress, and Hormones

Publications


A healthy work environment and psychological distress among Canadian Armed Forces men and women


Alla Skomorovsky, Kevin B Smith, Justin Chamberland

Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, vol. 11, University of Toronto Press, 2025, pp. 84--94


Modulating effects of environmental enrichment on stress-induced changes in the gut microbiome


Kevin B Smith, Michael Murack, James Butcher, Abby Hinterberger, Alain Stintzi, Jacky Liang, Despina A Tata, Nafissa Ismail

Brain, Behavior, \& Immunity-Health, Elsevier, 2025, p. 101023


Environmental enrichment cage for laboratory mice: a downloadable alternative


Kevin B Smith, Michael Murack, Sara Al Sharani, Nafissa Ismail

Current Protocols, vol. 4, 2024, pp. e913


Enduring sex-dependent effects of lipopolysaccharide treatment on the hypothalamic--pituitary--gonadal axis in mice


Kevin B Smith, Jasmine Zhong, Sarah K Gostlin, Jacky Liang, Nafissa Ismail

General and Comparative Endocrinology, vol. 340, Academic Press, 2023, p. 114324


Environmental enrichment alters LPS-induced changes in BDNF and PSD-95 expressions during puberty


Michael Murack, Kevin B Smith, Olivia H Traynor, Atiqa F Pirwani, Sarah K Gostlin, Taha Mohamed, Despoina A Tata, Claude Messier, Nafissa Ismail

Brain Research, vol. 1806, Elsevier, 2023, p. 148283


The sex-dependent and enduring impact of pubertal stress on health and disease


Kevin B Smith, Michael Murack, Nafissa Ismail

Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 200, Elsevier, 2023, p. 110701


The effects of antimicrobials and lipopolysaccharide on acute immune responsivity in pubertal male and female CD1 mice


Pasquale Esposito, Madeleine M Kearns, Kevin B Smith, Rajini Chandrasegaram, Anthony K Kadamani, Michelle Gandelman, Jacky Liang, Naghmeh Nikpoor, Thomas A Tompkins, Nafissa Ismail

Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 11, Elsevier, 2022, p. 100147


Chronic sleep disruption induces depression-like behavior in adolescent male and female mice and sensitization of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in adolescent female mice


Michael Murack, Rajini Chandrasegaram, Kevin B Smith, Emily G Ah-Yen, {\'E}tienne Rheaume, {\'E}tienne Malette-Guyon, Zahra Nanji, Seana N Semchishen, Olivia Latus, Claude Messier, others

Behavioural brain research, vol. 399, Elsevier, 2021, p. 113001


Neurotoxicity and Underlying Mechanisms of Endogenous Neurotoxins


Yanlu Cao, Bo Li, Nafissa Ismail, Kevin Smith, Tianmei Li, Rongji Dai, Yulin Deng

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 22, 2021


Pubertal immune challenge suppresses the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in male and female mice


Kevin B Smith, Emma Murray, Rajini Chandrasegaram, Jacky Liang, Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois Mallet, Chantal Matar, Jeffrey D Blaustein, Nafissa Ismail

Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 170, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 90--97


Adolescent social instability stress leads to immediate and lasting sex-specific changes in the neuroendocrine-immune-gut axis in rats


Cheryl M McCormick, Kevin Smith, Jennet L Baumbach, Ana Paula Nasciento de Lima, Madeleine Shaver, Travis E Hodges, Marina L Marcolin, Nafissa Ismail

Hormones and behavior, vol. 126, Academic Press, 2020, p. 104845


Effect of heavy Ion 12C6+ radiation on lipid constitution in the rat brain


Bo Li, Chu Han, Yuanyuan Liu, Nafissa Ismail, Kevin Smith, Peng Zhang, Zixuan Chen, Rongji Dai, Yulin Deng

Molecules, vol. 25, MDPI, 2020, p. 3762


Pubertal probiotic blocks LPS-induced anxiety and the associated neurochemical and microbial outcomes, in a sex dependent manner


Emma Murray, Kevin B Smith, Karlene S Stoby, Bronwen J Thomas, Michael J Swenson, Lauren A Arber, Emilie Frenette, Nafissa Ismail

Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 112, Elsevier, 2020, p. 104481


Environmental enrichment protocol for laboratory mice.


Kevin Smith, Rajini Chandrasegaram, Alanah Yazbeck, Nafissa Ismail

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, vol. 44, CMA-CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOC, 2019, pp. S9--S9


Path analysis in Mplus: A tutorial using a conceptual model of psychological and behavioral antecedents of bulimic symptoms in young adults


Kheana Barbeau, Kayla Boileau, Fatima Sarr, Kevin Smith

The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, vol. 15, 2019, pp. 38--53


Probiotic consumption during puberty mitigates LPS-induced immune responses and protects against stress-induced depression-and anxiety-like behaviors in adulthood in a sex-specific manner


Emma Murray, Rupali Sharma, Kevin B Smith, Kendall D Mar, Rudra Barve, Matthew Lukasik, Atiqa F Pirwani, Etienne Malette-Guyon, Sanjeevani Lamba, Bronwen J Thomas, others

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, vol. 81, Academic Press, 2019, pp. 198--212