Complete list of publications on Google Scholar.
Selected Publications – Neurosteroids
Seib DR, Jung MM & Soma KK (2025) Maternal sucrose consumption alters steroid levels in the mother, placenta and fetus. Journal of Endocrinology 265: e240238 (17 pp).
Niepoth N, Merritt JR, Uminski M, Lei E, Esquibies VS, Bando IB, Hernandez K, Gebhardt C, Wacker SA, Lutzu S, Poudel A, Soma KK, Rudolph S & Bendesky A (2024) Evolution of a novel adrenal cell type that promotes parental care. Nature 629: 1082-1090.
Jalabert C, Gray SL & Soma KK (2024) An aggressive interaction rapidly increases brain androgens in a male songbird during the non-breeding season. Journal of Neuroscience 44: e1095232024 (14 pp).
Seib DR, Tobiansky DJ, Meitzen J, Floresco SB & Soma KK (2023) Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 153: 105356 (9 pp).
Tomm RJ, Seib DR, Kachkovski GV, Schweitzer HR, Tobiansky DJ, Floresco SB & Soma KK (2022) Androgen synthesis inhibition increases behavioural flexibility and mPFC tyrosine hydroxylase in gonadectomized male rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 34: e13128 (16 pp).
Jalabert C, Shock MA, Ma C, Bootsma TJ, Liu MQ & Soma KK (2022) Ultrasensitive quantification of multiple estrogens in songbird blood and microdissected brain by LC-MS/MS. eNeuro 9: ENEURO.0037-22.2022 (16 pp).
Tobiansky DJ, Kachkovski GV, Enos RT, Schmidt KL, Murphy EA, Floresco SB & Soma KK (2021) Maternal sucrose consumption alters behaviour and steroids in adult rat offspring. Journal of Endocrinology 251: 161-180.
Tobiansky DJ, Kachkovski GV, Enos RT, Schmidt KL, Murphy EA & Soma KK (2020) Sucrose consumption alters steroid and dopamine signalling in the female rat brain. Journal of Endocrinology 245: 231-246.
Selected Publications – Immunosteroids
Salehzadeh M, Hamden JE, Li MX, Bajaj H, Wu RS & Soma KK (2022) Glucocorticoid production in lymphoid organs: acute effects of lipopolysaccharide in neonatal and adult mice. Endocrinology 163: 1-17.
Salehzadeh M & Soma KK (2021) Glucocorticoid production in the thymus and brain: immunosteroids and neurosteroids. Brain, Behavior and Immunity – Health 18:100352.
Hamden JE, Salehzadeh M, Gray KM, Forys BJ & Soma KK (2021) Isoflurane stress induces glucocorticoid production in mouse lymphoid organs. Journal of Endocrinology 251: 137-148.
Xing S, Jiao Y, Salehzadeh M, Soma KK & Huan T (2021) SteroidXtract: deep learning-based pattern recognition enables comprehensive and rapid extraction of steroid-like metabolic features for automated biology-driven metabolomics. Analytical Chemistry 93: 5735-5743.