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1. Rose-Fish, B., Louthan, S., Camilleri, C., & Sammut, S. (2025). The Fundamental Role of Meaning and Purpose in Life in Personal and Social Well-Being: A Cross-sectional Exploratory Investigation in University Students. PREPRINT. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7411109/v1
2. Buskmiller, C., Camilleri, C. and Sammut, S. (2024). Transuterine relocation of pregnant uterine horn segment in an exploratory rat model with implications for tubal ectopic pregnancy. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76986-7.
3. Farrell, B. J., Emmerton, R. W., Camilleri, C., & Sammut, S. (2024). Impulsivity mediates the relationship between sleep quality and interpersonal functioning: a cross-sectional study in a sample of university students. Sleep Science and Practice, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41606-024-00113-8.
4. Emmerton, R.W., Camilleri, C. and Sammut, S. (2024). Continued deterioration in university student mental health: Inevitable decline or skirting around the deeper problems? Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 15, 100691. doi: 10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100691. (Available online 3 December 2023)
5. Mancini, C.J., Quilliam, V., Camilleri, C. and Sammut, S. (2023). Spirituality and negative religious coping, but not positive religious coping, differentially mediate the relationship between scrupulosity and mental health: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 14, 100680. doi: 10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100680.
6. Camilleri, C. and Sammut, S. (2023). Progesterone-mediated reversal of mifepristone-induced pregnancy termination in a rat model: an exploratory investigation. Scientific Reports 13, 10942. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38025-9.
7. Camilleri, C., Fogle, C.S., O’Brien, K.G., and Sammut, S. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 and associated interventions on mental health: A cross-sectional study in a sample of university students. Frontiers in Psychiatry 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.801859.
8. Camilleri, C., Perry, J.T., and Sammut, S. (2021). Compulsive Internet Pornography Use and Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Sample of University Students in the United States. Frontiers in Psychology 11(3870). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.613244.
9. Camilleri, C., Buskmiller, C., and Sammut, S. (2021). Pregnancy-induced long-term uterine vascular remodeling in the rat. Reproductive Biology 21(1). doi: 10.1016/j.repbio.2020.100466.
10. Camilleri, C., Beiter, R.M., Puentes, L., Aracena-Sherck, P., and Sammut, S. (2019). Biological, Behavioral and Physiological Consequences of Drug-Induced Pregnancy Termination at First-Trimester Human Equivalent in an Animal Model. Front Neurosci 13(544), 544. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00544.
11. Williams, P.D., Hunter, W.M., Seyer, E., Sammut, S., and Breuninger, M.M. (2019). Religious/spiritual struggles and perceived parenting style in a religious college-aged sample. Mental Health Religion & Culture 22(5), 500-516. doi: 10.1080/13674676.2019.1629402.
12. Porada, K., Sammut, S., and Milburn, M. (2017). Empirical Investigation of the Relationships Between Irrationality, Self-Acceptance, and Dispositional Forgiveness. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. doi: 10.1007/s10942-017-0284-0.
13. Hoque, K.E., Blume, S.R., Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2017). Electrical stimulation of the hippocampal fimbria facilitates neuronal nitric oxide synthase activity in the medial shell of the rat nucleus accumbens: Modulation by dopamine D1 and D2 receptor activation. Neuropharmacology 126, 151-157. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.09.005.
14. Padovan-Neto, F.E., Sammut, S., Chakroborty, S., Dec, A.M., Threlfell, S., Campbell, P.W., Mudrakola, V., Harms, J., Schmidt, C., and West, A.R. (2015). Facilitation of corticostriatal transmission following pharmacological inhibition of striatal phosphodiesterase 10A: role of nitric oxide-soluble guanylyl cyclase-cGMP signaling pathways. J Neurosci 35(14), 5781-5791. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1238-14.2015.
15. Beiter, R., Nash, R., McCrady, M., Rhoades, D., Linscomb, M., Clarahan, M., and Sammut, S. (2015). The prevalence and correlates of depression, anxiety, and stress in a sample of college students. J Affect Disord 173(0), 90-96. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.10.054.
16. Tseng, K.Y., Caballero, A., Dec, A., Cass, D.K., Simak, N., Sunu, E., Park, M.J., Blume, S.R., Sammut, S., Park, D.J., and West, A.R. (2011). Inhibition of striatal soluble guanylyl cyclase-cGMP signaling reverses basal ganglia dysfunction and akinesia in experimental parkinsonism. PLoS One 6(11), e27187. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027187.
17. Sammut, S., Threlfell, S., and West, A.R. (2010). Nitric oxide-soluble guanylyl cyclase signaling regulates corticostriatal transmission and short-term synaptic plasticity of striatal projection neurons recorded in vivo. Neuropharmacology 58(3), 624-631. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2009.11.011.
18. Hoque, K.E., Indorkar, R.P., Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2010). Impact of dopamine-glutamate interactions on striatal neuronal nitric oxide synthase activity. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 207(4), 571-581. doi: 10.1007/s00213-009-1687-0.
19. Threlfell, S., Sammut, S., Menniti, F.S., Schmidt, C.J., and West, A.R. (2009). Inhibition of Phosphodiesterase 10A Increases the Responsiveness of Striatal Projection Neurons to Cortical Stimulation. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 328(3), 785-795. doi: 10.1124/jpet.108.146332.
20. Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2008). Acute cocaine administration increases NO efflux in the rat prefrontal cortex via a neuronal NOS-dependent mechanism. Synapse 62(9), 710-713. doi: 10.1002/syn.20537.
21. Ondracek, J.M., Dec, A., Hoque, K.E., Lim, S.A., Rasouli, G., Indorkar, R.P., Linardakis, J., Klika, B., Mukherji, S., Burnazi, M., Threlfell, S., Sammut, S., and West, A.R. (2008). Feed-forward excitation of striatal neuron activity by frontal cortical activation of nitric oxide signaling in vivo. Eur J Neurosci 27(7), 1739-1754. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06157.x.
22. Sammut, S., Park, D.J., and West, A.R. (2007). Frontal cortical afferents facilitate striatal nitric oxide transmission in vivo via a NMDA receptor and neuronal NOS-dependent mechanism. J Neurochem 103(3), 1145-1156. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2007.04811.x.
23. Sammut, S., Bray, K.E., and West, A.R. (2007). Dopamine D2 receptor-dependent modulation of striatal NO synthase activity. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 191(3), 793-803. doi: 10.1007/s00213-006-0681-z.
24. Sammut, S., Dec, A., Mitchell, D., Linardakis, J., Ortiguela, M., and West, A.R. (2006). Phasic dopaminergic transmission increases NO efflux in the rat dorsal striatum via a neuronal NOS and a dopamine D(1/5) receptor-dependent mechanism. Neuropsychopharmacology 31(3), 493-505. doi: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300826. – Histology figure was featured on front cover of journal.
25. Sammut, S., Bethus, I., Goodall, G., and Muscat, R. (2002). Antidepressant reversal of interferon-α-induced anhedonia. Physiology & Behavior 75(5), 765-772. doi: 10.1016/s0031-9384(02)00677-7.
26. Sammut, S., Goodall, G., and Muscat, R. (2001). Acute interferon-alpha administration modulates sucrose consumption in the rat. Psychoneuroendocrinology 26(3), 261-272. doi: 10.1016/s0306-4530(00)00051-2.
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