1. Eyal S., Alfasi S., Ben Zaken K., Sawaid I.O., Segev S., Mesfin S., Frankel P., Ezzy R., Saha-Detroja T., Madhavan S., Bloch N., Polis B., Samson A.O. "Consensus Molecules Associated with Parkinson's Disease", 2026, Neurology International. 18;2. PubMed


2. Sawaied I.O., Samson A.O., Golan E. "Patients' perception of proton pump inhibitors use and their risks", 2026, World Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1;17(1). PubMed


3. Sawaid I.O., Din Z., Golan E., Ruppin E., Golan-Cohen A., Green I., Merzon E., Vinker S., Samson A.O., Israel A. "Association between proton pump inhibitor use and upper gastrointestinal cancer: A matched case-control study accounting for reverse causation and confounding by indication", 2026, PLoS Medicine. 1;23(1). PubMed


4. Segev L., Ben Zimra A., Weitzman G.A., Bloch N., Pitussi I., Alkhazov T., Kogan N.M., Peleg D., Samson A.O., Ben Shachar I., "Ethinylestradiol Transfer into Breast Milk of Women Using Low-Dose Combined Hormonal Contraception Is Negligible", 2025, Open Access Journal of Contraception. 16:189-197. PubMed


5. Sakas R., Fishboom T., Ben-Menashe A., Awad-Igbaria Y., Nasra R., Samson A.O., Palzur E., Soustiel J.F., "Simvastatin-induced neuroprotective effect after brain injury is mediated by mitochondrial protection through modulation of the 18 kDa translocator protein", 2025, Neurotherapeutics. e00803. PubMed


6. Ben Zaken K., Mesfin S., Bloch N., Samson A.O. "Virtual screening of drugs against multiple targets of Alzheimer's disease", 2025, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 108(3):1088-1103. PubMed


7. Bahalul-Yarchi S., Hartman F., Ben Zaken K., Sawaid I.O., Segev L., Mesfin S., Frankel P., Ezzy R., Samson A.O. "Drugs and Nutrients in Epilepsy: Vitamin B6 and the Ketogenic Diet", 2025, Nutrients. 17(16):2676. PubMed


8. Sawaied I.O., Samson A.O., Golan E. "Perceived risk of gastric cancer associated with long-term use of proton pump inhibitors: Bridging the gap", 2025, World Journal of Clinical Oncology. 16(7):107091. PubMed


9. Ben Zaken K., Bouhnik R., Omer N., Bloch N., Samson A.O. "Polyoxometalates bind multiple targets involved in Alzheimer's disease", 2025, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 30(3):299-309. PubMed


10. Cohen A., Rossetti R., Florsheim N., Samson A.O., Renbaum P., Carbone E., Persani L., Levy-Lahad E., Abu-Libdeh A., Zangen D., "A Novel Homozygous BMP15 Mutation Causes Ovarian Dysgenesis and Primary Amenorrhea", 2024, Journal of the Endocrine Society. 9(2):bvae221. PubMed


11. Sawaid I.O., Samson A.O., Al-Ramahi R. "Evaluation of Stages, Treatment Protocols, and Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer among West Bank Patients", 2024, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(8):2284. PubMed


12. Sawaid I.O., Samson A.O. "Proton Pump Inhibitors and Cancer Risk: A Comprehensive Review of Epidemiological and Mechanistic Evidence", 2024, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(7):1970. PubMed


13. Polis B., Samson A.O. "Addressing the Discrepancies Between Animal Models and Human Alzheimer's Disease Pathology: Implications for Translational Research", 2024, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 98(4):1199-1218. PubMed


14. Polis B., Samson A.O. "Enhancing cognitive function in older adults: dietary approaches and implications", 2024, Frontiers in Nutrition. 11:1286725. PubMed


15. Segev L., Weitzman G., Katz-Samson G., Samson A.O., Shrem G., Srebnik N. "Combined Hormonal Contraception during Breastfeeding-A Survey of Physician's Recommendations", 2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(22):7110. PubMed


16. Segev L., Samson A.O., Katz-Samson G., Srebnik N. "Response to Eglash re: 'The Risk of Breakthrough Bleeding Justifies the Use of Combined Hormonal Contraception Over Progesterone-Only Pills While Breastfeeding': Combined Hormonal Contraception Is Not Without Disadvantages, But Is Acceptable During Lactation", 2023, Breastfeed Medicine. 18(5):402-403. PubMed


17. Segev L., Katz-Samson G., Samson A.O., Srebnik N. "The Risk of Breakthrough Bleeding Justifies the Use of Combined Hormonal Contraception Over Progesterone-Only Pills While Breastfeeding", 2023, Breastfeed Medicine. 18(2):84-85. PubMed


18. Guedalia J., Lipschuetz M., Walfisch A., Cohen S.M., Sheiner E.,Samson A.O., Rosenbloom J., Kabiri D., Hochler H. "Partogram of Grandmultiparous Parturients: A Multicenter Cohort Study", 2023, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(2):592. PubMed


19. Detroja T.S., Samson A.O. "Virtual Screening for FDA-Approved Drugs That Selectively Inhibit Arginase Type 1 and 2", 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine 11(8):2130 PubMed


20. Samuels H., Malov M., Saha Detroja T., Ben Zaken K., Bloch N., Gal-Tanamy M., Avni O., Polis B., Samson A.O. "Autoimmune Disease Classification Based on PubMed Text Mining", 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(15):4345. PubMed


21. Vilk Ayalon N., Segev L., Yagel S., Cohen S.M., Green T., Hochler H., Samson A.O. "Norethisterone Reduces Vaginal Bleeding Caused by Progesterone-Only Birth Control Pills", 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(12):3389. PubMed


22. Calfon-Peretz O., Weitzman R., Amitay M., Samson A.O. "Reply to van der Pluijm et al. Comment on 'Weitzman et al. Resistance to Antimalarial Monotherapy Is Cyclic. J. Clin. Med. 2022, 11, 781'", 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(11):2972. PubMed


23. Detroja T.S., Gil-Henn H., Samson A.O. "Text-Mining Approach to Identify Hub Genes of Cancer Metastasis and Potential Drug Repurposing to Target Them", 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(8):2130. PubMed


24. Weitzman R., Calfon-Peretz O., Saha T., Bloch N., Ben Zaken K., Rosenfeld A., Amitay M., Samson A.O. "Resistance to Antimalarial Monotherapy Is Cyclic", 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(3):781. PubMed


25. Polis B., Squillario M., Gurevich V., Srikanth K.D., Assa M., Samson A.O. "Effects of Chronic Arginase Inhibition with Norvaline on Tau Pathology and Brain Glucose Metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease Mice", 2022, Neurochemical Research. 47(5):1255-1268. PubMed


26. Avitan I., Halperin Y., Saha T., Bloch N., Atrahimovich D., Polis B., Samson A.O., Braitbard O. "Towards a Consensus on Alzheimer's Disease Comorbidity?", 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(19):4360. PubMed


27. Saha T., Solomon J., Samson A.O., Gil-Henn H. "Invasion and Metastasis as a Central Hallmark of Breast Cancer", 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(16):3498. PubMed


28. Polis B., Karasik D., Samson A.O. "Alzheimer's disease as a chronic maladaptive polyamine stress response", 2021, Aging (Albany NY). 13(7):10770-10795. PubMed


29. Fonar G., Polis B., Sams D.S., Levi A., Malka A., Bal N., Maltsev A., Elliott E., Samson A.O. "Modified Snake α-Neurotoxin Averts β-Amyloid Binding to α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and Reverses Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease Mice", 2021, Molecular Neurobiology. 58(5):2322-2341. PubMed


30. Polis B., Samson A.O. "Neurogenesis versus neurodegeneration: the broken balance in Alzheimer's disease", 2021, Neural Regeneration Research. 16(3):496-497. PubMed


31. Meirson T., Bomze D., Markel G., Samson A.O. "Κ-helix and the helical lock and key model: a pivotal way of looking at polyproline II", 2020, Bioinformatics. 36(12):3726-3732. PubMed


32. Gilinsky M.A., Polityko Y.K., Markel A.L., Latysheva T.V., Samson A.O., Polis B., Naumenko S.E. "Norvaline Reduces Blood Pressure and Induces Diuresis in Rats with Inherited Stress-Induced Arterial Hypertension", 2020, Biomedical Research International. 2020:4935386. PubMed


33. Polis B., Srikanth K.D., Gurevich V., Bloch N., Gil-Henn H., Samson A.O. "Arginase Inhibition Supports Survival and Differentiation of Neuronal Precursors in Adult Alzheimer's Disease Mice", 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(3):1133. PubMed


34. Polis B., Samson A.O. "Role of the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids in the development of Alzheimer's disease and other metabolic disorders", 2020, Neural Regeneration Research. 15(8):1460-1470. PubMed


35. Polis B., Gilinsky M.A., Samson A.O. "Reports of L-Norvaline Toxicity in Humans May Be Greatly Overstated", 2019, Brain Sciences. 9(12):382. PubMed


36. Polis B., Samson A.O. "A New Perspective on Alzheimer's Disease as a Brain Expression of a Complex Metabolic Disorder", 2019, In: Wisniewski T., editor. Alzheimer's Disease [Internet]. Codon Publications. PubMed


37. Meirson T., Gil-Henn H., Samson A.O. "Invasion and metastasis: the elusive hallmark of cancer", 2020, Oncogene. 39(9):2024-2026. PubMed


38. Polis B., Gurevich V., Assa M., Samson A.O. "Norvaline Restores the BBB Integrity in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease", 2019, International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 18;20(18). PubMed


39. Atrahimovich D., Samson A.O., Barsheshet Y., Vaya J., Khatib S., Reuveni E. "Genome-wide localization of the polyphenol quercetin in human monocytes", 2019, BMC Genomics. 20(1):606. PubMed


40. Meirson T., Bomze D., Kahlon L., Gil-Henn H., Samson A.O. "A helical lock and key model of polyproline II conformation with SH3", 2019, Bioinformatics. PubMed


41. Polis B., Srikanth K.D., Gurevich V., Gil-Henn H., Samson A.O. "L-Norvaline, a new therapeutic agent against Alzheimer's disease", 2019, Neural Regeneration Research. 14(9):1562-1572. PubMed


42. Polis B., Samson A.O. "Arginase as a Potential Target in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease", 2018, Advances in Alzheimer's Disease. 7(4), 119-140.


43. Fonar G., Polis B., Meirson T., Maltsev A., Samson A.O. "Subcutaneous Sustained-Release of Poly-Arginine Ameliorates Cognitive Impairment in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease", 2018, Advances in Alzheimer's Disease. 7(4), 153-182.


44. Polis B., Srikanth K.D., Elliott E., Gil-Henn H., Samson A.O. "L-Norvaline Reverses Cognitive Decline and Synaptic Loss in a Murine Model of Alzheimer's Disease.", 2018, Neurotherapeutics. 15(4):1036-1054. PubMed


45. Atrahimovich D, Samson A.O., Khattib A., Vaya J., Khatib S. "Punicalagin Decreases Serum Glucose Levels and Increases PON1 Activity and HDL Anti-Inflammatory Values in Balb/c Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet", 2018, Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2018:2673076. PubMed


46. Fonar G., Polis B., Meirson T., Maltsev A., Elliott E., Samson A.O. "Intracerebroventricular Administration of L-arginine Improves Spatial Memory Acquisition in Triple Transgenic Mice Via Reduction of Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis.", 2018, Translational Neuroscience. 9:43-53. PubMed


47. Meirson T., Genna A., Lukic N., Makhnii T., Alter J., Sharma V.P., Wang Y., Samson A.O., Condeelis J.S., Gil-Henn H. "Targeting invadopodia-mediated breast cancer metastasis by using ABL kinase inhibitors.", 2018, Oncotarget. 9(31):22158-22183. PubMed


48. Zattelman L., Regev R., Usaj M., Reinke P.Y.A., Giese S., Samson A. O., Taft M.H., Manstein D.J., Henn A. "N-terminal splicing extensions of the human MYO1C gene fine-tune the kinetics of the three full-length myosin IC isoforms.", 2017, Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(43):17804-17818. PubMed


49. Glantz-Gashai Y., Meirson T., Reuveni E., Samson A. O. "Virtual screening for potential inhibitors of Mcl-1 conformations sampled by normal modes, molecular dynamics, and nuclear magnetic resonance.", 2017, Drug Design Development and Therapy. 11:1803-1813. PubMed


50. Meirson T., Samson A. O., Gil-Henn H. "An in silico high-throughput screen identifies potential selective inhibitors for the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Pyk2.", 2017, Drug Design Development and Therapy. 11:1535-1557. PubMed


51. Aran A., Segel R., Kaneshige K., Gulsuner S., Renbaum P., Oliphant S., Meirson T., Weinberg-Shukron A., Hershkovitz Y., Zeligson S., Lee M.K., Samson A. O., Parsons S.M., King M.C., Levy-Lahad E., Walsh T. "Vesicular acetylcholine transporter defect underlies devastating congenital myasthenia syndrome", 2017, Neurology. 88:1021-1028. PubMed


52. Falik Zaccai T.C., Savitzki D., Zivony-Elboum Y., Vilboux T., Fitts E.C., Shoval Y., Kalfon L., Samra N., Keren Z., Gross B., Chasnyk N., Straussberg R., Mullikin J.C., Teer J.K., Geiger D., Kornitzer D., Bitterman-Deutsch O., Samson A. O., Wakamiya M., Peterson J.W., Kirtley M.L., Pinchuk I.V., Baze W.B., Gahl W.A., Kleta R., Anikster Y., Chopra A.K. "Phospholipase A2-activating protein is associated with a novel form of leukoencephalopathy." 2017, Brain. 140:370-386. PubMed


53. Glantz-Gashai Y., Meirson T., and Samson A. O. "Normal Modes Expose Active Sites in Enzymes", 2016, PLoS Comput Biol. 21,12. PubMed


54. Dabour R., Meirson T., and Samson A. O. "Global antibiotic resistance is mostly periodic" 2016, J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 7:132-134. PubMed


55. Atrahimovich D., Khatib S., Sela S., Vaya J., and Samson A. O. "Punicalagin Induces Serum Low-Density Lipoprotein Influx to Macrophages" 2016, Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2016:71242-51. PubMed


56. Reuveni E., Samson A. O., and Giuliani A., "Principal component analysis of mouse genomes unravels strong genetic robustness during evolution" 2015, International J of Medical Biotech and Genetics. 1:1-6. PubMed


57. Weinberg-Shukron A., Renbaum P., Kalifa R., Zeligson S., Ben-Neriah Z., Dreifuss A., Abu-Rayyan A., Maatuk N, Fardian N, Rekler D, Kanaan M, Samson A.O., Levy-Lahad E, Gerlitz O, and Zangen D. "A mutation in the nucleoporin-107 gene causes XX gonadal dysgenesis" , 2015, The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 125:4295-304. PubMed


58. Fonar G., and Samson A. O. "NMR structure of the water soluble Aβ17-34 peptide", 2014, Bioscience Reports. Pubmed


59. Maatuk N., Glantz-Gashai Y., Rotman M., Baydany M., Fonar G., Shechvitz A., Shemer K., Peleg A., Reuveni E., and Samson A. O. "PHI-DAC: protein homology database through dihedral angle conservation", 2014, Bioinformatics. PubMed


60. Greenberger M. M., and Samson A. O. "Normal mode dynamics of voltage-gated K+ channels: gating principle, opening mechanism, and inhibition" , 2014, Journal of Computational Neuroscience. PubMed


61. Kolan D., Fonar G., and Samson A. O.. "Elastic network normal modes reveal the GPCR activation mechanism", 2013, Protein: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. PubMed


62. Kolodny R., Pereyeslavets L., Samson A. O., and Levitt M. "On the universe of protein folds", 2013, Annual Review of Biophysics, 42, 559-582. PubMed


63. Maatuk N., and Samson A. O. "Modeling the binding mechanism of Alzheimer's Aβ(1-42) to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors based on similarity with snake α-neurotoxins.", 2012, Neurotoxicology, 50, 2243-8. PubMed


64. Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Normal modes of prion proteins: from native to infectious particle", 2011, Biochemistry, 50, 2243-8. PubMed


65. Samson A. O., and Levitt M., " Protein segment finder: an online search engine for segment motifs in the PDB", 2009, Nucleic Acid Research, 37 (Database issue), D224-8. PubMed


66. Samson A. O., and Levitt M., "Inhibition mechanism of the acetylcholine receptor by α-neurotoxins as revealed by normal mode dynamics", 2008, Biochemistry, 47, 4065-4070. PubMed


67. Rosen O., Samson A.O., and Anglister J., "Correlated mutations at gp120 positions 322 and 440: implications for gp120 structure", 2008, Proteins, 71, 1066-70. PubMed


68. Rosen O., Samson A. O., Sharon M., Zolla-Pazner S., and Anglister J., "Response to Matters Arising ", 2006, Structure, 14, 649-651.


69. Samson A. O., and Anglister J., "2D-measurement of proton T_1π relaxation in unlabeled proteins: α-bungarotoxin complex with acetylcholine receptor peptide", 2005, Biochemistry, 44, 10926-10934. PubMed


70. Biron Z., Khare S., Samson A.O., Naider F., and Anglister J. "A monomeric 3₁₀-helix is formed in water by a 13-residue peptide representing the neutralizing determinant of HIV-1 on gp41" , 2002, Biochemistry, 41, 12687-12696. PubMed


71. Yassin L., Samson A.O., Halevi S., Eshel M., and Treinin M., "Mutations in the extracellular domain and in the membrane spanning domains interfere with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor maturation", 2002, Biochemistry, 41, 12329-12335. PubMed


72. Samson A.O., Scherf. T., Eisenstein M., Chill J., and Anglister J., "The mechanism for acetylcholine receptor inhibition by α-neurotoxins and species-specific resistance to α-bungarotoxin revealed by NMR", 2002, Neuron, 35, 319-332. Pubmed


73. Yao Y., Wang J., Viroonchatapan N., Rothe E., Samson A.O., Chill J., Anglister J., and Wang Z. "Yeast expression and NMR analysis of the extracellular domain of muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α-subunit", 2002, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(15), 12613-12621. Pubmed


74. Samson A.O., Chill J., Rodriguez E., Scherf T., and Anglister J., "NMR mapping and secondary structure determination of the major acetylcholine receptor α-subunit determinant interacting with α-bungarotoxin", 2001, Biochemistry, 40, 5464-5473. Pubmed

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