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Asher Ornoy is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Molecular Biology; Obstetrics and Gynecology; and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Pregnancy and Medication Impact
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Key publication venues for Asher Ornoy include reputable journals, with multiple contributions to the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Other frequent publication outlets are Current Neuropharmacology, Preprints.org, Nutrients, and Reproductive Toxicology.

Several notable recent papers exemplify the scientist's research interests and contributions:

  • Diabetes during Pregnancy: A Maternal Disease Complicating the Course of Pregnancy with Long-Term Deleterious Effects on the Offspring. A Clinical Review (2021) published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Valproic Acid in Pregnancy Revisited: Neurobehavioral, Biochemical and Molecular Changes Affecting the Embryo and Fetus in Humans and in Animals: A Narrative Review (2023) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Other papers listed include works led by different authors but appearing among recent relevant research in related fields:

  • Animal Models of Depression: What Can They Teach Us about the Human Disease? (2021) in Diagnostics
  • Pregnancy outcomes in interferon-beta-exposed patients with multiple sclerosis: results from the European Interferon-beta Pregnancy Registry (2020) in Journal of Neurology
  • Postpartum depression and infant development up to 24 months: A nationwide population-based study (2021) in Journal of Affective Disorders

Regular collaborators include Maria Becker, Liza Weinstein-Fudim, Gideon Koren, Boniface Echefu, and Khitam Muhsen. The frequency of coauthorship with these colleagues ranges from several to over a dozen joint works, indicating sustained collaborative relationships.

Best Publications

  • Valproic acid in pregnancy: how much are we endangering the embryo and fetus?

    Asher Ornoy

  • 24, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D is a metabolite of vitamin D essential for bone formation.

    Ornoy A;Goodwin D;Noff D;Edelstein S

  • Inattention, hyperactivity and speech delay at 2–4 years of age as a predictor for ADD-ADHD syndrome.

    Asher Ornoy;Liora Uriel;Alex Tennenbaum

  • Prenatal origin of obesity and their complications: Gestational diabetes, maternal overweight and the paradoxical effects of fetal growth restriction and macrosomia.

    Asher Ornoy

  • Neurobehaviour of school age children born to diabetic mothers.

    A Ornoy;N Ratzon;C Greenbaum;E Peretz

  • Embryonic oxidative stress as a mechanism of teratogenesis with special emphasis on diabetic embryopathy.

    Asher Ornoy

  • Fetal effects of primary and secondary cytomegalovirus infection in pregnancy

    Asher Ornoy;Asher Ornoy;Orna Diav-Citrin

  • Effect of maternal diabetes on the embryo, fetus, and children: Congenital anomalies, genetic and epigenetic changes and developmental outcomes

    Asher Ornoy;E. Albert Reece;Gabriela Pavlinkova;Claudia Kappen

  • Pregnancy outcome after first trimester exposure to corticosteroids: a prospective controlled study.

    Chamutal Gur;Orna Diav-Citrin;Svetlana Shechtman;Judy Arnon

  • The teratogenic effect of carbamazepine: a meta-analysis of 1255 exposures

    S Matalon;S Schechtman;G Goldzweig;A Ornoy;A Ornoy

  • Genetic and teratogenic effects of cancer treatments on gametes and embryos

    J. Arnon;D. Meirow;H. Lewis-Roness;A. Ornoy

  • Intrauterine growth restriction-etiology and consequences: what do we know about the human situation and experimental animal models?

    Zivanit Ergaz;Meytal Avgil;Asher Ornoy

  • Alcohol Abuse in Pregnant Women: Effects on the Fetus and Newborn, Mode of Action and Maternal Treatment

    Asher Ornoy;Zivanit Ergaz

  • Prenatal Factors Associated With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

    A. Ornoy;L. Weinstein-Fudim;Z. Ergaz

  • Developmental outcome of school-age children born to mothers with heroin dependency: importance of environmental factors.

    Asher Ornoy;Jacob Segal;Rachel Bar-Hamburger;Charles Greenbaum

  • The developmental outcome of children born to heroin-dependent mothers, raised at home or adopted

    A. Ornoy;V. Michailevskaya;I. Lukashov;Rachel Bar-Hamburger

  • Integrin α2β1 plays a critical role in osteoblast response to micron-scale surface structure and surface energy of titanium substrates

    R. Olivares-Navarrete;P. Raz;G. Zhao;J. Chen

  • Paroxetine and fluoxetine in pregnancy: a prospective, multicentre, controlled, observational study.

    Orna Diav-Citrin;Svetlana Shechtman;Dafna Weinbaum;Rebecka Wajnberg

  • Outcome of Children Born to Epileptic Mothers Treated With Carbamazepine During Pregnancy

    A. Ornoy;E. Cohen

  • Diabetes during Pregnancy: A Maternal Disease Complicating the Course of Pregnancy with Long-Term Deleterious Effects on the Offspring. A Clinical Review

    Asher Ornoy;Maria Becker;Liza Weinstein-Fudim;Zivanit Ergaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Schwartz
Zvi Schwartz Virginia Commonwealth University
Gideon Koren
Gideon Koren Brown University
Barbara D. Boyan
Barbara D. Boyan Virginia Commonwealth University
Joseph Yanai
Joseph Yanai Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moshe Szyf
Moshe Szyf McGill University
Miri Blank
Miri Blank Tel Aviv University
Yehuda Shoenfeld
Yehuda Shoenfeld Sheba Medical Center
John M. Opitz
John M. Opitz University of Utah
David D Dean
David D Dean The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
David S. Howell
David S. Howell University of Miami

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