by Ulrik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Nature (2025) showing that acute stress activates medial amygdala neurons that innervate the ventromedial hypothalamus, which precipitates hyperglycaemia and hypophagia.
High fructose diet in early life is bad by Ulrik Larsen Inspired by a lab member constantly theorizing about HNF1A and the brain, I came across a study on how early-life high fructose exposure affects brain development, focusing on microglia…
Wishing good luck to Ulrik having his midway evaluation today! Thesis Title: “Mouse-ing around with islet cells: unveiling the tissue repair puzzle” Examining committee Internal examiner 1: Prof. Bjørn Tore Gjertsen Internal examiner 2: Dr. Heidrun Vethe Supervisors Simona Chera,…
Something positive about Norwegian winter? Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses by Ulrik Larsen Exposure to cold induces long-lasting changes in physiology that persist beyond the cold period itself. This study investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms of this phenomenon,…
WNT-4 real? A proposed paracrine player in β-cell function and glycemic control by Ulrik Larsen Diabetes is a multifactorial disorder commonly characterized by the loss or dysfunction of pancreatic β-cell, which play a central role in insulin secretion. β-cells have…
by Ulrik Larsen Glucagon is traditionally seen as a pancreas-specific hormone, but evidence suggests an extra-pancreatic source that responds abnormally to oral glucose in diabetic patients. This study investigates whether the intestine could be responsible for this unexpected glucagon secretion. …
Here, we investigated the regenerative response of pancreatic islets following moderate beta-cell loss in mice using two diffenet models: one rapid beta-cell targeted synchronous cell death by using the RIPDTR model, and one slow heterogeneous cell death by using streptozotocin…