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Barbara Cannon

Barbara Cannon

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Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
41540
World Ranking
9157
National Ranking
182

Overview

Barbara Cannon is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses extensively on adipose tissue and metabolism, contributing to a deeper understanding of metabolic diseases and physiological processes related to energy balance.

The main research topics covered in Barbara Cannon's publications include:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Muscle metabolism and nutrition
  • Exercise and Physiological Responses
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

Their investigations extend into several subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Cell Biology.

Barbara Cannon has published extensively, with frequent contributions in the following journals and publication venues:

  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Molecular Metabolism
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Endocrine Abstracts

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Barbara Cannon include:

  • "Human brown adipose tissue: Classical brown rather than brite/beige?", 2020, Experimental Physiology
  • "Emerging debates and resolutions in brown adipose tissue research", 2024, Cell Metabolism
  • "A pyrexic effect of FGF21 independent of energy expenditure and UCP1", 2021, Molecular Metabolism
  • "Brown adipose tissue: can it keep us slim? A discussion of the evidence for and against the existence of diet-induced thermogenesis in mice and men", 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Diet-Induced Thermogenesis: Principles and Pitfalls", 2022, Methods in molecular biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jan Nedergaard, Nataša Petrovič, Irina G. Shabalina, Erik Lindsund, and Glauber Rudá Feitoza Braz. The collaboration with Jan Nedergaard is particularly notable, with 20 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Brown Adipose Tissue: Function and Physiological Significance

    Barbara Cannon;Jan Nedergaard

  • Unexpected evidence for active brown adipose tissue in adult humans

    Jan Nedergaard;Tore Bengtsson;Barbara Cannon

  • Chronic Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ (PPARγ) Activation of Epididymally Derived White Adipocyte Cultures Reveals a Population of Thermogenically Competent, UCP1-containing Adipocytes Molecularly Distinct from Classic Brown Adipocytes

    Natasa Petrovic;Tomas B. Walden;Irina G. Shabalina;James A. Timmons

  • UCP1 Ablation Induces Obesity and Abolishes Diet-Induced Thermogenesis in Mice Exempt from Thermal Stress by Living at Thermoneutrality

    Helena M. Feldmann;Valeria Golozoubova;Barbara Cannon;Jan Nedergaard

  • Myogenic gene expression signature establishes that brown and white adipocytes originate from distinct cell lineages

    James A. Timmons;James A. Timmons;James A. Timmons;Kristian Wennmalm;Ola Larsson;Tomas B. Walden;Tomas B. Walden

  • The presence of UCP1 demonstrates that metabolically active adipose tissue in the neck of adult humans truly represents brown adipose tissue

    Maria Cristina Zingaretti;Francesca Crosta;Alessandra Vitali;Mario Guerrieri

  • Nonshivering thermogenesis and its adequate measurement in metabolic studies

    Barbara Cannon;Jan Nedergaard

  • UCP1: the only protein able to mediate adaptive non-shivering thermogenesis and metabolic inefficiency.

    Jan Nedergaard;Valeria Golozoubova;Anita Matthias;Abolfazl Asadi

  • UCP1 in Brite/Beige Adipose Tissue Mitochondria Is Functionally Thermogenic

    Irina G. Shabalina;Natasa Petrovic;Jasper M.A. de Jong;Anastasia V. Kalinovich

  • Recruited vs. nonrecruited molecular signatures of brown, “brite,” and white adipose tissues

    Tomas B. Waldén;Ida R. Hansen;James A. Timmons;James A. Timmons;Barbara Cannon;Barbara Cannon

  • BMP8B Increases Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis through Both Central and Peripheral Actions

    Andrew J. Whittle;Stefania Carobbio;Luís Martins;Marc Slawik;Marc Slawik

  • A Classical Brown Adipose Tissue mRNA Signature Partly Overlaps with Brite in the Supraclavicular Region of Adult Humans

    Naja Zenius Jespersen;Therese Juhlin Larsen;Lone Peijs;Søren Daugaard

  • Only UCP1 can mediate adaptive nonshivering thermogenesis in the cold

    Valeria Golozoubova;Esa Hohtola;Anita Matthias;Anders Jacobsson

  • The browning of white adipose tissue: some burning issues.

    Jan Nedergaard;Barbara Cannon

  • The Changed Metabolic World with Human Brown Adipose Tissue: Therapeutic Visions

    Jan Nedergaard;Barbara Cannon

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitor, TNP-470, Prevents Diet-Induced and Genetic Obesity in Mice

    Ebba Bråkenhielm;Renhai Cao;Bihu Gao;Bo Angelin

  • The biochemistry of an inefficient tissue: brown adipose tissue.

    B Cannon;J Nedergaard

  • Thermogenic responses in brown fat cells are fully UCP1-dependent. UCP2 or UCP3 do not substitute for UCP1 in adrenergically or fatty scid-induced thermogenesis.

    Anita Matthias;K. B. E. Ohlson;J. M. Fredriksson;A. Jacobsson

  • Hypoxia-independent angiogenesis in adipose tissues during cold acclimation.

    Yuan Xue;Natasa Petrovic;Renhai Cao;Ola Larsson

  • A stringent validation of mouse adipose tissue identity markers

    Jasper M. A. de Jong;Ola Larsson;Barbara Cannon;Jan Nedergaard

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Nedergaard
Jan Nedergaard Stockholm University
Nils-Göran Larsson
Nils-Göran Larsson Karolinska Institute
Saverio Cinti
Saverio Cinti Marche Polytechnic University
Peter Arner
Peter Arner Karolinska Institute
Antonio Vidal-Puig
Antonio Vidal-Puig University of Cambridge
Ola Larsson
Ola Larsson Science for Life Laboratory
Vladimir P. Skulachev
Vladimir P. Skulachev Lomonosov Moscow State University
Mikael Rydén
Mikael Rydén Karolinska University Hospital
Claes Wahlestedt
Claes Wahlestedt University of Miami

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