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Fiona M. Gribble is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with a specialization in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and related subfields including Surgery, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Molecular Biology, and Physiology.

The scope of their work spans key topics such as pancreatic function and diabetes, diabetes treatment and management, regulation of appetite and obesity, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, diet and metabolism studies, neuropeptides and animal physiology, and diet, metabolism, and disease.

They have authored several recent papers, including:

  • Central and peripheral GLP-1 systems independently suppress eating, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • A cross-platform approach identifies genetic regulators of human metabolism and health, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Metabolic Messengers: glucagon-like peptide 1, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • Functionally distinct POMC-expressing neuron subpopulations in hypothalamus revealed by intersectional targeting, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • GDF15 linked to maternal risk of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, 2023, Nature

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Frank Reimann, Richard G. Kay, Rachel E. Foreman, Emily L. Miedzybrodzka, and Jo E. Lewis.

The venues where they have most frequently published research are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Metabolism, Endocrine Abstracts, Diabetes, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Fiona M. Gribble has received recognition as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Short-Chain Fatty Acids Stimulate Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Secretion via the G-Protein–Coupled Receptor FFAR2

    Gwen Tolhurst;Helen Heffron;Yu Shan Lam;Helen E. Parker

  • An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain

    James J Cox;Frank Reimann;Adeline K. Nicholas;Gemma K Thornton

  • Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1)

    T.D. Müller;B. Finan;S.R. Bloom;D. D'Alessio

  • Interleukin-6 enhances insulin secretion by increasing glucagon-like peptide-1 secretion from L cells and alpha cells

    Helga Ellingsgaard;Irina Hauselmann;Beat Schuler;Abdella M Habib

  • Truncation of Kir6.2 produces ATP-sensitive K + channels in the absence of the sulphonylurea receptor

    Stephen J. Tucker;Fiona M. Gribble;Chao Zhao;Stefan Trapp

  • Glucose sensing in L cells: a primary cell study.

    Frank Reimann;Abdella M. Habib;Gwen Tolhurst;Helen E. Parker

  • The essential role of the Walker A motifs of SUR1 in K‐ATP channel activation by Mg‐ADP and diazoxide

    Fiona M. Gribble;Stephen J. Tucker;Frances M. Ashcroft

  • Tissue specificity of sulfonylureas: studies on cloned cardiac and beta-cell K(ATP) channels.

    F M Gribble;S J Tucker;S Seino;F M Ashcroft

  • Na+-D-glucose Cotransporter SGLT1 is Pivotal for Intestinal Glucose-Absorption and Glucose-Dependent Incretin Secretion

    Valentin Gorboulev;Annette Schürmann;Volker Vallon;Helmut Kipp

  • Genetic cause of hyperglycaemia and response to treatment in diabetes

    Ewan R Pearson;Bryan J Starkey;Roy J Powell;Fiona M Gribble

  • Trophoblast organoids as a model for maternal–fetal interactions during human placentation

    Margherita Y Turco;Lucy Gardner;Richard G Kay;Russell S Hamilton

  • Sulfonylurea Stimulation of Insulin Secretion

    Peter Proks;Frank Reimann;Nick Green;Fiona Gribble

  • Enteroendocrine Cells: Chemosensors in the Intestinal Epithelium.

    Fiona M. Gribble;Frank Reimann

  • ATP-sensitive K+ channels and insulin secretion: their role in health and disease.

    F. M. Ashcroft;F. M. Gribble

  • Correlating structure and function in ATP-sensitive K+ channels

    Frances M. Ashcroft;Fiona M. Gribble

  • A Novel Glucose-Sensing Mechanism Contributing to Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Secretion From the GLUTag Cell Line

    Fiona M. Gribble;Leanne Williams;Anna K. Simpson;Frank Reimann

  • Function and mechanisms of enteroendocrine cells and gut hormones in metabolism.

    Fiona M. Gribble;Frank Reimann

  • Cloning and functional expression of the cDNA encoding a novel ATP-sensitive potassium channel subunit expressed in pancreatic beta-cells, brain, heart and skeletal muscle.

    H Sakura;C Ammälä;P A Smith;F M Gribble

  • Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers

    Simona Chera;Delphine Baronnier;Luiza Ghila;Valentina Cigliola

  • Na + -D-glucose Cotransporter SGLT1 is Pivotal for Intestinal Glucose Absorption and Glucose-Dependent

    Valentin Gorboulev;Annette Schürmann;Volker Vallon;Helmut Kipp

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Reimann
Frank Reimann University of Cambridge
Frances M. Ashcroft
Frances M. Ashcroft University of Oxford
Jens J. Holst
Jens J. Holst University of Copenhagen
Stephen O'Rahilly
Stephen O'Rahilly University of Cambridge
Stephen J. Tucker
Stephen J. Tucker University of Oxford
Guy A. Rutter
Guy A. Rutter Imperial College London
Thue W. Schwartz
Thue W. Schwartz University of Copenhagen
Patrik Rorsman
Patrik Rorsman University of Oxford
Benoit Viollet
Benoit Viollet Institut Cochin
Antonio Vidal-Puig
Antonio Vidal-Puig University of Cambridge

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