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Giulio G. Muccioli is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, focusing extensively on molecular biology, physiology, surgery, nutrition and dietetics, and immunology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • RNA interference and gene delivery
  • Cholesterol and lipid metabolism
  • Cannabis and cannabinoid research
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Drug transport and resistance mechanisms
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Martin Roumain (26 publications)
  • Adrien Paquot (25 publications)
  • Patrice D. Cani (19 publications)
  • Nathalie M. Delzenne (18 publications)
  • Mireille Alhouayek (15 publications)

Muccioli has published multiple papers in prominent journals. Some recent publications are:

  • Novel insights into the genetically obese (ob/ob) and diabetic (db/db) mice: two sides of the same coin, 2021, Microbiome
  • From correlation to causality: the case of Subdoligranulum, 2020, Gut Microbes
  • Dysosmobacter welbionis is a newly isolated human commensal bacterium preventing diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders in mice, 2021, Gut
  • Prebiotic dietary fibre intervention improves fecal markers related to inflammation in obese patients: results from the Food4Gut randomized placebo-controlled trial, 2021, European Journal of Nutrition
  • Extracellular vesicles for the treatment of central nervous system diseases, 2021, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Muccioli frequently publishes in journals such as Gut Microbes, Gut, Cells, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, and Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators.

Their fields of study mainly include Medicine with 102 publications and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with 74 publications. Key subfields represented in Muccioli's research are Molecular Biology with 53 publications, Physiology with 22, Surgery with 19, Nutrition and Dietetics with 16, and Immunology with 11 publications.

Best Publications

  • Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity

    Amandine Everard;Clara Belzer;Lucie Geurts;Janneke P. Ouwerkerk

  • Changes in gut microbiota control inflammation in obese mice through a mechanism involving GLP-2-driven improvement of gut permeability

    Patrice D. Cani;S. Possemiers;T. Van de Wiele;Yves Guiot

  • The endocannabinoid system links gut microbiota to adipogenesis

    Giulio G Muccioli;Damien Naslain;Fredrik Bäckhed;Christopher S Reigstad

  • The serine hydrolase ABHD6 controls the accumulation and efficacy of 2-AG at cannabinoid receptors

    William R. Marrs;Jacqueline L. Blankman;Eric A. Horne;Aurore Thomazeau

  • Obesity-Induced Neuroinflammation: Beyond the Hypothalamus.

    Owein Guillemot-Legris;Giulio G. Muccioli

  • Altered Gut Microbiota and Endocannabinoid System Tone in Obese and Diabetic Leptin-Resistant Mice: Impact on Apelin Regulation in Adipose Tissue

    Lucie Geurts;Vladimir Lazarevic;Muriel Derrien;Amandine Everard

  • Biologically active γ-lactams: synthesis and natural sources.

    Joséphine Caruano;Giulio Muccioli;Raphaël Robiette

  • Inulin-type fructans with prebiotic properties counteract GPR43 overexpression and PPARγ-related adipogenesis in the white adipose tissue of high-fat diet-fed mice.

    Evelyne M. Dewulf;Patrice D. Cani;Audrey M. Neyrinck;Sam Possemiers

  • Gut microbiota-derived propionate reduces cancer cell proliferation in the liver

    L B Bindels;P Porporato;E M Dewulf;J Verrax

  • Oxysterols: From cholesterol metabolites to key mediators

    Valentin Mutemberezi;Owein Guillemot-Legris;Giulio G. Muccioli

  • COX-2-derived endocannabinoid metabolites as novel inflammatory mediators

    Mireille Alhouayek;Giulio G. Muccioli

  • Functionally selective cannabinoid receptor signalling: therapeutic implications and opportunities.

    Barbara Bosier;Giulio G. Muccioli;Emmanuel Hermans;Didier M. Lambert

  • Endocannabinoid biosynthesis and inactivation, from simple to complex.

    Giulio G. Muccioli

  • Increasing endogenous 2-arachidonoylglycerol levels counteracts colitis and related systemic inflammation

    Mireille Alhouayek;Didier M. Lambert;Nathalie M. Delzenne;Patrice D. Cani

  • Intestinal epithelial MyD88 is a sensor switching host metabolism towards obesity according to nutritional status

    Amandine Everard;Lucie Geurts;Robert Caesar;Matthias Van Hul

  • Cancer-associated fibroblasts promote prostate cancer malignancy via metabolic rewiring and mitochondrial transfer

    Luigi Ippolito;Andrea Morandi;Maria Letizia Taddei;Matteo Parri

  • Identification of a Novel Endocannabinoid-Hydrolyzing Enzyme Expressed by Microglial Cells

    Giulio G. Muccioli;Cong Xu;Emma Odah;Eiron Cudaback

  • Synthesis and in Vitro Evaluation of N-Substituted Maleimide Derivatives as Selective Monoglyceride Lipase Inhibitors

    Nicolas Matuszak;Giulio G. Muccioli;Geoffray Labar;Didier M. Lambert

  • Adipose tissue NAPE-PLD controls fat mass development by altering the browning process and gut microbiota

    Lucie Geurts;Amandine Everard;Matthias Van Hul;Ahmed Essaghir

  • The gut microbiota metabolite indole alleviates liver inflammation in mice.

    Martin Beaumont;Audrey M. Neyrinck;Marta Olivares;Julie Rodriguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier M. Lambert
Didier M. Lambert Université Catholique de Louvain
Patrice D. Cani
Patrice D. Cani Université Catholique de Louvain
Nathalie M. Delzenne
Nathalie M. Delzenne Université Catholique de Louvain
Amandine Everard
Amandine Everard Université Catholique de Louvain
Véronique Préat
Véronique Préat Université Catholique de Louvain
Willem M. de Vos
Willem M. de Vos Wageningen University & Research
Johan Wouters
Johan Wouters University of Namur
Pierre Sonveaux
Pierre Sonveaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Muriel Derrien
Muriel Derrien Wageningen University & Research
Jacqueline Marchand-Brynaert
Jacqueline Marchand-Brynaert Université Catholique de Louvain

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