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Ola Nilsson is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, with a particular focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work spans several subfields including surgery, molecular biology, genetics, oncology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism. The main topics of their research encompass parathyroid disorders and treatments, osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, connective tissue disorders research, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors, muscle and compartmental disorders, neuroendocrine tumor research advances, and cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers.

Nilsson has multiple recent publications in prominent scientific journals. Some of these include:

  • GWAS for autoimmune Addison's disease identifies multiple risk loci and highlights AIRE in disease susceptibility, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Effect of Burosumab Compared With Conventional Therapy on Younger vs Older Children With X-linked Hypophosphatemia, 2022, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes from a Randomized, Active-Controlled, Open-Label, Phase 3 Trial of Burosumab Versus Conventional Therapy in Children with X-Linked Hypophosphatemia, 2021, Calcified Tissue International
  • The international X-linked hypophosphataemia (XLH) registry (NCT03193476): rationale for and description of an international, observational study, 2020, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • The International X-Linked Hypophosphatemia (XLH) Registry: first interim analysis of baseline demographic, genetic and clinical data, 2023, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nilsson include:

  • Outi Mäkitie
  • Marta Baroncelli
  • Ameya Bendre
  • Zelong Dou
  • Lars Ottosson

Nilsson's publications appear frequently in several scientific venues, reflecting their research areas. These include:

  • Bone Reports
  • Yearbook of Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Hormone Research in Paediatrics
  • Calcified Tissue International
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Best Publications

  • Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours.

    Irvin M Modlin;Kjell Oberg;Daniel C Chung;Robert T Jensen

  • TNM staging of foregut (neuro)endocrine tumors: a consensus proposal including a grading system

    G. Rindi;G. Klöppel;H. Alhman;M. Caplin

  • TNM staging of midgut and hindgut (neuro) endocrine tumors: a consensus proposal including a grading system

    G. Rindi;G. Klöppel;A. Couvelard;P. Komminoth

  • Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine gastrointestinal tumours. A consensus statement on behalf of the European Neuroendocrine Tumour Society (ENETS).

    U. Plöckinger;G. Rindi;R. Arnold;B. Eriksson

  • Endocrine regulation of the growth plate.

    Ola Nilsson;Rose Marino;Francesco De Luca;Moshe Phillip

  • Immediate administration of tranexamic acid and reduced incidence of early rebleeding after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective randomized study.

    Jan Hillman;Steen Fridriksson;Ola Nilsson;Zhengquan Yu

  • The multifunctional FUS, EWS and TAF15 proto-oncoproteins show cell type-specific expression patterns and involvement in cell spreading and stress response

    Mattias K Andersson;Anders Ståhlberg;Anders Ståhlberg;Yvonne Arvidsson;Anita Olofsson

  • Human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease: immunological aspects, spontaneous and drug-induced behaviour, and dopamine release.

    Patrik Brundin;R E Strecker;H Widner;H Widner;D J Clarke

  • Behavioural effects of human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.

    P Brundin;O G Nilsson;R E Strecker;O Lindvall

  • The Role of the Resting Zone in Growth Plate Chondrogenesis

    Veronica Abad;Jodi L. Meyers;Martina Weise;Rachel I. Gafni

  • Spatial learning and memory following fimbria-fornix transection and grafting of fetal septal neurons to the hippocampus.

    O. G. Nilsson;M. L. Shapiro;F. H. Gage;D. S. Olton

  • ENETS consensus guidelines for the standards of care in neuroendocrine tumors: Towards a standardized approach to the diagnosis of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and their prognostic stratification

    Günter Klöppel;Anne Couvelard;Aurel Perren;Paul Komminoth

  • Short and tall stature: a new paradigm emerges

    Jeffrey Baron;Lars Sävendahl;Francesco De Luca;Andrew Dauber

  • Spatial learning impairments in rats with selective immunolesion of the forebrain cholinergic system

    O G Nilsson;G Leanza;C Rosenblad;D A Lappi

  • Burosumab versus conventional therapy in children with X-linked hypophosphataemia: a randomised, active-controlled, open-label, phase 3 trial

    Erik A. Imel;Francis H. Glorieux;Michael P. Whyte;Craig F. Munns

  • Human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease: ultrastructural evidence for synapse formation using tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry

    D. J. Clarke;P. Brundin;R. E. Strecker;O. G. Nilsson

  • Bedside detection of brain ischemia using intracerebral microdialysis: subarachnoid hemorrhage and delayed ischemic deterioration.

    Ola G. Nilsson;Lennart Brandt;Urban Ungerstedt;Hans Säveland

  • Prediction of death in patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage: a prospective study of a defined population

    Ola G Nilsson;Arne Lindgren;Lennart Brandt;Hans Säveland

  • Cyclosporin A increases survival of cross-species intrastriatal grafts of embryonic dopamine-containing neurons

    P. Brundin;O. G. Nilsson;F. H. Gage;A. Björklund

  • Methylprednisolone treatment in acute spinal cord injury: the myth challenged through a structured analysis of published literature

    Faisal T. Sayer;Erik Kronvall;Ola G. Nilsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Annica Dahlström
Annica Dahlström University of Gothenburg
Guido Rindi
Guido Rindi Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Bertram Wiedenmann
Bertram Wiedenmann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Barbro Eriksson
Barbro Eriksson Uppsala University
Philippe Ruszniewski
Philippe Ruszniewski Université Paris Cité
Rudolf Arnold
Rudolf Arnold Philipp University of Marburg
Kjell Öberg
Kjell Öberg Uppsala University
Elvar Theodorsson
Elvar Theodorsson Linköping University
Erik Kristiansson
Erik Kristiansson Chalmers University of Technology

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