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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Gowland Hopkins Award, Nutrition Society, UK Through Fat and Thin – A Journey with the Adipose Tissues
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Paul Trayhurn is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Physiology, Genetics, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cancer Research, and Rehabilitation.

Their research focuses on topics such as Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Body Composition Measurement Techniques, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, Dietary Effects on Health, High Altitude and Hypoxia, and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism.

Trayhurn's recent publications include the following:

  • Is energy expenditure reduced in obese mice with mutations in the leptin/leptin receptor genes?, 2020, Journal of Nutritional Science
  • Oxygen in Metabolic Dysfunction and Its Therapeutic Relevance, 2021, Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
  • Brown Adipose Tissue: A Short Historical Perspective, 2022, Methods in molecular biology
  • 'Big History', history and citations in nutritional science, 2022, Journal of Nutritional Science
  • Through fat and thin - a journey with the adipose tissues, 2020, Proceedings of The Nutrition Society

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Trayhurn include Jonathan R.S. Arch, Amaya López-Pascual, J. Alfredo Martínéz, and Pedro González-Muniesa.

The main venues where Trayhurn publishes are:

  • Journal of Nutritional Science
  • Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Proceedings of The Nutrition Society
  • British Journal Of Nutrition

Awards received include the Gowland Hopkins Award from the Nutrition Society, UK, awarded in 2019 for the work titled "Through Fat and Thin - A Journey with the Adipose Tissues." Trayhurn was also named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Adipokines: inflammation and the pleiotropic role of white adipose tissue.

    Paul Trayhurn;I. Stuart Wood

  • Glucose transporters (GLUT and SGLT): expanded families of sugar transport proteins.

    I. Stuart Wood;Paul Trayhurn

  • Localization of leptin receptor mRNA and the long form splice variant (Ob-Rb) in mouse hypothalamus and adjacent brain regions by in situ hybridization

    Julian G. Mercer;Nigel Hoggard;Lynda M. Williams;C.Bruce Lawrence

  • Hypoxia and Adipose Tissue Function and Dysfunction in Obesity

    Paul Trayhurn

  • Signalling role of adipose tissue: adipokines and inflammation in obesity.

    P. Trayhurn;I.S. Wood

  • Leptin and leptin receptor mRNA and protein expression in the murine fetus and placenta

    Nigel Hoggard;Leif Hunter;Jacqueline S. Duncan;Lynda M. Williams

  • Endocrine and signalling role of adipose tissue: new perspectives on fat.

    P. Trayhurn

  • CIRCULATING LEPTIN IN WOMEN : A LONGITUDINAL STUDY IN THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND DURING PREGNANCY

    Laura Hardie;Paul Trayhurn;David Abramovich;Paul Fowler

  • Hypoxia in adipose tissue: a basis for the dysregulation of tissue function in obesity?

    Paul Trayhurn;Bohan Wang;I. Stuart Wood

  • Coexpression of leptin receptor and preproneuropeptide Y mRNA in arcuate nucleus of mouse hypothalamus

    Julian Mercer;Nigel Hoggard;Lynda Williams;C B Lawrence

  • Dysregulation of the expression and secretion of inflammation-related adipokines by hypoxia in human adipocytes

    Bohan Wang;I. Stuart Wood;Paul Trayhurn

  • Localization of leptin receptor mRNA splice variants in murine peripheral tissues by RT-PCR and in situ hybridization

    N Hoggard;J G Mercer;D V Rayner;K Moar

  • Acute cold-induced suppression of ob (obese) gene expression in white adipose tissue of mice: mediation by the sympathetic system

    P Trayhurn;J S Duncan;D V Rayner

  • Vitamin D signalling in adipose tissue.

    Cherlyn Ding;Dan Gao;John Wilding;Paul Trayhurn

  • Circulating Leptin Levels Are Modulated by Fasting, Cold Exposure and Insulin Administration in Lean but Not Zucker (fa/fa) Rats as Measured by ELISA

    Laura J. Hardie;D.Vernon Rayner;Stephen Holmes;Paul Trayhurn

  • Zinc-α2-glycoprotein, a lipid mobilizing factor, is expressed in adipocytes and is up-regulated in mice with cancer cachexia

    Chen Bing;Yi Bao;John Jenkins;Paul Sanders

  • Effects of fasting and refeeding on ob gene expression in white adipose tissue of lean and obese (ob/ob) mice

    Paul Trayhurn;Moira E.A. Thomas;Jacqueline S. Duncan;D. Vernon Rayner

  • Leptin: fundamental aspects.

    P Trayhurn;Nigel Hoggard;Julian Mercer;D V Rayner

  • Adipose Tissue and Adipokines—Energy Regulation from the Human Perspective

    Paul Trayhurn;Chen Bing;I. Stuart Wood

  • Thermoregulation and non-shivering thermogenesis in the genetically obese (ob/ob) mouse

    P. Trayhurn;W. P. T. James

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Speakman
John R. Speakman University of Aberdeen
Michael E. J. Lean
Michael E. J. Lean University of Glasgow
Christian A. Drevon
Christian A. Drevon University of Oslo
Timothy J. Bartness
Timothy J. Bartness Georgia State University
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge
Jürgen Eckel
Jürgen Eckel Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
John E. Hesketh
John E. Hesketh Newcastle University
Nancy J. Rothwell
Nancy J. Rothwell University of Manchester
Sharon E. Mitchell
Sharon E. Mitchell University of Aberdeen
Marjolein Visser
Marjolein Visser Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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