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Sven Pettersson

Sven Pettersson

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Microbiology

D-Index
66
Citations
30665
World Ranking
2336
National Ranking
42

Overview

Sven Pettersson is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these areas, their work further specializes in molecular biology, physiology, neurology, biological psychiatry, and critical care and intensive care medicine.

Their main research topics explore the relationships between gut microbiota and health, tryptophan metabolism and brain disorders, diet and metabolism, long-term effects of COVID-19, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, and the impact of dietary effects on health.

Recent publications by Sven Pettersson include:

  • The role of gut dysbiosis in Parkinson's disease: mechanistic insights and therapeutic options, 2021, Brain
  • Tryptophan-metabolizing gut microbes regulate adult neurogenesis via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Incomplete Systemic Recovery and Metabolic Phenoreversion in Post-Acute-Phase Nonhospitalized COVID-19 Patients: Implications for Assessment of Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome, 2021, Journal of Proteome Research
  • Systemic Perturbations in Amine and Kynurenine Metabolism Associated with Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Inflammatory Cytokine Responses, 2021, Journal of Proteome Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sven Pettersson are:

  • Luke Whiley
  • Elaine Holmes
  • Jeremy K. Nicholson
  • Anusha Jayaraman
  • Rikky W. Purbojati

Their work is often published in specific high-impact venues that include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Brain
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Appetite

Best Publications

  • Host-Gut Microbiota Metabolic Interactions

    Jeremy K. Nicholson;Elaine Holmes;James Kinross;Remy Burcelin

  • Normal gut microbiota modulates brain development and behavior

    Rochellys Diaz Heijtz;Shugui Wang;Farhana Anuar;Yu Qian

  • The gut microbiota influences blood-brain barrier permeability in mice

    Viorica Braniste;Maha Al-Asmakh;Czeslawa Kowal;Farhana Anuar

  • Commensal anaerobic gut bacteria attenuate inflammation by regulating nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of PPAR-|[gamma]| and RelA

    Denise Kelly;Jamie I Campbell;Timothy P King;George Grant

  • TRAF1–C5 as a Risk Locus for Rheumatoid Arthritis — A Genomewide Study

    Robert M. Plenge;Mark Seielstad;Leonid Padyukov;Annette T. Lee

  • Local administration of antisense phosphorothioate oligonucleotides to the p65 subunit of NF-kappa B abrogates established experimental colitis in mice.

    M F Neurath;S Pettersson;K H Meyer zum Büschenfelde;W Strober

  • Genome-wide association identifies multiple ulcerative colitis susceptibility loci

    Dermot P.B. McGovern;Agnès Gardet;Leif Törkvist;Philippe Goyette

  • Microbiome Influences Prenatal and Adult Microglia in a Sex-Specific Manner

    Morgane Sonia Thion;Donovan Low;Aymeric Silvin;Jinmiao Chen

  • Our Gut Microbiome: The Evolving Inner Self

    Parag Kundu;Eran Blacher;Eran Elinav;Sven Pettersson;Sven Pettersson

  • Impaired expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ in ulcerative colitis

    Laurent Dubuquoy;Emmelie Å Jansson;Samir Deeb;Sabine Rakotobe

  • The gut microbiota influences skeletal muscle mass and function in mice

    Shawon Lahiri;Shawon Lahiri;Hyejin Kim;Isabel Garcia-Perez;Musarrat Maisha Reza;Musarrat Maisha Reza

  • Hepatic cholesterol metabolism and resistance to dietary cholesterol in LXRβ-deficient mice

    S. Alberti;G. Schuster;P. Parini;D. Feltkamp

  • The yopJ locus is required for Yersinia‐mediated inhibition of NF‐κB activation and cytokine expression: YopJ contains a eukaryotic SH2‐like domain that is essential for its repressive activity

    Kurt Schesser;Ann Kristin Spiik;Jean Marie Dukuzumuremyi;Markus F. Neurath

  • A constitutively active dioxin/aryl hydrocarbon receptor induces stomach tumors

    Patrik Andersson;Jacqueline McGuire;Carlos Rubio;Katarina Gradin

  • Microbiota Controls the Homeostasis of Glial Cells in the Gut Lamina Propria

    Panagiotis S. Kabouridis;Panagiotis S. Kabouridis;Reena Lasrado;Sarah McCallum;Song Hui Chng;Song Hui Chng

  • Decreased fat storage by Lactobacillus paracasei is associated with increased levels of angiopoietin-like 4 protein (ANGPTL4).

    Linda Aronsson;Ying Huang;Paolo Parini;Marion Korach-André

  • Cytokine Gene Transcription By NF-κB Family Members in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Markus F. Neurath;Ivan Fuss;Guido Schürmann;Sven Pettersson

  • A second B cell-specific enhancer 3' of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus.

    Sven Pettersson;Graham P. Cook;Marianne Brüggemann;Gareth T. Williams

  • Intestinal microbiota regulate xenobiotic metabolism in the liver.

    Britta Björkholm;Chek Mei Bok;Chek Mei Bok;Annelie Lundin;Annelie Lundin;Joseph Rafter

  • Aryl hydrocarbon receptor suppresses intestinal carcinogenesis in ApcMin/+ mice with natural ligands.

    Kaname Kawajiri;Yasuhito Kobayashi;Fumiaki Ohtake;Togo Ikuta

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus F. Neurath
Markus F. Neurath University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Mauro D'Amato
Mauro D'Amato Ikerbasque
Jeremy K. Nicholson
Jeremy K. Nicholson Murdoch University
Elaine Holmes
Elaine Holmes Imperial College London
Martin L. Hibberd
Martin L. Hibberd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Walter Wahli
Walter Wahli University of Lausanne
Eran Elinav
Eran Elinav Weizmann Institute of Science
Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Jan-Åke Gustafsson University of Houston
Yat Li
Yat Li University of California, Santa Cruz
B. Brett Finlay
B. Brett Finlay University of British Columbia

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