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Thomas Jansson is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in the United States. Their scientific work primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, with significant contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their research spans several main topics including Birth, Development, and Health, Pregnancy and Preeclampsia Studies, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors, Fatty Acid Research and Health, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Thomas Jansson has published extensively in several venues, with frequent appearances in Clinical Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Placenta, The FASEB Journal, and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Placental Function and the Development of Fetal Overgrowth and Fetal Growth Restriction, 2021, Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America
  • Regulation of glucose homeostasis by small extracellular vesicles in normal pregnancy and in gestational diabetes, 2020, The FASEB Journal
  • Sex-specific responses in placental fatty acid oxidation, esterification and transfer capacity to maternal obesity, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
  • Maternal-fetal cross-talk via the placenta: influence on offspring development and metabolism, 2023, Development
  • Placenta-specific Slc38a2/SNAT2 knockdown causes fetal growth restriction in mice, 2021, Clinical Science

Thomas Jansson has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Theresa L. Powell, Fredrick J. Rosario, Madhulika B. Gupta, Johann Urschitz, and Dana Dabelea.

Best Publications

  • Glucose transporter protein expression in human placenta throughout gestation and in intrauterine growth retardation

    T Jansson;M Wennergren;N P Illsley

  • High-fat diet before and during pregnancy causes marked up-regulation of placental nutrient transport and fetal overgrowth in C57/BL6 mice

    Helen N. Jones;Laura A. Woollett;Nicolette Barbour;Puttur D. Prasad

  • Down‐regulation of placental transport of amino acids precedes the development of intrauterine growth restriction in rats fed a low protein diet

    Nina Jansson;Jessica Pettersson;Allah Haafiz;Anette Ericsson

  • Placental phenotypes of intrauterine growth.

    Colin P Sibley;Mark A Turner;Irene Cetin;Paul Ayuk

  • Human Placental Transport in Altered Fetal Growth: Does the Placenta Function as a Nutrient Sensor? - A Review

    T. Jansson;T. Jansson;T.L. Powell;T.L. Powell

  • Activation of Placental mTOR Signaling and Amino Acid Transporters in Obese Women Giving Birth to Large Babies

    Nina Jansson;Fredrick J. Rosario;Francesca Gaccioli;Susanne Lager

  • Amino acid transporters in the human placenta.

    Thomas Jansson

  • Increasing maternal body mass index is associated with systemic inflammation in the mother and the activation of distinct placental inflammatory pathways.

    Irving L.M.H. Aye;Susanne Lager;Vanessa I. Ramirez;Francesca Gaccioli

  • Mammalian target of rapamycin in the human placenta regulates leucine transport and is down-regulated in restricted fetal growth

    Sara Roos;Nina Jansson;Isabelle Palmberg;Karin Säljö

  • Interleukin-6 in the Maternal Circulation Reaches the Rat Fetus in Mid-gestation

    Jovanna Dahlgren;Anne-Maj Samuelsson;Thomas Jansson;Thomas Jansson;Agneta Holmäng

  • Leptin stimulates the activity of the system A amino acid transporter in human placental villous fragments.

    Nina Jansson;S L Greenwood;Bengt R Johansson;Theresa L Powell

  • Alterations in the Activity of Placental Amino Acid Transporters in Pregnancies Complicated by Diabetes

    Thomas Jansson;Ylva Ekstrand;Caroline Björn;Margareta Wennergren

  • Regulation of placental nutrient transport--a review.

    H.N. Jones;T.L. Powell;T. Jansson

  • Glucose transport and system A activity in syncytiotrophoblast microvillous and basal plasma membranes in intrauterine growth restriction

    T. Jansson;K. Ylvén;M. Wennergren;T.L. Powell

  • Triglyceride Hydrolase Activities and Expression of Fatty Acid Binding Proteins in the Human Placenta in Pregnancies Complicated by Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Diabetes

    AnneLiese Magnusson;I J Waterman;Margareta Wennergren;Thomas Jansson

  • Placental transport of leucine and lysine is reduced in intrauterine growth restriction.

    Thomas Jansson;Valeria Scholtbach;Theresa L Powell

  • Placental glucose transport and GLUT 1 expression in insulin-dependent diabetes

    Thomas Jansson;Margareta Wennergren;Theresa L. Powell

  • Mammalian target of rapamycin signalling modulates amino acid uptake by regulating transporter cell surface abundance in primary human trophoblast cells

    Fredrick J. Rosario;Yoshikatsu Kanai;Theresa L. Powell;Thomas Jansson

  • Maternal protein restriction in the rat inhibits placental insulin, mTOR, and STAT3 signaling and down-regulates placental amino acid transporters.

    Fredrick J. Rosario;Nina Jansson;Yoshikatsu Kanai;Puttur D. Prasad

  • Placental Responses to Changes in the Maternal Environment Determine Fetal Growth.

    Kris Genelyn Dimasuay;Philippe Boeuf;Theresa L. Powell;Thomas Jansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Theresa L. Powell
Theresa L. Powell University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Yoshikatsu Kanai
Yoshikatsu Kanai Osaka University
Peter W. Nathanielsz
Peter W. Nathanielsz University of Wyoming
Martha Lappas
Martha Lappas University of Melbourne
Elisabet Stener-Victorin
Elisabet Stener-Victorin Karolinska Institute
Ivana V. Yang
Ivana V. Yang University of Colorado Denver
James G. Beeson
James G. Beeson Burnet Institute
Puttur D. Prasad
Puttur D. Prasad Augusta University
Shawn S.-C. Li
Shawn S.-C. Li University of Western Ontario
Stephen J. Rogerson
Stephen J. Rogerson University of Melbourne

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