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Overview

Trond Ulven is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work focuses on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, Organic Chemistry, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuropeptides and animal physiology, fatty acid research and health, adipose tissue and metabolism, pancreatic function and diabetes, as well as diet and metabolism studies and their links to disease.

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • "Gut Dysbiosis during Influenza Contributes to Pulmonary Pneumococcal Superinfection through Altered Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production" (2020) in Cell Reports
  • "Pathophysiological regulation of lung function by the free fatty acid receptor FFA4" (2020) in Science Translational Medicine
  • "Synthesis of Lysophosphatidylcholine and Mixed Phosphatidylcholine" (2022) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Activation of GPR40 induces hypothalamic neurogenesis through p38- and BDNF-dependent mechanisms" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Autocrine negative feedback regulation of lipolysis through sensing of NEFAs by FFAR4/GPR120 in WAT" (2020) in Molecular Metabolism

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include Elisabeth Rexen Ulven, Graeme Milligan, Asmita Manandhar, Brian D. Hudson, and Andrew B. Tobin.

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Molecular Metabolism

Best Publications

  • Gut Dysbiosis during Influenza Contributes to Pulmonary Pneumococcal Superinfection through Altered Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production

    Valentin Sencio;Adeline Barthelemy;Luciana P. Tavares;Marina G. Machado

  • Short-chain free fatty acid receptors FFA2/GPR43 and FFA3/GPR41 as new potential therapeutic targets.

    Trond Ulven

  • Complex Pharmacology of Free Fatty Acid Receptors

    Graeme Milligan;Bharat Shimpukade;Trond Ulven;Brian D. Hudson

  • The Pharmacology of TUG-891, a Potent and Selective Agonist of the Free Fatty Acid Receptor 4 (FFA4/GPR120), Demonstrates Both Potential Opportunity and Possible Challenges to Therapeutic Agonism

    Brian D Hudson;Bharat Shimpukade;Amanda E Mackenzie;Adrian J Butcher

  • Emerging roles of DP and CRTH2 in allergic inflammation

    Evi Kostenis;Trond Ulven

  • Discovery of a Potent and Selective GPR120 Agonist

    Bharat Shimpukade;Brian D Hudson;Christine Kiel Hovgaard;Graeme Milligan

  • Butyrate Ameliorates Allergic Airway Inflammation by Limiting Eosinophil Trafficking and Survival

    Anna Theiler;Thomas Bärnthaler;Wolfgang Platzer;Georg Richtig

  • Chemical synthesis and biological evaluation of cis- and trans-12,13-cyclopropyl and 12,13-cyclobutyl epothilones and related pyridine side chain analogues.

    K. C. Nicolaou;K. C. Nicolaou;Kenji Namoto;Kenji Namoto;Andreas Ritzén;Andreas Ritzén;Trond Ulven;Trond Ulven

  • Antagonism of the prostaglandin D2 receptor CRTH2 attenuates asthma pathology in mouse eosinophilic airway inflammation

    Lena Uller;Jesper Mosolff Mathiesen;Lisa Alenmyr;Magnus Korsgren

  • Discovery of Potent and Selective Agonists for the Free Fatty Acid Receptor 1 (FFA1/GPR40), a Potential Target for the Treatment of Type II Diabetes

    Elisabeth Christiansen;Christian Urban;Nicole Merten;Kathrin Liebscher

  • Polyunsaturated fatty acid receptors, GPR40 and GPR120, are expressed in the hypothalamus and control energy homeostasis and inflammation

    Nathalia R. V. Dragano;Carina Solon;Albina F. Ramalho;Rodrigo F. de Moura

  • Extracellular Ionic Locks Determine Variation in Constitutive Activity and Ligand Potency between Species Orthologs of the Free Fatty Acid Receptors FFA2 and FFA3

    Brian D. Hudson;Irina G. Tikhonova;Sunil K. Pandey;Trond Ulven

  • Selective orthosteric free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFA2) agonists: identification of the structural and chemical requirements for selective activation of FFA2 versus FFA3

    Johannes Schmidt;Nicola J. Smith;Elisabeth Christiansen;Irina G. Tikhonova

  • Activity of dietary fatty acids on FFA1 and FFA4 and characterisation of pinolenic acid as a dual FFA1/FFA4 agonist with potential effect against metabolic diseases.

    Elisabeth Christiansen;Kenneth R Watterson;Claire J Stocker;Elena Sokol

  • Defining the Molecular Basis for the First Potent and Selective Orthosteric Agonists of the FFA2 Free Fatty Acid Receptor

    Brian D. Hudson;Maria E. Due-Hansen;Elisabeth Christiansen;Anna Mette Hansen

  • Dietary Fatty Acids and Their Potential for Controlling Metabolic Diseases Through Activation of FFA4/GPR120

    Trond Ulven;Elisabeth Christiansen

  • A Protocol for Amide Bond Formation with Electron Deficient Amines and Sterically Hindered Substrates

    Maria E Due-Hansen;Sunil K Pandey;Elisabeth Christiansen;Rikke Andersen

  • Identification of indole derivatives exclusively interfering with a G protein-independent signaling pathway of the prostaglandin D2 receptor CRTH2.

    Jesper Mosolff Mathiesen;Trond Ulven;Lene Martini;Lars Ole Gerlach

  • The Oxygen-Mediated Synthesis of 1,3-Butadiynes in Continuous Flow: Using Teflon AF-2400 to Effect Gas/Liquid Contact

    Trine P Petersen;Trine P Petersen;Trine P Petersen;Anastasios Polyzos;Anastasios Polyzos;Matthew O'Brien;Trond Ulven

  • Non-Acidic Free Fatty Acid Receptor 4 Agonists with Antidiabetic Activity

    Carlos M. G. Azevedo;Kenneth R. Watterson;Ed T. Wargent;Steffen V. F. Hansen

  • Minor Structural Modifications Convert the Dual TP/CRTH2 Antagonist Ramatroban into a Highly Selective and Potent CRTH2 Antagonist

    Trond Ulven;Evi Kostenis

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme Milligan
Graeme Milligan University of Glasgow
Evi Kostenis
Evi Kostenis University of Bonn
K. C. Nicolaou
K. C. Nicolaou Rice University
Matthias U. Kassack
Matthias U. Kassack Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mette M. Rosenkilde
Mette M. Rosenkilde University of Copenhagen
Andrew B. Tobin
Andrew B. Tobin University of Glasgow
Andrew D. Bond
Andrew D. Bond University of Cambridge
Leonardo Pardo
Leonardo Pardo Autonomous University of Barcelona
Richard J. Ward
Richard J. Ward Universidade de São Paulo
Steven V. Ley
Steven V. Ley University of Cambridge

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