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Overview

Ylva Hellsten is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has a research focus predominantly in the field of Medicine. Their scholarly work spans several related subfields, including Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Complementary and alternative medicine, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

Their publications cover a broad range of topics associated with cardiovascular and exercise physiology, adipose tissue and metabolism, and exercise and physiological responses. Other notable areas of research include sports performance and training, muscle metabolism and nutrition, cardiovascular disease and adiposity, and the intersection of metabolism, diabetes, and cancer.

Ylva Hellsten's recent academic contributions include papers such as:

  • Effect of aerobic exercise training on asthma in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, European Respiratory Journal)
  • Exercise-induced skeletal muscle angiogenesis: impact of age, sex, angiocrines and cellular mediators (2023, European Journal of Applied Physiology)
  • Inducible deletion of skeletal muscle AMPKα reveals that AMPK is required for nucleotide balance but dispensable for muscle glucose uptake and fat oxidation during exercise (2020, Molecular Metabolism)
  • Ischemic Preconditioning Improves Microvascular Endothelial Function in Remote Vasculature by Enhanced Prostacyclin Production (2020, Journal of the American Heart Association)
  • Histamine H 1 and H 2 receptors are essential transducers of the integrative exercise training response in humans (2021, Science Advances)

Frequent publication venues for Ylva Hellsten's research include:

  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • Physiological Reports
  • European Journal of Applied Physiology

Collaborations have been a substantial part of their research activity, with frequent co-authors consisting of Lasse Gliemann, Jens Bangsbo, Line Boel Nørregaard, Camilla Collin Hansen, and Kate A. Wickham. These partnerships reflect ongoing engagement with peers in related disciplines to advance study outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Vasodilatory mechanisms in contracting skeletal muscle

    Philip S. Clifford;Ylva Hellsten

  • Regulation of 5′AMP-activated protein kinase activity and substrate utilization in exercising human skeletal muscle

    Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski;Christopher MacDonald;Jakob N. Nielsen;Ylva Hellsten

  • Glycogen-dependent effects of 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide (AICA)-riboside on AMP-activated protein kinase and glycogen synthase activities in rat skeletal muscle.

    Jørgen F.P. Wojtaszewski;Sebastian B. Jørgensen;Ylva Hellsten;D. Grahame Hardie

  • Xanthine Oxidase in Human Skeletal Muscle Following Eccentric Exercise: A Role in Inflammation

    Y Hellsten;U Frandsen;N Orthenblad;B Sjødin

  • Effect of high intensity training on capillarization and presence of angiogenic factors in human skeletal muscle

    L. Jensen;J. Bangsbo;Y. Hellsten

  • Effects of α-AMPK knockout on exercise-induced gene activation in mouse skeletal muscle

    Sebastian B. Jørgensen;Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski;Benoit Viollet;Fabrizio Andreelli

  • Effect of high-intensity exercise training on lactate/H+ transport capacity in human skeletal muscle.

    Henriette Pilegaard;Kristian Domino;Thomas Noland;Carsten Juel

  • PGC-1α is not mandatory for exercise- and training-induced adaptive gene responses in mouse skeletal muscle

    Lotte Leick;Jorgen F.P. Wojtaszewski;Sune Troels Johansen;Kristian Kiilerich

  • Adenosine Concentrations in the Interstitium of Resting and Contracting Human Skeletal Muscle

    Ylva Hellsten;Dave Maclean;Göran Rådegran;Bengt Saltin

  • Cardiovascular Adaptations to Exercise Training

    Ylva Hellsten;Michael Nyberg

  • Localization of nitric oxide synthase in human skeletal muscle

    Ulrik Frandsen;Manuel Lopez-Figueroa;Ylva Hellsten

  • Resveratrol blunts the positive effects of exercise training on cardiovascular health in aged men.

    Lasse Gliemann;Jakob Friis Schmidt;Jesper Olesen;Rasmus Sjørup Biensø

  • Copenhagen Consensus statement 2019: physical activity and ageing.

    Jens Bangsbo;Joanna Blackwell;Carl-Johan Boraxbekk;Paolo Caserotti

  • AMP deamination and purine exchange in human skeletal muscle during and after intense exercise

    Y. Hellsten;E. A. Richter;B. Kiens;J. Bangsbo

  • Formation of hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide in rat skeletal muscle cells during contractions

    Leonardo R Silveira;Lucia Pereira-Da-Silva;Carsten Juel;Ylva Hellsten

  • Vasodilator interactions in skeletal muscle blood flow regulation.

    Ylva Hellsten;M Nyberg;L G Jensen;Stefan Mortensen

  • Exercise-induced capillary growth in human skeletal muscle and the dynamics of VEGF.

    Birgitte Hoier;Ylva Hellsten

  • Inhibition of nitric oxide and prostaglandins, but not endothelial‐derived hyperpolarizing factors, reduces blood flow and aerobic energy turnover in the exercising human leg

    Stefan P Mortensen;José González-Alonso;Rasmus Damsgaard;Bengt Saltin

  • Intense interval training enhances human skeletal muscle oxygen uptake in the initial phase of dynamic exercise at high but not at low intensities

    Peter Krustrup;Ylva Hellsten;Jens Bangsbo

  • Oxidation of urate in human skeletal muscle during exercise.

    Ylva Hellsten;Peter C. Tullson;Erik A. Richter;Jens Bangsbo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Bangsbo
Jens Bangsbo University of Copenhagen
Bengt Saltin
Bengt Saltin University of Copenhagen
Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski
Jørgen F. P. Wojtaszewski University of Copenhagen
Erik A. Richter
Erik A. Richter University of Copenhagen
Bente Klarlund Pedersen
Bente Klarlund Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Michael Kjaer
Michael Kjaer University of Copenhagen
Niels H. Secher
Niels H. Secher University of Copenhagen
Peter Krustrup
Peter Krustrup University of Southern Denmark
Bente Kiens
Bente Kiens University of Copenhagen
Peter Schjerling
Peter Schjerling University of Copenhagen

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