Maria João Pereira
Researcher at Department of Medical Sciences; Clinical diabetology and metabolism
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 47 11, +46 18 471 47 14, +46 18 471 47 17, +46 18 471 47 12
- E-mail:
- maria.pereira@medsci.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Rudbecklaboratoriet, R3, vån 2
SE-75185 Uppsala
Sweden - Postal address:
- Rudbecklaboratoriet, R3, vån 2
SE-75185 Uppsala
Sweden
Publications
Recent publications
Part of Translational Research, p. 41-54, 2025
- DOI for Abundance of dopamine and its receptors in the brain and adipose tissue following diet-induced obesity or caloric restriction
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Part of Physiology and Behavior, 2025
- DOI for Cafeteria diet and caloric restriction affect metabolic but not behavioral characteristics in male Wistar rats
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 1399-1412, 2024
- DOI for Short-term effects of obesity surgery versus low-energy diet on body composition and tissue-specific glucose uptake: a randomised clinical study using whole-body integrated 18F-FDG-PET/MRI
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Part of Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, p. 426-435, 2024
Part of Metabolites, 2024
- DOI for Metabolomic Profiling of Adipose Tissue in Type 2 Diabetes: Associations with Obesity and Insulin Resistance
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Part of Translational Research, p. 41-54, 2025
- DOI for Abundance of dopamine and its receptors in the brain and adipose tissue following diet-induced obesity or caloric restriction
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Part of Physiology and Behavior, 2025
- DOI for Cafeteria diet and caloric restriction affect metabolic but not behavioral characteristics in male Wistar rats
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 1399-1412, 2024
- DOI for Short-term effects of obesity surgery versus low-energy diet on body composition and tissue-specific glucose uptake: a randomised clinical study using whole-body integrated 18F-FDG-PET/MRI
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Part of Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, p. 426-435, 2024
Part of Metabolites, 2024
- DOI for Metabolomic Profiling of Adipose Tissue in Type 2 Diabetes: Associations with Obesity and Insulin Resistance
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 2605-2607, 2024
Autonomic nervous system responses to hypo- and hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes and prediabetes
Part of European Journal of Endocrinology, p. 499-508, 2024
- DOI for Autonomic nervous system responses to hypo- and hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes and prediabetes
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 1399-1412, 2024
- DOI for Short-term effects of obesity surgery versus low-energy diet on body composition and tissue-specific glucose uptake: a randomised clinical study using whole-body integrated 18F-FDG-PET/MRI
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Part of Obesity, p. 1870-1884, 2024
- DOI for Renal sinus adipose tissue: exploratory study of metabolic features and transcriptome compared with omental and subcutaneous adipose tissue
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The role of CD20+ T cells: Insights in human peripheral blood
Part of Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry., p. 171-180, 2024
- DOI for The role of CD20+ T cells: Insights in human peripheral blood
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Part of Immunology Letters, 2024
- DOI for Identification and characterization of circulating and adipose tissue infiltrated CD20+ T cells from subjects with obesity that undergo bariatric surgery
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Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2024
- DOI for Regulation of the Cortisol Axis, Glucagon, and Growth Hormone by Glucose Is Altered in Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
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Subcutaneous adipose tissue dopamine D2 receptor expression is increased in prediabetes and T2D
Part of Endocrine, 2024
- DOI for Subcutaneous adipose tissue dopamine D2 receptor expression is increased in prediabetes and T2D
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Bariatric Surgery Induces Alterations in the Immune Profile of Peripheral Blood T Cells
Part of Biomolecules, 2024
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Part of EBioMedicine, 2024
- DOI for CD248 promotes insulin resistance by binding to the insulin receptor and dampening its insulin-induced autophosphorylation
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CD8+Treg cells play a role in the obesity-associated insulin resistance
Part of Life Sciences, 2024
- DOI for CD8+Treg cells play a role in the obesity-associated insulin resistance
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Part of Adipocyte, 2023
- DOI for CABLES1 expression is reduced in human subcutaneous adipose tissue in obesity and type 2 diabetes but may not directly impact adipocyte glucose and lipid metabolism
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Part of Metabolites, 2023
- DOI for Several Metabolite Families Display Inflexibility during Glucose Challenge in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: An Untargeted Metabolomics Study
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Part of Endocrinology, 2023
- DOI for Increased OCT3 Expression in Adipose Tissue With Aging: Implications for Catecholamine and Lipid Turnover and Insulin Resistance in Women
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Glucose-dependent inflammatory responses in obese compared to lean individuals
Part of Endocrine, p. 464-476, 2023
- DOI for Glucose-dependent inflammatory responses in obese compared to lean individuals
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Part of NMR in Biomedicine, 2023
Part of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 2023
- DOI for Effects of the second-generation antipsychotic drugs aripiprazole and olanzapine on human adipocyte differentiation
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Part of Cytokine, 2023
- DOI for Interleukin-33 inhibits glucose uptake in human adipocytes and its expression in adipose tissue is elevated in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes
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Evaluation of RNA Isolation Methods in Human Adipose Tissue
Part of Laboratory medicine, 2022
Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2022
- DOI for Role of Estrogen and Its Receptors in Adipose Tissue Glucose Metabolism in Pre- and Postmenopausal Women
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Response of multiple hormones to glucose and arginine challenge in T2DM after gastric bypass
Part of Endocrine Connections, 2022
- DOI for Response of multiple hormones to glucose and arginine challenge in T2DM after gastric bypass
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Part of Adipocyte, p. 434-447, 2022
- DOI for ESR2 expression in subcutaneous adipose tissue is related to body fat distribution in women, and knockdown impairs preadipocyte differentiation
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Part of Obesity Science & Practice, p. 21-31, 2022
- DOI for Human adipose tissue gene expression of solute carrier family 19 member 3 ( SLC19A3 ): relation to obesity and weight‐loss
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Part of Translational Research, p. 105-121, 2022
- DOI for CDKN2C expression in adipose tissue is reduced in type II diabetes and central obesity: impact on adipocyte differentiation and lipid storage?
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Part of Metabolism, 2022
- DOI for Modulation of hypothalamic AMPK phosphorylation by olanzapine controls energy balance and body weight
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Organ-specific metabolic pathways distinguish prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and normal tissues
Part of Cell Reports Medicine, 2022
- DOI for Organ-specific metabolic pathways distinguish prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, and normal tissues
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Part of Biochemical Pharmacology, 2022
- DOI for Excess glucocorticoid exposure contributes to adipose tissue fibrosis which involves macrophage interaction with adipose precursor cells
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Part of Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2021
- DOI for Macrophage-derived secretome is sufficient to confer olanzapine-mediated insulin resistance in human adipocytes
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Part of Metabolites, 2021
- DOI for Impaired HMG-CoA reductase activity caused by genetic variants or statin exposure: impact on human adipose tissue, β-cells and metabolome
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Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2021
- DOI for Time Course of Metabolic, Neuroendocrine, and Adipose Effects During 2 Years of Follow-up After Gastric Bypass in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
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Part of Diabetologia, p. 641-655, 2021
Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2021
- DOI for Human macrophages stimulate expression of inflammatory mediators in adipocytes; effects of second-generation antipsychotics and glucocorticoids on cellular cross-talk
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Part of European Journal of Endocrinology, p. 879-889, 2021
Part of Diabetes, p. 1265-1277, 2021
Part of Obesity, p. 535-542, 2021
- DOI for Changes in Circulating Cytokines and Adipokines After RYGB in Patients with and without Type 2 Diabetes
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Integration of whole-body [18F]FDG PET/MRI with non-targeted metabolomics can provide new insights on tissue-specific insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes
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Part of Endocrine, p. 344-353, 2020
- DOI for Rapid changes in neuroendocrine regulation may contribute to reversal of type 2 diabetes after gastric bypass surgery
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Proof-of-concept for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in human preadipocytes: Deletion of FKBP5 and PPARG and effects on adipocyte differentiation and metabolism
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Validation of automated whole-body analysis of metabolic and morphological parameters from an integrated FDG-PET/MRI acquisition
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Part of Toxicology, 2020
- DOI for The effects of bisphenol A and bisphenol S on adipokine expression and glucose metabolism in human adipose tissue
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Type B insulin resistance syndrome in a patient with type 1 diabetes
Part of Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism case reports, 2020
- DOI for Type B insulin resistance syndrome in a patient with type 1 diabetes
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Direct effects of glucagon on glucose uptake and lipolysis in human adipocytes
Part of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 2020
Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, p. 2601-2613, 2019
Part of Scientific Reports, 2019
- DOI for Intra- and inter-individual metabolic profiling highlights carnitine and lysophosphatidylcholine pathways as key molecular defects in type 2 diabetes
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Effects of second-generation antipsychotics on human subcutaneous adipose tissue metabolism
Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2019
- DOI for Effects of second-generation antipsychotics on human subcutaneous adipose tissue metabolism
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Part of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, p. 28-36, 2019
Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, p. 193-201, 2019
Emerging Role of SGLT-2 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Obesity
Part of Drugs, p. 219-230, 2019
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Calcineurin is an important factor involved in glucose uptake in human adipocytes
Part of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, p. 157-168, 2018
- DOI for Calcineurin is an important factor involved in glucose uptake in human adipocytes
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Part of Endocrine, p. 116-128, 2018
- DOI for FKBP5 expression in human adipose tissue: potential role in glucose and lipid metabolism, adipogenesis and type 2 diabetes
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Secretagogin is increased in plasma from type 2 diabetes patients and potentially reflects stress and islet dysfunction
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Part of Adipocyte, p. 285-296, 2018
- DOI for Role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma Pro12Ala polymorphism in human adipose tissue: assessment of adipogenesis and adipocyte glucose and lipid turnover.
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FKBP51 ablation using CRISPR/Cas-9 impairs adipocyte differentiation
Part of Diabetologia, 2018
Direct effects of glucagon on human adipose tissue metabolism
Part of Diabetologia, 2018
Part of Diabetologia, 2018
Part of Hormone and Metabolic Research, p. 627-639, 2018
Part of Diabetes Therapy, p. 1511-1532, 2018
- DOI for A Randomized Controlled Trial of Dapagliflozin Plus Once-Weekly Exenatide Versus Placebo in Individuals with Obesity and Without Diabetes: Metabolic Effects and Markers Associated with Bodyweight Loss
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 234-242, 2017
- DOI for Genotype-based recall to study metabolic effects of genetic variation: a pilot study of PPARG Pro12Ala carriers
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Part of Endocrine, p. 839-852, 2017
- DOI for Role of cannabinoid receptor 1 in human adipose tissue for lipolysis regulation and insulin resistance
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Part of Diabetes, obesity and metabolism, p. 49-60, 2017
- DOI for Dapagliflozin once-daily and exenatide once-weekly dual therapy: A 24-week randomized, placebo-controlled, phase II study examining effects on body weight and prediabetes in obese adults without diabetes
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Part of Diabetes, obesity and metabolism, p. 1276-1288, 2017
- DOI for Dapagliflozin once daily plus exenatide once weekly in obese adults without diabetes: Sustained reductions in body weight, glycaemia and blood pressure over 1 year
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Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Calcineurin is involved in the regulation of human adipocyte glucose uptake
Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Glucagon levels during short-term SGLT2 inhibition are largely regulated by plasma glucose changes
Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Part of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, p. 124-132, 2016
Part of Metabolism, p. 1768-1780, 2016
Part of Metabolism, p. 998-1006, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, 2016
Evaluation of reference genes for gene expression studies in human brown adipose tissue
Part of Adipocyte, p. 280-285, 2015
Part of Diabetologia, 2015
Role of lipocalin 2 in human adipose tissue metabolism and glucocorticoid-induced insulin resistance
Part of Diabetologia, 2015
Part of Diabetologia, 2015
Characterization of Brown Adipose Tissue in the Human Perirenal Depot
Part of Obesity, p. 1830-1837, 2014
Part of Transplantation Proceedings, p. 2377-2380, 2014
Part of Biochemical Pharmacology, p. 61-73, 2014
Part of Metabolism, p. 1198-1208, 2014
Part of Diabetologia, 2014
Part of Diabetologia, 2014
Part of Metabolism, p. 702-715, 2014
Part of Biochemical Pharmacology, p. 216-228, 2014
Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2014
Part of Transplantation Proceedings, p. 1142-1148, 2013
Cyclosporin A and tacrolimus impair dynamics of GLUT4 traffic in insulin-responsive cells
Part of Diabetologia, 2013
Part of Diabetes, obesity and metabolism, p. 1056-1560, 2013
Part of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, p. 260-269, 2013
Part of Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, p. 96-105, 2012
Part of Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, p. 1687-1692, 2009