Department of Medical Cell Biology

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The Department of Medical Cell Biology conducts research and trains doctoral students in cell biology and physiology with a focus on diabetes, pharmacology, inflammation, cancer and neurobiology. We also teach students studying at various programs and independent courses in cell biology, physiology, neurobiology, anatomy and histology.

At the undergraduate level, the department is responsible for the teaching of anatomy, histology, cell biology and physiology for students on the medical program, the pharmacy program, the biomedicine program, the nursing program, the biomedical analyst program, the dietician program, the prescription program and on various independent courses. The department is also responsible for the master's program in biomedicine.

Uppsala Diabetes Center

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Recent findings

What are the important risk factors for excessive daytime sleepiness in a population-based cohort?

Theorell-Haglöw, Jenny; Ulander, Martin; Brandberg, John; Claesson, Martin et al.

Part of Journal of Sleep Research, 2025
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Inter-organelle crosstalk in the pancreatic β cell: Membrane contact sites as regulators of insulin secretion

Panagiotou, Styliani

2025
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DGCR2 targeting affibody molecules for delivery of drugs and imaging reagents to human beta cells

Cheung, Pierre; Persson, Jonas; Zhang, Bo; Vasylovska, Svitlana et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
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Standardizing decellularization protocols for optimized uterine tissue bioengineering

Sehic, Edina; de Miguel-Gomez, Lucia

Part of REGENERATIVE THERAPY, p. 183-190, 2025
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Mechanistic insights and approaches for beta cell regeneration

Karampelias, Christos; Liu, Ka-Cheuk; Tengholm, Anders; Andersson, Olov

Part of Nature Chemical Biology, 2025
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Habitual sleep duration, healthy eating, and digestive system cancer mortality

Noga Morais Ferreira, Diana; Meth, Elisa; Pacheco, André P; Cedernaes, Jonathan et al.

Part of BMC Medicine, 2025
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Significance of Gene Polymorphism and Gene Expression of BACE2 in Swedish Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Dimberg, Jan; Shamoun, Levar; af Geijerstam, Kristin; Landerholm, Kalle et al.

Part of Oncology, p. 48-55, 2025
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Real-time detection of somatostatin release from single islets reveals hypersecretion in type 2 diabetes

Yang, Mingyu; Mandal, Kousik; Södergren, Moa; Dumral, Özge et al.

Part of Acta Physiologica, 2025
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The question of strains in AA amyloidosis

Westermark, Gunilla; Nyström, Ebba; Nyström, Sofie; Nilsson, K. Peter R. et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
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Gastrointestinal side effects in hepatocellular carcinoma patients receiving transarterial chemoembolization: a meta-analysis of 81 studies and 9495 patients

Arendt, Nathalie; Kopsida, Maria; Khaled, Jaafar; Sjöblom, Markus et al.

Part of Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology, p. 1-30, 2025
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Innate floral object identification in a solitary pollinator employs a combination of both visual and olfactory cues

Mishra, Aditi; Jain, Anupreksha; Iyer, Padmapriya S.; Suryanarayanan, Ashwin et al.

Part of The Science of Nature, 2025
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Prevalence of Myocardial Infarction With Obstructive and Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries in a Middle-Aged Population With Chronic Airflow Limitation: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Sundh, Josefin; Ekström, Magnus; Blomberg, Anders; Lindberg, Eva et al.

Part of The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, p. 303-312, 2025
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Low-grade systemic inflammation and peripheral airway function.

Färdig, Martin; Zaigham, Suneela; Engström, Gunnar; Janson, Christer et al.

Part of ERJ open research, 2025
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Somatostatin triggers local cAMP and Ca²⁺ signaling in primary cilia to modulate pancreatic β-cell function

Incedal Nilsson, Ceren; Dumral, Özge; Sanchez, Gonzalo; Xie, Beichen et al.

Part of EMBO Journal, 2025
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Chronic Airflow Limitation, Lower Respiratory Symptoms, COPD and Chronic Rhinosinusitis in a Middle-Aged Population: The Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS). A Link Between the Lower and Upper Airways.

Andersson, Anders; Bergqvist, Joel; Schiöler, Linus; Bossios, Apostolos et al.

Part of The International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, p. 273-286, 2025
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Plasma expansion and renal perfusion in critical COVID-19 with AKI: a prospective case control study

Luther, Tomas; Eckerbom, Per; Cox, Eleanor; Lipcsey, Miklós et al.

Part of Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, 2025
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Alcohol consumption has a J-shaped association with bacterial infection and death due to infection, a population-based cohort study

Stattin, Karl; Eriksson, Mikael; Frithiof, Robert; Kawati, Rafael et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2025
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Reflections on The Lancet's Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care

Benedict, Christian; Cedernaes, Jonathan

Part of The Lancet, p. 624-625, 2025
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Rodent islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) selectively enhances GABA_A receptor-mediated neuronal inhibition in mouse ventral but not dorsal hippocampal dentate gyrus granule cells

Netsyk, Olga; Korol, Sergiy; Westermark, Gunilla; Birnir, Bryndis et al.

Part of Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2025
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Optimal spirometry thresholds for the prediction of chronic airflow obstruction: a multinational longitudinal study.

Lam, Abby H S; Alhajri, Sheikhah A; Potts, James; Harrabi, Imed et al.

Part of ERJ open research, 2025
- DOI for Optimal spirometry thresholds for the prediction of chronic airflow obstruction: a multinational longitudinal study.