Maura Heverin

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Article: WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2012;18(10):1067-1076

Differential diagnosis in patients with suspected bile acid synthesis defects.

Haas D; Gan-Schreier H; Langhans C-D; Rohrer T; Engelmann G; Heverin M; Russell DW; Clayton PT; Hoffmann GF; Okun JG
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS. 2011;19(9):942-946

The desmosterolosis phenotype: spasticity, microcephaly and micrognathia with agenesis of corpus callosum and loss of white matter.

Zolotushko J; Flusser H; Markus B; Shelef I; Langer Y; Heverin M; Björkhem I; Sivan S; Birk OS
Article: JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 2011;286(29):25574-25585

Side chain-oxidized oxysterols regulate the brain renin-angiotensin system through a liver X receptor-dependent mechanism.

Mateos L; Ismail M-A; Gil-Bea F-J; Schüle R; Schöls L; Heverin M; Folkesson R; Björkhem I; Cedazo-Mínguez A
Article: ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY. 2007;27(10):2191-2197

Studies on the cholesterol-free mouse: strong activation of LXR-regulated hepatic genes when replacing cholesterol with desmosterol.

Heverin M; Meaney S; Brafman A; Shafir M; Olin M; Shafaati M; von Bahr S; Larsson L; Lövgren-Sandblom A; Diczfalusy U; Parini P; Feinstein E; Björkhem I
Article: JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES. 2007;856(1-2):15-19

Novel LC-MS/MS method for assay of 7alpha-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one in human plasma. Evidence for a significant extrahepatic metabolism.

Lövgren-Sandblom A; Heverin M; Larsson H; Lundström E; Wahren J; Diczfalusy U; Björkhem I
Article: JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH. 2007;48(4):944-951

Novel route for elimination of brain oxysterols across the blood-brain barrier: conversion into 7alpha-hydroxy-3-oxo-4-cholestenoic acid.

Meaney S; Heverin M; Panzenboeck U; Ekström L; Axelsson M; Andersson U; Diczfalusy U; Pikuleva I; Wahren J; Sattler W; Björkhem I
Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY. 2006;99(2):561-569

Isoform- and subcellular fraction-specific differences in hippocampal 14-3-3 levels following experimentally evoked seizures and in human temporal lobe epilepsy.

Schindler CK; Heverin M; Henshall DC
Article: JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS. 2006;316(3):1146-1152

Brain cholesterol synthesis in mice is affected by high dose of simvastatin but not of pravastatin.

Thelen KM; Rentsch KM; Gutteck U; Heverin M; Olin M; Andersson U; von Eckardstein A; Björkhem I; Lütjohann D
Article: JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. 2006;281(7):3810-3820

Studies on the transcriptional regulation of cholesterol 24-hydroxylase (CYP46A1): marked insensitivity toward different regulatory axes.

Ohyama Y; Meaney S; Heverin M; Ekström L; Brafman A; Shafir M; Andersson U; Olin M; Eggertsen G; Diczfalusy U; Feinstein E; Björkhem I
Article: JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH. 2005;46(5):1047-1052

Crossing the barrier: net flux of 27-hydroxycholesterol into the human brain.

Heverin M; Meaney S; Lütjohann D; Diczfalusy U; Wahren J; Björkhem I
Article: JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH. 2004;45(1):186-193

Changes in the levels of cerebral and extracerebral sterols in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Heverin M; Bogdanovic N; Lütjohann D; Bayer T; Pikuleva I; Bretillon L; Diczfalusy U; Winblad B; Björkhem I
Article: SCIENCE. 2003;302(5653):2087

Generation of viable cholesterol-free mice.

Wechsler A; Brafman A; Shafir M; Heverin M; Gottlieb H; Damari G; Gozlan-Kelner S; Spivak I; Moshkin O; Fridman E; Becker Y; Skaliter R; Einat P; Faerman A; Björkhem I; Feinstein E

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Published paper: ACTA NEUROLOGICA SCANDINAVICA, SUPPLEMENT. 2006;185:43-49

Oxysterols and Alzheimer's disease.

Björkhem I; Heverin M; Leoni V; Meaney S; Diczfalusy U

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Lecturer, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2012-

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Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2005

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