Herlenius Research

Development of autonomic control

Immature or deficient autonomic control is a common problem in infants born at a premature age and is of central importance in apneas, secondary hypoxic brain damage and sudden infant death syndrome.

Eric Herlenius

Research group leader

For better understanding of disturbances in respiratory control we study early development of cardiorespiratory control, brainstem neural networks and it's associations with normal and pathological breathing. The conceptual change introduced by our recent data that endogenous prostaglandins are central pathogenic factors in respiratory disorders and the hypoxic response, open new diagnostic and therapeutic avenues that should significantly better the diagnostics and treatment of newborns and adult patients.

Inflammation is a major culprit in breathing disorders and we hypothesize that by using a newly developed urinary prostaglandin biomarker we can screen, detect and protect against inflammation related breathing disorders.

Our collaborative efforts enable us to move from a clinical problem to molecular understanding of the disease and studies are performed in patients, animal & in vitro models.

Our research is focused on the development of autonomic control with normal and paediatric patients as the target. Autonomic dysfunction in breathing and circulatory control often has its origin in neurodevelopment disorders. Furthermore, our basic research in developmental neuroscience how neural activity and stem cells form activity dependent networks is vital for the development of therapeutic interventions.

Group members

David Forsberg

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Kerstin Jost

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Birgitta Böhm

Senior researcher Ph.D.

Yuri Shvarev

Senior researcher Ph.D.

Athina Samara

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Wiktor Phillips

Postdoc, Ph.D.

Antoine Honoré

M.Sc., Ph.D. student

Jan Reising

M.Sc., Ph.D. student

Louise Steinhoff

MD, Ph.D. student

Naify Ramadan

M.Sc., Ph.D. student

Margareta Eriksson

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Niklas Lidströmer

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Rutger Bennet

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Karin Pukk Härenstam

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Ruth Löllgen

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Alexander Rakow

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Katja Adolphson

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Frida Sundemo
Rami Asfar
Matilda Hellberg
Alexander Stålhammar
Emma Persad
Karen Coste
 

Jennifer Frithiof
2022-10-14