Karolina Skibicka

Huck Chair of Metabolic Physiology; Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences

Karolina Skibicka

Research Summary

Utilizing rodent models to discover novel neural substrates that control fundamental homeostatic and reward controls of food intake, and their failures in the case of obesity and infection-induced anorexia; How food and feeding behavior affect neural circuits controlling sociability and emotionality.

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Glucagon Like Peptide 1 Glucagon Like Peptide 1 Receptor Food Eating Anxiety Reward Body Weight Exenatide Peptides Obesity Brain Parabrachial Nucleus Interleukin 6 Ghrelin Sex Characteristics Alcohols Rhombencephalon Rodentia Diet Neurons Lateral Hypothalamic Area Motivation Feeding Behavior Solitary Nucleus Weight Loss

Most Recent Publications

Huiyuan Zheng, Lorena López-Ferreras, Jean Phillipe Krieger, Stephen Fasul, Valentina Cea Salazar, Natalia Valderrama Pena, Karolina P. Skibicka, Linda Rinaman, 2022, Molecular Metabolism

Kim Eerola, Francesco Longo, Thomas M. Reinbothe, Jennifer E. Richard, Olesya T. Shevchouk, Lorena López-Ferreras, Devesh Mishra, Mohammed Asker, Johan Tolö, Caroline Miranda, Saliha Musovic, Charlotta S. Olofsson, Patrik Rorsman, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2022, Molecular Metabolism

Jean Philippe Krieger, Mohammed Asker, Pauline van der Velden, Stina Börchers, Jennifer E. Richard, Ivana Maric, Francesco Longo, Arashdeep Singh, Guillaume de Lartigue, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2022, Biological Psychiatry on p. 709-721

Commonly-used rodent tests of anxiety-like behavior lack predictive validity for human sex differences

Stina Börchers, Jean Philippe Krieger, Mohammed Asker, Ivana Maric, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Stina Börchers, Jean Philippe Krieger, Ivana Maric, Jil Carl, Maral Abraham, Francesco Longo, Mohammed Asker, Jennifer E. Richard, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2022, Frontiers in Endocrinology

Ivana Maric, Jean Philippe Krieger, Pauline van der Velden, Stina Börchers, Mohammed Asker, Milica Vujicic, Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2022, Frontiers in Nutrition

L López-Ferreras, F Longo, J Richard, K Eerola, O Shevchouk, M Tuzinovic, Karolina Skibicka, 2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 105284

L. López-Ferreras, K. Eerola, O. T. Shevchouk, J. E. Richard, F. H. Nilsson, L. E. Jansson, M. R. Hayes, K. P. Skibicka, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology

Tina Bake, Marie V. Le May, Christian E. Edvardsson, Heike Vogel, Ulrika Bergström, Marjorie Nicholson Albers, Karolina P. Skibicka, Imre Farkas, Zsolt Liposits, Suzanne L. Dickson, 2020, Obesity on p. 1503-1511

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1-, but not Growth and Differentiation Factor 15-, Receptor Activation Increases the Number of Interleukin-6-Expressing Cells in the External Lateral Parabrachial Nucleus

Fredrik Anesten, Devesh Mishra, Adrià Dalmau Gasull, Linda Engström-Ruud, Jakob Bellman, Vilborg Palsdottir, Fuping Zhang, Stefan Trapp, Karolina P. Skibicka, Matti Poutanen, John Olov Jansson, 2019, Neuroendocrinology on p. 310-321

Most-Cited Papers

Scott E. Kanoski, Matthew R. Hayes, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2016, American Journal of Physiology on p. R885-R895

Rozita Shirazi, Vilborg Palsdottir, Jim Collander, Fredrik Anesten, Heike Vogel, Fanny Langlet, Alexander Jaschke, Annette Schürmann, Vincent Prévot, Ruijin Shao, John Olov Jansson, Karolina Patrycja Skibicka, 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 16199-16204

Karolina P. Skibicka, 2013, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Rozita H. Shirazi, Suzanne L. Dickson, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2013, PLoS One

Jennifer E. Richard, Rozita H. Anderberg, Andreas Göteson, Fiona M. Gribble, Frank Reimann, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2015, PLoS One

Karolina P. Skibicka, Rozita H. Shirazi, Cristina Rabasa-Papio, Mayte Alvarez-Crespo, Corinna Neuber, Heike Vogel, Suzanne L. Dickson, 2013, Neuropharmacology on p. 274-283

Min Hu, Jennifer Elise Richard, Manuel Maliqueo, Milana Kokosar, Romina Fornes, Anna Benrick, Thomas Jansson, Claes Ohlsson, Xiaoke Wu, Karolina Patrycja Skibicka, Elisabet Stener-Victorin, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 14348-14353

Rozita H. Anderberg, Jennifer E. Richard, Caroline Hansson, Hans Nissbrandt, Filip Bergquist, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2016, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 54-66

Jennifer E. Richard, Imre Farkas, Fredrik Anesten, Rozita H. Anderberg, Suzanne L. Dickson, Fiona M. Gribble, Frank Reimann, John Olov Jansson, Zsolt Liposits, Karolina P. Skibicka, 2014, Endocrinology on p. 4356-4367

L. López-Ferreras, J. E. Richard, E. E. Noble, K. Eerola, R. H. Anderberg, K. Olandersson, L. Taing, S. E. Kanoski, M. R. Hayes, K. P. Skibicka, 2018, Molecular Psychiatry on p. 1157-1168