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Dr Mark Nixon

@nixon-lab.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh. Investigating glucocorticoid action in cardiometabolic disease. Views my own Website: www.edinburghmetabolism.co.uk/mark-… ORCID: 0000-0001-5437-3724

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LIPID MAPS @lipidmaps.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The next LIPID MAPS #webinar is next week... if you haven't registered for this month's #webinar, titled: 'From Circulation to Cell: Steroid Trafficking in Cardiometabolic Health and Disease' with Mark Nixon, you can register here now: bit.ly/3YpTJlf
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Adipose Biology Conference @adiposebiology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The time is now to register! Early Bird Registration Deadline is May 1st, 2025, for the #AdiposeBiology Conference happening in Montreal, Quebec, Aug 19 & 20th, 2025. Go to: www.adiposebiology.com to secure your spot today! #ABC2025 @kazaklab.bsky.social @beaudrj.bsky.social @sunglab.bsky.social
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Dr Mark Nixon @nixon-lab.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Great to be back at #SfEBES2025! After a few years away, it’s fantastic to return to such a dynamic and supportive endocrine event by @socendocrinology.bsky.social. The advances being made in both basic research and clinical care are a real inspiration to get back to the lab!
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European Society of Endocrinology @esendocrinology.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Grants for ESE Summer School 2025 close in one week - 6 March! Join us in Innsbruck, Austria 22-25 June 2025. Grow as a scientist while making friends across Europe in #endocrinology. 📅 Early Bird deadline: 20 May 2025. Register today! 👉https://ow.ly/cWmJ50UXIRe
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Dr Mark Nixon @nixon-lab.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
What a fantastic day at the Scottish Cardiovascular Forum 2025! It was great to catch up with some familiar faces and have the opportunity to connect with new colleagues, all while discussing some of the wonderful cardiovascular research taking place in Scotland. #SCF2025 #CardiovascularResearch
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & the @thebhf.bsky.social in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Lets be ready to save a life www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
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European Society of Endocrinology @esendocrinology.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
ESE Summer School 2025 is now open for registration! Innsbruck, Austria 22-25 June 2025. Grants available. Grow as a scientist while making friends across Europe in the field of #endocrinology. 📅 Early Bird deadline: 20 May 2025. Register today! ow.ly/cWmJ50UXIRe
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Nature Reviews Cardiology @natrevcardiol.nature.com · 07/02/2025
Weekend reading! Our latest Review discusses novel pharmacological approaches to lowering blood pressure and managing #hypertension: rdcu.be/d82w9
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Novel pharmacological approaches to lowering blood pressure and managing hypertension
Nature Reviews Cardiology - Hypertension is the leading cause of death globally but has low rates of diagnosis and treatment. In this Review, Dhaun and colleagues discuss the reasons for poor...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A very innovative approach to cancer: engineering fat cells to convert to beige fat to starve tumors, outcompeting 5 types of cancer in experimental models www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social
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Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - Nature Biotechnology
Adipose manipulation transplantation can reduce tumor growth and proliferation in vitro and in mouse models.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Spatial multi-omics has just gone to the next level! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... —Integration of 5 omic modalities w/ spatial resolution at 20 -50 μm —"a new era for characterizing tissue & cellular heterogeneity that single-modality studies alone could not reveal"
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European Society of Endocrinology @esendocrinology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The abstract submission deadline is only ONE WEEK away! Contribute to the Joint Congress of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) and ESE 2025 and share your research with the #endocrine community. Submit your abstract by 3 February. 👉 bit.ly/3PXTqcB
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Dr Mark Nixon @nixon-lab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Our latest publication is now out in Cardiovascular Diabetology as part of a special collection on Perivascular Adipose Tissue! 🐭 💓 ♂️ ♀️ "Obesity-induced mesenteric PVAT remodelling is sexually dimorphic, but not driven by ovarian hormones" cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Society for Endocrinology @socendocrinology.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Health misinformation is everywhere — but we’re here to set the record straight! Our award-winning podcast reveals how hormones impact all our lives. Give it a listen 🎧 ow.ly/XaY450ULTUe Thanks to @katarney.bsky.social, first create the media, and all our experts!
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Dan Brierley @drdanbrierley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/endo/article... 🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic
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GLP-1 and the Neurobiology of Eating Control: Recent Advances
Abstract. Obesity is now considered a chronic relapsing progressive disease, associated with increased all-cause mortality that scales with body weight, af
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Dr Mark Nixon @nixon-lab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Some birthday celebrations in the lab over the past few days for our wonderful Postdoc Mhairi - double celebration as Mhairi has also just published her main PhD paper on Wnt signalling in HFpEF. Congratulations Mhairi! bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Institute for Regeneration and Repair @edinuni-irr.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Promising new cell therapy for liver disease shows positive results! Results from the MATCH trial, run by Stuart Forbes' lab in the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, were published in @nature.com Medicine today regeneration-repair.ed.ac.uk/promising-ne...
A scientific diagram showing the impacts of macrophage treatment in the liver. Macrophages remove scar tissue, recruit white blood cells to the liver, and encourage regrowth of healthy tissue.
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Dr Mark Nixon @nixon-lab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Years of collaborative work, fuelled by cortisol (and coffee!), but I'm thrilled to share our passion project on neutrophil elastase-mediated regulation of adipose glucocorticoid action has finally been published in @naturecomms.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5Mk8
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The NE/AAT/CBG axis regulates adipose tissue glucocorticoid exposure
Nature Communications - Corticosteroid binding globulin modulates circulating glucocorticoids, but its metabolic implications remain unclear. Here, the authors show that CBG regulators neutrophil...
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Anna Kate Barton @annakatebarton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... A very proud moment to see this labour of love published in @jaccjournals.bsky.social @jaccedge.bsky.social Most of my Co-authors have not made it over from the other place, but I’m so grateful to them as well as the patients who had faith in the study to take part
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Myocardial Fibroblast Activation After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Study
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Paula Brunton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @paulabrunton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Interested in how maternal stress affects the offspring’s brain? Come and do a PhD with us in beautiful Edinburgh. More info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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a drawing of a brain with a rainbow and a blue one
ALT: a drawing of a brain with a rainbow and a blue one
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Institute for Regeneration and Repair @edinuni-irr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
3rd Day of Research: Three new centre Directors 🎉 We welcomed Prof Andrew Horne as new Director of the Centre for Reproductive Health, and Prof Tilo Kunath and Prof Anna Williams as new Co-Directors for the Centre for Regenerative Medicine. 📰: edin.ac/3ZCwhSG edin.ac/3O6z14p #12DaysOfResearch
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Lawrence Kazak @kazaklab.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I'm thrilled to co-organize the inaugural #AdiposeBiology conference with Jacqueline Beaudry, Hoon-Ki Sung, and @sablesys.bsky.social! 📍Montreal, Canada 📅 August 19-20, 2025 Registration opens Jan 1, 2025. Mor info in the coming weeks. Hope to see you there! @AdiposeBiology #AdiposeBiology2025
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
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John Speakman @johnspeakman4.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
@lifemetabolism.bsky.social is now indexed on PMC. Come on down and check out our great content. Please share and repost.
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Prof Paul E Squires @paulsquires.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Effects of tirzepatide on circulatory overload and end-organ damage in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction & obesity: a secondary analysis of the SUMMIT trial @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🥼🔬👩‍🔬👨‍🔬. #cardiovascular #cardiosky #obesity #heartfailure #MedSky 👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Effects of tirzepatide on circulatory overload and end-organ damage in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and obesity: a secondary analysis of the SUMMIT trial - Nature Medicine
In a mechanistic analysis of the SUMMIT trial that tested tirzepatide in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and obesity, treatment with this dual glucagon-like peptide-1 rece...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 26/11/2024
The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle single-cell data. Four scientists reflect in Nature on how the project is transforming our understanding of human biology. 🧪
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Cellular atlases are unlocking the mysteries of the human body
Scientists reflect on insights from the Human Cell Atlas.
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