Laura Valestrand

  • PhD student; MD

Education
MD University of Oslo, 2013

Positions

  • 2015- PhD-student, Norwegian PSC Research Center
  • 2013- 2015 Internship in Medicine, Surgery and General practice, Odda
  • 2012/13/15 Resident Oslo Emergency Room, OUS.

Research interests
Primary sclerosing cholangitis

 

Publications 2021

Valestrand L, Berntsen NL, Zheng F, Schrumpf E, Hansen SH, Karlsen TH, Blumberg RS, Hov JR, Jiang X, Melum E (2021)
Lipid antigens in bile from patients with chronic liver diseases activate natural killer T cells
Clin. Exp. Immunol., 203 (2), 304-314
DOI 10.1111/cei.13541

Publications 2018

Berntsen NL, Fosby B, Tan C, Reims HM, Ogaard J, Jiang X, Schrumpf E, Valestrand L, Karlsen TH, Line PD, Blumberg RS, Melum E (2018)
Natural killer T cells mediate inflammation in the bile ducts
Mucosal Immunol., 11 (6), 1582-1590
DOI 10.1038/s41385-018-0066-8

Berntsen NL, Fosby B, Valestrand L, Tan C, Reims HM, Schrumpf E, Karlsen TH, Line PD, Melum E (2018)
Establishment of a surgical bile duct injection technique giving direct access to the bile ducts for studies of the murine biliary tree
Am. J. Physiol.-Gastroint. Liver Physiol., 314 (3), G349-G359
DOI 10.1152/ajpgi.00124.2017

Publications 2017

Sampaziotis F, Justin AW, Tysoe OC, Sawiak S, Godfrey EM, Upponi SS, Gieseck RL, de Brito MC, Berntsen NL, Gomez-Vazquez MJ, Ortmann D, Yiangou L, Ross A, Bargehr J, Bertero A, Zonneveld MCF, Pedersen MT, Pawlowski M, Valestrand L, Madrigal P, Georgakopoulos N, Pirmadjid N, Skeldon GM, Casey J, Shu WM et al. (2017)
Reconstruction of the mouse extrahepatic biliary tree using primary human extrahepatic cholangiocyte organoids
Nat. Med., 23 (8), 954-+
DOI 10.1038/nm.4360

Schrumpf E, Kummen M, Valestrand L, Greiner TU, Holm K, Arulampalam V, Reims HM, Baines J, Backhed F, Karlsen TH, Blumberg RS, Hov JR, Melum E (2017)
The gut microbiota contributes to a mouse model of spontaneous bile duct inflammation
J. Hepatol., 66 (2), 382-389
DOI 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.09.020