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 2022

Valestrand L, Zheng F, Hansen SH, Øgaard J, Hov JR, Björkström NK, Karlsen TH, Jiang X, Melum E (2022)
Bile from Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Contains Mucosal-Associated Invariant T-Cell Antigens
Am J Pathol, 192 (4), 629-641
DOI 10.1016/j.ajpath.2021.12.008, PubMed 35063408

Publications 2020

Valestrand L, Berntsen NL, Zheng F, Schrumpf E, Hansen SH, Karlsen TH, Blumberg RS, Hov JR, Jiang X, Melum E (2020)
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, PubMed 33089489

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, PubMed 30115993

Publications 2017

Berntsen NL, Fosby B, Valestrand L, Tan C, Reims HM, Schrumpf E, Karlsen TH, Line PD, Melum E (2017)
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 Gastrointest Liver Physiol, 314 (3), G349-G359
DOI 10.1152/ajpgi.00124.2017, PubMed 29212771

Sampaziotis F, Justin AW, Tysoe OC, Sawiak S, Godfrey EM, Upponi SS, Gieseck RL, de Brito MC, Berntsen NL, Gómez-Vázquez 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 W et al. (2017)
Reconstruction of the mouse extrahepatic biliary tree using primary human extrahepatic cholangiocyte organoids
Nat Med, 23 (8), 954-963
DOI 10.1038/nm.4360, PubMed 28671689

Publications 2016

Schrumpf E, Kummen M, Valestrand L, Greiner TU, Holm K, Arulampalam V, Reims HM, Baines J, Bäckhed F, Karlsen TH, Blumberg RS, Hov JR, Melum E (2016)
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, PubMed 27720803