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Kasparas Petkevicius

Research

Supervisor: Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig

I am interested in the roles of adipose tissue macrophages during obesity. In particular, how macrophage phospholipidome affects its inflammatory polarisation and how that contributes to the energy expenditure and the development of systemic insulin resistance.

Publications

Key publications: 

Clark, K., MacKenzie, K., Petkevicius, K., Kristariyanto, Y., Zhang, J., Choi, H., Peggie, M., Plater, L., Pedrioli, P., McIver, E. and others, (2012). Phosphorylation of CRTC3 by the salt-inducible kinases controls the interconversion of classically activated and regulatory macrophages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(42), pp.16986--16991.

Kasparas Petkevicius
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Affiliations

Classifications: 
CIN Alumni
Specialities: 
Autoimmunity and inflammation
Departments and institutes: 
Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science
Person keywords: 
phospholipid
energy expenditure.
polarisation
macrophages
adipose tissue
insulin resistance

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