Ashley Hutchinson
Ashley Hutchinson Position: Associate Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Medical SciencesEmail: YXNobGV5Lmh1dGNoaW5zb247b3J1LnNl
Phone: +46 19 301067
Room: X4515
Research subject
Research environments
- Nutrition-Gut-Brain Interactions Research Centre (NGBI)
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Responsive Nutrition Research Centre
Research projects
Active projects
- Effect of serotonergic stimulation on the gut-brain axis in irritable bowel syndrome patients compared with healthy subjects applying functional brain imaging
- Interactions between microbiome, diet metabolite and inflammation in peripheral arterial disease
- Comparing the efficacy of encapsulated and non-encapsulated probiotics to affect brain function
- Mode of action of butyrate in the human colon
- Rosetta@oru
- To determine the butyrate transport capacity in vitro and in tissue samples from healthy individuals and from patients with digestive disorders
Completed projects
- Establishing a novel gut-brain axis model
- Psycho(bio)logical effects of a probiotic mixture - an fMRI study
- To evaluate anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects of butyrate on the transport of large neutral amino acids such as tryptophan, a precursor of the neurotransmitter serotonin, in in vitro models