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Frances Ashcroft
DBE, FRS, FMedSci
Research Professor
Frances Ashcroft held the title of Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. She holds BA, PhD and ScD degrees from Cambridge University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1999. Her research focuses on ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels and their role in insulin secretion, in both health and disease. She is interested in how KATP channel function relates to channel structure, how cell metabolism regulates channel activity, and how mutations in KATP channel genes cause human disease. The ultimate goal is to elucidate how a rise in the blood glucose concentration stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreatic beta-cells, what goes wrong with this process in type 2 diabetes, and how drugs used to treat this condition exert their beneficial effects. She has written a text book Ion Channels and Disease and is Director of OXION, a training and research programme on the integrative physiology of ion channels, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Recent publications
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Evaluating inositol phospholipid interactions with inward rectifier potassium channels and characterising their role in disease
Journal article
Pipatpolkai T. et al, (2020), Communications Chemistry, 3
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New insights into KATP channel gene mutations and neonatal diabetes mellitus.
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Pipatpolkai T. et al, (2020), Nat Rev Endocrinol
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Nucleotide inhibition of the pancreatic ATP-sensitive K+ channel explored with patch-clamp fluorometry.
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Usher SG. et al, (2020), Elife, 9
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Erratum. Fetal Macrosomia and Neonatal Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia Associated With Transplacental Transfer of Sulfonylurea in a Mother With KCNJ11-Related Neonatal Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2014;37:3333-3335
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Myngheer N. et al, (2019), Diabetes care, 42
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Tamoxifen administration in pregnant mice can be deleterious to both mother and embryo.
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Ved N. et al, (2019), Lab Anim