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Jóna Freysdóttir - Professor
–
School of Health Sciences
Jóna Freysdóttir
Íslenska
Professor
Phone
5436852
8612056
Email
jf [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Medicine
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http://lifvisindi.hi.is/staff/jona-freysdottir
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9461-182X
Research portal – Jóna Freysdóttir
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2022 - 2023
LÆK071F - Methods in immunology
LÆK024M - Immunology
LÆK093F - Immunology, basic research topics
LYF407G - Immunology
LEI441L - Final project
LEI303G - Immunology
LÆK025M - Immunology
LEI441L - Final project
Education
1996
,
Doktorspróf
,
,
1988
,
BS (hon)
,
,
1985
,
BS
,
,
Professional Experience
2011 -
,
,
2005 -
,
,
2010 -
2011,
,
2000 -
2004,
,
1998 -
2000,
,
1996 -
1998,
,
Published works
2023
Geobarrettin D, a Rare Herbipoline-Containing 6-Bromoindole Alkaloid from Geodia barretti
Molecules
2022
Dietary Fish Oil Increases the Number of CD11b+CD27− NK Cells at the Inflammatory Site and Enhances Key Hallmarks of Resolution of Murine Antigen-Induced Peritonitis
Journal of Inflammation Research
2021
Emu Oil and Saireito in combination reduce tumour development and clinical indicators of disease in a mouse model of colitis-associated colorectal cancer.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie
Keratinocytes secrete multiple inflammatory and immune biomarkers, which are regulated by LL-37, in a psoriasis mimicking microenvironment
Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
Seaweed extract improves carbohydrate metabolism in overweight and obese adults
Current Nutrition and Food Science
2020
Bromotryptamine and Imidazole Alkaloids with Anti-inflammatory Activity from the Bryozoan Flustra foliacea.
Journal of natural products
Anti-Inflammatory and Proresolving Effects of the Omega-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Adrenic Acid
The Journal of Immunology
Docosahexaenoic Acid Modulates NK Cell Effects on Neutrophils and Their Crosstalk.
Frontiers in immunology
2019
Effective treatment with balneophototherapy and narrowband UVB monotherapy reduces skin homing Th17/Tc17 and Th22/Tc22 effector cells in peripheral blood in patients with psoriasis
Journal of Dermatological Science
Impact of dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans from Schisandra chinensis on the redox status and activation of human innate immune system cells
Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Exopolysaccharides from Cyanobacterium aponinum induce a regulatory dendritic cell phenotype and inhibit SYK and CLEC7A expression in dendritic cells, T cells and keratinocytes
International Immunopharmacology
2018
Natural killer cells play an essential role in resolution of antigen-induced inflammation in mice.
Molecular immunology
6-Bromoindole Derivatives from the Icelandic Marine Sponge Geodia barretti: Isolation and Anti-Inflammatory Activity
Marine Drugs
2017
Lipophilic fractions from the marine sponge Halichondria sitiens decrease secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines by dendritic cells and decrease their ability to induce a Th1 type response by allogeneic CD4+ T cells.
Pharmaceutical biology
2016
Acute phase inflammation is characterized by rapid changes in plasma/peritoneal fluid N-glycosylation in mice
Glycoconjugate Journal
Immunomodulatory N-acyl Dopamine Glycosides from the Icelandic Marine Sponge Myxilla incrustans Collected at a Hydrothermal Vent Site
Planta Medica
A polysaccharide fraction from Achillea millefolium increases cytokine secretion and reduces activation of Akt, ERK and NF-κB in THP-1 monocytes
Carbohydrate Polymers
2015
Effect of in vitro digested cod liver oil of different quality on oxidative, proteomic and inflammatory responses in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and human monocyte-derived dendritic cells.
Differential Mobility Separation of Leukotrienes and Protectins
Analytical Chemistry
Dendritic cells matured in the presence of the lycopodium alkaloid annotine direct T cell responses toward a Th2/Treg phenotype
Phytomedicine
Exopolysaccharides from Cyanobacterium aponinum from the Blue Lagoon in Iceland increase IL-10 secretion by human dendritic cells and their ability to reduce the IL-17+RORγt+/IL-10+FoxP3+ ratio in CD4+ T cells
Immunology Letters
2014
The suppressive function of human CD8(+) iTregs is inhibited by IL-1β and TNFα.
Oxidative processes during enzymatic hydrolysis of cod protein and their influence on antioxidant and immunomodulating ability
Food Chemistry
Dietary omega-3 fatty acids enhance the B1 but not the B2 cell immune response in mice with antigen-induced peritonitis
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Murine antigen-induced inflammation—A model for studying induction, resolution and the adaptive phase of inflammation
Journal of Immunological Methods
A heteroglycan from the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune modulates LPS-induced inflammatory cytokine secretion by THP-1 monocytes through phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and Akt
Phytomedicine
Welcome to the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology in Reykjavik, Iceland
Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
2013
Sulphated polysaccharide from the sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa affect maturation of human dendritic cells and their activation of allogeneic CD4(+) T cells in vitro
Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre
Dietary fish oil reduces the acute inflammatory response and enhances resolution of antigen-induced peritonitis
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Quinolinic alkaloids from Galipea longiflora Krause suppress production of proinflammatory cytokines in vitro and control inflammation in vivo upon Leishmania infection in mice.
Dietary fish oil increases the proportion of a specific neutrophil subpopulation in blood and total neutrophils in peritoneum of mice following endotoxin-induced inflammation
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Alkaloids from Galipea longiflora Krause modify the maturation of human dendritic cells and their ability to stimulate allogeneic CD4+ T cells
International Immunopharmacology
2012
Biodiversity of benthic invertebrates and bioprospecting in Icelandic waters
Phytochemistry Reviews
Dietary fish oil decreases the proportion of classical monocytes in blood in healthy mice but increases their proportion upon induction of inflammation.
Two circulating neutrophil populations in acute inflammation in mice
Inflammation Research
2011
Aqueous extracts from Menyanthes trifoliate and Achillea millefolium affect maturation of human dendritic cells and their activation of allogeneic CD4+ T cells in vitro
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Ethanol extract from birch bark (Betula pubescens) suppresses human dendritic cell mediated Th1 responses and directs it towards a Th17 regulatory response in vitro
Immunology Letters
2009
Vbeta usage and T regulatory cells in children following partial or total thymectomy after open heart surgery in infancy.
2008
Do non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs influence chronic inflammation? The effects of piroxicam on chronic antigen-induced arthritis in rats.
In vitro and in vivo immunomodulating effects of traditionally prepared extract and purified compounds from Cetraria islandica.
2007
Orofacial granulomatosis: review on aetiology and pathogenesis
Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine
Immunomodulating polysaccharides from the lichen Thamnolia vermicularis var. subuliformis
Phytomedicine
Mucosal Tolerance to KLH Reduces BSA-Induced Arthritis in Rats—An Indication of Bystander Suppression
Journal of Clinical Immunology
Oral Biopsies from Patients with Orofacial Granulomatosis with Histology Resembling Crohnʼs Disease Have a Prominent Th1 Environment
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
2006
Expression of cytokines, chemokines, and chemokine receptors in oral ulcers of patients with Behcet's disease (BD) and recurrent aphthous stomatitis is Th1-associated, although Th2-association is also observed in patients with BD.
Immunomodulating effects of lichen-derived polysaccharides on monocyte-derived dendritic cells
International Immunopharmacology
Diversity of gammadelta T cells in patients with Behcet's disease is indicative of polyclonal activation.
Evidence for extrathymic T cell maturation after thymectomy in infancy.
2005
Effects of lichen heteroglycans on proliferation and IL-10 secretion by rat spleen cells and IL-10 and TNF-alpha secretion by rat peritoneal macrophages in vitro.
2004
The influence of partial or total thymectomy during open heart surgery in infants on the immune function later in life.
2001
Antibodies to Human Thymic Epithelium Form Part of the Murine Autoreactive Repertoire
Developmental Immunology
Expression of adhesion and activation molecules in human buccal epithelial cell lines and normal human buccal epithelium in situ
Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine
1999
Gammadelta T cells in Behçet's disease (BD) and recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS).
1998
Characterising lectin binding to the O-linked sugars of immunoglobulin A1
Biochemical Society Transactions
K21-Antigen: A Molecule Shared by the Microenvironments of the Human Thymus and Germinal Centers
Developmental Immunology
1993
Dermatitis herpetiformis--an autoimmune disease due to cross-reaction between dietary glutenin and dermal elastin?
Evaluation of in vivo immune complex formation and complement activation in patients receiving intravenous streptokinase.
Reciprocal changes in complement activity and immune-complex levels during plasma infusion in a C2-deficient SLE patient.
1992
Do adults with high gliadin antibody concentrations have subclinical gluten intolerance?
1991
A flow cytometric assay for measuring complement receptor 1 (CR1) and the complement fragments C3d and C4d on erythrocytes
Journal of Immunological Methods
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