Roberta Haddad Tovolli

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Featured publications

• Metabolic and feeding adjustments during pregnancy

  Authors:

  Haddad-Tóvolli, R; Claret, M;

  Reference: Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2023.

• Maternal emulsifier consumption programs offspring metabolic and neuropsychological health in mice

  Authors:

  Milà-Guasch, M; Ramírez, S; Llana, SR; Fos-Domènech, J; Dropmann, LM;

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  Eyre, E; Gómez-Valadés, AG; Obri, A; Haddad-Tóvolli, R; Claret, M.

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  Reference: Plos Biology 2023.

• Maternal obesity damages the median eminence blood-brain barrier structure and function in the progeny: The beneficial impact of cross-fostering by lean mothers

  Authors:

  Tovolli, RH; Morari, J; Barbizan, R; Bobbo, VC; Carraro, RS;

  Solon, C; Dragano, NR; Araujo, EP; Velloso, LA; Torsoni, MA.

  Reference: American Journal Of Physiology-Endocrinology And Metabolism 2023.

• Food craving-like episodes during pregnancy are mediated by accumbal dopaminergic circuits

  Authors:

  Haddad-Tóvolli, R; Ramírez, S; Milà-Guasch, M; Pozo, M; Chivite, I;

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  Soria, G; Miquel-Rio, L; Bortolozzi, A; Altirriba, J; Valjent, E.

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  Reference: Nature Metabolism 2022.

• Hypothalamic pregnenolone mediates recognition memory in the context of metabolic disorders

  Authors:

  Ramirez, Sara; Haddad-Tovolli, Roberta; Radosevic, Marija; Toledo, Miriam; Pane, Adriana;

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  Bruening, Jens C; Fortea, Juan; Jimenez, Amanda; Fernandez-Checa, Jose C; Claret, Marc.

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  Reference: Cell Metabolism 2022.

• Interleukin-6 actions in the hypothalamus protects against obesity and is involved in the regulation of neurogenesis

  Authors:

  Bobbo, Vanessa C; Engel, Daiane F; Jara, Carlos Poblete; Mendes, Natalia F; Haddad-Tovolli, Roberta;

  Prado, Thais P; Sidarta-Oliveira, Davi; Morari, Joseane; Velloso, Licio A; Araujo, Eliana P.

  Reference: Journal Of Neuroinflammation 2021.

• Pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neuron translatome signatures underlying obesogenic gestational malprogramming in mice

  Authors:

  Haddad-Tovolli, Roberta; Altirriba, Jordi; Obri, Arnaud; Eyre Sanchez, Elena; Chivite, Inigo;

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  Gomez-Valades, Alicia G; Pozo, Macarena; Burguet, Jasmine; Velloso, Licio A; Claret, Marc.

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  Reference: Molecular Metabolism 2020.

• Development and Function of the Blood-Brain Barrier in the Context of Metabolic Control

  Authors:

  Haddad-Tovolli, Roberta; Velloso, Licio A;

  Reference: Frontiers In Neuroscience 2017.

• Differential requirements for Gli2 and Gli3 in the regional specification of the mouse hypothalamus

  Authors:

  Haddad-Tovolli, Roberta; Paul, Fabian A; Zhang, Yuanfeng; Zhou, Xunlei; Theil, Thomas;

  Puelles, Luis; Blaess, Sandra; Alvarez-Bolado, Gonzalo.

  Reference: Frontiers In Neuroanatomy 2015.

• Mouse thalamic differentiation: gli-dependent pattern and gli-independent prepattern

  Authors:

  Haddad-Tovolli, Roberta; Heide, Michael; Zhou, Xunlei; Blaess, Sandra; Alvarez-Bolado, Gonzalo;

  Reference: Frontiers In Neuroscience 2012.

Featured Projects

• Deciphering the functional microarchitecture of accumbal-induced feeding behaviours during female physiological states

  Principal investigator: Roberta Haddad Tovolli

  Funder: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Entidad de origen); Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

  Code: PID2023-1476890A-100

  Duration: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2027

• Deciphering the molecular signatures of gestational food cravings as drivers of eating disorders in the offspring

  Principal investigator: Roberta Haddad Tovolli

  Funder: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Entidad de origen); Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

  Code: INT_BBRF_YI_23

  Duration: 15/01/2024 - 14/01/2026

• Eating patterns in pregnancy: unraveling the underlying neurocircuits and its deleterious metabolic consequences

  Principal investigator: Roberta Haddad Tovolli

  Funder: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Entidad de origen); European Commission

  Code: NEUROPREG 891247

  Duration: 01/03/2021 - 28/02/2024

• Translatome Analysis of Mouse Pomc Neurons and Epigenetic Analysis of the Median Eminence BBB in Diet-induced Obese Offspring

  Principal investigator: Roberta Haddad Tovolli

  Funder: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Entidad de origen); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Brazilian Government

  Code: 2016/01868-2

  Duration: 02/05/2016 - 01/05/2017