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Stina Börchers
About Stina Börchers
Doctoral student in Karolina Skibicka's group investigating the neurobiology of feeding behavior, energy expenditure, and emotionality with a specific focus on potential sex differences. Besides her work at the University of Gothenburg, Stina Börchers is active as a science communicator.
M.Sc. in Neurosciences at the University of Bremen, Germany
B.Sc. in Biology at the University of Bremen, Germany
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Lateral parabrachial nucleus astrocytes control food
intake
Devesh Mishra, Jennifer E. Richard, Ivana Maric, Olesya Shevchouk, Stina Börchers, Kim Eerola, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Karolina P Skibicka
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY - 2024 -
Elevated circulating adiponectin levels do not prevent anxiety-like behavior in a PCOS-like mouse
model
Manisha Samad, C. Joakim Ek, Stina Börchers, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Elisabet Stener-Victorin, Karolina P Skibicka, Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm, Anna Benrick
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - 2024 -
From the stomach to locus coeruleus: new neural substrate for ghrelin’s effects on ingestive, motivated and anxiety-like
behaviors
Ivana Maric, Lorena López-Ferreras, Yashaswini Bhat, Mohammed Asker, Stina Börchers, Lauren Bellfy, Suyeun Byun, Janine L. Kwapis, Karolina P Skibicka
Frontiers in Pharmacology - 2023 -
An appetite for aggressive behavior? Female rats, too, derive reward from winning aggressive
interactions
Stina Börchers, Jil Carl, Katharina Schormair, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Mohammed Asker, Christian Edvardsson, Elisabeth Jerlhag, Karolina P Skibicka
Translational Psychiatry - 2023 -
Peripherally restricted oxytocin is sufficient to reduce food intake and motivation, while CNS entry is required for locomotor and taste avoidance
effects
Mohammed Asker, Jean-Philippe Krieger, A. Liles, I. C. Tinsley, T. Borner, Ivana Maric, S. Doebley, C. D. Furst, Stina Börchers, Francesco Longo, Y. R. Bhat, B. C. De Jonghe, M. R. Hayes, R. P. Doyle, Karolina P Skibicka
Diabetes Obesity & Metabolism - 2023 -
Commonly-used rodent tests of anxiety-like behavior lack predictive validity for human sex
differences.
Stina Börchers, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Mohammed Asker, Ivana Maric, Karolina P Skibicka
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 2022 -
From an Empty Stomach to Anxiolysis: Molecular and Behavioral Assessment of Sex Differences in the Ghrelin Axis of
Rats
Stina Börchers, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Ivana Maric, Jil Carl, Maral Abraham, Francesco Longo, Mohammed Asker, Jennifer E. Richard, Karolina P Skibicka
Frontiers in Endocrinology - 2022 -
Sex and Species Differences in the Development of Diet-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Disturbances in
Rodents.
Ivana Maric, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Pauline van der Velden, Stina Börchers, Mohammed Asker, Milica Vujičić, Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm, Karolina P Skibicka
Frontiers in nutrition - 2022 -
Neural Pathway for Gut Feelings: Vagal Interoceptive Feedback From the Gastrointestinal Tract Is a Critical Modulator of Anxiety-like
Behavior
Jean-Philippe Krieger, Mohammed Asker, Pauline van der Velden, Stina Börchers, Jennifer E. Richard, Ivana Maric, Francesco Longo, A. Singh, G. de Lartigue, Karolina P Skibicka
Biological Psychiatry - 2022