Francisco Acosta Manzano
PhD in Biomedicine
Cardiometabolic francisco.acostamanzano@utu.fi Office: Analysis area, 2/34 Contact me at fm.acostamanzano@gmail.com / facman@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-0969 |
Areas of expertise
Obesity, Adipose tissue, Energy Metabolism, Exercise Physiology, Immunology
Obesity, Adipose tissue, Energy Metabolism, Exercise Physiology, Immunology
Biography
Publications
- Effect of a 24-week supervised concurrent exercise intervention on fecal microbiota diversity and composition in young sedentary adults: The ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial (2025)
- Clinical Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Higher physical activity levels are related to faecal microbiota diversity and composition in young adults (2025)
- Biology of Sport
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Low‐grade systemic inflammation biomarkers in sedentary young healthy adults are not significantly affected by a 24‐week concurrent training intervention (2025)
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Adults with metabolically healthy overweight or obesity present more brown adipose tissue and higher thermogenesis than their metabolically unhealthy counterparts (2024)
- EBioMedicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association between lifestyle factors and thyroid function in young euthyroid adults (2024)
- Food Science and Human Wellness
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of meal timing with body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults (2023)
- European Journal of Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of a 24-Week Concurrent Exercise Intervention on Neck Adiposity and Its Distribution in Young Adults: The ACTIBATE Randomized Controlled Trial (2023)
- International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effect of Moderate Versus Vigorous Exercise Intensity on Body Composition in Young Untrained Adults: The Activating Brown Adipose Tissue Through Exercise (ACTIBATE) Randomized Controlled Trial (2023)
- International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Exercise-induced changes on exerkines that might influence brown adipose tissue metabolism in young sedentary adults (2023)
- European Journal of Sport Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fecal microbiota composition is related to brown adipose tissue F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in young adults (2023)
- Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A larger brown fat volume and lower radiodensity are related to a greater cardiometabolic risk, especially in young men (2022)
- European Journal of Endocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Association of shivering threshold time with body composition and brown adipose tissue in young adults (2022)
- Journal of Thermal Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Circulating concentrations of free triiodothyronine are associated with central adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors in young euthyroid adults (2022)
- Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dihydrocapsiate does not increase energy expenditure nor fat oxidation during aerobic exercise in men with overweight/obesity: a randomized, triple-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover trial (2022)
- Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - No evidence of brown adipose tissue activation after 24 weeks of supervised exercise training in young sedentary adults in the ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial (2022)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Plasma Levels of Endocannabinoids and Their Analogues Are Related to Specific Fecal Bacterial Genera in Young Adults: Role in Gut Barrier Integrity (2022)
- Nutrients
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Influence of Exercise, Lifestyle Behavior Components, and Physical Fitness on Maternal Weight Gain, Postpartum Weight Retention, and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain (2022)
- International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Protective Role of Physical Fitness on Cardiometabolic Risk During Pregnancy (2022)
- International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Thermogenic responses to different clamped skin temperatures in cold-exposed men and women (2022)
- AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Diurnal variations of cold-induced thermogenesis in young, healthy adults: A randomized crossover trial (2021)
- Clinical Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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