Juhani
Knuuti
Director, Turku PET Centre
InFLAMES Flagship
MD, professor, Turku PET Centre
Cardiovascular diseases, imaging
Biography
Juhani Knuuti’s research has focused on the physiology and pathophysiology, diagnosis and new therapies of coronary artery disease, heart failure and metabolic diseases. The research is also focused on developing and utilizing novel noninvasive imaging methods (PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT) that will help to determine the risk and severity of CHD and heart failure and provide guidance for therapy decisions. The recent focus in cardiac research has been on vulnerable plaques, cardiac remodelling and multimodality and hybrid imaging. In metabolic and diabetes research, the focus has been in the interactions between different organs and heart in the pathogenesis and development of the cardiac diseases.
Publications
Remodeling of the tibia after grafting of a large cavity with particulate bioactive glass-hydroxylapatite - Case report on treatment of fibrous dysplasia with 13 years' follow-up (2003)
ACTA ORTHOPAEDICA SCANDINAVICA
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Interleukin-1B genotype modulates the improvement of coronary artery reactivity by lipid-lowering therapy with pravastatin: A placebo-controlled positron emission tomography study in young healthy men (2003)
Pharmacogenetics (continues as Pharmacogenetics and genomics)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Blunted coronary vasoreactivity to insulin is an early alteration in hypertension (2003)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Insulin- and exercise-stimulated skeletal muscle blood flow and glucose uptake in obese men (2003)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Correlation of transthoracic Doppler echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging in measuring left anterior descending artery flow velocity and time-course of dipyridamole-induced coronary flow increase (2003)
Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Effects of metformin and rosiglitazone monotherapy on insulin-mediated hepatic glucose uptake and their relation to visceral fat in type 2 diabetes (2003)
Diabetes Care
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
PET myocardial perfusion and glucose metabolism imaging: Part 2 - Guidelines for interpretation and reporting (2003)
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Exercise training improves insulin-stimulated myocardial glucose uptake in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (2003)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))Plasma asymmetric dimethylarginine modifies the effect of pravastatin on myocardial blood flow in young adults (2003)
Vascular Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Insulin stimulates liver glucose uptake in humans: An 18F-FDG PET study (2003)
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))