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
Effect of lipid-lowering therapy with pravastatin on myocardial blood flow in young mildly hypercholesterolemic adults (2001)
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
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Paraoxohase gene polymorphisms and coronary reactivity in young healthy men (2001)
Journal of Molecular Medicine
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A 3-D model-based approach for the PET-functional and MR-anatomical cardiac imaging data fusion (2001)
(Vertaisarvioitu tieteellinen erillisteos tai raportti (C1))Enhanced oxygen extraction and reduced flow heterogeneity in exercising muscle in endurance-trained men (2001)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))The development of nuclear medicine in Finland: A review on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Finnish Society of Nuclear Medicine (2000)
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))In vivo detection of vascular adhesion protein-1 in experimental inflammation (2000)
American Journal of Pathology
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Insulin-induced increment of coronary flow reserve is not abolished by dexamethasone in healthy young men (2000)
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
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Isometric exercise decreases heterogeneity of skeletal muscle blood flow as measured with positron emission tomography (2000)
Journal of Sports Sciences
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Multimodality MR imaging assessment of myocardial viability: Combination of first-pass and late contrast enhancement to wall motion dynamics and comparison with FDG PET - Initial experience (2000)
Radiology
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Impaired free fatty acid uptake in skeletal muscle but not in myocardium in patients with impaired glucose tolerance: Studies with PET and 14(R, S)- [18F]fluoro-6-thia-heptadecanoic acid (2000)
Diabetes
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