Laura Pekkarinen
lepekk@utu.fi |
Expertese
- Anorexia nervosa is associated with higher brain mu-opioid receptor availability (2025)
- Molecular Psychiatry
- Hepatic Glucose Uptake During Euglycemic Hyperinsulinemia Associates With Glycemia During Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (2025)
- Journal of the Endocrine Society
- Waist-to-height ratio as a non-invasive marker of renal sinus fat: a MRI-based cohort study (2025)
- International Journal of Obesity
- SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin Increases Skeletal Muscle and Brain Fatty Acid Uptake in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes : A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Positron Emission Tomography Study (2024)
- Diabetes Care
- Association of CNR1 gene and cannabinoid 1 receptor protein in the human brain (2023)
- Journal of Neuroscience Research
- Insulin sensitivity and endocannabinoid function as risk factors for obesity: Positron emission tomography studies of insulin sensitivity and CB1 receptors (2023) Pekkarinen Laura
- Insulin-stimulated brain glucose uptake correlates with brain metabolites in severe obesity: A combined neuroimaging study (2023)
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
- Lower abdominal adipose tissue cannabinoid type 1 receptor availability in young men with overweight (2023)
- Obesity
- Renal Cortical Glucose Uptake Is Decreased in Insulin Resistance and Correlates Inversely With Serum Free-fatty Acids (2023)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Aerobic Fitness is Associated with Cerebral mu-Opioid Receptor Activation in Healthy Humans (2022)
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
- Obesity risk is associated with altered cerebral glucose metabolism and decreased μ-opioid and CB1 receptor availability (2022)
- International Journal of Obesity
- Obesity risk is associated with brain glucose uptake and insulin resistance (2022)
- European Journal of Endocrinology
- Renal Sinus Fat Is Expanded in Patients with Obesity and/or Hypertension and Reduced by Bariatric Surgery Associated with Hypertension Remission (2022)
- Metabolites
- μ-opioid receptor availability is associated with sex drive in human males (2022)
- Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
- Cerebral μ-opioid and CB1 receptor systems have distinct roles in human feeding behavior (2021)
- Translational Psychiatry
- Insulin-stimulated brain glucose uptake correlates negatively with peripheral insulin sensitivity already in the early phase of metabolic dysregulation (2021)
- Diabetologia
- Lihomisriski on yhteydessä aivojen insuliini- ja reseptorimuutoksiin (2021)
- Duodecim
- Brain free fatty acid uptake is elevated in morbid obesity, and is irreversible 6 months after bariatric surgery: A positron emission tomography study (2020)
- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
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