Aino Latva-Rasku
MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow
Turku PET Centre aehyyp@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8786-9160 |
Areas of expertise
Insulin resistance; insulin actions; positron emission tomography (PET)
Insulin resistance; insulin actions; positron emission tomography (PET)
Research community or research topic
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research group in Turku PET Centre
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research group in Turku PET Centre
Publications 
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- Anorexia nervosa is associated with higher brain mu-opioid receptor availability (2025)
- Molecular Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Circulating N-Acetylaspartate Levels Associate with Measures of Peripheral and Tissue-Specific Insulin Sensitivity (2025)
- International Journal of Molecular Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hepatic Glucose Uptake During Euglycemic Hyperinsulinemia Associates With Glycemia During Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (2025)
- Journal of the Endocrine Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New 3D segmentation algorithm for modeling of kidney in positron emission tomography images (2025)
- Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Finnish-specific AKT2 gene variant leads to impaired insulin signalling in myotubes (2023)
- Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Insulin-stimulated brain glucose uptake correlates with brain metabolites in severe obesity: A combined neuroimaging study (2023)
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lower abdominal adipose tissue cannabinoid type 1 receptor availability in young men with overweight (2023)
- Obesity
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Quantitative Perfusion Imaging with Total-Body PET (2023)
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Renal Cortical Glucose Uptake Is Decreased in Insulin Resistance and Correlates Inversely With Serum Free-fatty Acids (2023)
- Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Finnish-specific AKT2 gene variant leads to impaired insulin signalling in human myotubes (2022)
- Diabetologia
(Other publication) - Obesity risk is associated with brain glucose uptake and insulin resistance (2022)
- European Journal of Endocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effects of 6 weeks of treatment with dapagliflozin, a sodium- glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitor, on myocardial function and metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes: A randomized, placebo-controlled, exploratory study (2021)
- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Insulin-stimulated brain glucose uptake correlates negatively with peripheral insulin sensitivity already in the early phase of metabolic dysregulation (2021)
- Diabetologia
(Other publication) - Both sedentary time and physical activity are associated with cardiometabolic health in overweight adults in a 1 month accelerometer measurement (2020)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Brain insulin sensitivity is linked to body fat distribution-the positron emission tomography perspective (2020)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Predicting Skeletal Muscle and Whole-Body Insulin Sensitivity Using NMR-Metabolomic Profiling (2020)
- Journal of the Endocrine Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Regulators of central and peripheral insulin sensitivity in humans (2020) Latva-Rasku Aino
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Effects of DAPAgliflozin on CARDiac substrate uptake, myocardial efficiency, and myocardial contractile work in type 2 diabetes patients—a description of the DAPACARD study (2019)
- Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin Reduces Liver Fat but Does Not Affect Tissue Insulin Sensitivity: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study With 8-Week Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes Patients (2019)
- Diabetes Care
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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