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
- 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)



