Saku Ruohonen
PhD, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
saturu@utu.fi |
Pharmacology and toxicology. Cardiovascular sciences in preclinical and epidemiological studies.
- TV viewing and subclinical cardiac diastolic dysfunction in early midlife. The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. (2016) Helajärvi H, Ruohonen S, Pahkala K, Heinonen OJ, Viikari J, Raitakari OT
- Neuropeptide Y in the noradrenergic neurones induces obesity and inhibits sympathetic tone in mice. – Noradrenergic neurone NPY and obesity (2015)
- Acta Physiologica
- Subtle increases in heart size persist into adulthood in growth restricted babies: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. (2015)
- Open Heart
- The effects of equal caloric high fat and western diet on metabolic syndrome, oxidative stress and vascular endothelial function in mice (2014)
- Acta Physiologica
- A polymorphism in the protein kinase C gene PRKCB is associated with alpha(2)-adrenoceptor-mediated vasoconstriction (2013)
- Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
- Lentivirus-Mediated alpha-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Overexpression in the Hypothalamus Decreases Diet Induced Obesity in Mice (2013)
- Journal of Neuroendocrinology
- Pharmacological treatment with a melanocortin analogue protects against pressure-overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy (2013)
- FASEB Journal
- Status epilepticus alters neurogenesis and decreases the number of GABAergic neurons in the septal dentate gyrus of 9-day-old rats at the early phase of epileptogenesis (2013)
- Brain Research
- α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone regulates vascular NO availability and protects against endothelial dysfunction (2013)
- Cardiovascular Research
- Involvement of α2-adrenoceptor subtypes A and C in glucose homeostasis and adrenaline-induced hyperglycaemia. (2012)
- Neuroendocrinology
- Neuropeptide Y in the noradrenergic neurons induces the development of cardiometabolic diseases in a transgenic mouse model (2012) Ruohonen Saku Tuomas, Pesonen Ullamari, Savontaus Eriika
- Dietary sodium modulates the interaction between efferent and afferent renal nerve activity by altering activation of α2-adrenoceptors on renal sensory nerves (2011)
- AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
- Dorsal hand vein responses to the α₁-adrenoceptor agonist phenylephrine do not predict responses to the α₂-adrenoceptor agonist dexmedetomidine. (2011)
- European Journal of Pharmacology
- Kainic acid-induced neurodegeneration and activation of inflammatory processes in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures: Treatment with cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor does not prevent neuronal death (2011)
- Neuropharmacology
- Temporal profiles of age-dependent changes in cytokine mRNA expression and glial cell activation after status epilepticus in postnatal rat hippocampus (2011)
- Journal of Neuroinflammation
- Sympathetic nervous system-targeted neuropeptide Y overexpression in mice enhances neointimal formation in response to vascular injury. (2009)
- Peptides
- Cytokine responses during chronic denervation. (2005)
- Journal of Neuroinflammation
- Distinct expression of TGF-beta1 mRNA in the endo- and epineurium after nerve injury. (2004)
- Journal of Neurotrauma
- Bioplasticity after peripheral nerve injury (2003) Röyttä M, Taskinen H-S, Siironen J, Vuorinen V, Ruohonen S
- Contralateral non-operated nerve to transected rat sciatic nerve shows increased expression of IL-1beta, TGF-beta1, TNF-alpha, and IL-10. (2002)
- Journal of Neuroimmunology



