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    Individual parkinsonian motor signs and striatal dopamine transporter deficiency: a study with [I-123]FP-CIT SPECT

    Total parkinsonian motor symptom severity correlates with presynaptic striatal dopamine function in patients with Parkinson’s disease. There is a lack of studies that have investigated the associations between...

    Elina Mäkinen, Juho Joutsa, Elina Jaakkola, Tommi Noponen… in Journal of Neurology (2019)

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    Bile Reflux Scintigraphy After Mini-Gastric Bypass

    Significant weight-loss and diabetes remission have been reported after mini-gastric bypass (MGB). Concern has been raised regarding postoperative bile reflux (BR), but it has not been demonstrated in previous...

    Tuure Saarinen, Jari Räsänen, Jarmo Salo, Antti Loimaala, Miia Pitkonen… in Obesity Surgery (2017)

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    Advanced brain dopamine transporter imaging in mice using small-animal SPECT/CT

    Iodine-123-β-CIT, a single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) ligand for dopamine transporters (DATs), has been used for in vivo studies in humans, monkeys, and rats but has not yet been used extensively...

    Miia Pitkonen, Eero Hippeläinen, Mari Raki, Jaan-Olle Andressoo… in EJNMMI Research (2012)

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    Therapeutic differentiation and maturation of lymphatic vessels after lymph node dissection and transplantation

    Surgery or radiation therapy of metastatic cancer often damages lymph nodes, leading to secondary lymphedema. Here we show, using a newly established mouse model, that collecting lymphatic vessels can be regen...

    Tuomas Tammela, Anne Saaristo, Tanja Holopainen, Johannes Lyytikkä… in Nature Medicine (2007)