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Parent-staff and parent-infant communication: implications on child development
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-08-22)
After a preterm birth, the optimal growth environment in utero is replaced by a completely different, often rather stressful environment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), which could potentially be harmful to the ...
Context-related physical activity and sedentary behaviour before and after retirement: GPS and accelerometer-based study
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-05-28)
In addition to individual and social factors, many environmental factors can modify physical activity. However, few studies have focused on older age groups. The aims of this dissertation were to examine the contexts in ...
The effects of pharmaceuticals and environmental toxicants on testicular development and function: in vitro and ex vivo study
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-08-15)
Disorders of male reproductive health are becoming increasingly prevalent due to unknown reasons. Pharmaceutical agents and environmental chemicals can cause adverse effects on the reproductive system, but reproductive ...
Long-term metabolic and nutritional effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in the treatment of severe obesity
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-08-29)
Background: Metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is the most effective treatment of severe obesity, a global epidemic associated with multiple comorbidities. MBS may result in type 2 diabetes (T2D) remission. The Individualized ...
Studies on prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer epidemiology
(2017-12-15)
The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is the main biomarker for diagnosis and treatment response monitoring in prostate cancer (PCa). In the first part of this thesis, we investigated the prognostic value of ultrasensitive ...
Experimental models of focal neuroinflammation - Efficacy assessment of pharmaceuticals of multiple sclerosis using PET imaging
(Turun yliopisto, 2022-04-29)
Neuroinflammation (NI) is a key player in neurodegenerative diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Magnetic resonance imaging is the gold standard imaging method for diagnosis of MS, however, better diagnostic tools ...
HSD17BS in steroid and lipid metabolism and lipid disorders: the role of HSD17B12 and HSD17B13
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-10-27)
ABSTRACT
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), characterized by the accumulation of fat within hepatocytes, has become the most common chronic liver disease in developed countries. NAFLD is associated with insulin ...
Treatment of pediatric spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-10-29)
Spondylolysis is the most common cause of low back pain in adolescents, explaining up to 47% of low back pain in young athletes. It is a stress fracture in one or both of the pars interarticularis of the vertebra, most ...
Phage-biosensors for detection of cancer from urine
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-02-14)
Detection and classification of cancer is challenging because current methods are often clinically ambiguous, expensive and/or laborious. Molecular tests have been developed over past decades but they lack accuracy, clinical ...
Parental stress and atopic diseases in offspring: maternal prenatal psychological stress and paternal adverse childhood experiences in relation to offspring atopic diseases in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
(Turun yliopisto, 2025-08-22)
Allergic diseases, including food allergies, atopic eczema, wheezing, asthma and allergic rhinitis, have a complex and multifactorial pathogenesis. The most important risk factor for atopic diseases in children is genetic ...