Researcher
National Public Health Institute
Department of Environmental Health
P.O.Box
95
, FI-70701 Kuopio
Email: firstname.lastname@thl.fi
phone: +358 20 610 6xxx, fax: +358 20 610 6498
Areas of interest
Dioxin toxicology, heme metabolism, combining of epidemiology and toxicology
Education
M.Sc. in biochemistry (University of Turku)
Postgraduate student in toxicology (University of Kuopio)
Selected publications
Niittynen, M., Tuomisto, J.T., Auriola, S., Pohjanvirta, R., Syrjälä, P., Simanainen, U., Viluksela, M., and Tuomisto, J. (2003) 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-induced accumulation of biliverdin and hepatic peliosis in rats. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES 71, 112-123. [This article was selected as a “Toxicological Highlight” in the journal: Maines, M.D. (2003) Bile pigments: newcomers to the cell signaling arena. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES 71, 9-10].
Lindfors, K., Viiri, K.M., Niittynen, M., Heinonen, T.Y., Mäki, M., and Kainulainen, H. (2003) TGF-β induces the expression of SAP30L, a novel nuclear protein. BMC GENOMICS 4(1):53.
Tuomisto J.T., Tuomisto J., Tainio M., Niittynen M., Verkasalo P., Vartiainen T., Kiviranta H., Pekkanen J. (2004) Risk-benefit analysis of eating farmed salmon. SCIENCE 305, 476-477.
Pohjanvirta, R., Niittynen, M., Lindén, J., Boutros, P.C., Moffat, I.D., and Okay, A.B. (2006) Evaluation of various housekeeping genes for their applicability for normalization of mRNA expression in dioxin-treated rats. CHEMICO-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS 160, 134-149.