User profiles for V. Makinen

Veli Mäkinen

Professor of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
Verified email at helsinki.fi
Cited by 6878

Compressed full-text indexes

G Navarro, V Mäkinen - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2007 - dl.acm.org
Full-text indexes provide fast substring search over large text collections. A serious problem
of these indexes has traditionally been their space consumption. A recent trend is to develop …

Vascular heterogeneity and specialization in development and disease

M Potente, T Mäkinen - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2017 - nature.com
Blood and lymphatic vessels pervade almost all body tissues and have numerous essential
roles in physiology and disease. The inner lining of these networks is formed by a single …

[PDF][PDF] Inequalities in health care use and expenditures: empirical data from eight developing countries and countries in transition

M Makinen, H Waters, M Rauch… - Bulletin of the world …, 2000 - SciELO Public Health
This paper summarizes eight country studies of inequality in the health sector. The analyses
use household data to examine the distribution of service use and health expenditures. …

The optimum time to initiate habitual xylitol gum-chewing for obtaining long-term caries prevention

PP Hujoel, KK Mäkinen, CA Bennett… - Journal of Dental …, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
Habitual xylitol gum-chewing may have a long-term preventive effect by reducing the caries
risk for several years after the habitual chewing has ended. The goal of this report was (1) to …

[HTML][HTML] Isolated lymphatic endothelial cells transduce growth, survival and migratory signals via the VEGF‐C/D receptor VEGFR‐3

T Mäkinen, T Veikkola, S Mustjoki, T Karpanen… - The EMBO …, 2001 - embopress.org
Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor‐3 (VEGFR‐3/Flt4) binds two known members of
the VEGF ligand family, VEGF‐C and VEGF‐D, and has a critical function in the remodelling …

Ephrin-B2 controls VEGF-induced angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis

…, U Lüthi, A Barberis, LE Benjamin, T Mäkinen… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
In development, tissue regeneration or certain diseases, angiogenic growth leads to the
expansion of blood vessels and the lymphatic vasculature. This involves endothelial cell …

Switching supramolecular polymeric materials with multiple length scales

J Ruokolainen, R Makinen, M Torkkeli, T Makela… - Science, 1998 - science.org
It was demonstrated that polymeric supramolecular nanostructures with several length scales
allow straightforward tailoring of hierarchical order-disorder and order-order transitions …

[HTML][HTML] Signalling via vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 is sufficient for lymphangiogenesis in transgenic mice

T Veikkola, L Jussila, T Makinen, T Karpanen… - The EMBO …, 2001 - embopress.org
Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) has an essential role in the
development of embryonic blood vessels; however, after midgestation its expression becomes …

MED12, the Mediator Complex Subunit 12 Gene, Is Mutated at High Frequency in Uterine Leiomyomas

N Mäkinen, M Mehine, J Tolvanen, E Kaasinen, Y Li… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Uterine leiomyomas, or fibroids, are benign tumors that affect millions of women worldwide
and that can cause considerable morbidity. To study the genetic basis of this tumor type, we …

[HTML][HTML] Lymphatic endothelial reprogramming of vascular endothelial cells by the Prox‐1 homeobox transcription factor

TV Petrova, T Mäkinen, TP Mäkelä, J Saarela… - The EMBO …, 2002 - embopress.org
Lymphatic vessels are essential for fluid homeostasis, immune surveillance and fat adsorption,
and also serve as a major route for tumor metastasis in many types of cancer. We found …