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Wasik AA and Tuuminen T. Salt therapy as a complementary method for the treatment of respiratory tract diseases, with a focus on mold-related illness. Altern Ther Health Med. 2021;27(S1):223-239.

Révész C, Wasik AA, Godó M, Tod P, Lehtonen S, Szénási G, Hamar P. Cold saline perfusion before ischemia-reperfusion is harmful to the kidney and is associated with the loss of ezrin, a cytoskeletal protein, in rats. Biomedicines. 2021;9(1):E30.
 
Wasik AA, Dash SN, Lehtonen S. Septins in kidney: A territory little explored. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, NJ). 2018,10.1002/cm.21477

Wasik AA, Lehtonen S. Glucose Transporters in Diabetic Kidney Disease-Friends or Foes? Frontiers in Endocrinology. 2018;9:155.

Wasik AA, Schiller HB. Functional proteomics of cellular mechanosensing mechanisms. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. 2017;71:118-28.

Wasik AA, Dumont V, Tienari J, Nyman TA, Fogarty CL, Forsblom C, Lehto M, Lehtonen E, Groop PH, Lehtonen S. Septin 7 reduces nonmuscle myosin IIA activity in the SNAP23 complex and hinders GLUT4 storage vesicle docking and fusion. Experimental Cell Research. 2017;350(2):336-48.

Sun Z, Tseng HY, Tan S, Senger F, Kurzawa L, Dedden D, Mizuno N, Wasik AA, Thery M, Dunn AR, Fässler R. Kank2 activates talin, reduces force transduction across integrins and induces central adhesion formation. Nature Cell Biology. 2016;18(9):941-53.

Kuusela S, Wang H, Wasik AA, Suleiman H, Lehtonen S. Tankyrase inhibition aggravates kidney injury in the absence of CD2AP. Cell Death & Disease. 2016;7:e2302.

Wasik AA. Molecular mechanisms regulating glucose uptake into podocytes: the roles of ezrin, septin 7 and nonmuscle myosin IIA.  Helsinki: University of Helsinki. 2014; 117 p.

Wasik AA, Koskelainen S, Hyvonen ME, Musante L, Lehtonen E, Koskenniemi K, Tienari J, Vaheri A, Kerjaschki D, Szala C, Révész C, Varmanen P, Nyman TA, Hamar P, Holthöfer H, Lehtonen S. Ezrin is down-regulated in diabetic kidney glomeruli and regulates actin reorganization and glucose uptake via GLUT1 in cultured podocytes. The American Journal of Pathology. 2014;184(6):1727-39.

Dash SN, Lehtonen E, Wasik AA, Schepis A, Paavola J, Panula P, Nelson WJ, Lehtonen S. Sept7b is essential for pronephric function and development of left-right asymmetry in zebrafish embryogenesis. Journal of Cell Science. 2014;127(Pt 7):1476-86.

Wasik AA, Polianskyte-Prause Z, Dong MQ, Shaw AS, Yates JR, 3rd, Farquhar MG, Lehtonen S. Septin 7 forms a complex with CD2AP and nephrin and regulates glucose transporter trafficking. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 2012;23(17):3370-9.

Hyvonen ME, Saurus P, Wasik A, Heikkila E, Havana M, Trokovic R, Saleem M, Holthöfer H, Lehtonen S. Lipid phosphatase SHIP2 downregulates insulin signalling in podocytes. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 2010;328(1-2):70-9.

Nawrot U, Wlodarczyk K, Wrobel M, Wasik A, Dobosz T. Comparison of the utility of five commercial kits for extraction of DNA from Aspergillus fumigatus spores. Acta Biochimica Polonica, 2010;57(4):567-71.

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