♦ Baričević Z, Pongrac M, Ivaničić M, Hreščak H, Tomljanović I, Petrović A, Cojoc D, Mladinic M, Ban J. SOX2 and SOX9 Expression in Developing Postnatal Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) Cortex. Biomolecules 2024 Jan 5;14(1):70. doi: 10.3390/biom14010070
♦ Baričević Z, Ayar Z, Leitao SM, Mladinic M, Fantner GE, Ban J. Label-Free Long-Term Methods for Live Cell Imaging of Neurons: New Opportunities. Biosensors. 2023; 13(3):404. doi: 10.3390/bios13030404
♦ Mazzone GL, Coronel MF, Mladinic M, Sámano C. An update to pain management after spinal cord injury: from pharmacology to circRNAs. Rev Neurosci. 2022 Nov 10. doi: 10.1515/revneuro-2022-0089.
♦ Glavač D, Mladinić M, Ban J, Mazzone GL, Sámano C, Tomljanović I, Jezernik G and Ravnik-Glavač M. The potential connection between molecular changes and biomarkers related to ALS and the development and regeneration of CNS. Int J Mol Sci 2022. 23(19), 11360; doi: 10.3390/ijms231911360
♦ Petrović A, Ban J, Ivaničić M, Tomljanović I, Mladinic M. The role of ATF3 in neuronal differentiation and development of neuronal networks in opossum postnatal cortical cultures. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Apr 29;23(9):4964. doi: 10.3390/ijms23094964.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The experimental work has been conducted on equipment financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the project ‘‘Research Infrastructure for Campus‐based Laboratories at University of Rijeka’’ (RC.2.2.06‐0001), the Croatian Science Foundation (Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost; CSF) grant IP‐2016‐06‐7060, the financial support from the University of Rijeka (uniri‐biomed‐18‐258‐6427, uniri‐prirod‐18‐290‐1463, and uniri‐sp‐biomed‐19‐50‐1560), and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Grant/Award Number: CRP/CRO14‐03.
♦ Tomljanović I, Petrović A, Ban J and Mladinic M. Proteomic analysis of opossum Monodelphis domestica spinal cord reveals the changes of proteins related to neurodegenerative diseases during developmental period when neuroregeneration stops being possible. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2022 Jan 8;587:85-91. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.11.078
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This experimental work has been conducted on equipment financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the project ‘‘Research Infrastructure for Campus-based Laboratories at University of Rijeka’’ (RC.2.2.06-0001), the Croatian Science Foundation (Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost; CSF) grant IP-2016-06-7060, the financial support from the University of Rijeka (18.12.2.1.01, 18-258-6427 and 18-290-1463), and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Grant/Award Number: CRP/CRO14-03. We greatly thank prof. Maček and dr. Velić at the Proteome Center Tuebingen, Germany for performing MS experiments and the animal house facility at the University of Trieste for the housing of the opossum colony.
♦ Ban J and Mladinic M. Monodelphis domestica: a new source of mammalian primary neurons in vitro, Neural Regeneration Research, 2022 Aug;17(8):1726-1727. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.332139
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The present work has been conducted on equipment financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the project “Research Infrastructure for Campus-based Laboratories at University of Rijeka” (RC.2.2.06-0001), the Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) grant IP-2016-06-7060, the financial support from the University of Rijeka (18.12.2.1.01, 18-258-6427 and 18-290-1463) and from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Grant/Award Number: CRP/CRO14-03 (to MM).
♦ Sámano C, Mladinic M, Mazzone GL (2021). Circular RNAs: The Novel Actors in Pathophysiology of Spinal Cord Injury. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2021 Oct 14;15:758340. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2021.758340
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: CS was supported by the Departamento de Ciencias Naturales (DCN), de la División de Ciencias Naturales e Ingeniería (DCNI) de la UAM-Cuajimalpa. MM was supported by Croatian Science Foundation grant IP-2016-06-7060 and UniRi research support uniri-biomed-18-258-1427 and prirod-sp-20-38-2687. GM was supported by Universidad Austral, CONICET, and Regular Associate Scheme of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
♦ Petrović A, Ban J, Tomljanović I, Pongrac M, Ivaničić M, Mikašinović S, Mladinic. Establishment of long-term primary cortical neuronal cultures from neonatal opossum Monodelphis domestica. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. Front Cell Neurosci. 2021 Mar 18;15:661492. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2021.661492
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The experimental work has been conducted on equipment financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the project “Research Infrastructure for Campus-based Laboratories at University of Rijeka” (RC.2.2.06-0001), the Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) grant IP-2016-06-7060, the financial support from the University of Rijeka (18.12.2.1.01, 18-258-6427 and 18-290-1463) and from the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Grant/Award Number: CRP/CRO14-03.
♦ Ban, J., & Mladinic, M. Spinal cord neural stem cells heterogeneity in postnatal development. STEMedicine, 2020 1(1). https://doi.org/10.37175/stemedicine.v1i1.19
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The experimental work has been conducted on equipment financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the project “Research Infrastructure for Campus-based Laboratories at University of Rijeka” (RC.2.2.06-0001), the Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) grant IP-2016-06-7060 and the financial support from the University of Rijeka (18.12.2.1.01, 18-258-6427 and 18-290-1463).
♦ Ban J., Mladinić Pejatović M. Nanotechnology Approaches for Autologous Stem Cell Manipulation in Personalized Regenerative Medicine. In: Bodiroga-Vukobrat N., Rukavina D., et al. (eds) Personalized Medicine in Healthcare Systems. Europeanization and Globalization, vol 5. Springer, Cham. 2019;pp 45-54
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♦ Ban J, Sámano C, Mladinic M and Munitic I. Glia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal cord injury: common therapeutic targets. Croat Med J. 2019 Apr 30;60(2):109-120. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2019.60.109
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This work was funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (CSF) grants to IM (IP-2018-01-8563) and MM (IP-2016-06-7060), the financial support from the University of Rijeka (18-211-1369 to IM; 18-258-6427 to MM and 18-290-1463 to JB), and the financial support from the Natural Science Department (DCN) of the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Cuajimalpa (UAM-C), Mexico City to CS. The Department of Biotechnology was equipped by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the project “Research Infrastructure for Campus-based Laboratories at University of Rijeka.”
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♦ Petrović A, Kaur J, Tomljanović I, Nistri A, Mladinic M. Pharmacological induction of Heat Shock Protein 70 by celastrol protects motoneurons from excitotoxicity in rat spinal cord in vitro. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2019 Jan;49(2):215-231. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14218
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This work was supported by a SISSA intramural grant to A. Nistri, the ICGEB Research Grant CRP/CRO14-03 to M. Mladinić and Croatian Science Foundation Research Grant IP-2016-06-7060 to M. Mladinić. Microscopy infrastructure was provided by the project RISK “Development of University of Rijeka campus laboratory research infrastructure” financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
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♦ Petrovic A, Veeraraghavana P, Olivieri D, Nistri A, Jurcic N, Mladinic M.
Loss of inhibitory synapses causes locomotor network dysfunction of the rat spinal cord during prolonged maintenance in vitro. Brain Research, 2019 May 1;1710:8-21. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.12.029
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This work was supported by a SISSA intramural grant to AN, the ICGEB Research Grant CRP/CRO14-03 to MM and HRZZ Research Grant IP-2016-06-7060 to MM. Microscopy infrastructure of the University of Rijeka was provided by the project RISK “Development of University of Rijeka Campus Laboratory Research Infrastructure” financed by the European Regional Development Fund. We thank Dr. Igor Pongrac, Sales representative Croatia, Life Science, Merck for helping us to collect all the Certificates of Analysis/Conformance for the antibodies used in this study.