Marina Zarić-Kontić

E-mail: marinazaric@vin.bg.ac.rs
Phone: +381 11 6455 561
ORCID: 0000-0003-1635-9766
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  • PhD: Experimental neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2019.
    Ttitle: “Effects of brief cerebral ischemia/ reperfusion and dehydroepiandrosterone treatment on components of NMDA receptor-mediated signalling in rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex”

    MSc: Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2014.
    Title: “The effect of exposure to high and low ambient temperature on the dopamine β-hydroxylase level in the rat hypothalamus “

    BSc: Molecular biology and physiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2013.

    Professional training

    • 2020: Belgrade Fire Eye Laboratory, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; covid-19 testing
    • 2016: „Immaging neuroinflammation" NERKA6, School of biophysics, Kotor, Montenegro
    • 2015: “Cell Science and Engineering”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
    • 2015: “School of Proteomics”, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
    • 2014: DAAD Workshop; Neuroscience: “The other perspective - from soft skills and statistics to ethical issues”, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

  • Research fields

    neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, neuroplasticity, cerebral ischemia/reperfusion, benzodiazepine tolerance, alprazolam

    Selected publications

    1. Dragic M., Stekic A., Zeljkovic M., Zaric Kontic M., Mihajlovic K., Adzic M., Grkovic I., Nedeljkovic N. Altered Topographic Distribution and Enhanced Neuronal Expression of Adenosine-Metabolizing Enzymes in Rat Hippocampus and Cortex from Early to late Adulthood. Neurochem Res (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-022-03557-5
    2. Stanojlovic M., Gusevac Stojanovic I., Zaric M., Martinovic J., Mitrovic N., Grkovic I., Drakulic D. Progesterone Protects Prefrontal Cortex in Rat Model of Permanent Bilateral Common Carotid Occlusion via Progesterone Receptors and Akt/Erk/eNOS. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, (2020), vol. 40 br. 5, str. 829-843
    3. Dragic M., Zaric M., Mitrovic N., Nedeljkovic N., Grkovic I. Application of Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix Analysis as a New Method for Enzyme Histochemistry Quantification. Microscopy and Microanalysis, (2019), vol. 25 br. 3, str. 690-698
    4. Zaric M., Drakulic D., Dragic M., Gusevac Stojanovic I., Mitrovic N., Grkovic I., Martinovic J. Molecular Alterations and Effects of Acute Dehydroepiandrosterone Treatment Following Brief Bilateral Common Carotid Artery Occlusion: Relevance to Transient Ischemic Attack. Neuroscience, (2019), vol. 410 br. , str. 128-139
    5. Zaric M., Drakulic D., Gusevac Stojanovic I., Mitrovic N., Grkovic I., Martinovic J. Regional-specific effects of cerebral ischemia/reperfusion and dehydroepiandrosterone on synaptic NMDAR/PSD-95 complex in male Wistar rats. Brain Research, (2018), vol. 1688 br. str. 73-80.