Martina Mavrovic

Researcher profile

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​Postdoc in the Glover lab at the University of Oslo.

​ PhD from the Kaila lab at Helsinki University


​ Research areas: adaptive plasticity of developing cortical and spinal cord circuits; neurodevelopmental disorders

Publications

Virtanen, M A, Uvarov, P, Mavrovic, M, Poncer, J C, Kaila, K (2021): The multifaceted roles of KCC2 in cortical development Trends Neurosci. 1689: 1-15, doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.01.004
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Doctoral dissertation: Expression and functions of KCC2 in the perinatal rodent cortex (2020)
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Mavrovic, M, Uvarov, P, Delpire, E, Vutskits, L, Kaila, K and Puskarjov, M (2020): Loss of non‐canonical KCC2 functions promotes developmental apoptosis of cortical projection neurons, EMBO Rep., doi:10.15252/embr.201948880, 2020.
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Spoljaric I, Spoljaric A*, Mavrovic M*, Seja P, Puskarjov M, Kaila K (2019) KCC2-Mediated Cl− Extrusion Modulates Spontaneous Hippocampal Network Events in Perinatal Rats and Mice. Cell Rep 26: 1073-1081.e3.
*Equal contribution
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Puskarjov M, Fiumelli H, Briner A, Bodogan T, Demeter K, Lacoh C-M, Mavrovic M, Blaesse P, Kaila K, Vutskits L (2017) K-Cl Cotransporter 2-mediated Cl - Extrusion Determines Developmental Stage-dependent Impact of Propofol Anesthesia on Dendritic Spines. Anesthesiology 126:855-867.
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