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Dejan Milatovic is a researcher affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Nursing.

Their main areas of research focus on several topics including:

  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Aluminum Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants and Animals
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Eicosanoids and Hypertension Pharmacology
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity

Within these broad topics, Milatovic works across diverse subfields, notably:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Plant Science
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Neurology
  • Biochemistry

Their collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with several co-authors, among them:

  • Snjezana Zaja-Milatovic
  • Michael Aschner
  • Ramesh C. Gupta
  • Mirjana Milosevic Brockett
  • Robin B. Doss

Milatovic's research output reflects a multidisciplinary approach that bridges environmental science with biological impacts, especially related to toxic substances and their physiological effects.

Best Publications

  • Dendritic degeneration in neostriatal medium spiny neurons in Parkinson disease

    S. Zaja-Milatovic;D. Milatovic;A. M. Schantz;J. Zhang

  • Oxidative damage and neurodegeneration in manganese-induced neurotoxicity.

    Dejan Milatovic;Snjezana Zaja-Milatovic;Ramesh C. Gupta;Yingchun Yu

  • Prenatal methylmercury exposure hampers glutathione antioxidant system ontogenesis and causes long-lasting oxidative stress in the mouse brain.

    James Stringari;Adriana K.C. Nunes;Jeferson L. Franco;Denise Bohrer

  • Manganese induces oxidative impairment in cultured rat astrocytes.

    Dejan Milatovic;Zhaobao Yin;Ramesh C. Gupta;Marta Sidoryk

  • Methylmercury induces oxidative injury, alterations in permeability and glutamine transport in cultured astrocytes.

    Zhaobao Yin;Dejan Milatovic;Judy L. Aschner;Tore Syversen

  • Extracellular dopamine potentiates mn-induced oxidative stress, lifespan reduction, and dopaminergic neurodegeneration in a BLI-3-dependent manner in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Alexandre Benedetto;Catherine Au;Daiana Silva Avila;Daiana Silva Avila;Dejan Milatovic

  • Depletion of Energy Metabolites Following Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor-Induced Status Epilepticus: Protection by Antioxidants ☆

    Ramesh C Gupta;Dejan Milatovic;Wolf-D Dettbarn

  • Ferroportin is a manganese-responsive protein that decreases manganese cytotoxicity and accumulation

    Zhaobao Yin;Haiyan Jiang;Eun Sook Y. Lee;Mingwei Ni

  • Peripheral F2‐isoprostanes and F4‐neuroprostanes are not increased in Alzheimer's disease

    Thomas J. Montine;Joseph F. Quinn;Dejan Milatovic;Lisa C. Silbert

  • Neuronal oxidative damage from activated innate immunity is EP2 receptor-dependent.

    Thomas J. Montine;Dejan Milatovic;Ramesh C. Gupta;Tibor Valyi-Nagy

  • Involvement of nitric oxide in kainic acid-induced excitotoxicity in rat brain.

    Dejan Milatovic;Ramesh C Gupta;Wolf D Dettbarn

  • The inhibitory effect of manganese on acetylcholinesterase activity enhances oxidative stress and neuroinflammation in the rat brain

    Dinamene Santos;Dejan Milatovic;Vanda Andrade;M. Camila Batoreu

  • Protection of DFP-induced oxidative damage and neurodegeneration by antioxidants and NMDA receptor antagonist

    Snjezana Zaja-Milatovic;Ramesh C. Gupta;Michael Aschner;Dejan Milatovic

  • Pharmacologic suppression of neuronal oxidative damage and dendritic degeneration following direct activation of glial innate immunity in mouse cerebrum

    Dejan Milatovic;Snjeanna Zaja-Milatovic;Kathleen S. Montine;Philip J. Horner

  • Modulation of cholinergic systems by manganese.

    Yoram Finkelstein;Dejan Milatovic;Michael Aschner

  • Nitric oxide modulates high-energy phosphates in brain regions of rats intoxicated with diisopropylphosphorofluoridate or carbofuran: prevention by N-tert-butyl-α-phenylnitrone or vitamin E

    Ramesh C. Gupta;Dejan Milatovic;Wolf D. Dettbarn

  • NADPH oxidases and reactive oxygen species at different stages of chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in newborn piglets

    Kathleen E Dennis;Judy L. Aschner;Dejan Milatovic;John W. Schmidt

  • Neuroprotection by tamoxifen in focal cerebral ischemia is not mediated by an agonist action at estrogen receptors but is associated with antioxidant activity

    Yonghua Zhang;Dejan Milatovic;Michael Aschner;Paul J. Feustel

  • Estrogen and Tamoxifen Protect against Mn-Induced Toxicity in Rat Cortical Primary Cultures of Neurons and Astrocytes

    Eun Sook Y. Lee;ZZhaobao Yin;Dejan Milatovic;Haiyan Jiang

  • Alterations in cytochrome c oxidase activity and energy metabolites in response to kainic acid-induced status epilepticus.

    Dejan Milatovic;Marko Zivin;Ramesh C Gupta;Wolf-D Dettbarn

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Albrecht
Jan Albrecht Polish Academy of Sciences
Jeffrey Kaye
Jeffrey Kaye Oregon Health & Science University
Terence S. Dermody
Terence S. Dermody University of Pittsburgh
Ariel Y. Deutch
Ariel Y. Deutch Vanderbilt University
Harold K. Kimelberg
Harold K. Kimelberg Albany Medical Center Hospital

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