Marta Margeta, Ph.D., M.D.

Neuropathologist

Additional Languages

Croatian
Serbian

Education

University of Zagreb School of Medicine 1991
University of Illinois at Chicago 1996

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Anatomic Pathology 2003

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Neuropathology 2005

Selected Research and Publications

1. Roy S, Gascard P, Dumont N, Zhao J, Pan D, Petrie S, Margeta M, Tlsty TD. Rare somatic cells from human breast tissue exhibit extensive lineage plasticity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Mar 19; 110(12):4598-603.
2. Lee HS, Daniels BH, Salas E, Bollen AW, Debnath J, Margeta M. Clinical utility of LC3 and p62 immunohistochemistry in diagnosis of drug-induced autophagic vacuolar myopathies: a case-control study. PLoS One. 2012; 7(4):e36221.
3. Chandiramani N, Wang X, Margeta M. Molecular basis for vulnerability to mitochondrial and oxidative stress in a neuroendocrine CRI-G1 cell line. PLoS One. 2011; 6(1):e14485.
4. Margeta M, Connolly AM, Winder TL, Pestronk A, Moore SA. Cardiac pathology exceeds skeletal muscle pathology in two cases of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I. Muscle Nerve. 2009 Nov; 40(5):883-9.
5. Layzer R, Lee HS, Iverson D, Margeta M. Dermatomyositis with inclusion body myositis pathology. Muscle Nerve. 2009 Sep; 40(3):469-71.
6. Cheng Z, Tu C, Rodriguez L, Chen TH, Dvorak MM, Margeta M, Gassmann M, Bettler B, Shoback D, Chang W. Type B gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors modulate the function of the extracellular Ca2+-sensing receptor and cell differentiation in murine growth plate chondrocytes. Endocrinology. 2007 Oct; 148(10):4984-92.
7. Chang W, Tu C, Cheng Z, Rodriguez L, Chen TH, Gassmann M, Bettler B, Margeta M, Jan LY, Shoback D. Complex formation with the Type B gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor affects the expression and signal transduction of the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor. Studies with HEK-293 cells and neurons. J Biol Chem. 2007 Aug 24; 282(34):25030-40.
8. Keet CA, Fox CK, Margeta M, Marco E, Shane AL, Dearmond SJ, Strober JB, Miller SP. Infant botulism, type F, presenting at 54 hours of life. Pediatr Neurol. 2005 Mar; 32(3):193-6.
9. Mitrovic I, Margeta-Mitrovic M, Bader S, Stoffel M, Jan LY, Basbaum AI. Contribution of GIRK2-mediated postsynaptic signaling to opiate and alpha 2-adrenergic analgesia and analgesic sex differences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Jan 7; 100(1):271-6.
10. Margeta-Mitrovic M. Assembly-dependent trafficking assays in the detection of receptor-receptor interactions. Methods. 2002 Aug; 27(4):311-7.
11. Margeta-Mitrovic M, Jan YN, Jan LY. Function of GB1 and GB2 subunits in G protein coupling of GABA(B) receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Dec 4; 98(25):14649-54.
12. Margeta-Mitrovic M, Jan YN, Jan LY. Ligand-induced signal transduction within heterodimeric GABA(B) receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Dec 4; 98(25):14643-8.
13. Margeta-Mitrovic M, Jan YN, Jan LY. A trafficking checkpoint controls GABA(B) receptor heterodimerization. Neuron. 2000 Jul; 27(1):97-106.
14. Margeta-Mitrovic M, Mitrovic I, Riley RC, Jan LY, Basbaum AI. Immunohistochemical localization of GABA(B) receptors in the rat central nervous system. J Comp Neurol. 1999 Mar 15; 405(3):299-321.
15. Margeta-Mitrovic M, Grigg JJ, Koyano K, Nakajima Y, Nakajima S. Neurotensin and substance P inhibit low- and high-voltage-activated Ca2+ channels in cultured newborn rat nucleus basalis neurons. J Neurophysiol. 1997 Sep; 78(3):1341-52.

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