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  1. Diagnostic challenges of diabetic kidney disease

    Article • Biochemia Medica, October 2023, Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  2. Inflammatory, oxidative and DNA damage status in vegetarians: is the future of human diet green?

    Article • Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  3. Association of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine and Nitric Oxide with Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease

    Article • Medicina, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  4. Preserved C-peptide secretion in patients with type 1 diabetes and incipient chronic complications is associated with lower serum resistin and higher uric acid levels

    Article • Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  5. Association between arsenic exposure and biomarkers of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Croatian population: A comparative observational pilot study

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, June 2020, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  6. Gender-specific effect of vegetarian diet on adiponectin levels and insulin sensitivity in healthy non-obese individuals

    Article • Nutrition, May 2020, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic, Dr Goran Gajski

  7. Leptin as a Key Player in Insulin Resistance of Liver Cirrhosis? A Cross-Sectional Study in Liver Transplant Candidates

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  8. Library-assisted nonlinear blind separation and annotation of pure components from a single 1H nuclear magnetic resonance mixture spectra

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, November 2019, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  9. Alkaline comet assay results on fresh and one-year frozen whole blood in small volume without cryo-protection in a group of people with different health status

    Article • Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, March 2019, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  10. Update on biomarkers of glycemic control

    Article • World Journal of Diabetes, January 2019, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  11. Serum adipocytokines are associated with microalbuminuria in patients with type 1 diabetes and incipient chronic complications

    Article • Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research & Reviews, January 2019, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  12. Plasma Fucosylated Glycans and C-Reactive Protein as Biomarkers of HNF1A-MODY in Young Adult–Onset Nonautoimmune Diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Care, November 2018, American Diabetes Association

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  13. Longitudinal associations between biomarkers of inflammation and changes in depressive symptoms in diabetic patients

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, July 2018, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  14. Analytical verification and quality assessment of the Tosoh HLC-723GX HbA 1c analyzer

    Article • Practical Laboratory Medicine, April 2017, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  15. Impact of creatinine methodology on glomerular filtration rate estimation in diabetes

    Article • World Journal of Diabetes, January 2017, Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press)

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  16. Age-dependent systemic DNA damage in early Type 2 Diabetes mellitus

    Article • Acta Biochimica Polonica, January 2017, Polskie Towarzystwo Biochemiczne (Polish Biochemical Society)

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  17. Persons with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults express higher dipeptidyl peptidase-4 activity compared to persons with type 2 and type 1 diabetes

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, November 2016, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  18. Method Validation for Human Seminal Plasma Fructose Determination

    Article • The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, July 2016, AACC

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  19. Serum delipidation but not high-speed centrifugation is effective in clearing lipemia interference in serum lipase activity measurement

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 2016, De Gruyter

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  20. Impact of under-filled blood collection tubes containing K2EDTA and K3EDTA as anticoagulants on automated complete blood count (CBC) testing

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 2016, De Gruyter

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  21. Association of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine With Acute Pancreatitis–Induced Hyperglycemia

    Article • Pancreas, January 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  22. Does treatment of subsyndromal depression improve depression-related and diabetes-related outcomes? A randomised controlled comparison of psychoeducation, physical exercise and enhanced treatment as usual

    Article • Trials, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  23. Adiponectin response to vegetarian diet is gender-dependent and inversely related to uric acid

    Article • Endocrine Abstracts, May 2015, Bioscientifica

    Dr Goran Gajski, Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  24. Improvement in Depressive Symptoms Is Associated with Reduced Oxidative Damage and Inflammatory Response in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Subsyndromal Depression: The Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Psychoeducation, Physical Exercise...

    Article • International Journal of Endocrinology, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  25. Inverse Levels of Adiponectin in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Are in Accordance with the State of Albuminuria

    Article • International Journal of Endocrinology, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  26. Level of primary DNA damage in the early stage of metabolic syndrome

    Article • Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ana-Marija Domijan, Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  27. Redefinition of gestational diabetes mellitus: implications for laboratory practice in Croatia

    Article • Biochemia Medica, January 2013, Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  28. Validation of Point-of-Care Glucose Testing for Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes

    Article • International Journal of Endocrinology, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  29. Estimating glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in diabetes: The performance of MDRD and CKD-EPI equations in patients with various degrees of albuminuria

    Article • Clinical Biochemistry, December 2012, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  30. Ultrasonography of the optic nerve sheath in brain death

    Article • Perspectives in Medicine, September 2012, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  31. Comparison of antihyperglycemic effects of creatine and glibenclamide in type II diabetic patients

    Article • Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  32. Does treatment of subsyndromal depression improve depression and diabetes related outcomes: protocol for a randomised controlled comparison of psycho-education, physical exercise and treatment as usual

    Article • Trials, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  33. Standardization of the hemoglobin A1c reporting: transferring global consensus to the local community – Special report

    Article • Biochemia Medica, January 2011, Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  34. Lipoprotein(a) predicts progression of carotid artery intima-media thickening in patients with type 2 diabetes: A four-year follow-up

    Article • Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  35. Comparison of antihyperglycemic effects of creatine and metformin in type II diabetic patients

    Article • Clinical & Investigative Medicine, December 2009, Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  36. Adiponectin has different mechanisms in type 1 and type 2 diabetes with C-peptide link

    Article • Clinical & Investigative Medicine, August 2009, Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  37. Total plasma antioxidants in first-degree relatives of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes

    Article • Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes, July 2009, Thieme Publishing Group

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  38. We-P11:64 Reduction in pro-inflammatoy markers by statins and RAS-inhibitors affects the development of vascular disease

    Article • Atherosclerosis Supplements, January 2006, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  39. Hemoglobin A1c: Standardization of the "gold standard"

    Article • Biochemia Medica, January 2006, Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  40. Uric acid may inhibit glucose-induced insulin secretion via binding to an essential arginine residue in rat pancreatic β-cells

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, February 2005, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  41. W01.46 Relation of markers of inflammation and effect of statin therapy in diabetic patients

    Article • Atherosclerosis Supplements, April 2004, Elsevier

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  42. In vitro inhibition of superoxide anion production and superoxide dismutase activity by zinc in human spermatozoa

    Article • International Journal of Andrology, August 1999, Wiley

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  43. Plasma Uric Acid and Total Antioxidant Status in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

    Article • Hormone and Metabolic Research, July 1997, Thieme Publishing Group

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  44. Superoxide Dismutase Activity in Lymphocytes and Polymorphonuclear Cells of Diabetic Patients

    Article • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), January 1997, De Gruyter

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  45. Superoxide anion scavenging capacity of human seminal plasma

    Article • International Journal of Andrology, April 1996, Wiley

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic

  46. Effect of Creatine on Glycation of AlbuminIn Vitro

    Article • Hormone and Metabolic Research, November 1995, Thieme Publishing Group

    Marijana Vucic Lovrencic