Katarina Kasnik Kovac

ORCID: 0000-0001-8110-9849
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Research Areas
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Cardiac Ischemia and Reperfusion
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Electrolyte and hormonal disorders
  • Hemophilia Treatment and Research
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
  • Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects
  • Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
  • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms

University of Zagreb
2004-2025

University Hospital Centre Zagreb
2023

The Pringle maneuver [portal triad obstruction(PTO)] provides huge disturbances during ischemia and even more thereafter in reperfusion. Contrarily, a possible solution may be stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157, with already documented beneficial effects ischemia/reperfusion conditions. Recently, as cytoprotective agent, successfully resolved vessel occlusions rats (ischemic colitis; deep vein thrombosis, superior anterior pancreaticoduodenal vein; bile duct cirrhosis) through rapid...

10.4254/wjh.v12.i5.184 article EN World Journal of Hepatology 2020-05-27

Recently, as a possible therapy resolving solution, pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy, has been used in alleviating various vascular occlusion disturbances. was previously reviewed novel mediator of Robert cytoprotection and endothelium protection the stomach, gut-brain axis, beneficial gastrointestinal tract, with particular reference to recruitment, ulcerative colitis tumor cachexia, other tissues healing. Here we raised new hypothesis about Budd-Chiari syndrome rats, rapid bypassing...

10.4291/wjgp.v11.i1.1 article EN World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology 2020-03-13

Hemophilia is an X-linked genetic disorder that predominantly affects males, with females typically serving as asymptomatic carriers. A results from a deficiency or dysfunction of coagulation factor VIII, while in IX causes hemophilia B. less common condition, XI (formerly C), categorized rare bleeding disorder. The severity classified based on the activity concentration factors VIII and IX: severe (<1 IU/dL), moderate (1–5 mild (6–<40 IU/dL). One most prevalent complications...

10.3390/rheumato5020005 article EN cc-by Rheumato 2025-04-24

Cauterization of three episcleral veins (open-angle glaucoma model) induces venous congestion and increases intraocular pressure in rats. If not upgraded, one vein is regularly unable to acquire take over the whole function, glaucoma-like features persist. Recently, rapid upgrading collateral pathways by a stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 has cured many severe syndromes induced permanent occlusion major vessels, and/or arteries, peripherally centrally. In six-week study, medication...

10.3390/biomedicines10010089 article EN cc-by Biomedicines 2021-12-31

The box-pushing problem represents a challenging domain for the study of object manipulation in multi-robot environment. Our is based on pusher-watcher approach, involving two pushers robots that learn best strategy cooperatively moving an oversized elongated box to specified goal and one watcher robot acting as This paper presents solution reinforcement learning multi-agent system. Within framework paper, simulator has been developed carry out practical tests.

10.1109/melcon.2004.1347002 article EN 2004-11-30

After inferior caval vein embolization therapy, post-embolization syndrome (sodium laurate 10 mg/kg, 0.1 mL into rat vein, assessment at 15, 30, 60 min, prime lung lesions, thromboemboli occluding vessels), as a severe occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome, might be resolved whole by stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy. At 5 min after injection, was implemented therapy (10 µg/kg, ng/kg intraperitoneally or intragastrically). As before, confronted with the occlusion of major vessel(s)...

10.3390/ph16101507 article EN cc-by Pharmaceuticals 2023-10-23

Given in reperfusion, the use of stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 is an effective therapy rats. It strongly counteracted, as a whole, decompression/reperfusion-induced occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome following worst circumstances acute abdominal compartment and intra-abdominal hypertension, grade III IV, well compression/ischemia-occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome. Before decompression (calvariectomy, laparotomy), rats had long-lasting severe (25 mmHg/60 min) (i) IV (30 mmHg/30 min;...

10.3390/ph16111554 article EN cc-by Pharmaceuticals 2023-11-02
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