Faculty Profile

Detroit, Michigan 48201
B.Velimirovic, and D.Djuric, Functional characteristics of the smooth muscles of the varicose veins. Medicinski Podmladak, 39: 65-70, 1987.
Koyano, K., Grigg, J.J., Velimirovic, B., Nakajima, Y. and Nakajima, S. Role of arachidonic acid metabolism in peptide responses in brain neurons. Biomedical Research 12, Supplement 2, 127-128, 1991.
Y.Nakajima, K.Koyano, B.Velimirovic, J.J.Grigg and S.Nakajima. Signal transduction mechanisms of substance P effects on ion channels. Regulatory Peptides 46:110-113, 1993.
K. Koyano, B.M. Velimirovic, J.J. Grigg, S. Nakajima and Y. Nakajima, Two signal transduction mechanisms of substance P induced depolarization in rat Locus coeruleus.European Journal of Neuroscience, 5: 1189-1197, 1993.
K.Koyano, J.J.Grigg, B.M.Velimirovic, S.Nakajima. and Y. Nakajima, The role of arachidonic acid metabolism in somatostatin and substance P effects on potassium conductance in rat brain neurons. Neuroscience Research, 20: 345-354, 1994.
G. Krapavinsky, E. Gordon, K. Wickman, B. Velimirovic, L. Krapavinsky and D.E. Clapham. The G protein-gated atrial K+ channel, IKACh, is a heteromultimer of two inwardly rectifying K+ channel proteins. Nature, 374: 135-141, 1995.
B.M. Velimirovic, K. Koyano, S. Nakajima and Y. Nakajima, Dual regulation of a G protein-gated inward rectifier K channel in brain neurons. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 1590-1594, 1995.
Krapivinsky, G., Krapivinsky, L., Velimirovic, B., Wickman, K., Navarro, B., and DE Clapham: The cardiac inward rectifier K+ channel subunit, CIR, does not comprise the ATP-sensitive K+ channel, IKATP. J. Biol. Chem., 270:2877-28779, 1995.
Bratislav M. Velimirovic, Eric A. Gordon, Nancy F. Lim, Betsy Navarro and David E. Clapham, The neuronal G protein-gated K+ channel functions as a multimer of inward rectifier channel subunits, FEBS Letters, 379: 31-37, 1996.
A.Aleksandrov, B.Velimirovic, and D.E.Clapham: Inward Rectification of the IRK1 K+ Channel Reconstituted in Lipid Bilayers, Biophysical Journal, 70: 2680-2687, 1996.
B.Navarro, M.E.Kennedy, B.Velimirovic, D.Bhat, A.Peterson, and D.E.Clapham: Nonselective and Gbg-insensitive weaver mice K+ channels, Science, 272: 1950-1953, 1996.
A.G. Bassuk, D. Burrowes, B. Velimirovic, J. Grant, and G.F. Keating: A child with spinal cord arteriovenous malformations presenting with raised intracranial pressure, Neurology 2003 60: 1724-1725.
1989 – 1993: Ph.D., Pharmacology
College of Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
1984 – 1989
MD
College of Medicine
University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
1993 – 1997
Research Fellow
Department of Pharmacology
Mayo Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota
1999- 2005
Department of Neurosurgery
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
1995 – 1997
Instructor
Mayo Graduate School
Mayo Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota
1996 – 1997
Instructor
Mayo Medical School
Mayo Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota
1997 – 1999
Instructor
Department of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
2006 – 2009
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

