JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2025 – 2

„JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY“
Official Journal of the Serbian Society of Medical Biochemists

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 44-2

REVIEW PAPER

Hong Du, Zhiyuan Zhang, Feifei Yan, Zichao Dong
THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF MICRORNA-499 IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS … 193

Jovana Čukuranović Kokoris, Braca Kundalić, Miljana Pavlović, Sladjana Ugrenović
PITUITARY CELLS IN MAN DURING AGING: AN IMMUNOHISTOLOGICAL AND MORPHOMETRIC STUDY … 203

ORIGINAL PAPER

Haitao Su, Qiaoye Lv, Limei Wang, Jigang Hu, Yinggang Lv, Liting Jia, Qingbin Qi
EXPRESSIONS OF SHOX2, RASSF1A AND PTGER4, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEIR METHYLATION AND CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER … 211

Lin Zheng, Weifeng Zheng, Mingming Zhang, Bo Li
EFFECT OF GLYCEMIC GAP ON PROGNOSIS AND COMPLICATIONS IN VULNERABLE PERIOD OF ACUTE HEART FAILURE … 221

Yifan Wang, Xinyu Wang, Xiya Li, Zhen Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Siran Zhang, Le Ma, Dongmei Huang, Guangsen Li
SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF SERUM URIC ACID LEVELS ON CAROTID ARTERY ELASTICITY IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH-NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE … 227

Hani Lin, Hong Chen, Miaomiao Zhuo
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF PRE-DELIVERY SERUM b-HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, FIBRINOGEN, AND HOMOCYSTEINE FOR PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION … 235

Ruogu Luo, Jing Zhang, Xiaolong Li, Fei Peng, Anpeng Zhang, Pengfei Zhang
ADOPTION VALUE OF SERUM HEMATOLOGICAL INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF NECROTISING ENTEROCOLITIS … 244

Jelena Jankovic, Mihailo Stjepanovic, Nikola Maric, Slobodan Belic
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN CORRELATION OF BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS WITH THE SEVERITY OF COVID PNEUMONIA AND THE NEED FOR OXYGEN/MECHANICAL SUPPORT … 250

Dianchun Qi, Yiqi Lin, Jiaxin Zhang, Yiping Wang
MEDIATION EFFECT OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD INFLAMMATORY FACTORS IN THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SEVERITY OF NONLACTATING MASTITIS AND GLYCEMIC ABNORMALITIES … 256

Tingting Zhao, Ye Liu, Haoran Jia, Dexing Wang, Meng Du, Weiwei Wang
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SERUM SST2 AND CFDNA IN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE PNEUMONIA COMPLICATED BY MYOCARDIAL DAMAGE … 264

Shouda Gao, Lijun Zhang, Liyan Liu, Jiayin Meng
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DENOSUMAB AND ZOLEDRONIC ACID EFFECTS ON BONE METABOLISM AND BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN INDIVIDUALS WITH OSTEOPOROTIC VERTEBRAL COMPRESSION FRACTURES … 269

Shuxin Cai, Yannan Zhang
CHANGES IN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-a (TNF-a), INTERLEUKIN-6 (IL-6), MATRIX METALLOPEPTIDASE-2/9 (MMP-2/9), AND T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY UNDER REFINED MANAGEMENT FOR NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER … 277

Mihailo Stjepanovic, Zorica Sumarac, Drazenka Grubac, Slobodan Belic, Nikola Maric, Natasa Djurdjevic, Aleksandar Sumarac, Jelena Jankovic, Snezana Jovicic
ACE AND CHITOTRIOSIDASE AS POSSIBLE PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR ACTIVITY OF SARCOIDOSIS IN CORRELATION WITH PET/CT FINDINGS … 287

Xinglin Jin, Mei Meng, Xi Wang
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PLASMA FOLATE, HOMOCYSTEINE AND ERYTHROCYTE FOLATE LEVELS IN PREGNANT WOMEN AFTER FOLIC ACID ADMINISTRATION DURING DIFFERENT PREGNANCIES … 295

Sujuan Li, Xizhi Lin, Haoting Ye, Biyun Li, Siyu Zeng, Qinghua Mei, Yukai Huang, Yixuan Liu
CORRELATIONS OF GENE POLYMORPHISMS OF ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME 2 WITH ONSET AND PROGNOSIS OF HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY … 303

Ginka Delcheva, Katya Stefanova, Teodora Stankova, Ana Maneva
SERUM THIOREDOXIN AND LACTOFERRIN IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH RHEUMATOID FACTOR … 312

Lili Ding, Mengru Liu, Haijun Sun
DIAGNOSTIC VALUES OF NORADRENALINE ADMINISTERED DOSE, PROCALCITONIN (PCT) AND BLOOD LACTIC ACID FOR SEPTIC SHOCK … 319

Şahin Temel, Pervin Hanci, Ismail Hakkı Akbudak, Burçin Halaçli, Göksel Güven, Yeliz Bilir, Recep Civan Yüksel, Ezgi Özyilmaz, Neriman Defne Altintaş, Leyla Ferliçolak, Emre Aydin, Türkay Akbaş, Ali Ümit Esbah, Zuhal Güllü, Kamil Inci, Gülseren Elay, Arzu Topeli, Kürşat Gündoğan
HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA: UNRAVELING A LETHAL CONNECTION WITH ICU MORTALITY IN CRITICALLY LL COVID-19 PATIENTS: A MULTICENTER OBSERVATIONAL STUDY … 330

Gözde Savaş, Nazan Günel, Ahmet Özet
CAN PRETREATMENT LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE TO ALBUMIN RATIO PREDICT PATHOLOGICAL COMPLETE RESPONSE AFTER NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS? … 339

Ayşe Tuğçenur Temiz Gençoğlu, Emra Asfuroğlu Kalkan, Oğuzhan Zengin, Özcan Erel, İhsan Ateş
EFFECTS OF USE OF METFORMIN OR COMBINATION OF METFORMIN AND PIOGLITAZONE ON OXIDATIVE STRESS IN TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS … 347

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Fengxia Liu, Shengxun Lin, Li Li, Bei Xu, Tingting Chang
ANALYSIS OF SIGNIFICANCE OF CARD11 AND MYO1G EXPRESSIONS IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND THEIR PREDICTIVE VALUE FOR PROGNOSIS OF RECURRENCE … 355

ERRATUM … 364

TECHNICAL REPORTS

PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 365
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 369

Volume: 44 Belgrade, March – April 2025 Issue: 2
JMB 2025; 44 (2): 193–380 © 2025 by SMBS, Belgrade