JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2026 – 2

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

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 45-2

REVIEW PAPER

Hafsa Hamid, Sladjana Coric, Saira Rafaqat, Sanja Gluscevic, Filiz Mercantepe, Aleksandra Klisic
ROLE OF COAGULATION IRREGULARITIES IN CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA: A REVIEW … 237

ORIGINAL PAPER

Han Gao, Yin-Xin, Tao-Tao Tan, Jin Hu
CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF SERUM HCY, HMGB1, AND TLR4 LEVELS AND MONONUCLEAR MACROPHAGE POLARISATION IN ACUTE CEREBRAL INFARCTION … 245

Lingling Wu, Zaikai Lin, Jintu Chen, Yilan Sheng
SERUM SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE (SOD), MALONDIALDEHYDE (MDA), IL-6, IL-8, TNF-a, SERUM IMMUNE MARKERS AFTER ALLOGENEIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING … 253

Laura Pighi, Marco Tosi, Mariateresa Rizza, Gian Luca Salvagno, Giuseppe Lippi
ASSESSING INTRA – AND INTER-ANALYSER IMPRECISION IN AUTOMATED HEMATOLOGICAL LABORATORIES … 261

Rajna Minić, Olivera Đukić, Dejana Kosanovic, Dejan Žujović, Aleksandra Ilić, Marko Panić, Brižita Đorđević
INCREASED TOTAL PLASMA TGF-b1 LEVELS AND DEREGULATED IGA-IGM AXIS IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE … 265

Kaidi Qin, Chao Hu, Wenjun Li, Wulin Wang, Zilong Zhang
INTERACTION BETWEEN INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA, INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES, AND THE EXPRESSION OF MIR-330-3P AND MIR-515-5P IN PATIENTS WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS … 274

Yufei Fu, Yizhi Shi, Zhen Wang, Xin Zhou
THE COMBINATION OF CYCLIN D1 AND MRI RADIOMICS PARAMETERS IMPROVES BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND NACT EFFICACY ASSESSMENT … 283

Lihan Xiang, Guimei Yang, Liming Lou, Le Lv, Liyuan Zheng, Caixia Zhang, Qian He
THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY SERUM HEPARIN-BINDING PROTEIN (HBP) LEVELS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF SEPSIS IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE BURNS … 291

Fashe Wang, Bai Li, Shangyin Li, Yan Tang, Tao Tan
ANALYSIS OF THE CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC EFFICACY OF THE NOVEL SERUM MARKERS LIPASE F, GASTROKINE 2 AND THE COLLAGEN X-TYPE a1 CHAIN IN GASTRIC CANCER … 301

Chuanshuo Zhang, Fengning Zhou, Xiandong Cao, Chenyang Qiu, Mingdian Lu, Xin Yu, Pingping Xiang, Bo Yu, Bo Zhou
THE LEVELS OF INTERLEUKIN-6, SERUM CALPROTECTIN, AND HYPERSENSITIVE C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN’S DISEASE-RELATED MUCOSAL DAMAGE … 310

Bing Han, Yuli Yan, Yanyan Zhong, Xiaoou Li, Yong Zhang
CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF THE COMBINED DETECTION OF SERUM CEA, CA72-4, CA19-9 AND PGI AND POSTOPERATIVE RECURRENCE OF GASTRIC CANCER … 317

Guotian Lyu, Xiaoli Lu, Qichang Meng, Yanyan Liu, Shuyan Liu, Jieyi Liu, Peng Dong
CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND FLUCTUATIONS IN SERUM FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 21 (FGF21) LEVELS IN THE OVERWEIGHT GROUP … 323

Yaqing Liu, Zhaoyang Huang, Qingzhong Lin, Wensi Gao, Sujuan Yang, Mei Chen, Jinxia Yang
BLOOD GLUCOSE/LIPID METABOLISM ALTERATIONS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH CANCER-RELATED FATIGUE IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY … 337

Reyila Fulati, Guzainu Ailiyasi, Renagu Baihetiya, JiWei Yu, XiuFang Wang, ZhenHua Li, Gulizhaer Tulake
THE CLINICAL EVALUATION VALUE OF THE NRF2-MEDIATED ANTIOXIDANT STRESS MECHANISM IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS COMPLICATED BY OSTEOPOROSIS … 347

Ilija Dragojević, Dijana Mirić, Bojana Kisić, Dragana Puhalo Sladoje, Ljiljana Popović, Dragiša Rašić
NEUTROPHIL REDOX IMBALANCE IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME … 357

Chunying Zhu, Xiaona Liu, Huan Wang, Yingfu Zhang, Wei Li
THE ROLE OF NSE/GCS RATIO ON THE SEVENTH DAY AS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF 90-DAY OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY … 365

Doğan Köse, Mahmut Demir, Adnan Kirmit
OXIDATIVE STRESS AND DNA DAMAGE PROFILE IN CORD BLOOD OF VITAMIN B12-DEFICIENT NEWBORNS … 376

Ali Kutta Çelik, Abdikani Ali Salad, Ökkeş Zortuk
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF HAEMATOLOGICAL INDICES ON MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH EMPYEMA … 385

Tianyu Dai, Fangze Wang, Hanqing Deng, Muyuan Li, Jihu Zhang, Jian Wang
TRIGLYCERIDE-GLUCOSE INDEX AS A BIOCHEMICAL PREDICTOR OF HYPERTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES AND PREDIABETES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NHANES DATABASE … 394

Muchuan Wang, Siyuan Yao, Chengao Gao, Yipeng Wang
COMBINED DETECTION OF HLA-B27, ESR, AND CRP AS BIOCHEMICAL AND IMMUNOGENETIC MARKERS IN THE AUXILIARY DIAGNOSIS OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS … 408

Shanling Gu, Yan Xu, Xiaowei Yang
SERUM LEVELS OF MMP3 COULD BE USED AS A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER FOR SPORTS-INDUCED KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS … 413

Zhaoxia Li, Li Su, Yi Lu, Yunqing Hu, Qian Yang
DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF SERUM NSE, AND S-100b AND INFLAMMATORY MARKERS LEVELS IN EPILEPSY … 422

Long Shi, Shaoqi Zhang, Longjun Cai, Jianjun Zhang, Gao Liu, Xiangyu Wang, Furong Ji, Yongming Sun, Zhongqing Wei
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE AND 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE IN DIABETIC NEUROGENIC BLADDER AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH POST-VOID RESIDUAL … 429

Bei Huang, Xiaojun Wang, Ying Zhang
CLINICAL BIOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF TRACE ELEMENTS AND INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-I IN CHILDREN WITH SHORT STATURE: DIAGNOSTIC AND CORRELATIVE INSIGHTS FROM THE GUANGZHOU COHORT … 438

Xian Miao, Shu Dong, Ling Zhang, Xiaolin Wen, Jikai Ruan, Dawei Qiao, Hongjuan Ji, Pei Cao, Shuijie Shen
RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CURATIVE EFFECT OF KANGLAITE INJECTION ON PANCREATIC CANCER. … 447

TECHNICAL REPORTS

NEWS FROM THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTS OF SERBIA … 455

PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 466

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 469

Volume: 45 Belgrade, February 2026 Issue: 2
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