JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2025 – 3

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

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 44-3

PERSONAL VIES

N. Nuray Ulusu, Nada Majkić-Singh
THE BCLF’S CORE OBJECTIVES, MISSION, AND LOGO SYMBOLISM … 381

REVIEW PAPER

Marija Stanojević, Miro Parezanovic, Marko Biorac, Svetolik Spasić
THE IMPORTANCE OF MEASURING THE LEVELS OF IONIZED MAGNESIUM … 386

ORIGINAL PAPER

Liang Zhao, Qinghua Shu, Bowen Sha, Miao Wu, Yufeng Zhang
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE AND MECHANISM OF ACTION OF TGFBI AND S100A4 IN HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA … 400

Liang Wang, Ruijie Wang, Tiantian Jiao, Linghao Xu, Endong Ji, Yuanzhen Jiang, Yuanqi Wang, Yehong Liu, Jiming Li
PCSK9 INHIBITORS REDUCES ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN PATIENTS … 412

Junzhu Chen, Xiaohui Huang, Chaofan Liu, Yue Feng, Shurong Zhang, Qi Wang, Fang Wang
EFFECT OF PESTLE NEEDLE COMBINED WITH SIX HEALING SOUNDS QI GONG ON INFLAMMATORY FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION … 422

Peng Han, Yafei Liu, Jin Han
BIOCHEMICAL IMPACT AND THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY OF LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY IN EARLY-STAGE OVARIAN CANCER: MODULATION OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR AND TUMOR MARKERS … 432

Neda Milinković, Marija Sarić, Ana Ružanović, Miloš Žarković, Jasmina Ćirić, Iva Perović Blagojević, Ana-Marija Mastilović, Svetlana Ignjatović, Biljana Nedeljković Beleslin
EVALUATION OF THE ANALYTICAL AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SIEMENS IMMULITE®2000 TSI METHOD FOR DETERMINING THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES … 438

Sevda Ünallı Özmen, Yeşim Özarda, Aylin Köseler, Ramazan Sabırlı, Derya Sucu Kaynak, Ibrahim Koç
ASSOCIATION OF FV G1691A, FV H1299R, AND FII G20210A VARIATIONS WITH THROMBOSIS AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (CAD): A POPULATION-BASED STUDY … 447

Sisi Qin, Jijie Xiao, Shiqi Yuan, Huitao Zhang, Yang Liu, Ningjun Li, Songjin He, Li Kou
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN LACTATE-TO-ALBUMIN RATIO AND SHORT- AND LONG-TERM MORTALITY IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MIMIC-IV DATABASE … 453

Funda Bulut Arikan, Nevin Sagsoz
ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF MENOPAUSE AND OBESITY ON MATRIPTASE-2 AND NEUROKININ B CONCENTRATIONS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY … 470

Gözde Ülfer
A COMPARISON OF THE OPTICAL METHOD WITH THE MECHANICAL METHOD IN ROUTINE COAGULATION TESTS … 479

Guofei Peng, Wanfang Chen, Yan Li, Danping Zhang
DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF HMGB-1 AND ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN ASSESSING THE PROGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE PANCREATITIS … 486

Branislav S. Gvozdenovic, Violeta Mihailovic-Vucinic, Mira Vukovic, Maja Omcikus, Jelena Cvejic, Slobodan Belic, Jelena Jankovic, Natasa Djurdjevic, Mihailo Stjepanovic
VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY, FATIGUE, AND PERSISTENT COUGH AS INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS OF DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN SARCOIDOSIS PATIENTS … 495

Chunhui Huang, Wei Zhang, Yiping Shi, Fangchao Chen, Jianru Zhou, Yonghong Zheng
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE AS AN ADJUNCTIVE THERAPY IMPROVES CARDIAC FUNCTION AND REDUCES SERUM INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEART FAILURE … 507

Wenfeng Duan, Xuan Wang
MILD HYPOTHERMIA EFFECTS ON SERUM NEUROPROTECTION, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR (NGF), BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF), AND SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE (SOD) LEVELS IN NEONATES WITH HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY … 515

Jasna Bjelanovic, Aleksandra Nikolic, Mutay Aslan, Marko Miladinov, Nikola Kotur, Goran Barisic, Sandra Dragicevic
ALTERED LEVELS OF SPHINGOLIPID METABOLITES IN SERUM OF LOCALLY ADVANCED RECTAL CANCER PATIENTS: A PILOT STUDY … 524

Baoyue Wang, Yao Zheng, Linnan Jia
THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE PLASMA PROCALCITONIN (PCT) AND SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN (SAA) IN CHILDREN WITH MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA … 534

Peng Zhou, Shanlin Wang, Xinyuan Huang, Caixia Xiang, Xiaoxia Qian, Yaping Shen, Yanyan Zhu
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF SEROLOGICAL MARKERS AND IMMUNE INDICATORS COMBINED WITH EARLY WARNING SCORING SYSTEM FOR PROGNOSIS IN PEDIATRIC ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS … 544

Ana Ruzanovic, Marija Saric-Matutinovic, Neda Milinkovic, Snezana Jovicic, Andreja Dimic, David Matejevic, Ognjen Kostic, Branko Gaković, Igor Koncar, Svetlana Ignjatovic
ASSOCIATION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES ASPECTS OF CAROTID ARTERY STENOSIS … 553

Ge Wang, Qisheng Tang, Dan Wang
EFFECT OF PUERARIN ADMINISTRATION ON SERUM NOD-LIKE RECEPTOR PROTEIN 3 (NLRP3) INFLAMMASOME, C1Q/TNF-RELATED PROTEIN 3 (CTRP3) AND LIPOPROTEIN-ASSOCIATED PHOSPHOLIPASE 2 (LP-PLA2) LEVELS … 561

Ya Gao, Xu Liu, Yan Gu
EVALUATION OF SERUM BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR, IL-6, IL-10, AND TNF-a COGNITIVE FUNCTION, AND SLEEP QUALITY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER AND SOMATIC SYMPTOMS … 568

Vanja Jovanović, Sonja Marjanović, Aleksandar Perić, Dejan Jovanović, Zoran Radojičić, Mirjana Djukić, Danilo Vojvodić
CYTOKINE CHANGES IN NASAL SECRETIONS AFTER ACUTE ACOUSTIC TRAUMA … 576

Lingyan Kong, Jun Ma
CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL EFFICACY ZOLEDRONIC ACID AND DENOSUMAB COMBINATION: FOCUS SERUM INFLAMMATORY FACTOR LEVEL (SERUM IFCS), BONE GLA PROTEIN (BGP), AND BONE TURNOVER MARKERS B-COLLAGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCT (B-CTX), AND PROCOLLAGEN TYPE 1 N-TERMINAL PROPEPTIDE (P1NP) … 587

Xinqin Kang, Lin Liu
EFFECT OF NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION COMBINED WITH VITAMIN D ON GLUCOSE METABOLISM, SEX HORMONES AND INFLAMMATORY FACTORS IN PATIENTS WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME … 595

Jia Sun, Yiling Gao, Jing Ma, Minghui Zhu, Kefei Li, Yiyong Hou, Huan Zhang, Chunqiao Xie
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMBINED CT ANGIOGRAPHY, MMP-9, AND PAF TESTING IN THE ASSESSMENT OF VASCULAR RESTENOSIS IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES AFTER ATORVASTATIN COMBINED WITH TIROFIBAN THERAPY … 603

Vesna Karanikolic, Mirjana Bakic, Sanja Gluscevic, Filiz Mercantepe, Aleksandra Klisic
CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN PATIENTS WITH A RELATIONSHIP WITH OXIDATIVE STRESS AND DYSLIPIDEMIA … 614

Hongping Zeng, Qi Zhu, Shaoyu Bai, Jie Liu, Dengjie Ren, Xin Chen
METHYLPREDNISOLONE EFFECTS ON SERUM BIOCHEMICAL FACTORS (CRP, PCT, IL-6, TNF-a) IN VIRAL PNEUMONIA … 622

Thualfeqar Almohanna, Furqan Moein Auda, Basim M. Ali
EARLY DETECTION OF DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCERS: INSIGHTS FROM ENZYMATIC AND NON-ENZYMATIC TUMOUR MARKERS … 631

Anka Petrović, Nevena Ivanović, Neda Milinković, Danijela Milenković, Snežana Polovina, Milica Zeković, Brižita Djordjević
EXPLORING ANTHROPOMETRIC, BIOCHEMISTRY AND NUTRITIONAL ATTRIBUTES IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE WOMEN: INSIGHTS FROM THE SERBIAN COHORT – A PILOT STUDY … 637

Song Wu, Huiru Wang, Yuwei Zhao, Bo Tang, Qi Zhang, Dapeng Li
EFFECT OF PROGESTERONE SEQUENTIAL THERAPY ON FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH), LUTEINIZING HORMONE (LH), AND ESTRADIOL (E2) IN PERIMENOPAUSAL DYSFUNCTIONAL UTERINE BLEEDING … 653

Aidong Chen, Bin Chen, Po Yang, Xiaoming Shi, Zhipeng Xu, Fanxin Deng
COMPARING THE EFFECTS OF TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ON STRESS INJURY, PAIN MEDIATORS IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS … 660

Hong Chen, Yuan Zhao, Zhiyu Zhang, Yan Xie, Mulan Jin
IMMUNOPHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS AND PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD CIRCULATING PLASMA CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED MULTIPLE MYELOMA … 668

Yang Wang, Danqing Li
PREDICTIVE VALUE OF SERUM TUMOR MARKERS (CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN, NEURON-SPECIFIC ENOLASE, AND SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA ANTIGEN IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENTS TREATED WITH PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH PROTEIN 1 INHIBITORS … 678

Xijie Lai, Guosheng Gao, Xiunong Jiang
SERUM TNF-a AND BIOMARKERS LEVELS AFTER TENOFOVIR THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH SERUM HBEAG-POSITIVE CHRONIC HEPATITIS B … 687

TECHNICAL REPORTS

PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 697
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 701

Volume: 44 Belgrade, May – June 2025 Issue: 3
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