JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2023 – 2

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

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 42-2

ORIGINAL PAPER

Ali A. Almomani, Ala’a S. Shraim, Ali M. Atoom, Bayan A. Abdel Majeed, Jehad F. Alhmoud
EVALUATION OF THE VALIDITY OF THE PRE-MARRIAGE MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME VALUE AS A PREDICTIVE TEST FOR b-THALASSEMIA CARRIER STATUS … 195

Yuhong Chen, Huaixiang Wei, Feng Xu
ANTIOXIDATIVE BEHAVIOR OF a2-MACROGLOBULIN IN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION … 206

Rami Abduljabbar Duaa Eid Tamimi, Al-Motassem Yousef, Ramzi Mukred Saeed, Mohammed Zawiah
SCN1A POLYMORPHISMS INFLUENCE THE ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS RESPONSIVENESS IN JORDANIAN EPILEPTIC PATIENTS … 214

Aleksandra Klisic, Maja Malenica, Jelena Kostadinovic, Gordana Kocic, Ana Ninic
MALONDIALDEHYDE AS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF BODY MASS INDEX IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS … 224

Jiangyong Lou, Xiaoming Liu, Xiaodong Fan, Xiaoming Xu, Zhichao Wang, Liqun Wang
LNCRNA FEZF1-AS1 NEGATIVELY REGULATES ETNK1 TO PROMOTE MALIGNANT PROGRESSION OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA … 232

Amul M. Badr, Omayma Elkholy, Mona Said, Sally A. Fahim, Mohamed El-Khatib, Dina Sabry, Radwa M. Gaber
DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF HSA_CIRC_0000146 AND HSA_CIRC_0000072 BIOMARKERS FOR DIABETIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS … 239

Cigdem Usul Afsar, Hale Aral, Orçun Can, Didem Can Trabulus, Didem Karacetin, Mehmet Ali Nazlı, Rıza Umar Gursu, Senem Karabulut
SERUM FETUIN-A AND RANKL LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH EARLY STAGE BREAST CANCER … 249

Jingxuan Fu, Yidan Wang, Yunyi Liu, Qinfei Song, Jingrong Cao, Peichang Wang
REFERENCE INTERVALS FOR THYROID HORMONES FOR THE ELDERLY POPULATION AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM … 258

Ying Wu, Yue Wu, LiHong Duan, ChunHui Xiao, ZeYa Ren, YunTai Liang
CLINICAL MEANING OF SERUM TRIMETHYLAMINE OXIDE, N-TERMINAL-PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR-1a AND LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION AND PREGNANCY OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH PREGNANCY-INDUCED HYPERTENSION … 265

Demircan Ozbalci, Emine Guchan Alanoglu, Eda Findos, Hande Nur Eroglu
LOW PLATELETCRIT IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED PROGRESSION – FREE AND OVERALL SURVIVAL IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA … 274

Zhoujing Ji, Jie Zhang, Lili Zhang, Shengju Yang, Yangcheng Li, Lixiong Gu
LINC00467 INDUCES MELANOMA DETERIORATION BY TARGETING MIR-485-5P/P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 1 … 282

Tingfang Chen, Zhenzhen Jiang, Haiying Zhang, Ruifeng Yang, Yan Wu, Yongping Guo
MIRNA-200B LEVEL IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD PREDICTS ENAL INTERSTITIAL INJURY IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY … 289

Murat Caglayan, Ataman Gonel, Tugba Songul Tat, Osman Celik, Ali Aykut Fidanci, Mustafa Okan Ayvali, Mustafa Mahir Ulgu, Naim Ata, Suayip Birinci
FALSE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF HIGH TRIGLYCERIDES CONCENTRATION ON VITAMIN D LEVELS: A BIG DATA STUDY … 296

Marija Jovanović, Milena Kovačević, Sandra Vezmar Kovačević, Ivan Palibrk, Jasna Bjelanović, Branislava Miljković, Katarina Vučićević
LIDOCAINE CLEARANCE AS PHARMACOKINETIC PARAMETER OF METABOLIC HEPATIC ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH IMPAIRED LIVER … 304

Irem Kıraç Utku, Esra Demır, Hans¸e Ozkan, Berrak Sahtıyancı, Hafize Uzun, Iskender Ekıncı, Mitat Buyukkaba, Sinem Durmus, Murat Akarsu, Remise Gelisgen, Omur Tabak
MATERNAL SERUM PREPTIN LEVELS IN THE PATHOGENESIS AND DIAGNOSIS OF GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS … 311

TECHNICAL REPORTS

NEWS FROM THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTS OF SERBIA … 311
PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 341
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 345

Volume: 42 Belgrade, April – June 2023 Issue: 2
JMB 2023; 42 (2): 195–356 © 2023 by SMBS, Belgrade