JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2026 – 1

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

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 45-1

REVIEW PAPER

Hongyu Wei, Hao Wang, Ke Diao, Xiaoxuan Wang, Hong Chen, Congying Wang, Minglian Zhang
THE SERUM VITAMIN D STATUS IN ADULTS WITH DIABETIC RETINOPATHY… 1

Jingrong Niu, Shuang Zhou, Lijin Zhang, Chunmin Li, Hualiang Ren
CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF COAGULATION BIOMARKERS IN VENOUS PRESSURE THERAPY FOR PREVENTING LOWER-EXTREMITY DEEP VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM: A META-ANALYSIS… 11

Jovana Čukuranović Kokoris, Verica Milošević, Darko Stevanović
ENDOCRINE EFFECT OF GHRELIN ON HISTOLOGICAL, HORMONAL AND MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS OF THE PITUITARY GLAND AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ITS CLINICAL APPLICATION… 23

Slavica Vujovic, Svetlana Perovic, Milorad Vlaovic, Stasa Scepanovic, Aleksandra Filipovic
MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF METFORMIN ACTION: FROM METABOLIC EFFECTS TO LIFESPAN EXTENSION AND HEALTHSPAN PROMOTION … 33

ORIGINAL PAPER

Min Gu, Yanqiu Xu
IRRIGATION FLUID TEMPERATURE MODULATES COAGULATION AND ENDOTHELIAL BIOMARKERS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING TURP … 47

Zaili Yang, Dejun Cui, Fei Li, Bo Huang, Qi Liu
PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF INFLAMMATORY BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS (IL-8, PCT, CRP) FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH PANCREATITIS … 54

Lulu Tang, Dan Shan, Heng Zhang, Shuli Lin, Xubiao Ji
APPLICATION VALUE OF SERUM HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN B1(HMGB1) AND SOLUBLE TRIGGERING RECEPTOR-1 (STREM-1) LEVELS IN THE PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT OF TRAUMA … 63

Tarang Taghvaei, Seyyed Abbas Hashemi, Iradj Maleki, Mahboobe Ebrahimi, Arash Kazemi, Reyhane Ebrahimi Shahabi, Jamshid Yazdani Charati
EVALUATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENDOSCOPIC ACTIVITY INDEX AND INFLAMMATORY INDICATORS SUCH AS FECAL CALPROTECTIN, C-REACTIVE PROTEIN TO ALBUMIN RATIO, NEUTROPHIL TO LYMPHOCYTE RATIO, PLATELET TO LYMPHOCYTE RATIO IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS PATIENTS … 72

Qing Shi, Jingui Xu, Zhuang Zhang, Xinxin Ruan
THE VALUE OF PROTEIN INDUCED BY VITAMIN K ABSENCE OR ANTAGONIST-II (PIVKA) IN PREDICTING THE EFFICACY OF TRANSHEPATIC ARTERIAL CHEMOEMBOLISATION (TACE): A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY … 81

Qian Zhang, Yuyan Zhu, Hui Li, Xue Wu, Cheng Wu, Guang Li, Chao Yang
CORRELATION RISK ANALYSIS OF SERUM INFLAMMATORY FACTORS AND 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D IN VASCULAR LESIONS IN TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS … 91

Jiaqi Wu, Ming Chen, Wenlong Liu, Jiaming Jiang, Sihan Chen, Tingyu Liu, Xiaoyan Liu
CHANGES IN SERUM PAIN MEDIATORS, STRESS RESPONSE, INFLAMMATORY MARKERS, AND COAGULATION FUNCTION IN LUMBAR DISC HERNIATION PATIENTS TREATED BY MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASOUND-GUIDED NEEDLE-KNIFE … 100

De Xu, Ruijuan Duan, Ruiqi Zhu, Yinghua Huang, Shiyu Chen
ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SERUM RESIDUAL CHOLESTEROL LEVEL AT ADMISSION AND THE RISK OF DEATH AFTER DISCHARGE IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE … 109

Shui Xiong, Junxin Zhou, Yuying Dong, Ling Long, Gaorong Deng
DEVELOPMENT OF DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKER MODELS FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS BASED ON NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATION … 124

Yilong Wang, Yongjun Feng, Jie Song, Zhonglin Mou
DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF MUCOSAL-ASSOCIATED INVARIANT T+ CELLS COMBINED WITH INFLAMMATORY FACTORS IN DIFFERENTIATING CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS SUBTYPES WITH OR WITHOUT NASAL POLYPS … 133

Lu Qi, Xiao Zhang, Yuanyuan Ju, Xin Yang
TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF OXYGEN-DRIVEN SALBUTAMOL COMBINED WITH METHYLPREDNISOLONE ON BRONCHIAL ASTHMA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SERUM MOLECULAR MARKERS … 141

Shouming Li, Xin Zhao, Zhenhua Wang, Han Song, Yongmin Liu
PREDICTION VALUE OF CYSTATIN C FOR POSTOPERATIVE ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY OF ACUTE TYPE A AORTIC DISSECTION … 150

Miao Tang, Jiao Xu, Yanling Chen, Bo Zhou
HYPERTHYROIDISM COMPLICATED WITH DIABETES MELLITUS USING THE HEALTH PROMOTION MODEL: CHANGES IN THYROID HORMONES, GLUCOSE-LIPID METABOLISM, AND INFLAMMATORY MARKERS … 160

Hümeyra Öztürk Emre, Nezaket Eren, Macit Koldas
PARAOXONASE-1 ACTIVITY AND AOPP LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS … 168

Yujie Lu, Xinchao Zhu, Caixia Wen, Qiang Zhang, Li Zhao, Jia Ling
EFFECTS OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN ON INFLAMMATORY, COAGULATION, AND IMMUNE MARKERS IN HYPERLIPIDEMIC ACUTE PANCREATITIS … 177

Jinmei Lei, Ye Jin, Nv Geng, Huijuan Zhang
IMPACT OF DALTEPARIN SODIUM AND LUTEAL PHASE SUPPORT ON SERUM MARKERS, INTERLEUKINS, AND PREGNANCY OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH IN VITRO FERTILISATION FAILURE … 190

Zhonghua Wu, Fanyong Zhang
SERUM CEA, CA19-9, AND AFP AS BIOMARKERS FOR GASTRIC CANCER … 200

Yi Zhang, Zhe Liu, Chen Ma, Wenjing Wang, Wei Chen
PROCALCITONIN-GUIDED ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY IN ADULT SEPSIS: A BIOCHEMICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY … 208

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Marina Jakšić, Lidija Banjac, Boban Banjac
CHALLENGES IN INTERPRETING LEUKOCYTE AND NUCLEATED RED BLOOD CELL COUNTS IN NEONATAL HEMOLYTIC DISEASE: A CASE REPORT ON HEMATOLOGY ANALYSER PERFORMANCE … 217

TECHNICAL REPORTS

INFORMATION … 221

PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 221

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 225

Volume: 45 Belgrade, January 2026 Issue: 1
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