JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2015-2 “JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY”Official Journal of the Serbian Society of Medical Biochemists Volume: 34-2 ORIGINAL PAPERAmirhossein SahebkarEFFECT OF L-CARNITINE SUPPLEMENTATION ON CIRCULATING C-REACTIVE PROTEIN LEVELS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS . . . . 151Danijela Trifunović, Sanja Stanković, Jelena Marinković, Marko Banović, Nina Đukanović, Olga Vasović, Bosiljka Vujisić-Tešić, Milan Petrović, Jelena Stepanović, Ana Đorđević-Dikić, Branko Beleslin, Ivana Nedeljković, Milorad Tešić, Miodrag OstojićOXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN AND HIGH SENSITIVE C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN NON-DIABETIC, PRE-DIABETIC AND DIABETIC PATIENTS IN THE ACUTE PHASE OF THE FIRST MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TREATED BY PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION . . . . 160Kanjana Suriyaprom, Rungsunn Tungtrongchitr, Pisit NamjuntraASSOCIATIONS OF RESISTIN LEVELS WITH RESISTIN GENE POLYMORPHISMAND METABOLIC SYNDROME IN THAIS . . . . 170Tomasz Chamera, Michał Spieszny, Tomasz Klocek, Dorota Kostrzewa-Nowak, Robert Nowak,Milena Lachowicz, Rafał Buryta, Krzysztof Ficek, Jerzy Eider, Waldemar Moska, Paweł Cięszczyk POST-EFFORT CHANGES IN ACTIVITY OF TRADITIONAL DIAGNOSTICENZYMATIC MARKERS IN FOOTBALL PLAYERS’ BLOOD . . . . 179Hussein Kadhem Al-Hakeim, Mohammed Saied AbdulzahraCORRELATION BETWEEN GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN AND HOMA INDICESIN TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS: PREDICTION OF BETA-CELL FUNCTIONFROM GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN . . . . 191Katja Goričar, Viljem Kovač, Janez Jazbec, Janez Lamovec, Vita DolžanHOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION REPAIR POLYMORPHISMSAND THE RISK FOR OSTEOSARCOMA . . . . 200Marija Stanković, Aleksandra Nikolić, Andrija Tomović, Marija Mitić-Milikić, Ljudmila Nagorni-Obradović, Nataša Petrović-Stanojević, Dragica RadojkovićASSOCIATION OF FUNCTIONAL VARIANTS OF PHASE I AND II GENES WITHCHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN A SERBIAN POPULATION . . . . 207Danijela Laketa, Jasmina Savić, Ivana Bjelobaba,Irena Lavrnja, Vesna Vasić, Mirjana Stojiljković, Nadežda NedeljkovićBRAIN INJURY ALTERS ECTONUCLEOTIDASE ACTIVITIESAND ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE LEVELS IN RAT SERUM . . . . 215CASE REPORTNađa P. Marić, Slobodanka Pejović Nikolić, Ivana Buzadžić,Milica Jovičić, Sanja Andrić, Marina Mihaljević, Zorana Pavlović“TREATMENT RESISTANCE” ENIGMA RESOLVED BY PHARMACOGENOMICS − A CASESTUDY OF CLOZAPINE THERAPY IN SCHIZOPHRENIAENIGMA . . . . 223PROFESSIONAL PAPERVojko Djukić, Sanja Krejović-Trivić, Milan Vuka{inović,Aleksandar Trivić, Bojan Pavlović, Aleksandar Milovanović, Jovica MilovanovićLARYNGEAL GRANULOMA – BENEFIT IN TREATMENT WITH ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION? . . . . 22811th EFLM SYMPOSIUM FOR BALKAN REGION – ABSTRACTS . . . . 233TECHNICAL REPORTSPROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA . . . .243NEWS FROM THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTS OF SERBIA . . . .245INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS . . . .259 Volume: 34 Belgrade, April – June 2015 Issue: 2JMB 2015; 34 (2): 151–270 © 2015 by SMBS, Belgrade