JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2017-4 “JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY”Official Journal of the Serbian Society of Medical Biochemists EDITORIAL BOARDVolume: 36-4 REVIEW PAPERGiuseppe Lippi, Janne CadamuroNOVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF PREANALYTICALPHASE. A GLIMPSE TO THE FUTURE? … 293ORIGINAL PAPERRukiye Nar, Dilek Iren EmekliTHE EVALUATION OF ANALYTIC AL PERFORMANCE OF IMMUNOASSAY TESTSBY USING SIX-SIGMA METHOD … 301Enes Duman, Sevsen Kulaksızoglu, Egemen Çifçi, Mehmet OzulkuIS THERE A REAL CORREL ATION BETWEEN RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTHAND PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE? … 309Branislava Stefanović, Olivera Đurić, Sanja Stanković, Srđan Mijatović, Krstina Doklestić,Branislav Stefanović, Bojan Jovanović, Nataša Marjanović, Nevena KalezićELEVATED SERUM PROTEIN S100B AND NEURON SPECIFIC ENOL ASEVALUES AS PREDICTORS OF EARLY NEUROLOGIC AL OUTCOME AFTERTRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY … 314Sanja Goč, Miroslava JankovićHUMAN SERUM LOW MOLECULAR MASS PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGENAS BIOMARKER … 322Mahmood A. Al-Azzawi, Adel H. Ghoneim, Ibrahim ElmadbouhEVALUATION OF VITAMIN D, VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN GENE POLYMORPHISMWITH OXIDANT – ANTIOXIDANT PROFILES IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARYDISEASE … 331Mahmut Yuksel, Ihsan Ates, Mustafa Kaplan, Mehmet Fettah Arikan,Yasemin Ozderin Ozin,Zeki Mesut Yalin Kilic, Canan Topcuoglu, Ertugrul KayacetinIS OXIDATIVE STRESS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVATION AND PATHOGENESISOF INFL AMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE? … 341Shahriar Tarighi, Mahdi Najafi, Arash Hossein-Nezhad, Hamid Ghaedi, Reza Meshkani,Nariman Moradi, Reza Fadaei, Faranak Kazerouni, Mehrnoosh ShanakiASSOCIATION BETWEEN TWO COMMON POLYMORPHISMS OF VITAMIN D BINDINGPROTEIN AND THE RISK OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE:A CASE-CONTROL STUDY … 349Aleksandra Stefanović, Danijela Ristovski-Kornic, Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević,Vesna Spasojević-Kalimanovska, Jelena Vekić, Milica Miljković, Dusan Paripović,Amira Peco-Antic, Zorana Jelić-Ivanović, Aleksandra ZeljkovićALTERATIONS OF HDL PARTICLES IN CHILDREN WITH END-STAGERENAL DISEASE … 358Dragana Puhalo Sladoje, Bojana Kisić, Dijana MirićTHE MONITORING OF PROTEIN MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION AND SERUMLIPID CONCENTRATION IN OBESE SUBJECTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME … 366TECHNICAL REPORTSPROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 375INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 379 Volume: 36 Belgrade, October – December 2017 Issue: 4JMB 2017; 36 (4): 293–390 © 2017 by SMBS, Belgrade