JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2017-1 „JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY“Official Journal of the Serbian Society of Medical Biochemists EDITORIAL BOARDVolume: 36-1 REVIEW ARTICLEAleksandra Catić-Đorđević, Tatjana Cvetković, Nikola Stefanović, Radmila Veličković-RadovanovićCURRENT BIOCHEMICAL MONITORING AND RISK MANAGEMENT OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY AFTER TRANSPLANTATION … 1ORIGINAL PAPERAydın Kahraman, Emre Mutlu, Mustafa AldagADMA, SDMA AND L-ARGININE MAY BE NOVEL TARGETS IN PHARMACOTHERAPY FOR COMPLICATIONS DUE TO CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS … 8Suat Terzi, Engin Dursun, Adnan Yılmaz, Zerrin Özergin Coskun, Abdulkadir Özgür, Metin Çeliker, Münir DemirciOXIDATIVE STRESS AND ANTIOXIDANT STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH BELL’S PALSY … 18Danijela Ristovski-Kornic, Aleksandra Stefanović, Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević, Aleksandra Zeljković, Vesna Spasojević-Kalimanovska, Jelena Vekić, Milica Miljković, Dušan Paripović, Amira Peco-Antić, Zorana Jelić-IvanovićASSOCIATION OF MYELOPEROXIDASE AND THE ATHEROGENIC INDEX OF PLASMA IN CHILDREN WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE … 23Gianni Turcato, Gianfranco Cervellin, Gian Luca Salvagno, Eleonora Zaccaria, Giuseppe Bartucci, Marco David, Antonio Bonora, Massimo Zannoni, Giorgio Ricci, Giuseppe LippiTHE ROLE OF RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH FOR PREDICTING 1-YEAR MORTALITY IN PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WITH SEVERE DYSPNOEA … 32Gabriel Lima-Oliveira, Gian Cesare Guidi, Andre ValpassosPacifici Guimaraes, Jose Abol Correa, Giuseppe LippiPREANALYTICAL NONCONFORMITY MANAGEMENT REGARDING PRIMARY TUBE MIXING IN BRAZIL … 39Ljiljana Milić, Ilijana Grigorov, Slobodan Krstić, Miljan S. Ćeranić, Bojan Jovanović, Jelena Stevanović, Predrag PeškoSERUM LEVEL OF HMGB1 PROTEIN AND INFLAMMATORY MARKERS IN PATIENTS WITH SECONDARY PERITONITIS: TIME COURSE AND THE ASSOCIATION WITH CLINICAL STATUS … 44Zubeyde Erbayraktar, Ahmet Turan Evlice, Gokhan Yilmaz, Canan Yazici, Gorsev Yener, Nuriye Nuray UlusuEVALUATION OF RENAL FUNCTION IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND GERIATRIC PATIENTS: RESULTS FROM A TURKISH TWO-CENTER STUDY … 54Zeynep B. Gungor, Nurver Sipahioglu, Huseyin Sonmez, Hakan Ekmekci, Sait Toprak, Gulsel Ayaz, Cigdem Bayram Gurel, Tugba Mutlu, Turgut Ulutin, Fikret Sipahioglu, Barıs IlerigelenENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION MARKERS IN LOW CARDIOVASCULAR RISK INDIVIDUALS: COMPARISON OF MALES AND FEMALES … 62Muhittin A. Serdar, Bas¸ar Batu Can, Meltem Kilercik, Zeynep A. Durer, Fehime Benli Aksungar, Mustafa Serteser, Abdurrahman Coskun, Aysel Ozpinar, Ibrahim UnsalANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN PARATHYROID HORMONE AND 25 (OH) VITAMIN D LEVELS WITH RESPECT TO AGE, GENDER AND SEASON: A DATA MINING STUDY … 72TECHNICAL REPORTSNEWS FROM THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTS OF SERBIA … 84PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 88INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 95 Volume: 36 Belgrade, January – March 2017 Issue: 1JMB 2016; 36 (1): 1–106 © 2017 by SMBS, Belgrade