JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2018-4

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

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 37-4

ORIGINAL PAPER

Fereshteh Atabi, Reza Mohammadi
EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN IN IRAN: COMPARISON OF FIVE DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL METHODS WITH TWO DIFFERENT TOTAL ALLOWABLE ERRORS … 397

Jelena Stefanović Nešković, An|elka Ristić, Milan
Petronijević, Aleksandra Zeljković, Aleksandra Grdinić,
Ognjen Gudelj, Branka Đurović, Branimir Nešković
B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE AS A MARKER OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS … 406

Arwa Al Thomali, Maha H. Daghestani,
Mazin H. Daghestani, Namik Kaya, Arjumand Warsy
POLYMORPHIC VARIATIONS IN VDR GENE IN SAUDI WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME (PCOS) AND SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE OF SEVEN POLYMORPHIC SITES ON ANTHROPOMETRIC AND HORMONAL PARAMETERS … 415

Elaheh Foroumandi,
Mohammad Alizadeh, Sorayya Kheirouri
AGE-DEPENDENT CHANGES IN PL ASMA AMINO ACIDS CONTRIBUTE TO ALTERATIONS IN GLYCOXIDATION PRODUCTS … 426

Selda Telo, Mutlu Kuluöztürk, Figen Deveci,
Gamze Kırkıl, Önsel Öner, Dilara Kaman
SERUM CYSTATIN C LEVELS IN COPD: POTENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC VALUE AND RELATION BETWEEN RESPIRATORY FUNCTIONS … 434

Samar Damiati
SERUM LEVELS OF ASYMMETRIC AND SYMMETRIC DIMETHYL ARGININE IN WOMEN WITH VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY AND HISTORY OF PREGNANCY LOSS – A PILOT STUDY … 441

Engy Bakeer, Rasha Radwan, Ahmed El Mandoury,
Abdullah Abd El Rahman, Mohamed Gad,
Sahar Abd El Maksoud
ANTI-MÜLLERIAN HORMONE AS A DIAGNOSTIC MARKER IN EGYPTIAN INFERTILE POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME FEMALES: CORREL ATIONS WITH VITAMIN D, TOTAL TESTOSTERONE, DYSLIPIDEMIA AND ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS … 448

Jelena Ćulafić, Jovanka Kolarović, Lato Pezo, Velibor
Čabarkapa, Stanislava Nikolić, Aleksandra Stojadinović,
Marija Bodroža Solarov
SERUM CONCENTRATION OF HEPCIDIN AS AN INDICATOR OF IRON RESERVES IN CHILDREN … 456

Songül Ünüvar, Zübeyde Tanrıverdi, Hamza Aslanhan
POTENTIAL PROGNOSTIC ROLE OF IMMUNE SYSTEM ACTIVATION MARKER NEOPTERIN IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES … 465

Fereshteh Aliasghari, Azimeh Izadi,
Masoumeh Jabbari, Bahareh Imani,
Bahram Pourghassem Gargari, Foad Asjodi, Sara Ebrahimi
ARE VASPIN AND OMENTIN-1 RELATED TO INSULIN RESISTANCE, BLOOD PRESSURE AND INFL AMMATION IN NAFLD PATIENTS? … 470

Iva Perović Blagojević, Svetlana Ignjatović, Đuro Macut,
Jelena Kotur-Stevuljević, Ivana Božić-Antić, Jelena Vekić,
Jelica Bjekić-Macut, Biljana Kastratović-Kotlica,
Zoran Andrić, Dušan Ilić
EVALUATION OF A SUMMARY SCORE FOR DYSLIPIDEMIA, OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INFLAMMATION (THE DOI SCORE) IN WOMEN WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME AND ITS REL ATIONSHIP WITH OBESITY … 476

Michela Seghezzi, Sabrina Buoro, Giulia Previtali,
Valentina Moioli, Barbara Manenti, Ramon Simon-Lopez,
Cosimo Ottomano, Giuseppe Lippi
A PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL FOR QUALITY CONTROL ASSESSMENT AND HARMONIZATION OF LEUKOCYTES MORPHOLOGY-STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS (CELL POPULATION DATA PARAMETERS) … 486

İbrahim Halil Demirsoy, Duygu Yolal Ertural, Senay Balci,
Ümit Çınkır, Kerem Sezer, Lülüfer Tamer, Nurcan Aras
PROFILES OF CIRCUL ATING miRNAs FOLLOWING METFORMIN TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES … 499

SHORT COMMUNICATION

Barbara Kraszewska-Głomba, Marta Myszka,
Magdalena Krajewska, Leszek Szenborn
HIGH PREVALENCE OF AUTOANTIBODIES AGAINST MONOMERIC C REACTIVE PROTEIN (CRP) IN CHILDREN WITH PFAPA SYNDROME … 507

TECHNICAL REPORTS

NEWS FROM THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTS OF SERBIA … 510
PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 517
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 523