JOURNAL OF MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY / 2021 – 1

EDITORIAL BOARD

Volume: 40-1

Emina Čolak, Dragana Pap
THE ROLE OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBESITY AND OBESITY-RELATED METABOLIC DISORDERS … 1

ORIGINAL PAPER

Desislav Tomov, Georgeta Bocheva, Vidka Divarova, Lilia Kasabova, Dobrin Svinarov
PHASE SEPARATION LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF 8-ISO-PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA IN HUMAN PLASMA BY LC-MS/MS … 10

Sarah A. Aglan, Mohamed Elsammak, Omar Elsammak, Eman A. El-Bakoury, Heba G. Elsheredy, Yasser S. Ahmed, Mohamed H. Sultan, Ahmed M. Awad
EVALUATION OF SERUM NESTIN AND HOTAIR RS12826786 C>T POLYMORPHISM AS SCREENING TOOLS FOR BREAST CANCER IN EGYPTIAN WOMEN … 17

Pablo Letelier, Neftalí Guzmán, Gustavo Medina, Luis Calcumil, Pamela Huencho, Jonathan Mora, Francisco Quiñones,
Jorge Jara, Cristóbal Reyno, Jorge G. Farías, Lisandra Herrera Belén, Priscilla Brebi, Ismael Riquelme, Andrés San Martín
WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION IN A CLINICAL LABORATORY USING LEAN MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN THE PRE-ANALYTICAL PHASE … 26

Maria Hosseini, Masoumeh Nezhadali, Mehdi Hedayati
ASSOCIATION OF VASPIN RS2236242 GENE POLYMORPHISM WITH SERUM VASPIN LEVEL, INSULIN RESISTANCE AND DIABETES IN AN IRANIAN DIABETIC/PRE-DIABETIC POPULATION … 33

Aleksandra Klisic, Nebojsa Kavaric, Vesna Spasojevic-Kalimanovska, Jelena Kotur-Stevuljevic, Ana Ninic
SERUM ENDOCAN LEVELS IN RELATION TO TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL ANTHRO – POMETRIC INDICES IN ADULT POPULATION … 41

Jyot Amrita, Mridula Mahajan, AJS Bhanwer, Kawaljit Matharoo
ASSOCIATION OF ADIPOQ GENE VARIATION (RS1501299) AND OXIDATIVE STRESS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN NORTH WEST INDIAN POPULATION OF PUNJABI WOMEN … 49

Chi-Cervera Luis Alberto, Montalvo Gordon Iaarah, Icaza-Chávez María Eugenia, Torres-Romero Julio, Arana-Argáez Víctor, Ramírez-Camacho Mario, Lara-Riegos Julio
CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF LIPID PANEL AND AMINOTRANSFERASES IN THE CONTEXT OF HEPATIC STEATOSIS AND FIBROSIS AS MEASURED BY TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY (FIBROSCAN®) … 60

Ulas Yuksel, Mustafa Ogden, Alemiddin Ozdemir, Ucler Kisa, Bulent Bakar
PREDICTIVE DIAGNOSTIC AND/OR PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS OBTAINED FROM ROUTINE BLOOD BIOCHEMISTRY IN PATIENTS WITH SOLITARY INTRACRANIAL TUMOR … 67

Maha H. Daghestani, Maha Omair, Mazin Daghestani, Sonya S. Abdel-Razeq, Namik Kaya, Arjumand Warsy
INFLUENCE OF b2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR POLYMORPHISM (RS1042713 AND RS1042714) ON ANTHROPOMETRIC, HORMONAL AND LIPID PROFILES IN POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME … 74

Chuang Li, Weiwei Kong, Lixia Kang, Tiehan Zhang, Weiqun Zhang, Weidong Wang
STUDY ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN URINARY RETINOL-BINDING PROTEIN AND NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE … 86

Vivek Ambade, Pratibha Misra, Yaongamphi Vashum, Mukul Sharma, Bhasker Mukherjee, Kapil Bhatia, Manoj Puliyath, Ponnaiah Rasu, Indra Prakash Berthwal, Sibin Madathan Kandi
ANALYSIS OF SHORT-TERM VARIATION AND LONG-TERM DRIFT DURING REAGENT KIT LOT CHANGE IN AN NABL ACCREDITED CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY LABORATORY … 92

TECHNICAL REPORTS

PROGRAM NAUČNIH, STRUČNIH SKUPOVA I EDUKATIVNIH SEMINARA … 99

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS … 103