Vol. 247, Nos. 1,2 Clinica Chimica Acta 29 March 1996 CONTENTS Cited in: Biological Abstracts — CABS — Chemical Abstracts — Current Contents/Life Sciences — Excerpta Medica — Index Medicus — Clinical Chemistry Lookout — Current Clinical Chemistry — Informedicus — PASCAL M — Reference Update — Current Clinical Cancer An improved technique for the assay of red blood cell superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity L.E. Hlouno, E.N. Shu, G.E. Igbokwe (Nigeria) The activity of a blood type B specific exoglycosidase from Glycine max L. Hetbe, BM. Mitra,R . Phillips,D . Smith (USA) etric assay (ILMA) for intact human proinsulin and its conversion intermediates T.M. Zilkens, A.M. Eberle, H. Schmidt-Gayk (Germany) Plasma lysosomal glycohydrolases in a general population A. Lombardo, C. Bairati, G. Goi, C. Roggi, L. MaccD. aBollrini,i A.n Burliina ,(Ita ly) Plasma | ,5-anhydro-D-glucitol concentration and its relation to other plasma components in renal failure and renal transplant recipients G. Phillipov, V.T. Ninan, T.H. Mathew (Australia) Peptic-ditgerstys poft giliacdi n: contaminating trypsin but not pepsin interferes with gastrointestinal protein binding characteristics G. Bolte, A. Osman, T. Mothes, M. Stern (Germany) Serum paraoxonase activity is decreased in uremic patients R. Schiavon, E. De Fanti, D. Giavarina, S. Biasicli, G. Cavalcanti, G. Guidi (Italy) Ketone body ratios of the superior and inferior vena cava and of pulmonary arterial blood compared to that of arterial blood: central venous ketone body ratio as a substitute for the arterial ketone body ratio Y. Terada, Y. Eguchi, Y.-J. Chang, R. Tabata, H. Sakumoto, O. Takehiro, S. Uno, K. Ozawa Specific oncological contribouf tcaithoepnsi n D and pS2 in human breast cancer: their relationwisthh iTNpM status, estradiol receptors, epi growth factor receptor and neu amplification P. Bolufer, M.D. Torregrosa, L. Gomez, B. Munarriz, J.A. Lopez, E. Asins, S$. Espinoza, F. Vera, C. Vazquez, V. Guillem (Spain) Intracellular degradation of sulforhodamine-Gy: use for a fluorescence-based characterization of G,y>-gangliosidosis variants in fibroblasts and white blood cells V. Agmon, R. Khosravi, S. Marchesini, T. Dinur, A. Dagan, S. Gatt, R. Navon (Israel, Italy) Analysis of plasma isoflavones by reversed-phase HPLC-multiple reaction ion monitoring-mass spectrometry L. Coward, M. Kirk, N. Albin, S. Barnes (USA, France) Impairment of ganglioside metabolism in cultured fibroblasts from Salla patients M. Pitto, V. Chigorno, M. Renlund, G. Tettamanti (Italy, Finland) Short communications Characterization of low-density-lipoprotein in apolipoprotein E deficiency in a patient without coronary atherosclerosis T. Teramoto, M. Kinoshita, M. Kawamura, Y.-Q. Liang, K. Kaneko, N. Shimazu, S. Suga, N. Akatuka, M. Yamanaka (Japan) Characterization of clinical assays for leukocyte and fibroblast alpha-N-acetylgalac inidase activities for the diagnosis of alpha-N-acetylgal inidase deficiency E.M. Prence, J. Gleason, M.R. Natowicz (USA) Influence of apolipoprotein E phenotypes on total serum cholesterol in Japanese children M. Tozuka, H. Ohta, H. Hidaka, N. Okumura, K. Furihata, T. Katsuyama (Japan) Increased plasma thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) before opportunistic infection symptoms in HIV infected individuals O. Lopez, D. B font-R lot, M. Mollereau, R. Olivier, L. Montagnier, J. Emerit, M. Gentilini, J. Delattre (France) Specific carbohydrate antigen LeY expression on lymphocytes in diabetes mellitus T. Nagai, T. Tomizawa, K. Sudou, C. Shiozawa, M. Mori (Japan) Letter to the Editor Simultaneous metabolic profile studies of three patients with fatal infantile mitochondrial myopathy-de Toni-Fanconi-Debré syndrome by GC/MS C. Ning, T. Kuhara, I. Matsumoto (Japan) Author index Subject index 0009-(1 9896904185 1 )247:1/2;1-U