Iron chelation: an update.

abstract：:The advent of safe and practical means to correct, enhance or protect blood cells at the genetic level offers tantalizing therapeutic perspectives. At present, gene delivery using a replication-defective retrovirus is the most efficient method to stably transduce hematopoietic cells. The successful adaptation of retro...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Sadelain M,Frassoni F,Rivière I

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Despite parenteral artesunate therapy, the fatality rate of cerebral malaria remains high. Adjunctive therapy targeting the underlying pathophysiology of cerebral malaria may further improve the clinical outcome. Endothelial activation and dysfunction is a central process in the pathogenesis of cerebr...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Kim H,Higgins S,Liles WC,Kain KC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Bone marrow transplantation is the only curative treatment for severe thalassemia. Since its successful first report in 1981, more than 4000 patients with this disease worldwide underwent bone marrow transplantation. The purpose of this review is to update the most recent reports of matched sibling do...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Issaragrisil S,Kunacheewa C

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutropenia is often attributed to immunologically mediated injury to mature neutrophils or their precursors. Clinically it is useful to classify immune mediated neutropenias as isoimmune, autoimmune (including some drug-associated neutropenias), and idiopathic (cases possibly with an immune mechanism). Isoimmune neut...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Dale DC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Inconsistent results regarding the clinical efficacy of granulocyte transfusions for the treatment or prophylaxis of life-threatening infections in neutropenic patients have been attributed to insufficient number of transfused neutrophils. Since the introduction of granulocyte colony-stimulating facto...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Yoshihara S,Ikemoto J,Fujimori Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), despite improvements in our understanding of its pathophysiology as well as the generation of new monoclonal antibodies, immunomodulatory chemotherapy, cellular ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Paczesny S,Choi SW,Ferrara JL

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:New discoveries focused on mitochondrial metabolism and gene silencing and their regulation by the sirtuin family of protein deacetylases is stimulating new ideas on how to improve geriatric medicine. Information about sertuins in stem cell biology is scarce. We consider recent information on sirtuin ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Mantel C,Broxmeyer HE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The polycomb group gene BMI1 fulfills essential roles in both normal and leukemic stem cells. The underlying molecular mechanisms are beginning to become unraveled and an overview of the current knowledge on BMI1 signaling in normal and leukemic stem cells will be presented here. RECENT FINDINGS:In a...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Schuringa JJ,Vellenga E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The role of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) in vasculogenesis is still not well understood, despite many recent developments in this area of research. In this review, we discuss the most recent studies that identify new critical mechanisms through which BMP signaling acts with a focus on angiogenes...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Moreno-Miralles I,Schisler JC,Patterson C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow transplantation protocols for inherited metabolic storage diseases are unique for each disorder treated. Differences depend also upon how old the patient was when onset occurred and rate of progression of disease. Treatment is directed to prevent or ameliorate the inexorable neurological deterioration that...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Krivit W,Aubourg P,Shapiro E,Peters C

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Mutations in the Endoglin (Eng) gene, an auxiliary receptor in the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ)-superfamily signaling pathway, are responsible for the human vascular disorder hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) type 1, characterized in part by blood vessel enlargement. A growing body...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Sugden WW,Siekmann AF

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin, also termed the c-Mpl ligand, is a lineage-dominant hematopoietic factor that primarily regulates megakaryopoiesis and thrombopoiesis. Treatment of normal animals with recombinant human megakaryocyte growth and development factor, a truncated molecule of the c-Mpl ligand, which is modified with polyeth...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Miyazaki H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past few years, we have learned a great deal about the biologic function of structures bearing blood group antigens. Some blood group antigen-bearing proteins function as major transport channels within the erythrocyte membrane; these include the anion transporter (band 3: Diego and Wright antigens), the water ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Mudad R,Telen MJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim of this short study is to review recently published data bearing on how to resuscitate massive uncontrolled hemorrhage. RECENT FINDINGS:New data inform our understanding of the mechanisms of the acute coagulopathy of trauma, the median time to death of trauma patients with uncontrolled hemorr...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Murphy CH,Hess JR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Lymphocyte trafficking is regulated by adhesion molecules mediating the initial shear-resistant binding of circulating cells to target tissue endothelium (Step 1). This review focuses on the current and emerging perspectives of the biology of these 'homing receptors.' RECENT FINDINGS:The conventional...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Sackstein R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Microtransplantation (or micro-stem cell transplantation, MST) is one permutation of alloreactive immunotherapy increasingly studied in clinical trials. It is most commonly applied to patients with myeloid malignancies who are not suitable candidates for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Krakow EF

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1994 four biotechnology research groups reported the isolation and cloning of the ligand for the cytokine receptor c-Mpl and showed it to be the long-sought regulator of platelet production, thrombopoietin. Thrombopoietin is a hematopoietic growth factor of 332 amino acids composed of an amino terminal domain homol...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Eaton DL,de Sauvage FJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Core binding factor acute myeloid leukemia (CBF-AML) corresponds to two distinct subtypes of AML characterized by recurrent favorable chromosome translocations, namely t(8;21) and inv(16)/t(16;16). Given the relatively good outcome of patients with CBF-AML, when treated with intensive chemotherapy inc...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Dombret H,Preudhomme C,Boissel N

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The capacity of lithium to induce neutrophilia and increase circulating CD34(+) cells of marrow origin has long been known. Lithium has been the object of hematological investigations for many years, but no definitive use in hematology has yet emerged. RECENT FINDINGS:We review the evidence that lith...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Petrini M,Azzarà A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling activates many bone marrow cell types, including various stem cells, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts. However, the role of FGF signaling in regulation of normal and leukemic stem cells is poorly understood. This review highlights the physiological roles of FGF sig...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Itkin T,Kaufmann KB,Gur-Cohen S,Ludin A,Lapidot T

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to move is one of the most basic and critical functions of the neutrophil. The neutrophil changes its shape from round to highly polar and glides along the surface, pausing every 45 to 60 seconds to reestablish its direction. Iterations of this sequence of small-scale motion, or shape change, sum to form t...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Coates TD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of our understanding of the organization of the cells that comprise the hematopoietic system and the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate their development is derived from mouse models. However, knowledge of the human hematopoietic system and identification of human stem cells have, until recently, bee...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Dick JE

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mature enucleated erythrocyte is no longer active in nuclear processes such as pre-mRNA splicing, the function of many of its major structural proteins is dependent on alternative splicing choices made during the earlier stages of erythropoiesis. These splicing decisions fundamentally regulate many aspect...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Hou VC,Conboy JG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists are being used with increasing frequency in the settings of percutaneous coronary interventions and acute ischemic syndromes. The development of bleeding complications following GPIIb/IIIa blockade represents a significant limitation to its effectiveness. Baseli...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Madan M,Blankenship JC,Berkowitz SD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The peptide hormone hepcidin regulates iron metabolism in response to erythropoietic demand, iron stores and inflammation. Major advances have been made in understanding the regulation of hepcidin production, and consequently the availability of iron for erythropoiesis. RECENT FINDINGS:It is becoming...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Nemeth E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Immune responses to commensal bacteria and resulting chronic inflammation are hallmarks of inflammatory bowel disease. Considerable evidence has accumulated to suggest that innate immune defense mechanisms interact with pro-inflammatory pathways and exacerbate or perhaps even initiate development of i...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Michelsen KS,Arditi M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, approximately one in 1000 individuals suffers from venous thromboembolism. The pathogenesis of the disease is multifactorial and a thrombotic event is the result of a combination of genetic and circumstantial risk factors. Until recently, genetic defects could only be identified in a minority of thrombosis ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Zöller B,Dahlbäck B

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocytes use an array of antimicrobial peptides and proteins to help them destroy invading microorganisms. These endogenous antibiotic molecules are remarkable for their structural variety, rapid evolutionary divergence, intraspecies variation, and complex yet subtle interactions with their targets. This arsenal has...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Ganz T,Lehrer RI

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To outline the rationale, limitations, and execution of bloodless medical and surgical programs, highlighting characteristics that contribute to successful outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS:Clinical experiences with patients who refuse blood transfusions for religious reasons have provided valuable lessons a...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Shander A,Goodnough LT

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Despite improvements in the achievement of complete remission and progress in the supportive care of adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia during the last decade, the majority of patients have eventually relapsed with overall survival in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia of only 30-40%. However, t...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Larson S,Stock W

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00