Use of stem cell factor to mobilize hematopoietic progenitors.

abstract：:Whereas there are general guidelines for acceptable transfusion therapy, optimal transfusion therapy has not been determined for most clinical settings. Recent research has focused on controlled studies of red cell transfusion in specific clinical settings. Better determinations of oxygen delivery and consumption are ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Clark P,Mintz PD

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review summarizes recent advances in the application of minimal residual disease (MRD) testing in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). RECENT FINDINGS:Polymerase chain reaction amplification of antigen receptor genes, one of the two main methods to study MRD in ALL, could be made more r...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Campana D

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：:The bulk of antigens that are presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules are processed in the cytosol. Therefore, the cellular protein degradation machinery is thought to play a major role in antigen processing. For example, there is clear evidence that the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Androlewicz MJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Chronic idiopathic and severe congenital neutropenias are rare disorders for which recent discoveries have highlighted mechanisms and consequences. RECENT FINDINGS:An inflammatory bone marrow milieu has been shown to be a major contributor to the pathophysiology of chronic idiopathic neutropenia. Act...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Palmblad J,Papadaki HA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloablative therapy followed by autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell rescue is an alternative therapeutic option for patients who are not candidates for allogeneic transplantation due to the lack of an appropriate HLA-matched donor or to advanced age. It allows therapy to be administered that is of c...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Hammert LC,Ball ED

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Chronic inflammation and disordered lipid metabolism represent hallmarks of atherosclerosis. Considerable evidence has accumulated to suggest that innate immune defense mechanisms might interact with proinflammatory pathways and exacerbate or perhaps even initiate development of arterial plaques. Unti...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Michelsen KS,Arditi M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell factor is an early-acting hematopoietic cytokine that probably functions constitutively to support the proliferation and survival of pluripotent progenitor cells and to increase their receptivity to lineage commitment and differentiation in response to lineage-specific cytokines. Stem cell factor also can in...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Glaspy J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The transmembrane protein tissue factor (TF), the initiator of the extrinsic coagulation cascade and a risk factor for thrombotic disease, largely resides on the cell surface in an inactive, encrypted conformation. Whereas TF procoagulant activation, or decryption, is closely associated with the expos...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Versteeg HH,Ruf W

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:In the postnatal life, hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niches are specialized microenvironments in the bone marrow that are essential for the maintenance and function of HSCs. The purpose of this review is to discuss the concept of HSC niche in light of recent studies that broaden its complexity and bet...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Carlesso N,Cardoso AA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Barth syndrome (BTHS) is a mitochondrial disorder characterized by neutropenia, among other defects. As yet, the correlation between the mitochondrial defect in BTHS and the neutropenia observed in these patients is unclear. In this review, we hope to shed some light upon the correlation between the m...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： van Raam BJ,Kuijpers TW

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Hematopoietic cell transplantation offers potentially curative therapy for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome. The median patient age at diagnosis, however, is about 70 years, which has limited the application of conventional hematopoietic cell transplantation. In addition, the optimum timing of t...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Deeg HJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells are the cells primarily responsible for short term and long term hematological reconstitution when a graft is infused into a myeloablated host. The number and quality of hematopoietic stem cells within a graft are the major determinants of the time to and durability of hematological reconstitu...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Hoffman R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that blood in naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is not infectious has imploded in the face of recent transmissions from the blood of naturally occurring scrapie in sheep and of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Although donor exclusion criteria ensure that the number of ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Brown P,Cervenakova L

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much progress has been made in delineating the pathogenesis of multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The cell of origin in both diseases has been better defined, which has led to important clinical treatments. For myeloma, reduction of tumor burden in autografts has been accomplished and been associated w...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Vescio R,Rosen L,Schmulbach E,Berenson J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To review the data on angiogenesis related to exosomes secreted by tumor cells in hematologic neoplasia and to elucidate the role of exosomes and exosomal miRNA in the bone marrow microenvironment, especially under hypoxic conditions. RECENT FINDINGS:Cross-talk between bone marrow tumor cells and sur...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Ohyashiki JH,Umezu T,Ohyashiki K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a new product with huge clinical potential explodes on the scene, the hope is that the benefits far outweigh the risks in long-term administration. After 10 years of clinical use, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has lived up to that promise so far. In the context of severe chronic neutropenia, more ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Freedman MH

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a decade has passed since the first cases of AIDS were reported in hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients. Studies published over the past year offer an increasingly clear understanding of the extent of the early transfusion-associated AIDS epidemic, and of the effectiveness of progressive donor screening measur...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Busch MP

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Mortality and morbidity associated with leukemia are largely due to frequently occurring cytopenias or the dysfunction of normal blood cells in patients. Our knowledge of how normal blood cells degenerate in response to leukemic cell infiltration has been quite limited. This review summarizes recent f...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Cheng H,Cheng T

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：:Hematopoietic stem cells, defined as cells with extensive self-renewal and pluripotent differentiation potential, represent a minor population of adult bone marrow (< 1 in 10(4) to 10(5) nucleated marrow cells). Recent advances in cell surface phenotype analysis and separation technology have permitted enrichment of h...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Moore MA,Shapiro F

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Glycogen storage disease Ib (GSD Ib) is characterized by hepatomegaly, hypoglycemia, neutropenia, enterocolitis and recurrent bacterial infections. It is attributable to mutations in G6PT1, the gene for the glucose-6-phosphate transporter responsible for transport of glucose into the endoplasmic retic...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Dale DC,Bolyard AA,Marrero T,Kelley ML,Makaryan V,Tran E,Leung J,Boxer LA,Kishnani PS,Austin S,Wanner C,Ferrecchia IA,Khalaf D,Maze D,Kurtzberg J,Zeidler C,Welte K,Weinstein DA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Graft-versus-host disease is one of the commonest complications of allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. This review will cover advances in the pathophysiology of graft-versus-host disease and new agents under investigation for the treatment of this disorder. Patients d...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Bolaños-Meade J,Vogelsang GB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet production is primarily regulated by the thrombopoietic cytokine thrombopoietin (TPO). In most cases thrombopoietin serum levels are determined by the rate of c-mpl receptor-mediated degradation after TPO uptake into platelets and megakaryocytes. The contribution of increased TPO protein synthesis by a transl...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Verbeek W,Faulhaber M,Griesinger F,Brittinger G

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Platelet microparticles were identified more than 40 years ago and are the most abundant circulating microparticle subtype. Yet fundamental questions about their formation and role in human disease are just beginning to be understood at the cellular and molecular level. This review will address mechan...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Italiano JE Jr,Mairuhu AT,Flaumenhaft R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Microtransplantation (MST) has been successfully used to manage patients with hematological malignancies, especially older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Recent clinical applications and mechanistic studies of MST are reviewed. RECENT FINDINGS:MST improves complete remission rates which ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Cai B,Guo M,Ai H

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) predominantly reside either in direct contact or in close proximity to the vascular endothelium throughout their lifespan. From the moment of HSC embryonic specification from hemogenic endothelium, endothelial cells (ECs) act as a critical cellular-hub that regulates a ...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Ramalingam P,Poulos MG,Butler JM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To highlight mechanisms that regulate the balance between latent and active von Willebrand factor (VWF), and describe pathological conditions leading to increased levels of active VWF. RECENT FINDINGS:Levels of circulating active VWF are increased in von Willebrand disease type 2B, HELLP syndrome, ma...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Groot E,de Groot PG,Fijnheer R,Lenting PJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic defects of the blood platelet membrane glycoproteins, GPIIb-IIIa (alpha IIb/beta 3; CD41/CD61) and GPIb-V-IX (CD42) are the origin of several rare bleeding disorders, the best known of which are Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, Bernard-Soulier syndrome, and platelet-type von Willebrand's disease. In Glanzmann's thr...

journal_title：Current opinion in hematology

authors： Clemetson KJ,Clemetson JM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00