Potential role of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-4 in the uncoupling of bone turnover in multiple myeloma.

abstract：:Ethnic variations in red blood cell (RBC) antigens can be a source of alloimmunization, especially in migrant populations. To improve transfusion safety in continental Africa and countries with African migrants, we performed RBC genotyping to determine allele frequencies coding for high- and low-prevalence antigens. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Silvy M,Beley S,Granier T,Ba A,Chiaroni J,Bailly P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red cell pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is the most frequent enzyme abnormality of the glycolytic pathway causing hereditary non-spherocytic haemolytic anaemia. The degree of haemolysis varies widely, ranging from very mild or fully compensated forms, to life-threatening neonatal anaemia and jaundice necessitating ex...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zanella A,Fermo E,Bianchi P,Valentini G

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that parenteral deferroxamine can prolong life in patients with iron overload. We have developed a non-human primate model of iron overload and have accurately determined negative iron balance in parenteral and oral studies of deferroxamine and a new chelator, desferrithiocin. Cebus mo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wolfe LC,Nicolosi RJ,Renaud MM,Finger J,Hegsted M,Peter H,Nathan DG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), which, 8 years later, transformed into granulocytic sarcoma in the brain and, subsequently, into acute myelocytic leukaemia. Repeated chromosome analyses showed a normal karyotype, until the time of leukaemic transformation when trisomy 8 was confirmed in cell...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fujii N,Ikeda K,Takahashi N,Kojima K,Kobayashi Y,Ashiba A,Takenaka K,Fukuda S,Shinagawa K,Ishimaru F,Niiya K,Miura I,Tanimoto M,Harada M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma and urine folate fractions were evaluated after ingestion of radioactive N5-methyl-tetrahydrofolic acid by a normal control (subject I), a patient on maintenance haemodialysis for chronic glomerulonephritis (subject 2), and an anephric patient on haemodialysis (subject 3). In subjects 1 and 2 maximal plasma rad...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Retief FP,Heyns AP,Oosthuizen M,Reenen OR

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro haemostatic functions of fresh whole blood (FWB) are well preserved after cold storage. This study aimed to determine whether platelets derived from FWB and stored whole blood (SWB) contribute to clot formation in tissue injury after transfusion into coagulopathic rats with polytrauma/haemorrhage (T/H). T...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wu X,Darlington DN,Montgomery RK,Liu B,Keesee JD,Scherer MR,Benov A,Chen J,Cap AP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified two patients with a t(2;4)(p24;q12) and a t(4;12)(q2?3;p1?2), respectively, in association with BCR-ABL and FIP1L1-PDGFRA negative chronic eosinophilic leukaemia. Molecular analysis revealed a novel STRN-PDGFRA fusion for the t(2;4) and ETV6-PDGFRA for the t(4;12). The fusions were confirmed by specific ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Curtis CE,Grand FH,Musto P,Clark A,Murphy J,Perla G,Minervini MM,Stewart J,Reiter A,Cross NC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Medical Research Council acute lymphoblastic leukaemia trials (UKALL X and XI) recruited 3,702 children with ALL between January 1985 and March 1997. Seventy-nine children had central nervous system (CNS) involvement in their first two relapses. Fourteen children survived at a median follow-up of 22 months from se...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Morris EC,Harrison G,Bailey CC,Hann IM,Hill FG,Gibson BE,Richards S,Webb DK,Medical Research Council Childhood Leukaemia Working Party.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose chemotherapy with melphalan followed by autologous haematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT) is a standard of care in young patients (<65 years) with multiple myeloma. Most myeloma patients, however, are older than 65 years at the time of diagnosis, and the findings of numerous single-centre and registry st...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Auner HW,Garderet L,Kröger N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytosterolaemia (sitosterolaemia) is a recessively inherited metabolic condition in which the absorption of both cholesterol and plant-derived cholesterol-like molecules at the gut is unselective and unrestricted. In haematology, Mediterranean stomatocytosis or Mediterranean macrothrombocytopenia is a poorly understo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rees DC,Iolascon A,Carella M,O'marcaigh AS,Kendra JR,Jowitt SN,Wales JK,Vora A,Makris M,Manning N,Nicolaou A,Fisher J,Mann A,Machin SJ,Clayton PT,Gasparini P,Stewart GW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is increasingly found to cause hepatitis in allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients. However, little is known about HEV infection in patients receiving haploidentical HSCT (haplo-HSCT). Here, we retrospectively evaluate the incidence and clinical course of HEV infect...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tang FF,Mo XD,Wang Y,Yan CH,Chen YH,Chen H,Han W,Chang YJ,Zhang HY,Xie YD,Ma H,Wei L,Xu LP,Huang XJ,Zhang XH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, in-line high-efficiency 3-5 log10 leucodepletion filter system (Leukotrap RC system) was used to investigate the effect of pre-storage white cell removal on the quality of AS-3 red cell concentrates stored for 42 d at 4 degrees C. Median residual white cell content was 4 x 10(5) when filtration was performed at...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Heaton WA,Holme S,Smith K,Brecher ME,Pineda A,AuBuchon JP,Nelson E

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assessed the effects of the diphosphonate, dichloromethylene diphosphonate (Cl2MDP), in 19 patients with hypercalcaemia and increased bone resorption due to myeloma. Cl2MDP (800-3200 mg daily by mouth or 300 mg daily by intravenous infusion) decreased plasma calcium and biochemical indices of increased bone re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Paterson AD,Kanis JA,Cameron EC,Douglas DL,Beard DJ,Preston FE,Russell RG

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to identify and classify cases of paediatric myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) occurring in Britain to estimate the incidence of this rare group of diseases, investigate the results of therapy and identify prognostic risk factors. Patients aged below 15 years at diagnosis were collected from England, Scotland a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Passmore SJ,Chessells JM,Kempski H,Hann IM,Brownbill PA,Stiller CA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is one of the cytokines implicated in the pathogenesis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in which it acts as auto/paracrine growth factor for lymphoma growth. T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a heterogeneous disease, the biological basis of which is not fully understood. Some evidence...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee JJ,Kim DH,Lee NY,Sohn SK,Kim JG,Kim HJ,Do YR,Park YH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between the complement lysis sensitivity test and two-colour flow cytometric analysis using monoclonal antibodies to decay accelerating factor (DAF) and CD59/membrane attack complex inhibitory factor (MACIF) in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) and other haematol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shichishima T,Terasawa T,Saitoh Y,Hashimoto C,Ohto H,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe three cases of relapsed hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) treated with pentostatin plus rituximab. All three achieved bone marrow complete remission but had persistent splenomegaly and hypersplenism. Because of the clinical uncertainty of its significance, they were all splenectomized. The spleen histology showed...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sarid N,Ahmad HN,Wotherspoon A,Dearden CE,Else M,Catovsky D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akt mediates growth and drug resistance in multiple myeloma (MM) cells in the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment. We have shown that a novel Akt inhibitor Perifosine induces significant cytotoxicity in MM cells in the BM milieu. This study further delineated molecular mechanisms whereby Perifosine triggered cytotoxicit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hideshima T,Catley L,Raje N,Chauhan D,Podar K,Mitsiades C,Tai YT,Vallet S,Kiziltepe T,Ocio E,Ikeda H,Okawa Y,Hideshima H,Munshi NC,Yasui H,Richardson PG,Anderson KC

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study looked for clonal diversity in patients with a myeloproliferative neoplasm associated with more than one acquired genetic lesion. A tyrosine kinase mutation and a cytogenetic lesion were present in the same clone in six of seven patients. By contrast, the genetic lesions were present in separate clones in a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Beer PA,Jones AV,Bench AJ,Goday-Fernandez A,Boyd EM,Vaghela KJ,Erber WN,Odeh B,Wright C,McMullin MF,Cullis J,Huntly BJ,Harrison CN,Cross NC,Green AR

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Australian Leukaemia Study Group has performed a randomized trial of interferon alpha-2A (Roferon-A) as a co-induction agent together with intensive combination chemotherapy and as maintenance following completion of 12 cycles of induction treatment. When used as a co-induction agent, interferon-alpha did not impr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Joshua DE,Penny R,Matthews JP,Laidlaw CR,Gibson J,Bradstock K,Wolf M,Goldstein D

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of de novo acute myelomonocytic leukaemia with the t(2;11)(q31;p15) translocation in a Japanese female infant. The NUP98-HOXD13 fusion transcript generated by the translocation was detected in the patient's bone marrow cells by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Additionally, ec...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shimada H,Arai Y,Sekiguchi S,Ishii T,Tanitsu S,Sasaki M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for quantitating mononuclear cells expressing E, EA(IgG), EAC receptors, immunoglobulin carrying cells and phagocytic cells in normal human venous blood is described; normal values for each of these classes of mononuclear cell are established. The effects of different methods of cell preparation have been ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Habeshaw JA,Young GA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the combination of tyrosine kinase inhibitors with chemotherapy is widely used for young adults with Philadelphia chromosome positive-acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Ph+ ALL), the outcome and safety of this combination using intensive paediatric-based protocols has not been well described. The clinical course ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Thyagu S,Minden MD,Gupta V,Yee KW,Schimmer AD,Schuh AC,Lipton JH,Messner HA,Xu W,Brandwein JM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a significant complication in patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) using a reduced intensity conditioning regimen. Although T-cell depletion (TCD) reduces the risk of GVHD after a myeloablative conditioning regimen, it is associated with an increased r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Craddock C,Bardy P,Kreiter S,Johnston R,Apperley J,Marks D,Huber C,Kolbe K,Goulding R,Lawler M,Goldman J,Hughes T,Derigs G

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine any role of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), in the immune responses in Kawasaki disease (KD), we serially assayed M-CSF and several related cytokines using ELISA. In 10 paediatric patients with KD the level of M-CSF was significantly higher in the acute phase than in the convalescent phase (14...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Igarashi H,Hatake K,Tomizuka H,Yamada M,Gunji Y,Momoi MY

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of HLA antigens in 72 unrelated Caucasian subjects with pernicious anaemia (PA) has revealed no significant association of any HLA-A or B genes with the disease. These data do not confirm the previous reports in the literature which had suggested an increased frequency of the B7 and/or A3 antigen among ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wright JP,Callender ST,Grumet FC,Payne RO,Taylor KB

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kidd (JK) blood group system is of importance in transfusion medicine. The Jk(null) phenotype is associated with absence of the urea transporter in erythrocytes and moderately reduced ability to concentrate urine. We and others recently reported different molecular alterations in the silenced Jkb-like alleles of P...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Irshaid NM,Eicher NI,Hustinx H,Poole J,Olsson ML

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with multiple myeloma (MM) undergoing high dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) remain at risk for disease progression. Induction of the expression of highly immunogenic cancer testis antigens (CTA) in malignant plasma cells in MM patients may trigger a protective immune response follow...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Toor AA,Payne KK,Chung HM,Sabo RT,Hazlett AF,Kmieciak M,Sanford K,Williams DC,Clark WB,Roberts CH,McCarty JM,Manjili MH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EPB3 gene encodes band 3 (anion exchanger 1) of the red cell membrane. A subset of hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is associated with EPB3 gene mutations and band 3 deficiency. We report a large Italian family in which 10 of the 27 members investigated displayed an autosomal dominant HS. SDS-PAGE revealed a reductio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bianchi P,Zanella A,Alloisio N,Barosi G,Bredi E,Pelissero G,Zappa M,Vercellati C,Baronciani L,Delaunay J,Sirchia G

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question as to whether autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) after consolidation chemotherapy improves the probability of survival of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in first remission has not been settled. Here, we present the results of a phase III study conducted in newly diagnosed adult AML pa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Breems DA,Boogaerts MA,Dekker AW,Van Putten WL,Sonneveld P,Huijgens PC,Van der Lelie J,Vellenga E,Gratwohl A,Verhoef GE,Verdonck LF,Löwenberg B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00