Multiplex PCR reaction for the detection and identification of immunoglobulin kappa deleting element rearrangements in B-lineage leukaemias.

abstract：:The 32 kD lipid-raft-associated membrane protein 'stomatin' is deficient from the erythrocyte membrane in the Na+-K+ leaky haemolytic anaemia, overhydrated hereditary stomatocytosis (OHSt). To date, no mutation in the gene coding for this protein has so far been found in OHSt. In this study, we have analysed the distr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fricke B,Parsons SF,Knöpfle G,von Düring M,Stewart GW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the complement-susceptibility of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) lymphocytes in relation to their dysfunction. When assessed by complement-mediated lysis induced by monoclonal antibodies (CD5 or CD20) and rabbit complement, the complement-susceptibility of lymphocytes from patients with PNH,...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tomiyama J,Ninomiya H,Abe T

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-endemic Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a rare germinal centre B-cell-derived malignancy with the genetic hallmark of MYC gene translocation and with rapid tumour growth as a distinct clinical feature. To investigate treatment outcomes, loss of lifetime and relapse risk in adult BL patients treated with intensive immunoc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jakobsen LH,Ellin F,Smeland KB,Wästerlid T,Christensen JH,Jørgensen JM,Josefsson PL,Øvlisen AK,Holte H,Blaker YN,Grauslund JH,Bjørn J,Molin D,Lagerlöf I,Smedby KE,Colvin K,Thanarajasingam G,Maurer MJ,Habermann TM,So

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BRAF V600E mutation has recently been described in all cases of hairy cell leukaemia (HCL). We have developed and validated a rapid and sensitive high-resolution melting analysis (HRMA) assay that detects BRAF exon 15 mutations when hairy cells are as low as 5-10% in a sample. All 48 HCL patients were positive for...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boyd EM,Bench AJ,van 't Veer MB,Wright P,Bloxham DM,Follows GA,Scott MA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously shown that the abnormal surface characteristics and defective bactericidal function of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) in the Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) are correlated with impaired microtubule assembly, and in one patient direct electron microscopic evidence for an anomaly in microtubule asse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boxer LA,Albertini DF,Baehner RL,Oliver JM

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a Lancashire family with mild haemophilia B associated with a -6 G to A mutation in the factor IX promoter. This mutation has been reported previously in Britain in one other affected family. The factor IX haplotype of these two unrelated patients was determined by PCR analysis of seven polymorphic sites wit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stowell KM,Figueiredo MS,Brownlee GG,Jones P,Bolton-Maggs PH

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-3-Dihydroxybenzoic acid was evaluated as a potentially useful, orally effective iron-chelating drug by performing iron balance studies in patients with beta-thalassaemia major. The administration of this substance at 25 mg/kg/d to five patients for 8 d caused an average increase in iron excretion of 4.5 mg/d. When t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peterson CM,Graziano JH,Grady RW,Jones RL,Vlassara HV,Canale VC,Miller DR,Cerami A

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobilised peripheral blood is now the main source of stem cells collected from normal donors. We report our experience of mobilising and collecting 400 normal healthy donors using standardised procedures and techniques. Target recipient doses were reached with one aphaeresis in 63% of donors and with two aphereses in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ings SJ,Balsa C,Leverett D,Mackinnon S,Linch DC,Watts MJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (D-glucose-6-phosphate: NADP oxidoreductase, G6PD), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-phospho-D-gluconate: NADP oxidoreductase, 6PGD), hexokinase (ATP: D-hexose 6-phosphotransferase, Hx), lactate dehydrogenase (D-lactate: NAD oxidoreductase, LDH). glutamate oxaloac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Brok-Simoni F,Ashkenazi YE,Holtzman F,Ramot B

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is a rare disease with varied presentation, myriad symptomatology and variable prognosis. Most patients present with cutaneous disease and mediator-related symptomatology with a small subset having systemic disease (systemic mastocytosis, SM). A subset of the latter develops synchronous or metachronous ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Radia DH,Green A,Oni C,Moonim M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diamond-Blackfan anaemia (DBA) is an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome (IBMFS) characterized by red cell aplasia. Mutations in ribosomal genes are found in more than 50% of cases. Elevated erythrocyte adenosine deaminase (eADA) was first noted in DBA in 1983. In this study we determined the value of eADA for the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fargo JH,Kratz CP,Giri N,Savage SA,Wong C,Backer K,Alter BP,Glader B

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 121 children presenting with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia between 1969 and 1982 were reviewed. The overall relapse free survival rate was 50%. However, girls presenting with a total white blood cell count of 20 X 10(9)/l or less (35% of all patients) had a particularly favourable prognosis with an 80% ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stockley RJ,Ahlquist PY,Mott MG

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pralatrexate inhibits folic acid metabolism, and preclinical studies have shown that it is cytotoxic to multiple myeloma cells. This phase 1 study investigated the safety and efficacy of pralatrexate in combination with bortezomib in adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. A standard 3 + 3 design was used...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dunn TJ,Dinner S,Price E,Coutré SE,Gotlib J,Hao Y,Berube C,Medeiros BC,Liedtke M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin (TPO) is the key growth factor for platelet production and is elevated in states of platelet depletion. As thrombocytopenia is a common finding in malaria, we analysed TPO regulation before, during and after antimalarial treatment. Before treatment, TPO serum levels were significantly higher in patients...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kreil A,Wenisch C,Brittenham G,Looareesuwan S,Peck-Radosavljevic M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) Tat protein shows pleiotropic effects on the survival and growth of both HIV-1-infected and uninfected CD4+ T lymphocytes. In this study, we have demonstrated that low concentrations (10 ng/ml) of extracellular Tat protein induce the expression of both c-fos mRNA a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gibellini D,Re MC,Ponti C,Celeghini C,Melloni E,La Placa M,Zauli G

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ibrutinib is associated with durable responses in patients with Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM). We hypothesized that response depth is predictive of progression-free survival (PFS) in WM patients treated with ibrutinib. Using landmark analyses, we evaluated response depth in two cohorts of WM patients treated wit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Castillo JJ,Abeykoon JP,Gustine JN,Zanwar S,Mein K,Flynn CA,Demos MG,Guerrera ML,Kofides A,Liu X,Munshi M,Tsakmaklis N,King R,Yang G,Hunter ZR,Advani RH,Palomba ML,Ansell SM,Gertz MA,Kapoor P,Treon SP

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased haemoglobin (Hb) A2 levels associated with reduced mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and Hb content per cell (MCH) are the most typical features of heterozygous beta thalassaemia. However, double heterozygotes for alpha and beta thalassaemia may have normal MCV and MCH but Hb A2 always in the carrier range. In t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gasperini D,Cao A,Paderi L,Barella S,Paglietti E,Perseu L,Loi D,Galanello R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid (GC) effects are mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Several studies have demonstrated that a lower number of receptors per cell were associated with poor GC response. The regulation of GR expression is complex; the levels of GR can be autologously regulated by its ligand and also by transcrip...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sánchez-Vega B,Gandhi V

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major ABO mismatching is not considered a contraindication to allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Modern reduced-intensity conditioning and reduced-toxicity regimens cause much less myeloablation than conventional myeloablative regimens, such as cyclophosphamide with busulfan or total body irra...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aung FM,Lichtiger B,Bassett R,Liu P,Alousi A,Bashier Q,Ciurea SO,de Lima MJ,Hosing C,Kebriaei P,Nieto Y,Oran B,Parmar S,Qazilbash M,Shah N,Khouri I,Champlin RE,Popat U

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM) is uniquely characterized by macroscopic bone marrow stromal changes that are believed to be both reactive and cytokine mediated. Furthermore, a prognostically detrimental increase in bone marrow angiogenesis has recently been demonstrated. These observations suggest a poten...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Elliott MA,Mesa RA,Li CY,Hook CC,Ansell SM,Levitt RM,Geyer SM,Tefferi A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the incidence of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and characteristics associated with ITP in the paediatric population using the General Practice Research Database (GPRD). Two hundred and fifty-seven paediatric ITP patients were identified out of 1145 incident patients with ITP recorded between 1990 a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yong M,Schoonen WM,Li L,Kanas G,Coalson J,Mowat F,Fryzek J,Kaye JA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericardial effusion (PE) is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication for allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients. The risk factors, aetiology, incidence and therapy are largely unclear. To investigate this issue, we reviewed 391 adult patients undergoing allogeneic HSCT betwe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Liu YC,Chien SH,Fan NW,Hu MH,Gau JP,Liu CJ,Yu YB,Liu CY,Hsiao LT,Liu JH,Chiou TJ,Tzeng CH

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal serum and serum from four patients with severe aplastic anaemia was fractionated by Sephadex G-150 gel filtration. Fractions were tested for direct haemopoietic activity on colony forming cells in methylcellulose cultures, and for their indirect influence on haemopoiesis via CSA- and BPA-producing cells. All ap...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nissen C,Moser Y,Speck B,Bendy J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor histocompatibility antigens (mHAs) are major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptides, which trigger T-cell responses that mediate graft versus host disease (GVHD) and graft versus leukaemia effects. We recently identified a new mHA epitope, termed ACC-1, which is presented by HLA-A*2402 and encoded ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nishida T,Akatsuka Y,Morishima Y,Hamajima N,Tsujimura K,Kuzushima K,Kodera Y,Takahashi T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haem biosynthesis is the most important destination for absorbed iron, hence it can be hypothesized that iron absorption regulation should be integrated with haem metabolism. As an initial step to test this hypothesis, the effect on iron absorption of Tin-mesoporphyrin (SnMP), inhibitor of haem oxygenase, altering hae...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Laftah AH,Raja K,Simpson RJ,Peters TJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively studied presentation biological differences and the response to therapy in patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) associated with, or unrelated to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. TTP patients underwent standard evaluations and were treated with prednisone 1 mg/kg in addi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Novitzky N,Thomson J,Abrahams L,du Toit C,McDonald A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of oral contraceptive (OC) usage on platelet responsiveness to arachidonic acid metabolites was investigated. Platelets obtained from women who had been taking oral contraceptives for at least 3 months were compared with those of age-matched controls. Both the basal and prostacyclin (PGI2)-stimulated plate...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pan IQ,Hall ER,Wu KK

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of studies have demonstrated induction of the unfolded protein response (UPR) in patients with severe congenital neutropenia (CN) harbouring mutations of ELANE, encoding neutrophil elastase. Why UPR is not activated in patients with cyclic neutropenia (CyN) carrying the same ELANE mutations is unclear. We eva...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nustede R,Klimiankou M,Klimenkova O,Kuznetsova I,Zeidler C,Welte K,Skokowa J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is characterized by a minority of neoplastic Hodgkin-Reed Sternberg (HRS) cells surrounded by a non-neoplastic reactive infiltrate. As immunological mechanisms appear to be crucial in classical HL pathogenesis, altered serum chemokine levels might be related to disease activity. Serum levels of n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Niens M,Visser L,Nolte IM,van der Steege G,Diepstra A,Cordano P,Jarrett RF,Te Meerman GJ,Poppema S,van den Berg A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of Fc(IgG) and C3b membrane receptors by granulocytes and their precursors was examined in 23 cases of megaloblastic anaemia which were graded I-III according to morphological severity. Fractionated bone marrow and peripheral blood granulocyte receptors were assessed by rosette formation with optimally ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Scott CS,Bynoe AG,Roberts BE,Hough D

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00