Interleukin 6, tumour necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 1beta and interleukin 1 receptor antagonist promoter or coding gene polymorphisms in multiple myeloma.

abstract：:Lysosomal enzyme activities and isoenzyme profiles were measured in lymphoid and non-lymphoid leukaemic cells from childhood patients. High activities, especially of beta-hexosaminidase and alpha-mannosidase, were associated with leukaemic cells of myeloid or monocytic origin. Leukaemic cells from two children with ac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Eden OB,Darbyshire P,Simpson RM,Besley GT,Moss S,Gentle T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent lymphocytosis is usually associated with a malignant lymphoproliferative disease (MLPD). We report six female patients presenting a chronic, moderate lymphocytosis of 2-16 years duration with atypical binucleated lymphocytes on peripheral blood smears. Further investigation showed a polyclonal increase in s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Troussard X,Valensi F,Debert C,Maynadie M,Schillinger F,Bonnet P,Macintyre EA,Flandrin G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia (T-LGLL) is a chronic clonal lymphoproliferative disorder of cytotoxic T lymphocytes which commonly occurs in older patients and is often associated with autoimmune diseases. Among 246 patients with T-LGLL seen at our institution over the last 10 years, we encountered 15 cas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Awada H,Mahfouz RZ,Durrani J,Kishtagari A,Jagadeesh D,Lichtin AE,Hill BT,Hamilton BK,Carraway HE,Nazha A,Majhail NS,Sobecks R,Visconte V,Kalaycio M,Sekeres MA,Maciejewski JP

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies on human platelets, nitroprusside (NP) alone at 1-10 micromol/l increased platelet cyclic AMP (cAMP) by 40-70%, whereas increases in cyclic GMP (cGMP) were much larger in percentage though not in concentration terms. Collagen enhanced these increases in cAMP up to fourfold, without affecting cGMP. This effe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jang EK,Azzam JE,Dickinson NT,Davidson MM,Haslam RJ

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-seven normal donors underwent leukapheresis for peripheral blood progenitor cell collection beginning on day 4 (n = 45) or day 5 (n = 32) of filgrastim mobilization (12 micrograms/kg/d). The two groups were comparable for age, weight, blood volumes processed during leukapheresis and target CD34+ cell dose to b...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Anderlini P,Przepiorka D,Huh Y,Lauppe J,Miller P,Sundberg J,Seong D,Champlin R,Körbling M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cytogenetic findings on 31 cases of splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes (SLVL). TPA stimulated cells from peripheral blood (28 cases), spleen (two cases) and lymph node (one case) with SLVL have been analysed. A clonal chromosome abnormality was found in 27/31 patients (87%); this was identified as...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oscier DG,Matutes E,Gardiner A,Glide S,Mould S,Brito-Babapulle V,Ellis J,Catovsky D

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:210 patients, with a history of venous thrombosis, have undergone prothrombotic investigations. In nine cases a consistent deficiency of antithrombin was identified. In five there was a reduction in the plasma antigenic concentration of antithrombin and in a further four cases deficiency was due to the presence of a d...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Harper PL,Luddington RJ,Daly M,Bruce D,Williamson D,Edgar PF,Perry DJ,Carrell RW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of iron by bone marrow erythroblasts and its intracellular distribution have been studied in 23 patients with primary sideroblastic anaemia (SA), five patients with secondary SA and one patient with only non-ringed sideroblasts. EM of erythroblasts from 18 cases showed both mitochondrial iron deposits and c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： May A,de Souza P,Barnes K,Kaaba S,Jacobs A

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygosity for a C8524T transition in the protein C gene converting Ser270(TCG) to Leu(TTG) in the protease domain was identified in a family with venous thrombosis. The mutation was associated with parallel reduction in plasma levels of protein C anticoagulant activity and protein C antigen, which is consistent w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lind B,Koefoed P,Thorsen S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analysed whether autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PSCT) improves engraftment, quality of life and cost-effectiveness when compared with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). Relapsing progressive lymphoma patients (n = 204; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma n = 166; Hodgkin's dise...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vellenga E,van Agthoven M,Croockewit AJ,Verdonck LF,Wijermans PJ,van Oers MH,Volkers CP,van Imhoff GW,Kingma T,Uyl-de Groot CA,Fibbe WE

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary familial and congenital polycythaemia (PFCP) is a disease characterized by increased red blood cell mass, and can be associated with mutations in the intracellular region of the erythropoietin (EPO) receptor (EPOR). Here we explore the mechanisms by which EPOR mutations induce PFCP, using an experimental syste...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gross M,Ben-Califa N,McMullin MF,Percy MJ,Bento C,Cario H,Minkov M,Neumann D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectin (Siglec)-5 or CD170 is a CD33-related receptor, containing cytoplasmic immune receptor-based tyrosine signalling motifs, that has previously been reported to be myeloid-specific like CD33 and thus may be useful in the characterization of both normal and malignant haemopoi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Virgo P,Denning-Kendall PA,Erickson-Miller CL,Singha S,Evely R,Hows JM,Freeman SD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 has selectivity against cell cycle and transcriptional cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) as well as fms-like tyrosine kinase receptor-3 (FLT3). Inhibition of transcriptional CDKs preferentially depletes short-lived proteins such as MCL1. We evaluated the in vitro toxicity of TG02 to...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pallis M,Abdul-Aziz A,Burrows F,Seedhouse C,Grundy M,Russell N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPLW515L/K and JAK2V617F can co-exist in myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM). The chronology of clonal emergence was studied in three such cases using serially stored bone marrow. At diagnosis, a major MPL515 mutant clone was accompanied by a minor JAK2V617F clone in all three instances. At 25 time points over...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lasho TL,Pardanani A,McClure RF,Mesa RA,Levine RL,Gilliland DG,Tefferi A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of factor XI (FXI) in blood coagulation has been clarified in recent years by descriptions of FXI-deficient patients who are prone to excessive bleeding after haemostatic challenge. We have studied a large kindred of an Italian FXI-deficient patient with a previously undescribed mutation. The propositus, a 68...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Alhaq A,Mitchell M,Sethi M,Rahman S,Flynn G,Boulton P,Caeno G,Smith M,Savidge G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dogs affected with cyclic haematopoiesis (CH) and experiencing recurrent 12-day cycles of neutropenia were supralethally irradiated and transplanted with marrow from their normal littermates. Following transplantation of the normal marrow, dogs with CH experienced no further cycles of neutropenia. Platelet and reticul...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jones JB,Yang TJ,Dale JB,Lange RD

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reasons why some patients with multiple myeloma (MM) do not develop severe bone loss, or even develop sclerotic bone lesions, remain unclear. In order to answer this question at the cellular and tissue level, we evaluated the histological bone condition of 10 patients with MM who never developed lytic bone lesions...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bataille R,Chappard D,Marcelli C,Rossi JF,Dessauw P,Baldet P,Sany J,Alexandre C

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel polymorphism located in intron 1a of the human factor VII gene, caused by the nucleotide change G to A at position + 73. In a population of 128 healthy individuals from northern Italy, the variant A73 allele had a frequency of 0.21, whereas the frequency of the previously reported 10 bp inse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peyvandi F,Mannucci PM,Bucciarelli P,Zeinali S,Akhavan S,Sacchi E,Merlini PA,Perry DJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The haematological and immunological characteristics of 34 healthy anti-HTLV-I antibody-positive individuals (HTLV-I carriers) in southwestern Japan were examined. No significant difference was noted between carriers and the controls in counts of RBC, WBC and the absolute number of lymphocytes. The serum IgG in the ca...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yasuda K,Sei Y,Yokoyama MM,Tanaka K,Hara A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of L-arginine (L-Arg) supplementation on nitric oxide metabolite (NOx) production, oral L-Arg was given to normal controls, sickle cell disease (SCD) patients at steady state and SCD patients hospitalized with a vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC). L-Arg (0.1 g/kg) increased NOx formation by 18.8 +/- ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Morris CR,Kuypers FA,Larkin S,Sweeters N,Simon J,Vichinsky EP,Styles LA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report four patients with relapsed or refractory follicular (three) and lymphoplasmacytic (one) lymphoma who achieved complete remission (CR) with fludarabine (FDR) lasting from 3.2 to 6 years. One had stage III and three stage IV and were resistant to chlorambucil and/or anthracycline. FDR was well tolerated, the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sternberg AJ,Matutes E,Killick S,Wotherspoon AC,Catovsky D

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe and compare five assay systems for Protein C (PC) in human plasma; a functional assay for PC activity, Laurell electroimmunoassay with EDTA or calcium (EDTA-Laurell or Ca-Laurell), radioimmunoassay (RIA) and immunoradiometric assay (IRMA). The lower limit of sensitivity of PC in normal reference plasma was...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mikami S,Tuddenham EG

更新日期：1986-01-01 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 objective of the present study was to further disclose the autoantigenic repertoire carried by the platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa complex. IgG-F(ab')2 fragments were prepared from two prototype ITP patients, and their ability to block the binding of GPIIb/IIIa reactive antibodies derived from other patients w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hou M,Stockelberg D,Kutti J,Wadenvik H

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ocular lymphoma (POL), a lymphoma of the globe, is a restricted form of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) that often progresses to the brain and meninges; frequently it is misdiagnosed until central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma develops. The optimal treatment has not yet been identified. We retr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hormigo A,Abrey L,Heinemann MH,DeAngelis LM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant detected in an Italian man from the Po delta is described and designated as G6PD Modena. Biochemical characterization of the variant enzyme revealed an activity 21% of normal, a slow electrophoretic mobility, increased Km value for NADP, decreased Km value for G6P and a ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cappellini MD,Sampietro M,Toniolo D,Carandina G,Pittalis S,Martinez di Montemuros F,Tavazzi D,Fiorelli G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is an inherited disorder characterized by severe neutropenia and recurrent infections from an early age, with bone marrow showing a maturational arrest of granulopoiesis at the promyelocyte stage. Since the introduction of G-CSF therapy the prognosis for affected children has improv...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ryan M,Will AM,Testa N,Hayworth C,Darbyshire PJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous disease and "double-hit" DLBCL, with both MYC and BCL2 translocations has a poor prognosis. In this study, we investigated whether MYC and BCL2 protein expression in tissue would predict survival in DLBCL. The study included 106 cases of de novo DLBCL treated wi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Perry AM,Alvarado-Bernal Y,Laurini JA,Smith LM,Slack GW,Tan KL,Sehn LH,Fu K,Aoun P,Greiner TC,Chan WC,Bierman PJ,Bociek RG,Armitage JO,Vose JM,Gascoyne RD,Weisenburger DD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a uniform series of 170 untreated myeloma patients (MM) we investigated the distribution of T cell subsets in peripheral blood (PB) and their relationship with the most relevant disease characteristics, including survival. CD4 cells were significantly decreased both in percentage and absolute numbers (P less than 0...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： San Miguel JF,González M,Gascón A,Moro MJ,Hernández JM,Ortega F,Jiménez R,Guerras L,Romero M,Casanova F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic relevance of karyotype has been established in adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) patients treated with chemotherapy but not definitively evaluated in an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) setting. To determine the factors affecting the outcome of allogeneic BMT for adults with precurso...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee S,Kim DW,Kim YJ,Park YH,Min CK,Lee JW,Min WS,Kim CC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00