FLT3 internal tandem duplication mutations in adult acute myeloid leukaemia define a high-risk group.

abstract：:We present the rare occurrence of an inhibitor of factor VIII procoagulant arising in a patient with mild haemophilia A and rheumatoid arthritis. The inhibitor was transient and behaved like a low titre, type II factor VIII procoagulant inhibitor similar to previously reported cases (Biggs et al, 1972b). In vitro stud...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bovill EG,Burns SL,Golden EA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six members of four generations of one family in which a man was diagnosed in 1961 as having von Willebrand's disease (vWD) have been studied. Subtype IIB vWD and autosomal dominant inheritance was identified in 19 individuals with bleeding signs varying in severity and frequency. The absence of high molecular ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mazurier C,Parquet-Gernez A,Goudemand J,Taillefer MF,Goudemand M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible aggregation of red blood cells (RBC) plays an important role in determining blood flow properties, and it is this aggregation which increases blood viscosity at low shear rates. The structure and sites of venous thrombi, as well as the fact that stasis is a major predisposing factor in venous thrombosis, su...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chabanel A,Horellou MH,Conard J,Samama MM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary non-engraftment or early rejection after transplantation of haematopoietic stem cells represent life-threatening complications of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Management of early graft failure has been problematic, as the risk of fatal infectious complications increases with the time of pancytopenia a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Schlegel PG,Eyrich M,Bader P,Handgretinger R,Lang P,Niethammer D,Klingebiel T

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) and autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA), associated with a thymoma which had already been removed, was studied in order to investigate the pathogenesis of PRCA and AIHA. The autoantibody eluted from the surface of the patient's red blood cells (RBC) reacted with the large E...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Taniguchi S,Shibuya T,Morioka E,Okamura T,Okamura S,Inaba S,Niho Y

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal adhesive interaction between bone marrow stroma and progenitors, one of the causes of unregulated proliferation in chronic myelocytic leukaemia (CML), may be caused by some alterations in adhesion molecules on CML progenitors. We investigated the expression of adhesion molecules (CD44, VLA-5, VLA-4, LFA-1, IC...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kawaishi K,Kimura A,Katoh O,Sasaki A,Oguma N,Ihara A,Satow Y

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective study aimed to analyse the impact on overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) of chimaerism status and kinetics following allogeneic conventional and reduced-intensity conditioning haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and to compare this with the impact of other well-known factors. W...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Michallet AS,Fürst S,Le QH,Dubois V,Praire A,Nicolini F,Thomas X,Rafii H,Gebuhrer L,Michallet M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are considerable differences in haemopoietic activity between young children and adults on the one hand, and between adults and the elderly on the other. A fundamental unanswered question is whether these differences relate to discrete stages or are part of a continuous process. We have sought to define aspects ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marley SB,Lewis JL,Davidson RJ,Roberts IA,Dokal I,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 26 patients with hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) with 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine, including nine with abdominal lymphadenopathy and of whom two had HCL-variant; 18 were previously treated. The overall response in 23 evaluable HCL patients was 100% with 87% complete remission (CR). The CR rate was 57% in patients wit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mercieca J,Matutes E,Emmett E,Coles H,Catovsky D

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of steady state haemoglobin levels in sickle cell-haemoglobin C (SC) disease were investigated by measuring routine haematological and biochemical indices, red cell survival, oxygen affinity, pitted erythrocytes, and red cell and plasma volumes in 31 adult patients (15 male; 16 female). Red cell survi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bannerman RM,Serjeant B,Seakins M,England JM,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) harvested from children with cancer and exposed to chemotherapy exhibit defective bactericidal activities against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms as well as accelerated apoptosis. In this study, PMN from children with cancer were eval...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lejeune M,Cantinieaux B,Harag S,Ferster A,Devalck C,Sariban E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow angiogenesis is suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and endothelial cells may mediate chemosensitivity. This study investigated in vitro endothelial effects of coculture of microvascular endothelial cells (MVEC) with AML cells derived from 33 consecutive AML patien...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hatfield K,Øyan AM,Ersvaer E,Kalland KH,Lassalle P,Gjertsen BT,Bruserud Ø

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replicative potential of human CD56(+) CD3(-) natural killer (NK) cells is unknown. We found that by exposing NK cells to the leukaemic cell line K562 genetically modified to express 4-1BB ligand and interleukin 15 (K562-mb15-41BBL), they expanded for up to 30 population doublings, achieving numbers that ranged fr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fujisaki H,Kakuda H,Imai C,Mullighan CG,Campana D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panobinostat in combination with bortezomib and dexamethasone demonstrated a significant and clinically meaningful progression-free survival benefit compared with placebo, bortezomib and dexamethasone in the phase 3 PANORAMA 1 (Panobinostat Oral in Multiple Myeloma 1) trial. Despite this benefit, patients in the panob...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： San-Miguel JF,Hungria VTM,Yoon SS,Beksac M,Dimopoulos MA,Elghandour A,Jedrzejczak WW,Guenther A,Na Nakorn T,Siritanaratkul N,Schlossman RL,Hou J,Moreau P,Lonial S,Lee JH,Einsele H,Salwender H,Sopala M,Redhu S,Paul S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro effects of a range of concentrations of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, actinomycin D, cytarabine and methotrexate on neutrophil phagocytosis of C. albicans was studied. The reduction in phagocytic index (PI) was inversely proportional to the dilution of the drug and there was some inhibition of phagocytos...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Davies JE,Whittaker JA,Khurshid M

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lenalidomide gained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM) in combination with dexamethasone in June 2006. In April 2005, the FDA and patient advocacy groups requested an expanded access programme to both provide lenalidomide to patients ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chen C,Reece DE,Siegel D,Niesvizky R,Boccia RV,Stadtmauer EA,Abonour R,Richardson P,Matous J,Kumar S,Bahlis NJ,Alsina M,Vescio R,Coutre SE,Pietronigro D,Knight RD,Zeldis JB,Rajkumar V

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of levels of D-dimer in plasma and serum, thrombin-antithrombin complex (TAT) in plasma and fibrinogen/fibrin fragment E antigen (FgE) in serum in a normal healthy control group and in patients with a range of disorders associated with hypercoagulability. Levels were determined in 31 normal heal...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boisclair MD,Lane DA,Wilde JT,Ireland H,Preston FE,Ofosu FA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHC-unrestricted cytotoxic lymphocytes, namely natural killer (NK) and lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells, have been implicated in the regulation of haemopoiesis. To investigate the possible role of these lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of aplastic anaemia (AA), we studied their functions in the peripheral blood ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Myint AA,Malkovska V,Morgan S,Luckit J,Wonke B,Gordon-Smith EC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the 2001 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification of haematopoietic neoplasms and the 2008 WHO classification revision include a distinctive diagnostic category, refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis (RARS-T), to describe those rare patients who have both >or=15% ring sideroblasts and...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wardrop D,Steensma DP

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) who relapsed after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) were treated with donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) without prior conditioning. Three patients had previously received a non-T-cell-depleted matched sibling BMT and the fourth had a T-cell-depleted matc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Atra A,Millar B,Shepherd V,Shankar A,Wilson K,Treleaven J,Pritchard-Jones K,Meller ST,Pinkerton CR

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease are major problems in mismatched marrow transplants along with toxicity from standard myeloablative host treatments. We have established a tolerization model, using 1 Gy irradiation, which reduces stem cell capacity to < 10% of control while causing minimal myelosuppressio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lambert JF,Colvin GA,Zhong S,Wang H,D'Hondt L,Abedi M,Frimberger AE,Stewart FM,Quesenberry PJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyurea (HU), an inhibitor of DNA synthesis, can also induce haemoglobinization in certain erythroid cell lines. In this study, we report that intracellular peroxides levels were increased in HU-treated murine erythroleukaemia (MEL) cells and that l-acetyl-N-cysteine (LNAC), a potent reducing reagent, had a signif...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nagai T,Tarumoto T,Miyoshi T,Ohmine K,Muroi K,Komatsu N,Sassa S,Ozawa K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) was previously demonstrated to be a mediator of oxidative stress-induced apoptosis in irradiated neoplastic B-cells and B-cell precursors. Defective BTK expression in leukaemic B-cell precursors from infants with t(4;11) acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has been associated with radiation re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Uckun F,Ozer Z,Vassilev A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoproliferative diseases of large granular lymphocytes (LDGL) may arise from either CD3+ T cells or CD3- natural killer (NK) cells. LDGL with clonal proliferation of large granular lymphocytes (LGL) is defined as LGL leukaemia. The number of patients with NK-LGL leukaemia reported is limited and the pathogenesis o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chou WC,Chiang IP,Tang JL,Su IJ,Huang SY,Chen YC,Liu MC,Lee FY,Wang CH,Shen MC,Chuang SM,Tien HF

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of human DNA topoisomerase IIalpha (topo IIalpha) in drug resistance, we selectively inhibited topo IIalpha gene expression in U937 human monocytic leukaemia cells stably transfected with a plasmid that allowed for Zn-mediated conditional expression of a human alpha-topo IIalpha antisense sequence....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Towatari M,Adachi K,Marunouchi T,Saito H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease analysis has been performed on the alpha and beta globin gene clusters of 57 Cypriots homozygous for beta thalassaemia, 30 with the transfusion dependent form of the condition (thalassaemia major) and 27 who are less severely affected (thalassaemia intermedia). There was a significant differen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wainscoat JS,Kanavakis E,Wood WG,Letsky EA,Huehns ER,Marsh GW,Higgs DR,Clegg JB,Weatherall DJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) have a four-fold excess risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease. This cardiovascular risk has not been fully characterized. ALL survivors [n = 784, median age 31·7 years (18·9-59·1)] in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study underwent evaluation for ca...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nottage KA,Ness KK,Li C,Srivastava D,Robison LL,Hudson MM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is required for monocyte/macrophage differentiation of HL-60 leukaemia cells. Differentiation requires induction of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21 (WAF1/CIP1), and cell cycle arrest at the G1/S checkpoint. With iron depletion, p21 induction and differentiation are blocked. To establish the roles of iro...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kramer JL,Baltathakis I,Alcantara OS,Boldt DH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust method for obtaining chromosome preparations from individual haemopoietic colonies in semi-solid media is described. The accumulation of metaphases and the hypotonic treatment of cells were carried out in the culture dish and individual colonies were transferred onto poly-L-lysine-treated slides and fixed ste...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kadhim MA,Pocock DA,Lorimore SA,Wright EG

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of platelet-associated Igs (PAIgs) and plasma circulating antiplatelet antibodies were evaluated by a flow cytometric immunofluorescence assay (FCIFA), an enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA), and a platelet radioactive antiglobulin test (PRAT), in a group of 45 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected intr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gonzalez-Conejero R,Rivera J,Rosillo MC,Cano A,Rodriguez T,Vicente V

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00