Residual expression of functional MHC class II molecules in twin brothers with MHC class II deficiency is cell type specific.

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：:Four patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) were treated with cyclosporine. The treatment with cyclosporine was based on the hypothesis that immune-mediated bone-marrow damage is the common pathogenetic mechanism of aplasia and PNH, with lack of GPI-linked ligands for an immune attack (i.e. LFA-3, CD...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Kamp H,van Imhoff GW,de Wolf JT,Smit JW,Halie MR,Vellenga E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is an uncommon disease characterized by a proliferation of tissue mast cells involving various organs, particularly the bone marrow. Though rare, the association of mastocytosis and haematological malignancies is well established. However, the frequency of mastocytosis reported in patients with essential ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Le Tourneau A,Gaulard P,D'Agay MF,Vainchencker W,Cadiou M,Devidas A,Haioun C,Clauvel JP,Audouin J,Diebold J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1987 and January 1997, 69 eligible patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in either second (CR2) or third (CR3) complete remission (CR2 = 60, CR3 = 9) underwent 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide-purged autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. The patients' med...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Smith BD,Jones RJ,Lee SM,Piantadosi S,Vala MS,Fuller D,Gore SD,Noga SJ,O'Donnell PV,Braine H,Vogelsang GB,Fuchs EJ,Flinn IW,Brodsky RA,Ambinder RF,Miller CB

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three novel point mutations were detected in the glucocerebrosidase gene of three unrelated Gaucher's disease patients by direct sequencing of PCR products. The first is a C to G change at position 4263 in the genomic sequence (exon 7) which results in a proline to arginine change at position 266 in the mature enzyme ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Walley AJ,Ellis I,Harris A

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:Rearrangement of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene is widely exploited as a marker of B cell lineage and clonality in the pathology of lymphoproliferative disorders. We have developed a simple, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method for detecting IgH gene rearrangement which relies on the observation tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deane M,Norton JD

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review will focus on the strengths and limitations associated with the current standard of care for primary prevention of ischaemic strokes in children with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) - transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) screening followed by regular blood transfusion therapy when TCD measurement is above a thr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jordan LC,Casella JF,DeBaun MR

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nd-HPFH are haematological conditions which are natural models to aid understanding of the haemoglobin (Hb) switch. In this paper we describe a new non-deletional hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin (nd-HPFH) associated with the highest Hb F level observed to date (up to 49% without haemopoietic stress). Seque...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pissard S,M'rad A,Beuzard Y,Roméo PH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusters and chains of basophilic micro-organisms were found on the red cells of a woman who suffered from malignant melanoma. The infection was clinically silent for at least 7 years. During her last year of life the patient became febrile and anaemic. Her spleen enlarged and the basophilic bodies on her red cells be...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Clark KG

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The t(4;14) translocation is found in approximately 10% of myeloma patients and results in the deregulation of at least two genes, MMSET and fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3), with the formation of a fusion product between MMSET and the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) locus and overexpression of FGFR3. We h...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sibley K,Fenton JA,Dring AM,Ashcroft AJ,Rawstron AC,Morgan GJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunotoxin containing an anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody (Ber-H2) and saporin, a ribosome-inactivating protein type 1, is described. It specifically inhibits protein synthesis by Hodgkin derived target cell lines with a very high efficiency (IC50 ranging from 5 x 10(-12) M to 5 x 10(-14) M, as saporin), while irrele...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tazzari PL,Bolognesi A,de Totero D,Falini B,Lemoli RM,Soria MR,Pileri S,Gobbi M,Stein H,Flenghi L

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An optimal antitumoral immune response requires the participation of both CD8 and CD4 T lymphocytes, which are activated by peptide antigen presentation via human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II molecules respectively. Loss of HLA molecules has been observed in different malignancies, and provides a mecha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Drénou B,Le Friec G,Bernard M,Pangault C,Grosset JM,Lamy T,Fauchet R,Amiot L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stage I/IIA follicular lymphoma (FL) is considered a localised disease that can be adequately treated with radiotherapy alone. Bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) involvement in FL was investigated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a series of 24 consecutive patients with histologically revised diagnosis an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pulsoni A,Starza ID,Frattarelli N,Ghia E,Carlotti E,Cavalieri E,Matturro A,Tempera S,Rambaldi A,Foà R

更新日期：2007-05-01 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 efficiency of stored platelet transfusion was evaluated in terms of clinical status in 141 thrombocytopenic patients. In a paired prospective study in which fresh platelets were used as controls, clinical efficiency was assessed on the basis of the ability to increase platelet count (recovery) and the time to the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Norol F,Kuentz M,Cordonnier C,Beaujean F,Haioun C,Vernant JP,Duédari N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human amniotic fluid has been shown to contain blood group i as well as I antigens. Crude extracts of amniotic fluids at 16-23 weeks of gestation were in general more active than those obtained at term. A pool of amniotic fluids which had A, B, H as well as I and i activity was fractionated with an insolubilized anti-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Feizi T,Cederqvist LL,Childs R

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared pulmonary function tests (PFTs) with cardiac, pancreatic and liver iron in 76 thalassemia major (TM) patients. Restrictive lung disease was observed in 16%, hyperinflation in 32% and abnormal diffusing capacity in 3%. While no patients met Global Initiative for Chronic Lung Disease criteria for air...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sohn EY,Noetzli LJ,Gera A,Kato R,Coates TD,Harmatz P,Keens TG,Wood JC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma D-dimer was measured and compared with serum fibrinogen/fibrin degradation product levels (FDPs) in patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and other conditions associated with a hypercoagulable state. D-dimer (N less than 200 ng/ml) was elevated in all 43 patients with DIC, in 48 of 59 patie...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wilde JT,Kitchen S,Kinsey S,Greaves M,Preston FE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four unrelated patients with chronic haemolysis and markedly reduced red blood cell (RBC) glutathione (49.5%, 12.6%, 11.5% and 15% of the normal concentration respectively), a severe glutathione synthetase (GSH-S, EC 6.3.2.3) deficiency was found. One case exhibited a neonatal haemolytic anaemia associated with oxo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Corrons JL,Alvarez R,Pujades A,Zarza R,Oliva E,Lasheras G,Callis M,Ribes A,Gelbart T,Beutler E

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyse the expression of NK-associated antigens in both peripheral blood and bone marrow lymphocytes from a large series of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients. 112 patients with untreated multiple myeloma (MM) were included in the study. 36 sex- and age-matched healthy volunteers w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： García-Sanz R,González M,Orfão A,Moro MJ,Hernández JM,Borrego D,Carnero M,Casanova F,Bárez A,Jiménez R,Portero JA,San Miguel JF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) were produced against the blood group KEL1 glycoprotein (93 kD component) immunopurified from human erythrocytes. One monoclonal antibody, 5A11 (IgGa, kappa), detects by immunoblotting a 93 and 184 kD component from KEL: 1,-2 or KEL: -1,2 red cell membrane preparations, separated b...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jaber A,Loirat MJ,Willem C,Bloy C,Cartron JP,Blanchard D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies report conflicting results concerning the potential significance of thrombophilic genotypes in postarthroplasty venous thromboembolism (VTE). This study assessed thrombophilic genotypes, haemostatic and clinical variables as independent risk factors for VTE postarthroplasty. A total number of 569 pati...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Joseph JE,Low J,Courtenay B,Neil MJ,McGrath M,Ma D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty adult patients with high-risk leukaemia underwent allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation after melphalan, busulphan and total body irradiation followed by short-term methotrexate and low-dose cyclosporine or tacrolimus. Three patients developed veno-occlusive disease and no patient developed renal dy...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Murata M,Nishida T,Haneda M,Kanie T,Taji H,Iida H,Suzuki R,Hamaguchi M,Minami S,Kodera Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha haemoglobin stabilising protein (AHSP) binds free alpha-globin chains and plays an important role in the protection of red cells, particularly during beta-thalassaemia. Murine ASHP was discovered as a GATA-1 target gene and human AHSP is directly regulated by GATA-1. More recently, AHSP was rediscovered as a hig...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Keys JR,Tallack MR,Hodge DJ,Cridland SO,David R,Perkins AC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Scott syndrome is a rare inherited haemorrhagic disorder characterized by the inability of blood cells to expose aminophospholipids and to shed microparticles. We have had the opportunity to study a recently reported French patient with this syndrome and have confirmed by means of a fluorescence assay for transbil...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dachary-Prigent J,Pasquet JM,Fressinaud E,Toti F,Freyssinet JM,Nurden AT

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the relevance of 2013 European LeukaemiaNet (ELN) response categories on patients treated with common frontline tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) in chronic myeloid leukaemia in chronic phase (CML-CP). Four hundred and eighty-seven patients treated with imatinib (400 mg; IM 400, n = 70; 800 mg; IM80...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jain P,Kantarjian H,Sasaki K,Jabbour E,Dasarathula J,Nogueras Gonzalez G,Verstovsek S,Borthakur G,Wierda W,Kadia T,Dellasala S,Pierce S,Ravandi F,O'Brien S,Cortes J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison has been made between the prothrombin time test using British Comparative Thromboplastin (BCT) and a chromogenic substrate assay for factor VII in the assessment of laboratory control of oral anticoagulants in short-term and long-term patients. Opportunity was also taken to compare the findings with paral...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Poller L,Thomson JM,Bodzenta A,Easton AC,Latallo ZS,Chmielewska J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This exploratory study assessed apoptosis in peripheral blood leucocytes (PBL) from β-thalassaemia patients receiving chronic transfusions and chelation therapy (deferasirox or deferoxamine) at baseline, 1, 6, and 12 months. At baseline, thalassaemic PBLs presented 50% greater levels of Bax (BAX), 75% higher caspase-3...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Walter PB,Porter J,Evans P,Kwiatkowski JL,Neufeld EJ,Coates T,Giardina PJ,Grady RW,Vichinsky E,Olivieri N,Trachtenberg F,Alberti D,Fung E,Ames B,Higa A,Harmatz P,Thalassemia Clinical Research Network.

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate clinical staging is crucial for adequate risk-adapted treatment in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) to prevent patients from under- or over-treatment. Within the latest German Hodgkin Study Group trial generation, diagnostic findings such as histopathology, computerized tomography imaging and clinical risk factors were ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bröckelmann PJ,Goergen H,Fuchs M,Kriz J,Semrau R,Baues C,Kobe C,Behringer K,Eichenauer DA,von Tresckow B,Klimm B,Halbsguth T,Wongso D,Plütschow A,Haverkamp H,Dietlein M,Eich HT,Stein H,Diehl V,Borchmann P,Engert A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00