Rapid detection of the major Mediterranean beta-thalassaemia mutations by real-time polymerase chain reaction using fluorophore-labelled hybridization probes.

abstract：:The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) display both haematological and biological heterogeneity with variable leukaemia potential. MicroRNAs play an important role in tumour suppression and the regulation of self-renewal and differentiation of haematopoietic progenitors. Using a microarray platform, we evaluated microRNA...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sokol L,Caceres G,Volinia S,Alder H,Nuovo GJ,Liu CG,McGraw K,Clark JA,Sigua CA,Chen DT,Moscinski L,Croce CM,List AF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No episodes of clinically significant in vivo haemolysis have been reported in individuals with a novel form of decay accelerating factor (DAF) deficiency (Inab phenotype), nor do functional in vitro assays for complement-mediated haemolysis show the extreme sensitivity to lysis characteristic of paroxysmal nocturnal ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Merry AH,Rawlinson VI,Uchikawa M,Daha MR,Sim RB

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the use of aberrant antigen expression detected by flow cytometry in the diagnosis and clinical handling of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Such aberrancies offer a valuable tool for the proper classification of these myeloid malignancies according the World ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ossenkoppele GJ,van de Loosdrecht AA,Schuurhuis GJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia is common (40-65%) and potentially serious in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). A systematic review was conducted to determine the safety and efficacy of adding a thrombopoietin-receptor (THPO-R) agonist to standard MDS treatment. MEDLINE, EMBASE and CENTRAL databases were searched. We included randomi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Prica A,Sholzberg M,Buckstein R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfractionated heparin (UFH) and low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH) are well defined anticoagulant agents. Recent data suggest that both LMWH and UFH may also have potent anti-inflammatory properties; however, their mechanism of action responsible for the anti-inflammatory effect is not yet fully elucidated. This stu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hochart H,Jenkins PV,Smith OP,White B

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dickkopf-1 (DKK1), expressed by myeloma cells, suppresses osteoblast function and plays a key role in bone disease in multiple myeloma. BHQ880, a human neutralizing IgG1 anti-DKK1 monoclonal antibody, is being investigated for its impact on multiple myeloma-related bone disease and as an agent with potential anti-myel...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Iyer SP,Beck JT,Stewart AK,Shah J,Kelly KR,Isaacs R,Bilic S,Sen S,Munshi NC

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpura fulminans (PF) is a cutaneous manifestation of a dramatic and deadly syndrome of systemic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). It is characterized by microvascular thrombosis in the dermis followed by perivascular haemorrhage. Since two other related syndromes involve the protein C (PC) system, we und...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Madden RM,Gill JC,Marlar RA

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow blast cells of 174 child and 188 adult patients with AML were examined and characterized in terms of their FAB type, immunological phenotype (102 children, 123 adults) and karyotype (69 children, 95 adults). The incidence of FAB variants of AML proved similar in children and adults. In patients under 15 an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Frenkel MA,Tupitsyn NN,Protasova AK,Kadagidze ZG,Konstantinova LN,Fleischman EW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an immunocompetent patient with transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in which chimaerism of peripheral blood lymphocytes was demonstrated by analysis of a highly polymorphic genome. The patient was treated successfully with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, OKT3 and cyclosporin A. Although i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yasukawa M,Shinozaki F,Hato T,Takada K,Ishii Y,Tamai T,Takamatsu H,Shiobara S,Yoshizaki K,Fujita S

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in regulating von Willebrand factor (VWF) clearance remain poorly understood. However recent studies have shown that macrophages play a critical role in regulating the half-life of VWF, and have identified specific lectin (including asialoglycoprotein, macrophage galactose-type lectin, Sigec-5 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： O'Sullivan JM,Ward S,Lavin M,O'Donnell JS

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL6) plays a central role in multiple myeloma pathogenesis and confers resistance to corticosteroid-induced apoptosis. We therefore evaluated the efficacy and safety of siltuximab, an anti-IL6 monoclonal antibody, alone and in combination with dexamethasone, for patients with relapsed or refractory mult...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Voorhees PM,Manges RF,Sonneveld P,Jagannath S,Somlo G,Krishnan A,Lentzsch S,Frank RC,Zweegman S,Wijermans PW,Orlowski RZ,Kranenburg B,Hall B,Casneuf T,Qin X,van de Velde H,Xie H,Thomas SK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a discrepancy in the results of reported studies of levels of vitamin K dependent coagulation factors in patients on warfarin therapy. This may have arisen partly because of the problem of assuring compliance with therapy in outpatients. The plasma concentrations of the vitamin K dependent clotting factors II...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kumar S,Haigh JR,Tate G,Boothby M,Joanes DN,Davies JA,Roberts BE,Feely MP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of the various myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are proposed, and a detailed description is given of the features that may help define MDS. Five MDS are described: (1) refractory anaemia (RA), (2) RA with ring sideroblasts, (3) RA with excess of blasts (RAEB), (4) chronic myelo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bennett JM,Catovsky D,Daniel MT,Flandrin G,Galton DA,Gralnick HR,Sultan C

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of autoimmune diseases, including Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), suggest failure of the normal immune regulatory processes leading to activation and expansion of autoreactive effector immune cells. Recently, stem cell transplantation emerged as a novel rescue therapy for a variety of refractory autoimmune dise...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cipriani P,Ruscitti P,Giacomelli R

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplants (BMT) for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in first chronic phase relapse; most of these relapses show features of chronic phase disease. We report here a series of five patients seen at a single institution over a 10 year period who developed blast ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cullis JO,Marks DI,Schwarer AP,Barrett AJ,Hows JM,Swirsky DM,Goldman JM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterogeneity of pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency associated with hereditary haemolytic anaemia is emphasized by studies of a kindred harbouring two distinct mutant forms of this enzyme, both of which were kinetically defective with markedly decreased affinities for the substrate, phosphoenolypyruvate. The two isoe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pagila DE,Gray GR,Growe GH,Valentine WN

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose cytosine arabinoside (AraC)-containing regimens have shown the highest antileukaemic efficacy of all currently used regimens in the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). This study aimed at increasing the antileukaemic potential of high-dose AraC by raising intracellular levels of AraC triphosphate (Ar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Braess J,Wegendt C,Jahns-Streubel G,Kern W,Keye S,Unterhalt M,Schleyer E,Hiddemann W

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human megakaryocytes have been isolated from marrow obtained from ribs removed at thoracotomy. All but one of the patients had normal pre-operative platelet and leucocyte counts. Megakaryocytes averaged 0.37% of all cells in marrow cell suspensions from nine consecutive subjects. A 283-fold purification (to 10.3%) was...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Levine RF

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to investigate the relative role of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in the activation and cytokine-mediated priming of neutrophil superoxide production. PLA2 activity was measured with a radiometric assay which discriminates between PLA2 and the downstream enzyme, 5-lipoxygenase. In cells that had n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Roberts PJ,Williams SL,Linch DC

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-related cancer leukaemias were the first diseases where human cancer stem cells, or leukaemic stem cells (LSC), were isolated. The haematopoietic system is one of the best tissues for investigating cancer stem cells, because the developmental hierarchy of normal blood formation is well defined. Leukaemias ca...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bonnet D

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：:A previous dose-finding study has suggested that romiplostim is effective in patients with refractory aplastic anaemia (AA) and 10 µg/kg once weekly was recommended as a starting dose. In this Phase II/III, multicentre, open-label study, romiplostim was administered subcutaneously at a fixed dose of 10 µg/kg once week...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jang JH,Tomiyama Y,Miyazaki K,Nagafuji K,Usuki K,Uoshima N,Fujisaki T,Kosugi H,Matsumura I,Sasaki K,Kizaki M,Sawa M,Hidaka M,Kobayashi N,Ichikawa S,Yonemura Y,Enokitani K,Matsuda A,Ozawa K,Mitani K,Lee JW,Nakao

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of erythrocyte shape changes on the sedimentation rate was studied in vitro and in vivo. In vitro the highest sedimentation rate was observed with a slight degree of stomatocytosis (morphological index-0.3; i.e. one red cell out of three being a stomatocyte I). With increasing degrees of stomatocytosis t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reinhart WH,Singh A,Straub PW

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine testing on plasma from a patient due to undergo a coronary artery bypass graft operation revealed a prolonged thrombin clotting time associated with a normal plasma fibrinogen level when this was determined by a method not dependent upon the rate of fibrin formation. Fibrinogen purified from the patient's plas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lane DA,Cuddigan B,VanRoss M,Kakkar VV

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of marrow fibroblasts from patients with myeloproliferative disorders (MPD) was investigated using platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) and human serum as mitogens in the presence of human plasma derived serum. The proliferation of fibroblasts in MPD patients was increased compared to normal individuals, e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kimura A,Katoh O,Kuramoto A

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duffy blood group antigens are carried on a glycoprotein that is predicted to pass through the erythrocyte membrane seven times and is a promiscuous chemokine receptor. The Fy(a- b-) phenotype is present in two-thirds of African-American Blacks but is rare in Caucasians. In Blacks, the phenotype is due to a non-functi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rios M,Chaudhuri A,Mallinson G,Sausais L,Gomensoro-Garcia AE,Hannon J,Rosenberger S,Poole J,Burgess G,Pogo O,Reid M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is an inherited disorder characterized by skin pigmentation, nail dystrophy and mucosal leucoplakia. In 1995 a Dyskeratosis Congenita Registry was established at the Hammersmith Hospital. In the 46 families recruited, 76/83 patients were male, suggesting that the major form of DC is X-linke...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Knight S,Vulliamy T,Copplestone A,Gluckman E,Mason P,Dokal I

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation activity and whole-blood viscosity were measured in the steady state, and serially during painful crisis, in eight patients with sickle-cell anaemia. Platelet and coagulation activation occurred in the steady state and became more pronounced early in crisis. Whole-blood viscosity increased during crisis in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Richardson SG,Matthews KB,Stuart J,Geddes AM,Wilcox RM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture medium was harvested after co-incubation of mononuclear cells collected and pooled from the peripheral blood of two different normal donors and was tested for colony-stimulating activity (CSA) in agar culture. With bone marrow from normal donors or peripheral blood from patients with chronic granulocytic leuka...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hellmann A,Th'ng KH,Goldman JM

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00