The beta-thalassaemia mutations in the population of Cyprus.

abstract：:The TH line was established by bringing tumour cells from a multiple myeloma patient into suspension culture and subsequently cloning them by limiting dilution. The cultured cells show marked heterogeneity; there are ultrastructural differences between small and large TH cells, particularly with respect to the rough e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Weinreich SS,von dem Borne AE,van Lier RA,Feltkamp CA,Slater RM,Wester MR,Zeijlemaker WP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) and anti-D immunoglobulin preparations are used in the treatment of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). One mechanism proposed to explain their therapeutic effects in ITP patients is the induction of expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-10 or IL...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aubin E,Lemieux R,Bazin R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent aplasia is a rare complication with poor prognosis after intensive chemotherapy for acute leukaemia. A 59-year-old man with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), was treated after 186 d of chemotherapy-induced persistent aplasia with an allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) from a matched u...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hambach L,Heil G,Hertenstein B,Ganser A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the significance of red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization, the lack of standardized registries in the US has prevented the completion of large studies. Data from 3·5 years of the Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) recipient database, containing information from 12 hospitals, were ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Karafin MS,Westlake M,Hauser RG,Tormey CA,Norris PJ,Roubinian NH,Wu Y,Triulzi DJ,Kleinman S,Hendrickson JE,NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III).

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum erythropoietin (Epo) was measured in 23 patients before, during and after intensive cytostatic treatment courses for acute leukaemia or before bone marrow transplantation. A marked increase was seen in all patients, starting 1 or 2 d after initiation of treatment. A peak was reached after about 7 d, at levels as...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Birgegård G,Wide L,Simonsson B

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum "uracil+uridine" level, expressed as uracil, has been measured in 21 cases of vitamin B12 deficiency, in which the serum folate was normal, and compared with the level in 97 normal subjects. The level in the vitamin B12 deficient group (11.9 mumol/1). was significantly lower than in the controls (15.7 mumol/...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Parry TE,Blackmore JA

更新日期：1976-12-01 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：:Twenty-one cases of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (FAB M3) demonstrating t(15,17) chromosomal translocation were studied in detail by immunocytochemical techniques using a panel of monoclonal antibodies. A characteristic myeloid phenotype of the leukaemic cells, co-expression of CD9 and CD68 antigens and absence of HL...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Erber WN,Asbahr H,Rule SA,Scott CS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lenalidomide (LEN) acts directly on multiple myeloma (MM) cells by inducing cereblon-mediated degradation of interferon regulatory factor 4, Ikaros (IKZF)1 and IKZF3, transcription factors that are essential for MM cell survival. The mucin 1 (MUC1) C-terminal transmembrane subunit (MUC1-C) oncoprotein is aberrantly ex...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yin L,Tagde A,Gali R,Tai YT,Hideshima T,Anderson K,Avigan D,Kufe D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the iron storage protein ferritin has a number of physiological functions not directly related to iron metabolism and a number of these relate to lymphocyte and macrophage activity. The present study demonstrates a selective distribution of ferritin on lymphocyte and macrophage surface membr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cragg SJ,Hoy TG,Jacobs A

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:Diamond Blackfan Anaemia (DBA) is a rare congenital pure red cell aplasia that may be associated with facio-skeletal developmental defects. The disease is caused by mutations in one of at least ten ribosomal proteins, which results in haploinsufficiency and an imbalance between the synthesis of rRNA and ribosomal prot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Horos R,von Lindern M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raised plasma levels of immunoreactive human calcitonin (i-HCT) have been found in patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL) in chronic phase and myeloblastic transformation and in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia at presentation and in relapse. In CGL levels were significantly higher in myeloblastic tra...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Foa R,Oscier DG,Hillyard CJ,Incarbone E,McIntyre I,Goldman JM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of physiological levels of haemoglobin is beneficial in the management of patients with thalassaemia major since it leads to better tissue oxygenation, reduction of blood volume, and reduced intestinal absorption of iron. We have studied 11 patients with thalassaemia major while treating them for 4-12 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Masera G,Terzoli S,Avanzini A,Fontanelli G,Mauri RA,Piacentini G,Ferrari M

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD, D-glucose 6-phosphate: NADP oxido reductase, E.C. 1.1.1.49) variants, designated G6PD Napoli and G6PD Ferrara II, are described in propositi from two unrelated families. Characterization side by side of the two variants according to W.H.O. recommendations reveals minor ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Flora A,Morelli A,Benatti U,Giuntini P,Ferraris AM,Galiano S,Ravazzolo R,Gaetani GF

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesive interactions between haemopoietic progenitor cells and bone marrow sinusoidal endothelium are potentially important in the homing of these cells back to the extravascular compartment of the marrow to re-establish haemopoiesis following stem cell transplantation. A simple method for the isolation and culture o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Masek LC,Sweetenham JW

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) are a well-recognized and potentially life-threatening complication of solid organ transplantation. While the vast majority of PTLDs are B-cell lymphoproliferations, T-cell PTLDs are rarely seen. Among 898 patients receiving cardiac transplants between 1990 an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Draoua HY,Tsao L,Mancini DM,Addonizio LJ,Bhagat G,Alobeid B

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between duodenal mucosal mRNA levels of the transcription factor, NF-E2, H-ferritin (a putative NF-E2 regulated gene) and iron absorption in mice. CD1-strain mice with normal and altered iron metabolism (hypoxic, iron-deficient, iron-loaded) and animals with genetic defects of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Raja KB,Gerard B,McKie AT,Simpson RJ,Peters TJ,Grandchamp B,Beaumont C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytosterolaemia (sitosterolaemia) is a recessively inherited metabolic condition in which the absorption of both cholesterol and plant-derived cholesterol-like molecules at the gut is unselective and unrestricted. In haematology, Mediterranean stomatocytosis or Mediterranean macrothrombocytopenia is a poorly understo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rees DC,Iolascon A,Carella M,O'marcaigh AS,Kendra JR,Jowitt SN,Wales JK,Vora A,Makris M,Manning N,Nicolaou A,Fisher J,Mann A,Machin SJ,Clayton PT,Gasparini P,Stewart GW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of heat-shock proteins (hsp) was analysed in the leukaemic cells of 12 patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and nine patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Using monoclonal antibodies to hsp70, hsp90 and hsp60 (ML30, a mycobacterial antigen with homology to human hsp60), we measured hsp level...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chant ID,Rose PE,Morris AG

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translocation t(8;16) (p11;p13) was found as the sole deviation from the normal karyotype in three patients with acute monocytic leukaemia. The bone marrow morphology was strikingly similar in the two cases where smears were available for re-evaluation: the leukaemic cells showed signs of differentiation, and acti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Heim S,Avanzi GC,Billström R,Kristoffersson U,Mandahl N,Bekassy AN,Garwicz S,Wiebe T,Pegoraro L,Falda M

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of donor T cells, or their CD8+ subset, on engraftment and tolerance induction in fetal transplantation were evaluated using an F1-into-parent mouse-model that does not permit a graft-versus-host effect. Gestational day 13 C57BL/6 (H-2Kb) fetuses were transplanted with B6D2F1 (H-2Kb/d) light density bone m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chen JC,Chang ML,Lee H,Muench MO

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of alpha-thalassaemia in an Italian population has been determined by a survey of random cord bloods for the presence of Hb Bart's. 144 out of 4730 (3%) had detectable amounts of Hb Bart's. Furthermore, alpha-globin gene analysis of 100 random cord bloods showed that five out of 100 had the common type o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Velati C,Sampietro M,Biassoni M,Cappellini MD,Wainscoat JS,Higgs DR,Fiorelli G

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte sedimentation, viscosity, electrophroetic mobility, and osmotic fragility were measured in a study of the rheological behaviour of the erythrocyte in vitro. In comparison with physiological saline solution, a suspending medium containing a gamma2lambda2 monoclonal IgG from a patient with multiple myeloma c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rovel A,Vigneron C,Streiff F

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Podocalyxin-like protein (PCLP) is a sialomucin-type membrane protein structurally related to CD34 and endoglycan. It was first described in glomerular podocytes and endothelial cells. In mice, PCLP is present in haemangioblasts, and in both chicken and mice it is a marker of early haematopoietic stem cells and lineag...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kerosuo L,Juvonen E,Alitalo R,Gylling M,Kerjaschki D,Miettinen A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although expressed in several haematological lineages and involved in multiple different signalling pathways, Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) plays an indispensible role in B cells in signalling from the B cell receptor (BCR) for antigen. Many B cell malignancies remain dependent on constitutive BCR signalling, making BT...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hutchinson CV,Dyer MJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro culture of hairy cells (HC) (five patients) with alpha IFN (100 U/ml) significantly enhanced MHC and CD22 antigen expression and reduced CD25, sIg and FMC7 positivity, together with consistent but not significant reductions in CD9, 19 and HC2. A sixth patient, who was refractory to the effects of alpha IFN in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Till KJ,Cawley JC

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethnic variations in red blood cell (RBC) antigens can be a source of alloimmunization, especially in migrant populations. To improve transfusion safety in continental Africa and countries with African migrants, we performed RBC genotyping to determine allele frequencies coding for high- and low-prevalence antigens. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Silvy M,Beley S,Granier T,Ba A,Chiaroni J,Bailly P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinguishing Burkitt lymphoma (BL) from B cell lymphoma, unclassifiable with features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and BL (DLBCL/BL), and DLBCL is challenging. We propose an immunohistochemistry and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) based scoring system that is employed in three ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Naresh KN,Ibrahim HA,Lazzi S,Rince P,Onorati M,Ambrosio MR,Bilhou-Nabera C,Amen F,Reid A,Mawanda M,Calbi V,Ogwang M,Rogena E,Byakika B,Sayed S,Moshi E,Mwakigonja A,Raphael M,Magrath I,Leoncini L

更新日期：2011-09-01 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