Towards a new predictor of AIDS progression through the quantitation of HIV-1 DNA copies by PCR in HIV-infected individuals.

abstract：:Polycythaemia vera (PV) patients' blood burst-forming units-erythroid (BFU-E) have an enhanced sensitivity to stem cell factor (SCF) compared to normal BFU-E. To characterize SCF receptors on erythroid progenitors from normal individuals and PV patients, we performed binding experiments using radioiodinated recombinan...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dai CH,Krantz SB,Koury ST,Kollar K

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited factor VII (FVII) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder associated with a bleeding tendency. We describe three patients with congenital FVII deficiency who have been treated with activated recombinant factor VII (rVIIa). Two patients had novel mutations and were treated prophylactically with 1.2 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mathijssen NC,Masereeuw R,Verbeek K,Lavergne JM,Costa JM,van Heerde WL,Nováková IR

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globin synthesis was studied in four Negro families including 10 members with Hb A-HPFH and four with Hb S-HPFH. The beta/alpha specific activity ratios in 10 of these HPFH heterozygotes were similar to those of the control group. In two patients with Hb A-HPFH, the beta/alpha ratio was slightly decreased in one (0.84...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Friedman S,Schwartz E,Ahern E,Ahern V

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of whether, in patients affected by myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), haematological response to cytokines, particularly to recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo), is a phenomenon related to the stimulation of normal haemopoietic cells or to the differentiation of cells belonging to the abnormal clone rema...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rigolin GM,Porta MD,Bigoni R,Cavazzini F,Ciccone M,Bardi A,Cuneo A,Castoldi G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared how Enoxaparin and unfractionated (UF) heparin influenced in vivo coagulation in patients randomized to receive, by twice daily subcutaneous injections, either 30 mg of Enoxaparin or 7500 I.U. of UF heparin after elective hip surgery. These two regimens were equally effective in reducing the incide...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ofosu FA,Levine M,Craven S,Dewar L,Shafai S,Blajchman MA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A (CSA) exhibits greater multidrug resistance (MDR) modulating activity in vitro than other MDR modulators such as verapamil and quinidine. However, the immunosuppressive and nephrotoxic effects of CSA may limit its clinical use. PSC 833, a new cyclosporin D derivative, exerts a higher MDR reversal activit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jiang XR,Kelsey SM,Wu YL,Newland AC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel method for the chemical modification of cytokines with synthetic polymers to increase the therapeutic efficacy of the former in vivo. A pH-reversible amino-protective reagent, dimethylmaleic anhydride (DMMAn), was used for modification of interleukin-6 (IL-6) with polyethylene glycol (PEG). The no...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsunoda S,Ishikawa T,Watanabe M,Kamada H,Yamamoto Y,Tsutsumi Y,Hirano T,Mayumi T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ineffective erythropoiesis was quantitated in a series of patients with pernicious anaemia at different times in relation to vitamin B12 therapy by measuring the incorporation of [15N]delta aminolaevulinic acid and [15N]glycine into early labelled bilirubin. Prior to therapy ineffective erythropoiesis was grossly incr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Samson D,Halliday D,Chanarin I

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia, immunodeficiency and eczema. X-linked thrombocytopenia (XLT) is a mild form of WAS with isolated thrombocytopenia. Both phenotypes are caused by mutation of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) gene. In this ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kajiwara M,Nonoyama S,Eguchi M,Morio T,Imai K,Okawa H,Kaneko M,Sako M,Ohga S,Maeda M,Hibi S,Hashimito H,Shibuya A,Ochs HD,Nakahata T,Yata JI

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a familial study of AT III, a type III antithrombin III variant which was identified in the propositus by gene analysis as Pro 41 Leu heterozygous mutation. None of the four members of the family who presented with defective heparin cofactor (hep-cofactor) activity, and therefore probably carried the mutat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de Roux N,Chadeuf G,Molho-Sabatier P,Plouin PF,Aiach M

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) is a rare subtype of acute myeloid leukaemia. The outcome of paediatric APL has improved substantially over the past 20 years; cure rates above 80% are expected when all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) is given with anthracycline-based regimens. The presenting features of paediatric APL ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Abla O,Ribeiro RC

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Increased osteoclastic bone resorption is the major causal factor of bone disease in multiple myeloma. Recently, non-invasive methods have been developed for the estimation of bone resorptive activity. To evaluate the biological sensitivity and clinical usefulness of five biochemical assays for measuring the C-termina...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Abildgaard N,Brixen K,Kristensen JE,Eriksen EF,Nielsen JL,Heickendorff L

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of granulocyte-macrophage clones formed in agar culture of bone marrow is dependent on levels of colony stimulating activity (CSA) a proposed in vivo haemopoietic regulator. A dose-response relationship for stimulation of human haemopoietic cells by CSA is demonstrated, which could be explained by threshold...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Francis GE,Berney JJ,Hoffebrand AV

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of age upon therapeutic response to unfractionated heparin (UFH) in children is proposed to reflect quantitative and potentially qualitative differences in coagulation proteins across childhood. This study explores the UFH-dependent tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) release in children compared to prev...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Newall F,Johnston L,Summerhayes R,Lane G,Cranswick N,Monagle P,Ignjatovic V

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Management of the acute painful crisis (APC) of sickle cell disease (SCD) remains unsatisfactory despite advances in the understanding and management of acute pain in other clinical settings. One reason for this is an unsophisticated approach to the use of opioid analgesics for pain management. This applies to haemato...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Telfer P,Bahal N,Lo A,Challands J

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Cold agglutinin syndrome (CAS) is usually associated with IgM cold agglutinins with titres exceeding 1000 at 4 degrees C and a thermal amplitude of 30-32 degrees C. Occasionally patients are encountered who although having clinical and laboratory findings compatible with CAS do not have the characteristic serological ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Garratty G,Petz LD,Hoops JK

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children (age range 1.8-11 years) with juvenile chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (JCML) received an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT), four from an HLA-identical sibling and three from a matched unrelated donor. In the four children transplanted using an HLA-identical sibling, conditioning regimen inc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Locatelli F,Pession A,Comoli P,Bonetti F,Giorgiani G,Zecca M,Taibi RM,Mongini ME,Ambroselli F,de Stefano P,Severi F,Paolucci G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor histocompatibility antigens (mHAs) are major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptides, which trigger T-cell responses that mediate graft versus host disease (GVHD) and graft versus leukaemia effects. We recently identified a new mHA epitope, termed ACC-1, which is presented by HLA-A*2402 and encoded ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nishida T,Akatsuka Y,Morishima Y,Hamajima N,Tsujimura K,Kuzushima K,Kodera Y,Takahashi T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia absent radii (TAR) syndrome is clearly defined by the combination of radial aplasia and reduced platelet counts. The genetics of TAR syndrome has recently been resolved and comprises a microdeletion on Chromosome 1 including the RBM8A gene and a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) either at the 5' un...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Manukjan G,Bösing H,Schmugge M,Strauß G,Schulze H

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment response assessment in multiple myeloma (MM) relies on the detection of paraprotein in serum and/or urine, bone marrow morphology and immunohistochemistry. With remarkable advances in therapy, particularly in the newly diagnosed setting, achievement of complete remission became frequent, creating the need to...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bal S,Weaver A,Cornell RF,Costa LJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) detected by the central portion of von Willebrand factor cDNA, which recognizes the true gene and in addition pseudogenic sequences, were characterized and mapped. Small cDNA fragments which hybridized with DNA from families with von Willebrand disease were u...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bernardi F,Marchetti G,Casonato A,Gemmati D,Patracchini P,Legnani C,DeRosa V,Girolami A,Conconi F

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Tissue specimens from 26 cases of Hodgkin's disease (HD) and six HD-derived cell lines were analysed for tumour necrosis factor (TNF), lymphotoxin (LT), and interleukin (IL)-6 RNA transcripts by in situ hybridization, in some cases subsequent to immunohistology for CD30 antigen. LT and TNF transcripts were found in tu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Foss HD,Herbst H,Oelmann E,Samol J,Grebe M,Blankenstein T,Matthes J,Qin ZH,Falini B,Pileri S

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose dexamethasone (HD-Dex) has been reported to benefit AL amyloidosis patients with varying response rates. Our preliminary experience with the usual HD-Dex schedule indicated that the induction phase was rather toxic in AL patients. We therefore adopted a milder schedule consisting of dexamethasone 40 mg on d ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Palladini G,Anesi E,Perfetti V,Obici L,Invernizzi R,Balduini C,Ascari E,Merlini G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) might be a better tool than computerized tomography (CT) in predicting long-term treatment outcome in patients with relapsed chemosensitive lymphoma who are candidates for autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). We studied patients with recurrent or...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Schot B,van Imhoff G,Pruim J,Sluiter W,Vaalburg W,Vellenga E

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00