Selective activation of TACI by syndecan-2.

abstract：:Cellular oncogenes have been localized at the breakpoints of characteristic chromosomal rearrangements occurring in certain hematologic malignancies. This has been reported to result in aberrant expression of the involved oncogenes. Over 90% of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is characterized by a reciprocal transl...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Romero P,Blick M,Talpaz M,Murphy E,Hester J,Gutterman J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current treatment strategies for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) involve a combination of conventional chemotherapeutics, monoclonal antibodies, and targeted signaling inhibitors. However, CLL remains largely incurable, with drug resistance and treatment relapse a common occurrence, leading to the search for novel ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Blunt MD,Carter MJ,Larrayoz M,Smith LD,Aguilar-Hernandez M,Cox KL,Tipton T,Reynolds M,Murphy S,Lemm E,Dias S,Duncombe A,Strefford JC,Johnson PW,Forconi F,Stevenson FK,Packham G,Cragg MS,Steele AJ

更新日期：2015-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human natural killer (NK) cells express Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) transcript and, upon exposure to microbial CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN), release cytokines and kill target cells. Here we show that NK cell treatment with CpG ODN results in down-modulation of KIR3DL2 inhibitory receptor from the cell surface and in...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Sivori S,Falco M,Carlomagno S,Romeo E,Soldani C,Bensussan A,Viola A,Moretta L,Moretta A

更新日期：2010-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific cellular memory is not transferred from mother to child. Therefore, EBV-induced B-cell proliferation in in vitro-infected cord blood mononuclear cell cultures is not inhibited. However, by addition of immunomodulators, polysaccharide K (PSK) or truncated thioredoxin (Trx80) that activ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Liu A,Claesson HE,Mahshid Y,Klein G,Klein E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of lymphocytes including B cells during early versus chronic HIV infection is important for understanding the impact of chronic viremia on immune cell function. In this setting, we investigated B cells before and after reduction of HIV plasma viremia by antiretroviral therapy (ART). At baseline, perip...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Moir S,Buckner CM,Ho J,Wang W,Chen J,Waldner AJ,Posada JG,Kardava L,O'Shea MA,Kottilil S,Chun TW,Proschan MA,Fauci AS

更新日期：2010-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated protein C (APC) reduces mortality in severe sepsis patients. APC exerts anticoagulant activities via inactivation of factors Va and VIIIa and cytoprotective activities via endothelial protein C receptor and protease-activated receptor-1. APC mutants with selectively altered and opposite activity profiles, th...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Mosnier LO,Zampolli A,Kerschen EJ,Schuepbach RA,Banerjee Y,Fernández JA,Yang XV,Riewald M,Weiler H,Ruggeri ZM,Griffin JH

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) in blood vessel formation has remained unclear. We used differentiating stem-cell cultures (embryoid bodies) and teratomas to show that FGF receptor-1 (FGFR-1) exerts a negative regulatory effect on endothelial cell function in these models. Embryoid bodies lacking expressi...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Magnusson PU,Dimberg A,Mellberg S,Lukinius A,Claesson-Welsh L

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is characterized by the absence of a respiratory burst in activated phagocytes. Defects in at least four different genes lead to CGD. Patients with the X-linked form of CGD have mutations in the gene for the beta-subunit of cytochrome b558 (gp91-phox). We studied the molecular defec...

journal_title：Blood

authors： de Boer M,Bolscher BG,Dinauer MC,Orkin SH,Smith CI,Ahlin A,Weening RS,Roos D

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) enhances thymopoiesis but given the broad distribution of IGF-1 receptors (IGF-1Rs), its mechanism of action has remained unclear. To identify points of thymic regulation by IGF-1, we examined its effects on T-cell precursors, thymocytes, and thymic epithelial cells (TECs) in norma...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Chu YW,Schmitz S,Choudhury B,Telford W,Kapoor V,Garfield S,Howe D,Gress RE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-25 (IL-25) is a recently described T helper 2 (T(H)2) cell-derived cytokine that belongs to the IL-17 family and induces the production of IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 from an unidentified non-T-cell population. Here, we show that mast cells are also potent IL-25-producing cells. When bone marrow-derived mast cel...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ikeda K,Nakajima H,Suzuki K,Kagami S,Hirose K,Suto A,Saito Y,Iwamoto I

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a prominent barrier to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT). Definitive diagnosis of GVHD is invasive, and biopsies of involved tissues pose a high risk of bleeding and infection. T cells are central to GVHD pathogenesis, and our previous studies in a chronic G...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Assmann JC,Farthing DE,Saito K,Maglakelidze N,Oliver B,Warrick KA,Sourbier C,Ricketts CJ,Meyer TJ,Pavletic SZ,Linehan WM,Krishna MC,Gress RE,Buxbaum NP

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells are the most potent antigen-presenting cells of the immune system. Although dendritic cells are likely to secrete selective cytokines that facilitate antigen presentation, the difficulty in isolating pure dendritic cells in sufficient numbers has made assessment of this function imprecise. In this stud...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Zhou LJ,Tedder TF

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcr-abl fusion peptide-specific CD4+ T-lymphocyte clones have recently been shown to augment colony formation by chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells in a bcr-abl type-specific and HLA class II-restricted manner without addition of exogenous antigen. These findings suggest that CML cells can naturally process and ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Yasukawa M,Ohminami H,Kojima K,Hato T,Hasegawa A,Takahashi T,Hirai H,Fujita S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the expression of inhibitory receptors (KIR) for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I allotypes, a person's natural killer (NK) cells will not recognize and will, therefore, kill cells from individuals lacking his/her KIR epitopes. This study investigated the role of NK cell alloreactivity in huma...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ruggeri L,Capanni M,Casucci M,Volpi I,Tosti A,Perruccio K,Urbani E,Negrin RS,Martelli MF,Velardi A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) enzyme immunoassay (EIA)-positive in 167,511 Australian volunteer blood donors from Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney was 0.78%. One thousand two-hundred and eighteen EIA-positive serum samples were assessed by supplemental tests including a blocking EIA and two pept...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Allain JP,Coghlan PJ,Kenrick KG,Whitson K,Keller A,Cooper GJ,Vallari DS,Delaney SR,Kuhns MC

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group (ILROG) guidelines for using radiation therapy (RT) in hematological malignancies are widely used in many countries. The emergency situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic may result in limitations of treatment resources. Furthermore, in recognition of the need to ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Yahalom J,Dabaja BS,Ricardi U,Ng A,Mikhaeel NG,Vogelius IR,Illidge T,Qi S,Wirth A,Specht L

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:CD44, a cell surface glycoprotein, is involved in lymphocyte trafficking from the blood to lymphatic tissues, and is of importance in dissemination of lymphoma. A variant form of CD44 that has additional amino acids in the common protein backbone (CD44v6) also seems to play a role in the metastatic dissemination of ma...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ristamäki R,Joensuu H,Salmi M,Jalkanen S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic potential of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy can be fully exploited only by reaching efficient gene transfer into HSCs without compromising their biologic properties. Although HSCs can be transduced by HIV-derived lentiviral vectors (LVs) in short ex vivo culture, they display low permissivi...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Santoni de Sio FR,Cascio P,Zingale A,Gasparini M,Naldini L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a transfusion trial of platelets photochemically treated for pathogen inactivation using the synthetic psoralen amotosalen HCl. Patients with thrombocytopenia were randomly assigned to receive either photochemically treated (PCT) or conventional (control) platelets for up to 28 days. The primary end point wa...

journal_title：Blood

authors： McCullough J,Vesole DH,Benjamin RJ,Slichter SJ,Pineda A,Snyder E,Stadtmauer EA,Lopez-Plaza I,Coutre S,Strauss RG,Goodnough LT,Fridey JL,Raife T,Cable R,Murphy S,Howard F 4th,Davis K,Lin JS,Metzel P,Corash L,Koutso

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autosomal recessive STAT1 deficiency is associated with impaired cellular responses to interferons and susceptibility to intracellular bacterial and viral infections. We report here a new form of partial STAT1 deficiency in 2 siblings presenting mycobacterial and viral diseases. Both carried a homozygous missense muta...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kong XF,Ciancanelli M,Al-Hajjar S,Alsina L,Zumwalt T,Bustamante J,Feinberg J,Audry M,Prando C,Bryant V,Kreins A,Bogunovic D,Halwani R,Zhang XX,Abel L,Chaussabel D,Al-Muhsen S,Casanova JL,Boisson-Dupuis S

更新日期：2010-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet-specific alloantigen, Siba, located within the alpha-subunit of the glycoprotein (GP) Ib-IX membrane receptor, has been found to be involved in the pathogenesis of platelet transfusion refractoriness. We have identified the existence of a naturally occurring threonine/methionine dimorphism at position 145...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Murata M,Furihata K,Ishida F,Russell SR,Ware J,Ruggeri ZM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described that allows for the routine long-term (greater than 3 mo) growth of normal, immature human myeloid cells in liquid suspension culture. The techniques employ cell separation, utilization of special growth conditions (RPMI with hydrocortisone and vitamin D), and cord blood as the source of leukocyt...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Salahuddin SZ,Markham PD,Ruscetti FW,Gallo RC

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) was shown to be present on human neutrophils, and IL-2-neutrophil interactions are believed to be important in both tumor rejection and increased susceptibility to bacterial infections. Furthermore, neutrophils have been shown to synthesize host defense proteins, such as cy...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Girard D,Gosselin J,Heitz D,Paquin R,Beaulieu AD

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-15 exert similar biological actions, which largely reflect the fact that their receptors share common beta and gamma subunits; in contrast, distinct subunits are required for high-affinity binding of either cytokine to a heterotrimeric receptor complex. Human neutrophils are known to expres...

journal_title：Blood

authors： McDonald PP,Russo MP,Ferrini S,Cassatella MA

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:IgM-secreting plasma cell tumors are rare variants of typical isotype-switched multiple myeloma with a similar disease outcome. To probe the origin and clonal history of these tumors, we have analyzed V(H) gene sequences in 6 cases. Potentially functional tumor-derived V(H) genes were all derived from V(H)3, with the ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Sahota SS,Garand R,Mahroof R,Smith A,Juge-Morineau N,Stevenson FK,Bataille R

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty four samples of DNA from 23 unrelated individuals were analyzed for the presence of a novel restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) involving the proto-oncogene ETS-1 at an Xba I site. Four samples from unrelated individuals lacked an Xba I site, giving rise to a longer restriction fragment detectable b...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Savage PD,Hanson CA,Kersey JH

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-[3-adamantyl-4-hydroxyphenyl]-2-naphthalene carboxylic acid (CD437) is a novel compound that represents the prototype of a new class of synthetic retinoids with apoptogenic properties in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and other types of leukemia. In this article, using SCID mice xenografted with APL-derived NB4 ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ponzanelli I,Giannì M,Giavazzi R,Garofalo A,Nicoletti I,Reichert U,Erba E,Rambaldi A,Terao M,Garattini E

更新日期：2000-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A new unstable hemoglobin with high oxygen affinity, Hb Toyoake: beta 142 (H20) Ala replaced by Pro, was found in Japanese male with a normal blood hemoglobin level, shortened red cell survival, and increased plasma erythropoietin. Hemoglobin studies showed heat and isopropanol instability, and an increased tendency t...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Hirano M,Ohba Y,Imai K,Ino T,Morishita Y,Matsui T,Shimizu S,Sumi H,Yamamoto K,Miyaji T

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia is a common clinical problem, and there is much interest in its role in promoting left ventricular hypertrophy through increasing cardiac workload. Normally, red blood cell production is adjusted through the regulation of erythropoietin (Epo) production by the kidney. One important cause of anemia is relative d...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Binley K,Askham Z,Iqball S,Spearman H,Martin L,de Alwis M,Thrasher AJ,Ali RR,Maxwell PH,Kingsman S,Naylor S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult-onset hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare, life-threatening disease of immune hyperactivation. Unlike pediatric HLH, adult HLH is rarely driven by germline genetic variants. Although numerous precipitating etiologies have been identified, the reason that HLH occurs in only a subset of individuals ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Miller PG,Sperling AS,Gibson CJ,Viswanathan K,Castellano C,McConkey M,Ceremsak J,Taylor MS,Birndt S,Perner F,Arnason J,Agrawal M,Schram AM,Nikiforow S,Pihan G,Hasserjian RP,Aster JC,La Rosée P,Morgan EA,Berliner N,

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00