CD16 and CR3 receptors distinguish between the two mechanisms of tumour cytotoxicity in neutrophils.

abstract：:Children with Down syndrome (DS) have a greater risk for developing both acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and significant adverse effects of chemotherapy. We investigated their outcome with, and tolerance of, treatment protocols for relapsed ALL optimized in the paediatric population without DS. Probability of surv...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Meyr F,Escherich G,Mann G,Klingebiel T,Kulozik A,Rossig C,Schrappe M,Henze G,von Stackelberg A,Hitzler J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new method to detect the major beta-thalassaemia mutations of the Mediterranean countries (IVS I-1, IVS I-6, IVS I-110, CD-37 and CD-39). The procedure is based upon real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using specific fluorescently labelled hybridization probes. The melting curves for each of the sp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Moreno I,Bolufer P,Perez ML,Barragán E,Sanz MA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Australian Leukaemia Study Group has performed a randomized trial of interferon alpha-2A (Roferon-A) as a co-induction agent together with intensive combination chemotherapy and as maintenance following completion of 12 cycles of induction treatment. When used as a co-induction agent, interferon-alpha did not impr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Joshua DE,Penny R,Matthews JP,Laidlaw CR,Gibson J,Bradstock K,Wolf M,Goldstein D

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philadelphia (Ph) translocation, t(9:22)(q 34:q11), is found in the majority of patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) as well as in approximately 20% of adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) patients. The chromosome 22 breakpoint in CML has been localized within a restricted 5.8 kb segment of DNA k...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurzrock R,Shtalrid M,Gutterman JU,Koller CA,Walters R,Trujillo JM,Talpaz M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variant detected in an Italian man from the Po delta is described and designated as G6PD Modena. Biochemical characterization of the variant enzyme revealed an activity 21% of normal, a slow electrophoretic mobility, increased Km value for NADP, decreased Km value for G6P and a ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cappellini MD,Sampietro M,Toniolo D,Carandina G,Pittalis S,Martinez di Montemuros F,Tavazzi D,Fiorelli G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts (RARS) is distinguished by hyperplastic inefficient erythropoiesis, aberrant mitochondrial ferritin accumulation and anaemia. Heterozygous mutations in the spliceosome gene SF3B1 are found in a majority of RARS cases. To explore the link between SF3B1 mutations and anaemia, we...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Conte S,Katayama S,Vesterlund L,Karimi M,Dimitriou M,Jansson M,Mortera-Blanco T,Unneberg P,Papaemmanuil E,Sander B,Skoog T,Campbell P,Walfridsson J,Kere J,Hellström-Lindberg E

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cell receptor (BCR) signalling is an important pathway in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). In response to BCR triggering, normal and malignant B cells secrete the chemokines CCL3 and CCL4 to attract accessory cells to the tissue microenvironment. We measured CCL3 and CCL4 serum concentrations in 102 patients w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Takahashi K,Sivina M,Hoellenriegel J,Oki Y,Hagemeister FB,Fayad L,Romaguera JE,Fowler N,Fanale MA,Kwak LW,Samaniego F,Neelapu S,Xiao L,Huang X,Kantarjian H,Keating MJ,Wierda W,Fu K,Chan WC,Vose JM,O'Brien S,Davi

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined incidence of classical Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) is 6-9/100 000 with a peak frequency between 50 and 70 years. MPN is less frequent in women of reproductive age. However, for essential thrombocythaemia (ET) in particular there is a second peak in women of reproductive age and...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Robinson SE,Harrison CN

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen Chapel Hill II is a hereditary, abnormal fibrinogen which is characterized by poor substrate reactivity toward thrombin, factor XIIIa and plasmin. The patient has a low plasma level of clottable protein with normal antigen concentration, high amounts of fibrinogen related material in serum, and prolonged th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Carrell N,McDonagh J

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the presence of P-glycoprotein (P-gp)-170, multidrug resistance protein (MRP), lung resistance protein (LRP)-56 and Bcl-2 in CD19-positive cells from 100 cases of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). P-gp-170 was found in 73% of the CLL cases with no significant difference regarding stage or previous trea...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Consoli U,Santonocito A,Stagno F,Fiumara P,Privitera A,Parisi G,Giustolisi GM,Pavone B,Palumbo GA,Di Raimondo F,Milone G,Guglielmo P,Giustolisi R

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:The sensitivity of populations of human granulocyte precursors to factors with colony stimulating activity (CSA) was assessed in agar culture in vitro. The mean threshold of stimulation was estimated by analysis of dose-response curves of clone growth against concentration of CSA. This method of assessment has the adv...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Francis GE,Berney JJ,Chipping PM,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2GPI) is an important target antigen for antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and thus beta2GPI polymorphisms may influence aPL production and the development of antiphospholipid syndrome. We have studied the relationship between the Val247Leu and Trp316Ser beta2GPI polymorphisms and the aPL sta...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Camilleri RS,Mackie IJ,Humphries SE,Machin SJ,Cohen H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic ITP is due to antibody-induced destruction of platelets by the reticuloendothelial (RE) system. The role of complement in this process is unclear. We measured platelet-associated complement (PAC) components C3, C3bi, C4 and C9 in 16 patients with chronic ITP, in two of these patients prior to and after splenec...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurata Y,Curd JG,Tamerius JD,McMillan R

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:The discovery of two different types of alpha globin gene quadruplication is reported. One with the alpha alpha alpha alpha (anti 3.7)/haplotype was present in four members of a Black family from Georgia, while a second with the alpha alpha alpha alpha (anti 4.2)/haplotype was observed in two members of an Indonesian ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gu YC,Landman H,Huisman TH

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chemoattractants, the peptide N-formyl-met-leu-phe (FMLP), and the ether phospholipid, platelet activating factor (PAF), each stimulate a variety of in vitro responses in polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN). Because often more than one inflammatory mediator is active during inflammation, we determined the effect on...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ingraham LM,Lafuze JE,Boxer LA,Baehner RL

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) is a curative procedure for myelofibrosis. Elderly people are mainly affected, limiting the feasibility of myeloablative regimens. The introduction of reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) made alloSCT feasible for older patients. Nevertheless, the incidence of myelofibros...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mannina D,Zabelina T,Wolschke C,Heinzelmann M,Triviai I,Christopeit M,Badbaran A,Bonmann S,von Pein UM,Janson D,Ayuk F,Kröger N

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Studies have shown that familial risk contributes to aetiology of lymphomas. Using large population registries from Sweden, we evaluated risk of lymphoma subtypes among first-degree relatives of 2668 follicular lymphoma (FL) patients, 2517 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients, and 6963 Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Goldin LR,Björkholm M,Kristinsson SY,Turesson I,Landgren O

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lenalidomide gained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (MM) in combination with dexamethasone in June 2006. In April 2005, the FDA and patient advocacy groups requested an expanded access programme to both provide lenalidomide to patients ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chen C,Reece DE,Siegel D,Niesvizky R,Boccia RV,Stadtmauer EA,Abonour R,Richardson P,Matous J,Kumar S,Bahlis NJ,Alsina M,Vescio R,Coutre SE,Pietronigro D,Knight RD,Zeldis JB,Rajkumar V

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether or not pregnant women with a previous episode of venous thromboembolism (VTE) should receive antithrombotic prophylaxis is a matter of debate. In order to estimate the rate of recurrent deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) during pregnancy and puerperium we retrospectively investigated a coh...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Stefano V,Martinelli I,Rossi E,Battaglioli T,Za T,Mannuccio Mannucci P,Leone G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the kinetics of colony formation by progenitor cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) using erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) as a model system. For this, we scored the numbers of subcolonies produced by individual BFU-E in cultures of normal marrow and blood cells and in cultures of CML blo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marley SB,Lewis JL,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paediatric B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) compromises a heterogeneous group of histological entities of which Burkitt lymphoma is the most common. In resource-rich countries, the expected cure rate is in excess of 85% with application of risk-adapted short intensive chemotherapy. In recent years, large paediatric...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Giulino-Roth L,Goldman S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is an inherited disorder characterized by severe neutropenia and recurrent infections from an early age, with bone marrow showing a maturational arrest of granulopoiesis at the promyelocyte stage. Since the introduction of G-CSF therapy the prognosis for affected children has improv...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ryan M,Will AM,Testa N,Hayworth C,Darbyshire PJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with intravenous recombinant human interleukin-2 (rh IL-2) is frequently accompanied by the capillary leak syndrome and disturbances of the coagulation system. Although the exact mechanisms are still not fully understood, the involvement of the endothelium is proven. This investigation aimed to elucidate mor...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Locker GJ,Kapiotis S,Veitl M,Mader RM,Stoiser B,Kofler J,Sieder AE,Rainer H,Steger GG,Mannhalter C,Wagner OF

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decades, a wealth of information has been reported about the pathogenic features of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). To this day, however, it is unclear whether the immune abnormalities associated with ITP play causative roles in the disease or are secondary epiphenomena brought on by the inflammatory proc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McKenzie CG,Guo L,Freedman J,Semple JW

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene hMLH1 have recently been linked to the development of some hereditary and sporadic cancers which frequently display widespread microsatellite instability (MSI). Conflicting results regarding the extent of MSI in myeloid leukaemias prompted us to perform mutational analys...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Auner HW,Olipitz W,Hoefler G,Bodner C,Konrad D,Crevenna R,Linkesch W,Sill H

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess sources of variability in platelet function tests in normal subjects, 64 healthy young adults were tested on 2-6 occasions at 2 week intervals using four methods: platelet aggregation (AGG) in platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in the Bio/Data PAP-4 Aggregometer (BD) and Chrono-Log Lumi-Aggregometer (CL); and AGG in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miller CH,Rice AS,Garrett K,Stein SF

更新日期：2014-06-01 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