Recent advances in biological and clinical aspects of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.

abstract：:Sideroblastic anemias are anemic disorders characterized by the presence of ring sideroblasts in a patient's bone marrow. These disorders are typically divided into two types, congenital or acquired sideroblastic anemia. Recently, several genes were reported as responsible for congenital sideroblastic anemia; however,...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Furuyama K,Kaneko K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the relationship between treatment with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and the development of chromosomal abnormalities and clonal evolution in adult aplastic anemia (AA) patients, we performed a prospective multicenter study. Of the 104 registered patients, 91 were found by the central rev...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Bessho M,Hotta T,Ohyashiki K,Takahashi T,Mizoguchi H,Asano S,Ikeda Y,Sakurai M,Tojo A,Kizaki M,Iwanaga M,Tomonaga M,Hirashima K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective population-based cohort study of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. Over 6 years, we diagnosed 221 patients (211 adults and 10 children) with AML, indicating an incidence of AML in Miyazaki Prefecture of 3.2 per 100,000 per year. In 193 adult patients with non-acut...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Matsunaga T,Yamashita K,Kubuki Y,Toyama T,Imataki O,Maeda K,Kawano N,Satou S,Kawano H,Ishizaki J,Yoshida S,Kameda T,Sasaki T,Sekine M,Kamiunten A,Taniguchi Y,Hidaka T,Katayose K,K-Shimoda H,Shide K,Yamamoto S,Mo

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to reduced-intensity conditioning, which has expanded the eligibility for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) to older patients, increased availability of alternative donors, including HLA-mismatched unrelated donors, has increased access to allogeneic HCT for more patients. However, acute graft-versu...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Maeda Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene therapies are classified into two major categories, namely, in vivo and ex vivo. Clinical trials of human gene therapy began with the ex vivo techniques. Based on the initial successes of gene-therapy clinical trials, these approaches have spread worldwide. The number of gene therapy trials approved worldwide inc...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tani K

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib mesylate binds to the inactive conformation of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase, suppressing the Philadelphia chromosome-positive clone in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Clinical studies of imatinib have yielded impressive results in the treatment of all phases of CML. With the higher rates of complete cytogeneti...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Borthakur G,Cortes JE

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the frequency of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and the changes in some inflammation-related serum proteins in 157 patients with nonimmune chronic idiopathic neutropenia syndrome (NI-CINS). Of these patients, 42 had pronounced neutropenia with neutrophil counts < 1500/mi...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Papadaki HA,Eliopoulos DG,Ponticoglou C,Eliopoulos GD

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective review of the survival outcome of children with isolated central nervous system (CNS) relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we identified 79 patients with CNS relapse among the eligible patients enrolled in ALL trials of 3 Japanese pediatric oncology study groups (Japanese Children's Cancer...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tsurusawa M,Yumura-Yagi K,Ohara A,Hara J,Katano N,Tsuchida M,Japanese Study Groups.

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is characterized by a maturation arrest of myeloid progenitor cells at the stage of promyelocytes in bone marrow and low levels of mature neutrophils in peripheral blood. To date, little is known regarding the underlying pathomechanism of SCN. A defective response of neutrophil prec...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kasper B,Tidow N,Welte K

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HOX genes are key determinants of cellular identity both in early development and in the renewal and differentiation of adult blood cells. Although a number of studies have examined the expression of individual HOX genes in defined blood cell lineages, we have undertaken a comprehensive analysis of HOX gene expres...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Morgan R,Whiting K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb repressive complex (PRC) is a critical regulator of normal tissue homeostasis as well as tumorigenesis. EZH2, an enzymatic subunit of PRC2, is a histone H3K27 methyltransferase that functions in the regulation of gene silencing. EZH2 overexpression was first identified in prostate and breast cancers and is as...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sashida G,Iwama A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In the present study, we retrospectively evaluated whether soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) index, defined as the ratio of serum sIL-2R levels at neutrop...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nakamura Y,Tanaka Y,Tanaka M,Sugiyama A,Yamamoto K,Tokunaga Y,Yujiri T,Tanizawa Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a rare, complement-mediated autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Patients with CAD in the United States and Europe have an increased incidence of thromboembolism (TE), but comparable information for patients in other regions is lacking. Thus, we examined TE risk for patients with CAD in Japan....

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Kamesaki T,Nishimura JI,Wada H,Yu E,Tsao E,Morales J,Kanakura Y

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) is a multipotent transcription factor that plays a pivotal role in immune reactions, inflammation, and possibly hematopoiesis as well. Mobilization of neutrophilic granulocytes during inflammation is a highly regulated process, but one that is incompletely understood. We studied the in v...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Knudsen E,Carlsen H,Bøyum A,Benestad HB,Iversen PO

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed clinical and hematologic features of nine patients with acquired idiopathic sideroblastic anemia (AISA). Seven of them had ringed sideroblasts (RS) more than 15% of marrow nucleated cells. RS persisted in the marrow even in the remaining two patients who had a relatively low marrow erythrob...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Yoshida Y,Oguma S,Tohyama K,Uchino H,Ito M,Takeda Y,Yoshinaga N,Tashima M,Sawada H,Okuma M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both stem cells and progenitor cells are present in umbilical cord blood (UCB) at a high frequency, making these cells a major target population for experimental and clinical studies. As the use of autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the treatment of various diseases has grown rapidly i...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Lee MW,Jang IK,Yoo KH,Sung KW,Koo HH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon regulatory factor-8 (IRF8) is a transcription factor expressed in hematopoietic cells, particularly in mononuclear phagocytes [monocytes/macrophages and dendritic cells (DCs)] and their progenitors. Various studies have demonstrated that IRF8 is essential for the development of monocytes, DCs, eosinophils, ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Tamura T,Kurotaki D,Koizumi S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has rarely been reported in the literature. In this report, we describe the experience of a single centre in the management of 10 such patients, including demographic information, disease characteristics ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Webb MJ,Barrett CL,Pretorius C,van Jaarsveld MF,Louw VJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noonan syndrome (NS) is an autosomal-dominant disease characterized by distinctive facial features, webbed neck, cardiac anomalies, short stature and cryptorchidism. NS exhibits phenotypic overlap with Costello syndrome and cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syndrome. Germline mutations of genes encoding proteins in the RAS...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Aoki Y,Matsubara Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old woman presented with severe hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) followed by heart failure. An echocardiogram showed an ejection fraction of 20%, and a cardiac catheterization followed by a myocardial histologic evaluation demonstrated dilated cardiomyopathy. Plasma exchange and hemodialysis were performed re...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Alexopoulou A,Dourakis SP,Zovoilis C,Agapitos E,Androulakis A,Filiotou A,Archimandritis AJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin, the iron regulatory hormone, has three isoforms; -20, -22 and -25. While hepcidin-25 has been studied extensively, the physiological significance of other isoforms remains poorly understood. Using a quantitative method based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-tandem MS) developed by our gr...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Addo L,Ikuta K,Tanaka H,Toki Y,Hatayama M,Yamamoto M,Ito S,Shindo M,Sasaki Y,Shimonaka Y,Fujiya M,Kohgo Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas stimulation has been reported to promote the activation and proliferation of T lymphocytes, but the intracellular signalling pathways that mediate non-apoptotic responses to Fas are poorly defined. To distinguish between the activation signalling and the death-inducing pathway downstream of Fas, we generated a nov...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Shin MJ,Shim JH,Lee JY,Chae WJ,Lee HK,Morio T,Park JH,Chang EJ,Lee SK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the results of third allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT3) using single-unit unrelated cord blood (CB) in seven adult patients with relapsed acute leukemia after second allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT2). The median age at SCT 3 was 44 years (range 20-58 years). The patients had de novo acut...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Konuma T,Kato S,Ooi J,Ebihara Y,Mochizuki S,Oiwa-Monna M,Tojo A,Takahashi S

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a common and often serious complication of heparin therapy [1,2]. Although the reduction in platelet levels associated with HIT is usually not severe, about 10% of patients experience arterial and/or venous thromboses (HITT), which can be incapacitating or fatal [3]. Recent wo...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Lee SH,Liu CY,PaoloVisentin G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) manifest pancytopenia and bone marrow hypoplasia without an apparent increase in atypical cells, so their disease resembles severe aplastic anemia at onset. We treated 2 HCL patients, who were initially diagnosed with aplastic anemia, with antithymocyte globulin (ATG) in co...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Sugimori C,Kaito K,Nakao S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated endogenous serum erythropoietin (Epo) levels in 14 normal subjects (eight males and six females) after a single 400-ml phlebotomy. The subjects were followed up for 56 days. The hemoglobin (Hb) values of both males and females decreased to a nadir on days 3 to 7 post-phlebotomy. Hb values gradually increa...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Maeda H,Hitomi Y,Hirata R,Tohyama H,Suwata J,Kamata S,Fujino Y,Murata N

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bortezomib and melphalan have synergistic effects against multiple myeloma (MM) cells. We conducted a pilot study on the combination of bortezomib and high-dose melphalan (Bor-HDM) as a conditioning regimen followed by autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) in 17 Japanese patients with newly diagnosed MM, in compariso...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Miyamoto T,Yoshimoto G,Kamimura T,Muta T,Takashima S,Ito Y,Shiratsuchi M,Choi I,Kato K,Takenaka K,Iwasaki H,Takamatsu Y,Teshima T,Akashi K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells have generated broad interest in oncology following a series of dramatic clinical successes in patients with chemorefractory B cell malignancies. CAR therapy now appears to be on the cusp of regulatory approval as a cell-based immunotherapy. We review here the T cell bi...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Davila ML,Sadelain M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired aplastic anemia (AA) is considered an immune-mediated disease because approximately 70% of AA patients improve with immunosuppressive therapy. However, little is known about the inciting antigens or the mechanisms responsible for the destruction of hematopoietic stem cells by immune system attack. Recent adva...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： Nakao S,Feng X,Sugimori C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) receptor cDNA was introduced into the erythroleukemic cell line K562, which normally does not express the receptor, using lipofection transfection of a G-CSF receptor expression plasmid vector. Transfected cells expressed the receptor with a dissociation constant of ...

journal_title：International journal of hematology

authors： el-Sonbaty SS,Watanabe M,Hochito K,Yamaguchi K,Matsuda I,Tsuchiya H

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00