Thrombin stimulation of p38 MAP kinase in human platelets is mediated by ADP and thromboxane A2 and inhibited by cGMP/cGMP-dependent protein kinase.

abstract：:The mechanism leading to the formation of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) is still unknown. Because an in vitro study suggested that aPL may derive from pro-oxidant conditions, we sought a relationship between aPL and isoprostanes, indices of lipid peroxidation in vivo. Thirty patients with systemic lupus erythemato...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Iuliano L,Praticò D,Ferro D,Pittoni V,Valesini G,Lawson J,FitzGerald GA,Violi F

更新日期：1997-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Laminin is a heterotrimeric glycoprotein that plays a central role in promoting neutrophil chemotaxis, motility, and attachment to basement membrane. Rabbit peritoneal exudate neutrophils stain positively for laminin, which is presumed to be of exogenous origin and bound to laminin receptors on the cell surface. We ex...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Tweardy DJ,Sasaki M,Cardamone JJ Jr,McCoy JP Jr,Bonidie MJ,Signorella AP

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus-1 subtypes A and C differ in the highly conserved Gag-TL9 epitope at a single amino acid position. Similarly, the TL9 presenting human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules B42 and B81 differ only at 6 amino acid positions. Here, we addressed the influence of such minor viral and host ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Geldmacher C,Metzler IS,Tovanabutra S,Asher TE,Gostick E,Ambrozak DR,Petrovas C,Schuetz A,Ngwenyama N,Kijak G,Maboko L,Hoelscher M,McCutchan F,Price DA,Douek DC,Koup RA

更新日期：2009-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Both extrinsic and intrinsic mechanisms tightly govern hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) decisions of self-renewal and differentiation. However, transcription factors that can selectively regulate HSC self-renewal division after stress remain to be identified. Slug is an evolutionarily conserved zinc-finger transcription ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Sun Y,Shao L,Bai H,Wang ZZ,Wu WS

更新日期：2010-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The human CD11a molecule is expressed specifically on lymphocytes, monocyte/macrophages, and neutrophils, in which it mediates important adhesion-related functions. We used 1.7 kb of regulatory sequences upstream from the human CD11a gene transcription start site to drive expression of a modified human CD4 reporter ge...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ritchie KA,Aprikian A,Gollahon KA,Hickstein DD

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional control has been identified as a key mechanism regulating the formation and subsequent behavior of hematopoietic stem cells. We have used a comparative genomics approach to identify transcriptional regulatory elements of the LMO2 gene, a transcriptional cofactor originally identified through its involv...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Landry JR,Kinston S,Knezevic K,Donaldson IJ,Green AR,Göttgens B

更新日期：2005-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This 2-part, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted to determine the safety and efficacy of etoricoxib, a COX-2 selective inhibitor, for the treatment of hemophilic arthropathy. In part 1 (6 weeks), 102 patients (> or = 12 years old) with hemophilic arthropathy were randomized to receive 90 mg etoricoxib...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Tsoukas C,Eyster ME,Shingo S,Mukhopadhyay S,Giallella KM,Curtis SP,Reicin AS,Melian A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a key hemostatic protein synthesized in both endothelial cells and megakaryocytes. Megakaryocyte-derived VWF is stored in α-granules of platelets and is enriched in hyperactive "ultra-large" VWF multimers. To elucidate the specific contribution of platelet VWF in hemostasis and thrombosi...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Verhenne S,Denorme F,Libbrecht S,Vandenbulcke A,Pareyn I,Deckmyn H,Lambrecht A,Nieswandt B,Kleinschnitz C,Vanhoorelbeke K,De Meyer SF

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloma is a unique hematologic malignancy that exclusively homes in the bone marrow and induces massive osteoclastic bone destruction presumably by producing cytokines that promote the differentiation of the hematopoietic progenitors to osteoclasts (osteoclastogenesis). It is recognized that neighboring bone marrow s...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Michigami T,Shimizu N,Williams PJ,Niewolna M,Dallas SL,Mundy GR,Yoneda T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant proportion of hemophilia A patients receiving transfusions of factor VIII (FVIII) develop a specific antibody response towards FVIII. These antibodies are usually detected by assays in which they inhibit the function of the molecule, such as the Bethesda clotting test. We have prepared anti-FVIII antibod...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Gilles JG,Arnout J,Vermylen J,Saint-Remy JM

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The dendritic cell (DC)-specific molecule DC-SIGN is a receptor for the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120 and is essential for the dissemination of HIV-1. DC-SIGN is expressed by DCs, both monocyte-derived DCs and DCs in several tissues, including mucosa and lymph nodes. To identify a DC-SIGN(+) DC in blood that may b...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Engering A,Van Vliet SJ,Geijtenbeek TB,Van Kooyk Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skewed X-chromosome inactivation in peripheral blood granulocytes becomes more frequent with increasing age, affecting up to half of those over 75 years old. To investigate the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, X-inactivation profiles in 33 monozygotic and 22 dizygotic elderly twin pairs were studied. Differentia...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Vickers MA,McLeod E,Spector TD,Wilson IJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cells are known to interact cooperatively with monocytes to produce Colony-Stimulating Factors (CSF), although T cell-mediated signals leading to CSF secretion by monocytes are not completely understood. We have made use of Northern blot hybridization and specific bioassays to study the effects of the T cell product...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Wieser M,Bonifer R,Oster W,Lindemann A,Mertelsmann R,Herrmann F

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Techniques for the quantitation of virus-specific and alloantigen-reactive T cells vary in their measurement of clinically relevant T-cell effector populations, their sensitivity and quantitative accuracy, and the time required to obtain measurable results. We compared frequencies of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-specific ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Koehne G,Smith KM,Ferguson TL,Williams RY,Heller G,Pamer EG,Dupont B,O'Reilly RJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Low linear energy transfer (LET) ionizing radiation (IR) is an important form of therapy for acute leukemias administered externally or as radioimmunotherapy. IR is also a potential source of DNA damage. High LET IR produces structurally different forms of DNA damage and has emerged as potential treatment of metastati...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Haro KJ,Scott AC,Scheinberg DA

更新日期：2012-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I interferon (IFNalpha/beta) plays a complex role in HIV-1 infection and has been proposed alternately to have roles in either disease protection or progression. Although IFNalpha/beta plays crucial roles in regulating monocytes and dendritic cells, responsiveness of these cells to IFNalpha/beta in HIV-1 infectio...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Hardy GA,Sieg SF,Rodriguez B,Jiang W,Asaad R,Lederman MM,Harding CV

更新日期：2009-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human erythroid alpha-spectrin alleles responsible for hereditary elliptocytosis (alphaHE alleles) undergo increased incorporation into red blood cell membranes when the polymorphism alphaLELY (LELY: Low Expression LYon) occurs in trans. The alphaLELY polymorphism is characterized by a mutation in exon 40 at codon 185...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Wilmotte R,Harper SL,Ursitti JA,Maréchal J,Delaunay J,Speicher DW

更新日期：1997-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairy cell leukemia variant (HCLv) presents with high disease burden, lack of typical antigens like CD25, and poor response to standard treatments like cladribine. Occasionally, patients with classic HCL respond poorly. Clinical and molecular features of HCL and HCLv has not been compared. Rearrangements expressing im...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Arons E,Suntum T,Stetler-Stevenson M,Kreitman RJ

更新日期：2009-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we described a form of nondeletion alpha-thalassemia (alpha T Saudi alpha) found in subjects of Saudi Arabian origin. In the current study, using synthetic oligoprobe hybridization and restriction enzyme analysis, we have demonstrated that the molecular basis of alpha T Saudi alpha is due solely t...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Thein SL,Wallace RB,Pressley L,Clegg JB,Weatherall DJ,Higgs DR

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the results of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for bcr-abl transcript and clinical details derived from 64 chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patients after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). A total of 139 samples (2 to 220 weeks after BMT) were analyzed and bcr-abl transcript was detected i...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Miyamura K,Tahara T,Tanimoto M,Morishita Y,Kawashima K,Morishima Y,Saito H,Tsuzuki S,Takeyama K,Kodera Y

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a sensitive and specific assay for minimal residual disease in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we exploited the enormous diversity of genomic sequences created by immune receptor gene rearrangements. To isolate clone-specific sequences, we first synthesized oligonucleotides that match conserved variable...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Jonsson OG,Kitchens RL,Scott FC,Smith RG

更新日期：1990-11-15 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：:The biochemical basis for complement acting directly on antigen-presenting cells to enhance their function in T-cell stimulation has been unclear. Here we present evidence that engagement of C3a receptor (C3aR) on the surface of dendritic cells (DCs) leads to alterations in the level of intracellular cyclic adenosine ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Li K,Anderson KJ,Peng Q,Noble A,Lu B,Kelly AP,Wang N,Sacks SH,Zhou W

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bone marrow (BM) microenvironment consists of extracellular-matrix and the cellular compartment including immune cells. Multiple myeloma (MM) cell and BM accessory cell interaction promotes MM survival via both cell-cell contact and cytokines. Immunomodulatory agents (IMiDs) target not only MM cells, but also MM c...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Görgün G,Calabrese E,Soydan E,Hideshima T,Perrone G,Bandi M,Cirstea D,Santo L,Hu Y,Tai YT,Nahar S,Mimura N,Fabre C,Raje N,Munshi N,Richardson P,Anderson KC

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the in vitro effects of recombinant human (rh) interleukin-1 (IL-1) on the growth of purified megakaryoblasts obtained from patients with acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. We demonstrate that both IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta treatment of these cells led to stimulation of DNA synthesis (as shown by increas...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Brach MA,Löwenberg B,Mantovani L,Schwulera U,Mertelsmann R,Herrmann F

更新日期：1990-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) is curative for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). However, patients frequently have significant morbidity before transplantation and there is high transplant-related mortality (TRM). Because first-degree HLH is caused by immune dysregulation, a reduced-intensity condi...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Cooper N,Rao K,Gilmour K,Hadad L,Adams S,Cale C,Davies G,Webb D,Veys P,Amrolia P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonates respond suboptimally to many vaccines. The reasons for this defect are unclear, but suboptimal antigen presentation by dendritic cells has been suggested as one possibility. In this report we describe an in vitro system that allows the generation of large numbers of resting murine neonatal dendritic cells fac...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kollmann TR,Way SS,Harowicz HL,Hajjar AM,Wilson CB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) lymphocytes manifest anomalous motility and cap formation. Since these processes involve cytoskeletal proteins, vimentin from intermediate filaments of normal and CLL lymphocytes was investigated using hetero- and monoclonal antisera. The antisera reacted predominantly with a 60-kD p...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Stark RS,Liebes LF,Shelanski ML,Silber R

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are mostly found around the vasculature system of the adult bone marrow (BM). They function as immune suppressors, express MHC-II, are phagocytic, and support T-cell cytotoxicity. We hypothesize that these contradictory properties of MSCs are important for BM homeostasis and occur partly ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Chan JL,Tang KC,Patel AP,Bonilla LM,Pierobon N,Ponzio NM,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00