Glucocorticoid resistance in a multiple myeloma cell line is regulated by a transcription elongation block in the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1).

abstract：:We aimed to identify and classify cases of paediatric myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) occurring in Britain to estimate the incidence of this rare group of diseases, investigate the results of therapy and identify prognostic risk factors. Patients aged below 15 years at diagnosis were collected from England, Scotland a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Passmore SJ,Chessells JM,Kempski H,Hann IM,Brownbill PA,Stiller CA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aplastic anaemia (AA) is considered as an immune-mediated bone marrow failure syndrome. The mechanism is involved with a variety of immune molecules including interferon-γ (IFN-γ), tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukins (ILs). IL-27 is a novel member of the IL-12 family, which mediates T cell response and e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Li J,Zhao Q,Xing W,Feng J,Wu H,Li H,Ge M,Tian K,Li X,Zhou J,Liu B,Zhang L,Zheng Y,Han ZC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the potential efficacy of l-asparaginase treatment in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients, we studied the in vitro resistance of French-American-British (FAB) subtypes of childhood AML to l-asparaginase using a methyl-thiazol-tetrazolium assay. We tested leukaemic cells obtained from 177 common acute lym...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Okada S,Hongo T,Yamada S,Watanabe C,Fujii Y,Ohzeki T,Horikoshi Y,Ito T,Yazaki M,Komada Y,Tawa A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific sodium pump antagonist ouabain was used to study the effect of sodium pump inhibition on granulopoietic colony formation by normal human bone marrow cells cultured in soft agar for 7 d. Suppression of colony formation was dose-dependent and occurred at a low and reproducible concentration. The use of an e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Steed AJ,Boardman KM,Delamore IW

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-four patients with refractory multiple myeloma were treated with 4-d continuous infusions of vincristine and adriamycin in combination with 4-d pulsed high-dose dexamethasone (VAD). Of 31 evaluable patients, 16 entered a complete remission (50%) and three a partial remission (10%). No difference in response rat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lokhorst HM,Meuwissen OJ,Bast EJ,Dekker AW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin binding on polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL) was characterized. Heparin binding was specific, rapid, saturable and reversible. One single class of heparin binding sites was found with a dissociation constant of 1.22 mumol/l and 7.7 x 10(6) sites per PMNL. The binding was independent of the anticoagulant acti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Leculier C,Benzerara O,Couprie N,Francina A,Lasne Y,Archimbaud E,Fiere D

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is the capacity to generate thrombin, and the enzymatic work that thrombin does, that determines blood coagulability. Therefore, measurement of the enzymatic work potential of thrombin provides a method for quantifying the composite effect of the multiple factors that determine coagulation capacity. The application...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baglin T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transformation of lymphocytes in cultures with phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) or with pokeweed mitogen (PWM) was carried out during treatment on 28 patients with paraproteinaemia and on 20 control subjects. 78.5% of the peripheral blood lymphocyte short-term cultures from the treated patients showed a subnormal PHA-ind...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Campbell AE,De Vine J,Azam L,Hamid J,Delamore IW,McFarlane H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microparticles are circulating, phospholipid rich, submicron particles released from the membranes of endothelial cells, platelets, leucocytes and erythrocytes. Investigation into their biological activity has revealed diverse actions in coagulation, cell signalling and cellular interactions. These actions are mediate...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lynch SF,Ludlam CA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transfusion graft-versus-host disease (PTGVHD) is one of the most severe side-effects of blood transfusion. To characterize the effector cells causing this disease, we cloned lymphocytes from a PTGVHD patient's peripheral blood. T-cell and B-cell clones were established, the origins of which were proven to be tra...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nishimura M,Uchida S,Mitsunaga S,Tokunaga K,Tadokoro K,Juji T

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the incidence of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and characteristics associated with ITP in the paediatric population using the General Practice Research Database (GPRD). Two hundred and fifty-seven paediatric ITP patients were identified out of 1145 incident patients with ITP recorded between 1990 a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yong M,Schoonen WM,Li L,Kanas G,Coalson J,Mowat F,Fryzek J,Kaye JA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron chelators are increasingly combined clinically but the optimal conditions for cellular iron mobilization and mechanisms of interaction are unclear. Speciation plots for iron(III) binding of paired combinations of the licensed iron chelators desferrioxamine (DFO), deferiprone (DFP) and deferasirox (DFX) suggest co...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vlachodimitropoulou Koumoutsea E,Garbowski M,Porter J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Canine cyclic haematopoiesis (CH) appears to be a multipotential stem cell defect, possibly due to an intrinsic marrow defect. The in vitro adherent marrow cells of the cyclic haematopoietic (CH) dog were cultured as underlayers beneath normal dog nonadherent marrow cells. The marrow granulocyte-committed colony formi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jones JB,Jolly JD

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over recent years. Clinicians are increasingly being challenged with making uncertain anticoagulant dosing decisions, as the optimal dosing strategy for most anticoagulants in the obese patient population remains unknown. Research published to date suggests that th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Patel JP,Roberts LN,Arya R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The object of this study was to determine whether there were any differences between the 'typical' child with fever and neutropenia and their adult counterpart with regard to infection type and outcome, by analysis of 3080 patients, including 759 children < 18 years of age and 2321 adults. These represented patients r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hann I,Viscoli C,Paesmans M,Gaya H,Glauser M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 125 patients aged 65 years or over, with atrial fibrillation taking warfarin for at least 12 months, with a standard deviation (SD) of prothrombin time, expressed as the International Normalized Ratio (INR) >0.5 over the previous 6 months, 40 were randomized to continue with usual clinic care and 85 to receive educ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Khan TI,Kamali F,Kesteven P,Avery P,Wynne H

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of apoptotic pathways in the development and function of the megakaryocyte lineage has generated renewed interest in recent years. This has been driven by the advent of BH3 mimetic drugs that target BCL2 family proteins to induce apoptosis in tumour cells: agents such as ABT-263 (navitoclax, which targets BCL...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kile BT

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicentre single-arm study testing the efficacy and toxicity of the oral combination of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (FC) over 5 d in 75 patients with untreated B cell-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Oral FC demonstrated high efficacy with overall (OR) and complete response (CR) rates of 80% and 53%, respective...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cazin B,Divine M,Leprêtre S,Travade P,Tournilhac O,Delmer A,Jaubert J,Feugier P,Dreyfus B,Mahé B,Grosbois B,Maloisel F,Eghbali H,Dumontet C,Bénichou J,Guibon O,Leleu X,Leporrier M,Maloum K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoproliferative diseases of large granular lymphocytes (LDGL) may arise from either CD3+ T cells or CD3- natural killer (NK) cells. LDGL with clonal proliferation of large granular lymphocytes (LGL) is defined as LGL leukaemia. The number of patients with NK-LGL leukaemia reported is limited and the pathogenesis o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chou WC,Chiang IP,Tang JL,Su IJ,Huang SY,Chen YC,Liu MC,Lee FY,Wang CH,Shen MC,Chuang SM,Tien HF

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report three cases of platelet dysfunction characterized by defective Ca2+ ionophore-induced platelet aggregation without impaired production of thromboxane A2 (TXA2). The patients had mild to moderate bleeding tendencies, and their platelet aggregation and secretion induced by ADP, collagen, arachidonic acid, stab...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fuse I,Higuchi W,Uesugi Y,Aizawa Y

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic risk factors play an important role in the aetiology of vascular diseases. The insertion/deletion polymorphism (4G/5G) in the promotor region of the plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) gene has been associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction. We investigated 136 patients with minor stroke...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Endler G,Lalouschek W,Exner M,Mitterbauer G,Häring D,Mannhalter C

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested four negative and two positive selection methods for separation of CD34+ cells from mobilized blood cells, and analysed fold-enrichment, purity and recovery of CD34+ cells after selection procedures. The elimination of mature CD34- cells was achieved by adhesion to nylon-wool fibre (5.9 +/- 1.0 mean fold-enr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Di Nicola M,Bregni M,Siena S,Ruffini PA,Milanesi M,Ravagnani F,Gianni AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunophenotypic studies, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and conventional karyotyping were used to define the clinicobiological significance of 14q32 translocations involving the immunoglobulin gene locus (14q32/IGH) in 252 chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients. The following regions were studied: 13...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cavazzini F,Hernandez JA,Gozzetti A,Russo Rossi A,De Angeli C,Tiseo R,Bardi A,Tammiso E,Crupi R,Lenoci MP,Forconi F,Lauria F,Marasca R,Maffei R,Torelli G,Gonzalez M,Martin-Jimenez P,Maria Hernandez J,Rigolin GM,Cune

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of novel therapies for the treatment of myeloma is rapidly increasing, as are the clinical trials evaluating them in combination with other novel and established therapies. Proteasome inhibitors, immunomodulatory agents and monoclonal antibodies are the most well known and studied classes of novel agents ta...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wallington-Beddoe CT,Sobieraj-Teague M,Kuss BJ,Pitson SM

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective studies in children with B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) have shown that polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) using immunoglobin (Ig) and T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements as targets can be used to identify patients with a high relapse ri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de Haas V,Breunis WB,Dee R,Verhagen OJ,Kroes W,van Wering ER,van Dongen JJ,van den Berg H,van der Schoot CE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three male patients (two of whom were brothers) with Shwachman-Diamond (SDS) syndrome presented with acute myeloid leukaemia in adulthood. In all three cases there was trilineage myelodysplasia and the morphology was consistent with FAB subtype M6. SDS is an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome with a high propensit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dokal I,Rule S,Chen F,Potter M,Goldman J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous transplantation has an established role in the treatment of lymphoproliferative disorders, but allogeneic transplantation remains controversial. In an attempt to reduce the high procedure-related mortality reported with allografting in lymphoma, we have used BEAM (BCNU, etoposide, cytarabine and melphalan),...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cull GM,Haynes AP,Byrne JL,Carter GI,Miflin G,Rebello P,Hale G,Waldmann H,Russell NH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was used to detect human parvovirus B19 DNA in 38 blood products and start plasma pools from five different manufacturers. The products examined were albumin, factor VIII, intravenous (i.v.) and intramuscular (i.m) immunoglobulin batches. The majority of pools from all the man...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Saldanha J,Minor P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a series of 20 patients with the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) each with a coexistent lymphoid or plasmacytic neoplasm. In none of the patients did chemotherapy play a part in the pathogenesis. The possible reasons for the coincidence of these conditions are discussed. The frequency and variety of associate...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Copplestone JA,Mufti GJ,Hamblin TJ,Oscier DG

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state haemoglobin (Hb) desaturation is a common finding in sickle cell anaemia (Hb SS) that could predispose to stroke by limiting oxygen delivery to the brain. To determine its association with the risk of overt stroke, we examined the relationship between daytime Hb saturation measured by pulse oximetry (SpO(...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Quinn CT,Variste J,Dowling MM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00