Enemy of the (immunosuppressed) state: an update on the pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus infection.

abstract：:Bone marrow (BM) from patients affected by multiple myeloma (MM), exhibiting monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) or with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) as well as from healthy donors were investigated for the presence of human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) DNA sequences. ORF 26 sequences were detected in 36-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Azzi A,Fanci R,De Santis R,Ciappi S,Paci C

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-10 protects against blood-induced cartilage damage in vitro. It has been hypothesized that the combination of these cytokines is effective if applied early in the process of cartilage damage. The present study investigated whether a single intra-articular injection of IL-4 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Meegeren ME,Roosendaal G,Coeleveld K,Nieuwenhuizen L,Mastbergen SC,Lafeber FP

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical management of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) in patients aged ≥80 years is based on limited evidence due to the lack of published information. Therefore, we analysed CLL patients aged ≥80 years using data from seven phase III clinical trials of the German CLL Study Group. Among 3552 participants, 152 wer...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Al-Sawaf O,Bahlo J,Robrecht S,Fischer K,Herling CD,Hoechstetter M,Fink AM,von Tresckow J,Langerbeins P,Cramer P,Stilgenbauer S,Wendtner CM,Eichhorst B,Hallek M,Goede V

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：:Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is characterized by a paucity of neoplastic Hodgkin/Reed Sternberg (HRS) cells within a complex cellular milieu that is rendered immunologically incapable of reacting against CD30(+) HRS cells due to a plethora of immune escape mechanisms initiated by the neoplastic cells. Accounting f...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Venkataraman G,Mirza MK,Eichenauer DA,Diehl V

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel polymorphism located in intron 1a of the human factor VII gene, caused by the nucleotide change G to A at position + 73. In a population of 128 healthy individuals from northern Italy, the variant A73 allele had a frequency of 0.21, whereas the frequency of the previously reported 10 bp inse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peyvandi F,Mannucci PM,Bucciarelli P,Zeinali S,Akhavan S,Sacchi E,Merlini PA,Perry DJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low concentrations of collagen and anticardiolipin antibodies (ACLA), which were raised in rabbits by immunization with cardiolipin (CL), co-operatively activated human gel-filtrated platelets (GFP). GFP activated by adding ACLA 5 min prior to collagen (ACLA + Col) showed strong responses in cytosolic Ca2+ mobilizatio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wang L,Su CY,Chou KY,Wang CT

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) with high fetal haemoglobin (HbF) tend to have a lower incidence of complications and longer survival due to inhibition of deoxyhaemoglobin S (HbS) polymerisation by HbF. HbF-containing cells, namely F cells, are strongly influenced by genetic factors. We measured the percentage...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Urio F,Nkya S,Rooks H,Mgaya JA,Masamu U,Zozimus Sangeda R,Mmbando BP,Brumat M,Mselle T,Menzel S,Luzzatto L,Makani J

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 37 patients with haematological malignancy (21 acute myeloid leukaemia, 11 acute lymphoid leukaemia, two lymphoma, two hairy cell leukaemia, one Hodgkin's disease) and histologically documented mucormycosis was conducted to evaluate the clinical characteristics and ascertain the factors which ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pagano L,Ricci P,Tonso A,Nosari A,Cudillo L,Montillo M,Cenacchi A,Pacilli L,Fabbiano F,Del Favero A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously thought to be best described as a plasma cell disorder, Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM) is now understood to be a distinct clinicobiological entity. WM shares B-cell origin and certain other features with both chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and multiple myeloma (MM). WM and CLL arise from B-cells a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McMaster ML,Caporaso N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of steady state haemoglobin levels in sickle cell-haemoglobin C (SC) disease were investigated by measuring routine haematological and biochemical indices, red cell survival, oxygen affinity, pitted erythrocytes, and red cell and plasma volumes in 31 adult patients (15 male; 16 female). Red cell survi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bannerman RM,Serjeant B,Seakins M,England JM,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of human DNA topoisomerase IIalpha (topo IIalpha) in drug resistance, we selectively inhibited topo IIalpha gene expression in U937 human monocytic leukaemia cells stably transfected with a plasmid that allowed for Zn-mediated conditional expression of a human alpha-topo IIalpha antisense sequence....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Towatari M,Adachi K,Marunouchi T,Saito H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information published comparing peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) with bone marrow (BM) as the stem cell source in the long-term outcome in recipients of T-cell depleted (TCD) unrelated donor (UD) transplants. We present retrospective outcome data on 306 recipients of myeloablative, human leucocyte an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shaw BE,Apperley JF,Russell NH,Craddock C,Liakopoulou E,Potter MN,Wynn R,Gibson B,Pearce RM,Kirkland K,Lee J,Madrigal JA,Cook G,Byrne JL

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of bendamustine, bortezomib and dexamethasone (BBD) was evaluated as a first-line therapy for multiple myeloma. The original treatment regimen of bendamustine 80 mg/m2 , days 1, 4; bortezomib 1·3 mg/m2 , days 1, 4, 8, 11; dexamethasone 40 mg, days 1, 2, 3, 4 on a 28-day cycle (up to 8 cycles) was effic...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Berdeja JG,Bauer T,Arrowsmith E,Essell J,Murphy P,Reeves JA Jr,Boccia RV,Donnellan W,Flinn I

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that granulocyte/macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is able to support myeloma cell propagation in cooperation with interleukin (IL)-6, the major growth factor for malignant plasma cells, although the biological mechanisms involved remain unknown. Therefore we investigated (i) the expressi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Villunger A,Egle A,Kos M,Egle D,Tinhofer I,Henn T,Uberall F,Maly K,Greil R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report outcomes after myeloablative haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) from human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-matched sibling donors in 67 patients with sickle cell disease transplanted between 1989 and 2002. The most common indications for transplantation were stroke and recurrent vaso-occlusive crisis in 38% a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Panepinto JA,Walters MC,Carreras J,Marsh J,Bredeson CN,Gale RP,Hale GA,Horan J,Hows JM,Klein JP,Pasquini R,Roberts I,Sullivan K,Eapen M,Ferster A,Non-Malignant Marrow Disorders Working Committee, Center for International Bl

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients are at risk of mucositis and infections in the oral cavity during the neutropenic period after chemotherapy, which are significant causes of morbidity. In phase I/II studies with the haemopoietic growth factor granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), a reduction in post-chemotherapy mucositis has been o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lieschke GJ,Ramenghi U,O'Connor MP,Sheridan W,Szer J,Morstyn G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinico-pathological features of 12 cases of malignant histiocytosis (histiocytic medullary reticulosis), aged 12-60 years, were studied. Special emphasis was put on the analysis of the haematological, cytological and histopathological findings of the disease. Bone marrow aspirates and biopsies from involved tissu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lampert IA,Catovsky D,Bergier N

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two unrelated Spanish males with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and haemolytic anaemia, and two different novel point mutations in the G6PD gene, have been identified. A C to T transition at nucleotide 406 resulting in a (136) Arg to Cys substitution and a C to G transition at nucleotide 1155 r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zarza R,Pujades A,Rovira A,Saavedra R,Fernandez J,Aymerich M,Vives Corrons JL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATOH8 has previously been shown to be an iron-regulated transcription factor, however its role in iron metabolism is not known. ATOH8 expression in HEK293 cells resulted in increased endogenous HAMP mRNA levels as well as HAMP promoter activity. Mutation of the E-box or SMAD response elements within the HAMP promoter ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Patel N,Varghese J,Masaratana P,Latunde-Dada GO,Jacob M,Simpson RJ,McKie AT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in patients with Fanconi's anaemia (FA) in transformation are very poor and only a few cases with favourable outcome have been reported. We present the follow-up of two FA-myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients with monosomy 7 and complex karyotype implicating chromosome 1...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ortega M,Caballín MR,Ortega JJ,Olive T,Coll MD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a high incidence of subacute, chronic and sometimes occult intracranial subdural haematoma (SDH) occurring during intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with a monoblastic component. Between March 1990 and January 1993, 86 AML patients from our institution were randomized in the multicentri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jourdan E,Dombret H,Glaisner S,Micléa JM,Castaigne S,Degos L

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in primary confluent cultures lost their normal polygonal shape and assumed a 'contracted' appearance as judged by phase contrast microscopy when exposed to highly purified bovine thrombin (2 N.I.H. u/ml). Total actin in thrombin-exposed cells did not differ from that of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Galdal KS,Evensen SA,Høglund AS,Nilsen E

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have treated 17 refractory or relapsed multiple myeloma patients resistant to chemotherapy with thalidomide at a dose of 200-800 mg/day. Eleven patients responded, five of whom had a very good partial response (> 75% decline in M protein) and another five exhibited a partial response (> 50% decline in M protein). E...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kneller A,Raanani P,Hardan I,Avigdor A,Levi I,Berkowicz M,Ben-Bassat I

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follicular lymphoma (FL) is a heterogeneous disease; therefore, reliable prognostic tools are needed to plan treatment strategies. The FL International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) was developed before the rituximab era, while the PRIMA-PI was built on rituximab chemotherapy. Our objective was to evaluate these two progno...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kimby E,Lockmer S,Holte H,Hagberg H,Wahlin BE,Brown P,Østenstad B

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo expansion of primitive human haematopoietic stem cells (HSC) is clinically relevant for stem cell transplantation and gene therapy. Here, we demonstrate the selective expansion of CD34+CD38- cells from purified CD34+ cells upon stimulation with Flt3-ligand, stem cell factor and thrombopoietin. Over a 100-fold ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ng YY,Bloem AC,van Kessel B,Lokhorst H,Logtenberg T,Staal FJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma is a distinct clinicopathological entity associated with t(11;14) and cyclin D1 overexpression. The majority of cases show uniform morphological and phenotypic features characterized by a monotonous proliferation of small-to-medium-sized irregular B cells that express CD5 and bright surface immuno...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pittaluga S,Tierens A,Pinyol M,Campo E,Delabie J,De Wolf-Peeters C

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia is typically observed in patients undergoing cord blood transplantation. We hypothesized that delayed recovery of the platelet count might be caused by defects in the megakaryocytic differentiation pathway of cord blood progenitors. To test this hypothesis, we compared the features of in vitro megakar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miyazaki R,Ogata H,Iguchi T,Sogo S,Kushida T,Ito T,Inaba M,Ikehara S,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splanchnic vein thrombosis (SVT) is one of the most important complications of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Although MPN are common causes of SVT, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this predisposition, their epidemiology and natural history are not fully understood. Studies have concentrated on the g...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sekhar M,McVinnie K,Burroughs AK

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study to demonstrate vincristine-induced apoptosis in vivo in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). In five children, apoptosis was detected by terminal deoxynucleotide transferase-mediated dUTP-digoxigenin nick-end labelling (TUNEL) ass...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Groninger E,de Graaf SS,Meeuwsen-de Boer GJ,Sluiter WJ,Poppema S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00