The ASH Choosing Wisely® campaign: five hematologic tests and treatments to question.

abstract：:Germ-line GATA2 gene mutations, leading to haploinsufficiency, have been identified in patients with familial myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia, monocytopenia and mycobacterial infections, Emberger syndrome, and dendritic cell, monocyte, B-, and NK-cell deficiency. GATA2 mutations have also been reported...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ganapathi KA,Townsley DM,Hsu AP,Arthur DC,Zerbe CS,Cuellar-Rodriguez J,Hickstein DD,Rosenzweig SD,Braylan RC,Young NS,Holland SM,Calvo KR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This spotlight review focuses on the second-generation proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib, which was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma patients who have received at least 2 prior therapies, including bortezomib and an immunomodulatory age...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kortuem KM,Stewart AK

更新日期：2013-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) occurs frequently after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. There are no data addressing individual susceptibility to TA-TMA. We performed a hypothesis-driven analysis of 17 candidate genes known t...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Jodele S,Zhang K,Zou F,Laskin B,Dandoy CE,Myers KC,Lane A,Meller J,Medvedovic M,Chen J,Davies SM

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro agar culture patterns of bone marrow cells in acute myeloid leukemia may show several growth patterns, including cultures where no colonies or clusters develop, cultures with varying numbers of clusters and no colonies, or colony and cluster formation with an extremely high ratio of clusters to colonies. Twel...

journal_title：Blood

authors： McCarthy JH,Sullivan JR,Ungar B,Metcalf D

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic potential of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) gene therapy can be fully exploited only by reaching efficient gene transfer into HSCs without compromising their biologic properties. Although HSCs can be transduced by HIV-derived lentiviral vectors (LVs) in short ex vivo culture, they display low permissivi...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Santoni de Sio FR,Cascio P,Zingale A,Gasparini M,Naldini L

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although chemotherapy can induce complete responses in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), it is not considered curative. Treated patients generally develop recurrent disease requiring additional therapy, which can cause worsening immune dysfunction, myelosuppression, and selection for chemotherapy-resis...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kater AP,van Oers MH,Kipps TJ

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:All-trans retinoic acid (RA) induces complete remission in a high proportion of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Nevertheless, most of these patients develop RA resistance and relapse. The mechanisms of RA resistance by APL cells are still unclear. To understand the characteristics of human leukemia, ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kizaki M,Matsushita H,Takayama N,Muto A,Ueno H,Awaya N,Kawai Y,Asou H,Kamada N,Ikeda Y

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous stem-cell transplantation has become a widely used therapy in Hodgkin's disease (HD). To appreciate the early and late risks associated with this procedure, its lethal toxicity and effects on the incidence of secondary cancers were studied. Data related to 467 French patients grafted from 1982 to 1995 for p...

journal_title：Blood

authors： André M,Henry-Amar M,Blaise D,Colombat P,Fleury J,Milpied N,Cahn JY,Pico JL,Bastion Y,Kuentz M,Nedellec G,Attal M,Fermé C,Gisselbrecht C

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients developed blastic transformation of essential thrombocythemia (tET). Morphological studies in all patients showed that the majority of blasts had either myeloblastic or myelomonoblastic differentiation. Immunologic assays of hematopoietic cells were performed in two patients. In patient 1, 86% of periph...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Frei-Lahr D,Barton JC,Hoffman R,Burkett LL,Prchal JT

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and IL-15 exert similar biological actions, which largely reflect the fact that their receptors share common beta and gamma subunits; in contrast, distinct subunits are required for high-affinity binding of either cytokine to a heterotrimeric receptor complex. Human neutrophils are known to expres...

journal_title：Blood

authors： McDonald PP,Russo MP,Ferrini S,Cassatella MA

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary complication in severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is manifested as a prolonged impairment of gas transfer or the more severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In either clinical presentation, vascular permeability is a major component of the pathologic process. In this report, we examined the ef...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Gillrie MR,Krishnegowda G,Lee K,Buret AG,Robbins SM,Looareesuwan S,Gowda DC,Ho M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) kill target cells through the polarized release of lytic molecules from secretory lysosomes. Loss of munc13-4 function inhibits this process and causes familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis type 3 (FHL3). munc13-4 binds rab27a, but the necessity of the complex remains enigmatic, be...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Elstak ED,Neeft M,Nehme NT,Voortman J,Cheung M,Goodarzifard M,Gerritsen HC,van Bergen En Henegouwen PM,Callebaut I,de Saint Basile G,van der Sluijs P

更新日期：2011-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton tyrosine kinase (Btk) has a well-defined role in B-cell development, whereas its expression in osteoclasts (OCs) further suggests a role in osteoclastogenesis. Here we investigated effects of PCI-32765, an oral and selective Btk inhibitor, on osteoclastogenesis as well as on multiple myeloma (MM) growth within ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Tai YT,Chang BY,Kong SY,Fulciniti M,Yang G,Calle Y,Hu Y,Lin J,Zhao JJ,Cagnetta A,Cea M,Sellitto MA,Zhong MY,Wang Q,Acharya C,Carrasco DR,Buggy JJ,Elias L,Treon SP,Matsui W,Richardson P,Munshi NC,Anderson KC

更新日期：2012-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Blood, Smith and colleagues report on the functional role of the interaction between these 2 proteins by studying the involved binding sites responsible for clot stabilization.(1) ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kohler HP

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired fibrinolysis, resulting from increased plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) or reduced tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) plasma levels, may predispose the individual to subacute thrombosis in sepsis and inflammation. The objective of these studies was to show that adenovirus-mediated gene transfer...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Carmeliet P,Stassen JM,Van Vlaenderen I,Meidell RS,Collen D,Gerard RD

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary infection with the human herpesvirus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), may result in subclinical seroconversion or may appear as infectious mononucleosis (IM), a lymphoproliferative disease of variable severity. Why primary infection manifests differently between patients is unknown, and, given the difficulties in id...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Silins SL,Sherritt MA,Silleri JM,Cross SM,Elliott SL,Bharadwaj M,Le TT,Morrison LE,Khanna R,Moss DJ,Suhrbier A,Misko IS

更新日期：2001-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is characterized by the absence of a respiratory burst in activated phagocytes. Defects in at least four different genes lead to CGD. Patients with the X-linked form of CGD have mutations in the gene for the beta-subunit of cytochrome b558 (gp91-phox). We studied the molecular defec...

journal_title：Blood

authors： de Boer M,Bolscher BG,Dinauer MC,Orkin SH,Smith CI,Ahlin A,Weening RS,Roos D

更新日期：1992-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I)-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) are known to be caused by HTLV-I infection. However, current methods used to determine HTLV-I infection do not differentiate between HTLV-I asymptomatic carriers (ACs) and ATL an...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Enose-Akahata Y,Abrams A,Johnson KR,Maloney EM,Jacobson S

更新日期：2012-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of endothelial cells to recombinant tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) induced a modest (2-fold) increase of HL-60 cell adhesion as compared to TNF-alpha (40-fold) or interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta; 20-fold). However, pretreatment of endothelial cultures with TRAIL determined a...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Secchiero P,Corallini F,di Iasio MG,Gonelli A,Barbarotto E,Zauli G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene is tightly regulated in a tissue- and development-specific manner. Accumulation of MPO messenger RNA (mRNA) occurs only at the late myeloblastic and promyelocytic stages of myeloid differentiation and is negligible at other stages of myeloid development and in other tissues...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Lübbert M,Miller CW,Koeffler HP

更新日期：1991-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous disease defined by transcriptional classifications, specific signaling and survival pathways, and multiple low-frequency genetic alterations. Preclinical model systems that capture the genetic and functional heterogeneity of DLBCL are urgently needed. Here, we g...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Chapuy B,Cheng H,Watahiki A,Ducar MD,Tan Y,Chen L,Roemer MG,Ouyang J,Christie AL,Zhang L,Gusenleitner D,Abo RP,Farinha P,von Bonin F,Thorner AR,Sun HH,Gascoyne RD,Pinkus GS,van Hummelen P,Wulf GG,Aster JC,Weinst

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytes bound at endothelial cell junctions extravasate within minutes. Lymphocyte-endothelial cell binding is mediated by receptors such as vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1). VCAM-1 activates endothelial cell nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase in minutes, and this activity is req...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Deem TL,Cook-Mills JM

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is considered a negative regulator of inflammation, as inhibition of STAT3 signaling enhances antitumor immunity. However, STAT3 activation is a key oncogenic pathway in natural killer (NK)-lineage large granular lymphomas, and we recently reported enhanced pr...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Zhu S,Phatarpekar PV,Denman CJ,Senyukov VV,Somanchi SS,Nguyen-Jackson HT,Mace EM,Freeman AF,Watowich SS,Orange JS,Holland SM,Lee DA

更新日期：2014-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptor protein-3 (AP-3) is an ubiquitous cytoplasmic complex that shuttles cargo proteins from the trans-Golgi and a tubular-endosomal compartment to endosome-lysosome-related organelles. Lack of the beta3A subunit of this complex causes Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type 2, an autosomal recessive disease characterized b...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Fontana S,Parolini S,Vermi W,Booth S,Gallo F,Donini M,Benassi M,Gentili F,Ferrari D,Notarangelo LD,Cavadini P,Marcenaro E,Dusi S,Cassatella M,Facchetti F,Griffiths GM,Moretta A,Notarangelo LD,Badolato R

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the initial observations by Kaiser and Edelman, interest in the role of calcium in ACS-induced apoptosis has wavered, in part because of the fact that extracellular calcium is only necessary for induction of apoptosis in thymocytes, but not in peripheral lymphocytes or lymphoma cells. Now, as result of molecular...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Distelhorst CW,Dubyak G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel Hodgkin's disease (HD) derived cell line, L1236, was established from the peripheral blood of a patient with advanced Hodgkin's disease. Analysis of immunoglobulin (Ig) gene rearrangements revealed a biallelic Ig heavy chain and a monoallelic Ig kappa light chain gene rearrangement, pointing to a B-lymphoid or...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Wolf J,Kapp U,Bohlen H,Kornacker M,Schoch C,Stahl B,Mücke S,von Kalle C,Fonatsch C,Schaefer HE,Hansmann ML,Diehl V

更新日期：1996-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some Ki-1 lymphomas carry a specific chromosomal translocation, t(2;5)(p23;q35). We have recently found a novel hyperphosphorylated 80-kD protein tyrosine kinase, p80, in a human Ki-1 lymphoma with this translocation. Subsequent cDNA cloning showed that p80 is a fusion protein of two different genes on chromosome 2p23...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Shiota M,Fujimoto J,Takenaga M,Satoh H,Ichinohasama R,Abe M,Nakano M,Yamamoto T,Mori S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bcr-abl chimeric messenger RNA is frequently detected in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients after bone marrow transplantation. It was previously reported that the relapse risk of bcr-abl detection 6 to 12 months after transplantation was greater than 40%. This risk decreased as the time between transplantatio...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Radich JP,Gooley T,Bryant E,Chauncey T,Clift R,Beppu L,Edmands S,Flowers ME,Kerkof K,Nelson R,Appelbaum FR

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adoptive T-cell therapy using CD3/CD28 co-stimulation likely requires in vivo generation of antigen specificity. Because CD28 promotes TH1/TC1 (T1) or TH2/TC2 (T2) differentiation, costimulation may generate donor T1 or T2 cells capable of differentially mediating allogeneic graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effects and graft-...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Jung U,Foley JE,Erdmann AA,Eckhaus MA,Fowler DH

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Megakaryopoiesis is the hierarchical differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells into megakaryocytes. Differentiating megakaryocytes undergo maturation characterized by endomitosis and produce numerous platelets through proplatelet formation. C-type lectin-like receptor 2 (CLEC-2) is a podoplanin (PDPN) receptor mainl...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Tamura S,Suzuki-Inoue K,Tsukiji N,Shirai T,Sasaki T,Osada M,Satoh K,Ozaki Y

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00