Clinico-biological characteristics and treatment of type I monoclonal cryoglobulinaemia: a study of 64 cases.

abstract：:We studied the abnormal in vitro polyclonal B-cell activity observed in patients with multiple myeloma and Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia. Numbers of cells spontaneously secreting immunoglobulin (Ig) in freshly isolated suspensions of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulated cultures ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Levinson AI,Dziarski A,Blankenhorn E,Schreiber AD,Negendank WG

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：:The responsiveness of bone marrow erythroid progenitors (CFU-E and BFU-E) to recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-Ep) was investigated in vitro in 21 patients with multiple myeloma to assess the clinical usefulness of rh-Ep in this disease. CFU-E and BFU-E assays were performed by methylcellulose culture methods. The ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aoki I,Nishijima K,Homori M,Nakahara K,Higashi K,Ishikawa K

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between duodenal mucosal mRNA levels of the transcription factor, NF-E2, H-ferritin (a putative NF-E2 regulated gene) and iron absorption in mice. CD1-strain mice with normal and altered iron metabolism (hypoxic, iron-deficient, iron-loaded) and animals with genetic defects of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Raja KB,Gerard B,McKie AT,Simpson RJ,Peters TJ,Grandchamp B,Beaumont C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent lymphocytosis is usually associated with a malignant lymphoproliferative disease (MLPD). We report six female patients presenting a chronic, moderate lymphocytosis of 2-16 years duration with atypical binucleated lymphocytes on peripheral blood smears. Further investigation showed a polyclonal increase in s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Troussard X,Valensi F,Debert C,Maynadie M,Schillinger F,Bonnet P,Macintyre EA,Flandrin G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood levels of BFU-e, CFU-GM and CFU-mix were studied serially in nine patients with acute leukaemia in remission during the period of recovery that followed induction or consolidation chemotherapy. Following 23 courses of treatment in the nine patients, the values for all three classes of progenitor were ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reid CD,Kirk A,Muir J,Chanarin I

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is a rare disease with varied presentation, myriad symptomatology and variable prognosis. Most patients present with cutaneous disease and mediator-related symptomatology with a small subset having systemic disease (systemic mastocytosis, SM). A subset of the latter develops synchronous or metachronous ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Radia DH,Green A,Oni C,Moonim M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are involved in the stable transmittance of the repressive state of their gene targets throughout the cell cycle. Mis-expression of PcG proteins can lead to proliferative defects and tumorigenesis. There are two separate multimeric PcG protein complexes: an EED-EZH2-containing complex and...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Visser HP,Gunster MJ,Kluin-Nelemans HC,Manders EM,Raaphorst FM,Meijer CJ,Willemze R,Otte AP

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH) is a genetic disorder caused by defective lymphocyte cytotoxicity, resulting in impaired lymphocyte homeostasis and macrophage infiltration of solid tissues and bone marrow, with extensive haemophagocytosis. It is invariably fatal unless treated by allogeneic haemato...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Almousa H,Ouachée-Chardin M,Picard C,Radford-Weiss I,Caillat-Zucman S,Cavazzana-Calvo M,Blanche S,de Saint Basile G,Le Deist F,Fischer A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old woman presented with splenic marginal zone lymphoma associated with acquired von Willebrand's disease (AVWD). Laboratory abnormalities included markedly decreased plasma levels of factor VIII coagulant (C) activity (VIII:C 28%), von Willebrand's factor (VWF) antigen (Ag) (vWF:Ag < 6%), and VWF ristocetin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tefferi A,Hanson CA,Kurtin PJ,Katzmann JA,Dalton RJ,Nichols WL

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunotoxin containing an anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody (Ber-H2) and saporin, a ribosome-inactivating protein type 1, is described. It specifically inhibits protein synthesis by Hodgkin derived target cell lines with a very high efficiency (IC50 ranging from 5 x 10(-12) M to 5 x 10(-14) M, as saporin), while irrele...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tazzari PL,Bolognesi A,de Totero D,Falini B,Lemoli RM,Soria MR,Pileri S,Gobbi M,Stein H,Flenghi L

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosing central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma remains a challenge. Most patients have to undergo brain biopsy to obtain tissue for diagnosis, with associated risks of serious complications. Diagnostic markers in blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) could facilitate early diagnosis with low complication rates. We perf...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Westrhenen A,Smidt LCA,Seute T,Nierkens S,Stork ACJ,Minnema MC,Snijders TJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is a common complication following allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). It is the leading cause of non-relapse mortality in transplant survivors and has a significant impact upon their functional status and quality of life. Despite significant advances being m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fraser CJ,Scott Baker K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to assess the methods which gave maximal recovery of purified CD34/45+ cells from a cord blood specimen and optimal growth of progenitors cultured from the purified cells. Cord blood samples were separated using Percoll gradients (either one (1.080) or two successive (1.080 and 1.068) gradient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Charbord P,Newton I,Voillat L,Schaal JP,Herve P

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte sedimentation, viscosity, electrophroetic mobility, and osmotic fragility were measured in a study of the rheological behaviour of the erythrocyte in vitro. In comparison with physiological saline solution, a suspending medium containing a gamma2lambda2 monoclonal IgG from a patient with multiple myeloma c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rovel A,Vigneron C,Streiff F

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cell death is induced by the cross-linking of Fas/APO-1 receptor (CD95) in acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML) cells. Since CD95 ligand (CD95L) is expressed on interleukin-2 (IL-2)-activated T cells, we investigated the involvement of CD95-CD95L pathway in T cell-mediated cytotoxicity against AML cells. Activa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Komada Y,Zhou YW,Zhang XL,Chen TX,Tanaka S,Azuma E,Sakurai M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) is an autosomal recessive DNA repair disorder with a high predisposition for lymphoid malignancies. The majority of NBS patients carry a homozygous founder mutation (657del5) within the NBS1 gene. The observation of a high incidence of cancer in close relatives of NBS patients suggests...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stanulla M,Stümm M,Dieckvoss BO,Seidemann K,Schemmel V,Müller Brechlin A,Schrappe M,Welte K,Reiter A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloma cells thrive in an environment of sustained inflammation, which impacts the development and evolution of the disease, as well as drug resistance. We evaluated the impact of genetic polymorphisms in the Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathway, which have been implicated in different inflammatory responses in the ou...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bagratuni T,Terpos E,Eleutherakis-Papaiakovou E,Kalapanida D,Gavriatopoulou M,Migkou M,Liacos CI,Tasidou A,Matsouka C,Mparmparousi D,Dimopoulos MA,Kastritis E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the iron storage protein ferritin has a number of physiological functions not directly related to iron metabolism and a number of these relate to lymphocyte and macrophage activity. The present study demonstrates a selective distribution of ferritin on lymphocyte and macrophage surface membr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cragg SJ,Hoy TG,Jacobs A

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic role of CD20 expression and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) positivity in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) after solid organ transplantation (SOT) in paediatric patients is poorly understood. We retrospectively examined the relationship of CD20 and EBV with the time interval from SOT to PTLD ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Orjuela MA,Alobeid B,Liu X,Siebert AL,Kott ER,Addonizio LJ,Morris E,Garvin JH,Lobritto SJ,Cairo MS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the generation and functional characterization of a humanized immunoenzyme comprising a stable humanized single chain Fv (scFv) with grafted specificity of the anti-CD22 murine monoclonal antibody RFB4 and the human ribonuclease angiogenin (ANG). The fusion protein produced from transiently transfected ma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Krauss J,Arndt MA,Vu BK,Newton DL,Rybak SM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZBCL) represents a distinct subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) which has been recently recognized and defined as a disease entity. Cytogenetically, these lymphomas reveal a high prevalence of trisomy 3, and recent data obtained by comparative genomic hybridization indicate t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dierlamm J,Pittaluga S,Stul M,Wlodarska I,Michaux L,Thomas J,Verhoef G,Verhest A,Depardieu C,Cassiman JJ,Hagemeijer A,De Wolf-Peeters C,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) detected by the central portion of von Willebrand factor cDNA, which recognizes the true gene and in addition pseudogenic sequences, were characterized and mapped. Small cDNA fragments which hybridized with DNA from families with von Willebrand disease were u...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bernardi F,Marchetti G,Casonato A,Gemmati D,Patracchini P,Legnani C,DeRosa V,Girolami A,Conconi F

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ImMucin, a 21-mer cancer vaccine encoding the signal peptide domain of the MUC1 tumour-associated antigen, possesses a high density of T- and B-cell epitopes but preserves MUC1 specificity. This phase I/II study assessed the safety, immunity and clinical response to 6 or 12 bi-weekly intradermal ImMucin vaccines, co-a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Carmon L,Avivi I,Kovjazin R,Zuckerman T,Dray L,Gatt ME,Or R,Shapira MY

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary immune response to a viral antigen (tick-borne encephalitis, TBE) has been determined in haemophiliacs. Twelve HIV-negative and four clinically asymptomatic, HIV-positive haemophiliacs as well as 16 age-matched healthy controls were included in the study. Antibody responses after TBE vaccination were compa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wolf HM,Pum M,Jáger R,István L,Mannhalter JW,Eibl MM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phase II A study was conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Givinostat, a novel Histone-Deacetylases inhibitor, in patients with Polycythaemia Vera (PV, n = 12), Essential Thrombocythaemia (ET, n = 1) and Myelofibrosis (n = 16), bearing the JAK2V617F mutation. The study was approved by the local ethics com...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rambaldi A,Dellacasa CM,Finazzi G,Carobbio A,Ferrari ML,Guglielmelli P,Gattoni E,Salmoiraghi S,Finazzi MC,Di Tollo S,D'Urzo C,Vannucchi AM,Barosi G,Barbui T

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bleeding tendency manifested by petechiae and ecchymoses is one of the most common causes for referral of patients to haematology clinics. Vessel wall pathology is not usually considered to be a cause for deranged haemostasis, although coexistence of increased capillary fragility and joint hypermobility have been re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kaplinsky C,Kenet G,Seligsohn U,Rechavi G

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic sibling bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is the recommended treatment for relapsed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), but appropriate donors are only available in 30% of cases. Unfortunately, BMT from unrelated donors (UD) has been associated with high rates of severe graft-versus-host disease ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oakhill A,Pamphilon DH,Potter MN,Steward CG,Goodman S,Green A,Goulden P,Goulden NJ,Hale G,Waldmann H,Cornish JM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are a family of over 40 small (8 kDa) related proteins with the function of moving cells along a chemotactic gradient, either to organise cells within an organ or to facilitate the movement of leucocytes around the body. Mouse models have implicated the importance of the chemokine CXCL12 in haematopoiesis a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Laurence AD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is characterized by a minority of neoplastic Hodgkin-Reed Sternberg (HRS) cells surrounded by a non-neoplastic reactive infiltrate. As immunological mechanisms appear to be crucial in classical HL pathogenesis, altered serum chemokine levels might be related to disease activity. Serum levels of n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Niens M,Visser L,Nolte IM,van der Steege G,Diepstra A,Cordano P,Jarrett RF,Te Meerman GJ,Poppema S,van den Berg A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00