The British Society for Haematology: 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'.

abstract：:Deregulated Hedgehog (Hh) signalling activity may be associated with a broad range of cancer types and hence has become an attractive target for therapeutic intervention. Although initial haematological interest focused on the therapeutic targeting of this pathway in chronic myeloid leukaemia), small molecule inhibito...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Khan AA,Harrison CN,McLornan DP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3q21q26 syndrome leukaemias are characterised by dystrophic megakaryocytes, elevated platelet counts, ectopic EVI1 protein production and poor prognosis. To investigate the molecular basis of this disease, we developed a model system to examine the biological activity of EVI1 in a megakaryocyte progenitor cell lin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kilbey A,Alzuherri H,McColl J,Calés C,Frampton J,Bartholomew C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL) is one of the more common forms of B cell malignancy. Although the condition has a variable clinical course, the trend is towards eventual relapse and the disease is considered incurable. Whilst the majority of the circulating CD5-positive neoplastic B cel...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ramsay AD,Rodriguez-Justo M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro colony formation of bone-marrow erythroid progenitor cells in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) was examined. The numbers of early and late erythroid progenitors (BFU-E and CFU-E) showed wide variations; two cases out of eight cases of PNH showed decreased erythroid colony formation, bu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Urabe A,Fujioka S

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylserine (PS) externalization may contribute to Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) characteristics including thrombogenesis, endothelial adhesion and shortened red blood cell (RBC) lifespan. Aminophospholipid translocase (APLT) returns externalized PS to the inner membrane, and phospholipid scramblase (PLSCR) equilib...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Barber LA,Palascak MB,Joiner CH,Franco RS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with Down syndrome have been found to have characteristic in vivo and in vitro methotrexate toxicity. The in vitro methotrexate toxicity characteristic of Down syndrome can be diminished by the in vivo administration of supplemental high doses of folic acid. A possible explanation for the increased sensitivit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peeters MA,Rethore MO,Lejeune J

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPLW515L/K and JAK2V617F can co-exist in myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM). The chronology of clonal emergence was studied in three such cases using serially stored bone marrow. At diagnosis, a major MPL515 mutant clone was accompanied by a minor JAK2V617F clone in all three instances. At 25 time points over...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lasho TL,Pardanani A,McClure RF,Mesa RA,Levine RL,Gilliland DG,Tefferi A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections continue to be a serious problem for severely neutropenic oncology and haematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplant patients. Although it is now possible to collect much larger numbers of neutrophils (PMNs) from donors stimulated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor + corticosteroids, the efficacy ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Strauss RG

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:An indirect immunofluorescence technique with single and double labelling has been used to examine cultured human megakaryocytes for ABH antigens. This technique demonstrated the presence of these antigens on megakaryocytes and a population of small mononuclear cells that probably represent the differentiated precurso...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dunstan RA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of producing unique targets for malignant cells we have identified peptide ligands for the clonal surface immunoglobulin isolated from the B cells of a chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patient. The peptides were identified from random-peptide phage-display libraries. The obtained ligands bound specific...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Buhl L,Szecsi PB,Gisselø GG,Schafer-Nielsen C

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with intermittent claudication have been reported to have disturbances in blood rheology and haemostasis. Whether these disturbances are a result of, or largely independent of, smoking history and arterial narrowing has not yet been established. The levels of whole blood and plasma viscosity, haematocrit, von...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee AJ,Fowkes FG,Rattray A,Rumley A,Lowe GD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal serum and serum from four patients with severe aplastic anaemia was fractionated by Sephadex G-150 gel filtration. Fractions were tested for direct haemopoietic activity on colony forming cells in methylcellulose cultures, and for their indirect influence on haemopoiesis via CSA- and BPA-producing cells. All ap...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nissen C,Moser Y,Speck B,Bendy J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with CML in relapse after a sex-mismatch bone marrow transplant who was treated with donor lymphocyte infusions and developed severe marrow aplasia 3 months later. As cytogenetic analysis at this point was not possible because of the very low number of marrow cells available, we used in situ hybrid...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Garicochea B,van Rhee F,Spencer A,Chase A,Lin F,Cross NC,Goldman JM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the description in 1974 of the 5q--syndrome, only 29 cases have been reported. Over a 3 1/2 year period cytogenetic culture of bone marrow submitted from 344 patients being investigated for a blood disorder revealed nine patients with anomalies of chromosome 5. In five of these patients (samples arising from 37 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tinegate H,Gaunt L,Hamilton PJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the additional benefit of Technetium(99)-sestamibi (99mTc-MIBI) scanning in comparison with standard X-ray techniques for multiple myeloma patients either at diagnosis or during follow-up. Between February 2001 and January 2005, 397 whole body scans were acquired. On 229 scans performed at diagnosis, 146 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mele A,Offidani M,Visani G,Marconi M,Cambioli F,Nonni M,Catarini M,Brianzoni E,Berbellini A,Ascoli G,Brunori M,Agostini V,Corvatta L,Isidori A,Spinelli A,Gradari M,Leoni P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) after a reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen with fludarabine, melphalan and alemtuzmab is an effective therapy for haematological malignancies. Alemtuzumab, a monoclonal antibody against CD52, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchor-bound surface protei...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Woelfinger P,Epp K,Schaefer L,Kriege D,Theobald M,Bopp T,Wagner-Drouet EM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant factor VIII variants with overlapping deletions spanning the region Lys713-Ile1668 have been expressed in mammalian cells, and analysed for biological activity both in vitro and in vivo. Two distinct assay systems were used to measure the activity in vitro. The one-stage coagulation assay served to assess ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mertens K,Donath MJ,van Leen RW,de Keyzer-Nellen MJ,Verbeet MP,Klaasse Bos JM,Leyte A,van Mourik JA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-HSCT) is a standard treatment option for many patients with haematological malignancies. Historically, patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission for transplant-related toxicities have fared extremely poorly, with high ICU mortality rates...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Townsend WM,Holroyd A,Pearce R,Mackinnon S,Naik P,Goldstone AH,Linch DC,Peggs KS,Thomson KJ,Singer M,Howell DC,Morris EC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the possible role of a residual or variant alphaIIbbeta3 integrin (alphaIIbbeta3) in thrombogenesis, we used a new ex vivo perfusion chamber model to examine blood from patients with different subtypes of Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (GT). Non-anticoagulated blood was perfused through capillaries coated with ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hainaud P,Brouland JP,André P,Simoneau G,Bal Dit Sollier C,Drouet L,Caen J,Bellucci S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of CD77, inflammatory cytokines and endothelial cell growth factor (ECGF) in verotoxin (VT)-induced apoptosis in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) was studied. Apoptosis was detected using annexin V and propidium iodide staining. The expression of CD77 antigen was measured on a FACStar flow cyto...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Molostvov G,Morris A,Rose P,Basu S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TH line was established by bringing tumour cells from a multiple myeloma patient into suspension culture and subsequently cloning them by limiting dilution. The cultured cells show marked heterogeneity; there are ultrastructural differences between small and large TH cells, particularly with respect to the rough e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Weinreich SS,von dem Borne AE,van Lier RA,Feltkamp CA,Slater RM,Wester MR,Zeijlemaker WP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2GPI) bears the epitope(s) for autoimmune anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) frequently present in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). beta2GPI is involved in coagulation and fibrinolytic systems, including inhibition of contact activation. Coagulation factor XII is an initiator of i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Takeuchi R,Atsumi T,Ieko M,Amasaki Y,Ichikawa K,Koike T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with cryopreserved donor marrow cells can be used without prolonging the engraftment time or interfering with the reconstitution of haemopoiesis. In this report we extend our initial observations of the first 40 patients who underwent allogenei...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stockschläder M,Hassan HT,Krog C,Krüger W,Löliger C,Horstman M,Altnöder M,Clausen J,Grimm J,Kabisch H,Zander A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the kinetics of colony formation by progenitor cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) using erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) as a model system. For this, we scored the numbers of subcolonies produced by individual BFU-E in cultures of normal marrow and blood cells and in cultures of CML blo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marley SB,Lewis JL,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients with aplastic anaemia associated with dyskeratosis congenita received allogeneic marrow grafts from either HLA-identical siblings (six patients) or HLA-matched unrelated donors (two patients). Patients who received marrow from HLA-identical siblings were conditioned with cyclophosphamide (140-200 mg/kg)...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Langston AA,Sanders JE,Deeg HJ,Crawford SW,Anasetti C,Sullivan KM,Flowers ME,Storb R

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum "uracil+uridine" level, expressed as uracil, has been measured in 21 cases of vitamin B12 deficiency, in which the serum folate was normal, and compared with the level in 97 normal subjects. The level in the vitamin B12 deficient group (11.9 mumol/1). was significantly lower than in the controls (15.7 mumol/...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Parry TE,Blackmore JA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haem biosynthesis is the most important destination for absorbed iron, hence it can be hypothesized that iron absorption regulation should be integrated with haem metabolism. As an initial step to test this hypothesis, the effect on iron absorption of Tin-mesoporphyrin (SnMP), inhibitor of haem oxygenase, altering hae...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Laftah AH,Raja K,Simpson RJ,Peters TJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic inflammation activates the tissue factor/factor VIIa complex (TF/FVIIa), leading to a procoagulant state, which may be enhanced by impairment of physiological anticoagulant pathways, such as the protein C system. Besides impaired protein C activation, resistance to activated protein C (APC) may occur. We stud...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de Pont AC,Bakhtiari K,Hutten BA,de Jonge E,Vlasuk GP,Rote WE,Levi M,Büller HR,Meijers JC

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 12 years' experience with histocompatible, related donor marrow transplantation for 123 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; 104 > or = second remission. Four regimens were studied: cyclophosphamide (Cy)-+total body irradiation (TBI) (n = 35); Cy+fractionated TBI (n = 45); TBI+high-dose cytarabine (n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Weisdorf DJ,Woods WG,Nesbit ME Jr,Uckun F,Dusenbery K,Kim T,Haake R,Thomas W,Kersey JH,Ramsay NK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00