VAD chemotherapy for refractory multiple myeloma.

abstract：:Highly purified and cloned preparations of interleukin-1 (IL-1) were found to antagonize the capacity of erythropoietin (Epo) to stimulate the proliferation of mouse spleen and bone marrow erythroid precursor cells (EPC) in culture. Cloned murine IL-1 and purified and cloned human IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta were approxi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Schooley JC,Kullgren B,Allison AC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous trials, the orally active iron chelator deferiprone (L1) has been associated with sporadic agranulocytosis, milder forms of neutropenia and other side-effects. To determine the incidence of these events, we performed a multicentre prospective study of the chelator. Blood counts were performed weekly, and c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cohen AR,Galanello R,Piga A,Dipalma A,Vullo C,Tricta F

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher disease (GD) is an autosomal recessive inherited defect of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GluCerase) that leads to glucosylceramide (GluCer) accumulation. We previously demonstrated the existence of imbalances in certain lymphocyte populations in GD patients. We now show that GluCerase-deficient mono...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Balreira A,Lacerda L,Miranda CS,Arosa FA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the trends of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) positivity rate in Hodgkin's disease (HD) between 1955 and 1999. The overall positivity rate gradually decreased over time [12 out of 23 (52%) in 1955-69; 18 out of 39 (46%) in 1970-84; 13 out of 44 (35%) in 1985-99; P = 0.135]. Interestingly, a marked decrease in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Takeuchi K,Morishita Y,Fukayama M,Mori S

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we show that in vitro cultured human polyclonal NK cell lines and clones express the Ki-1/CD30 Hodgkin-associated antigen, identified by the BER-H2 monoclonal antibody. The percentage of BER-H2+ cells ranged from 19% to 67% in five polyclonal NK cell lines and was 31% and 20% in two NK clones. The intens...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cambiaggi A,Cantoni C,Marciano S,De Totero D,Pileri S,Tazzari PL,Stein H,Ferrini S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single immunoglobulin light chain lambda was identified in the blast cells of two out of 12 patients with common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (C-ALL) using the alkaline phosphatase/anti-alkaline phosphatase (APAAP) technique. Inhibition at the cell surface proved that the reaction was a genuine anti-lambda reaction...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Markey GM,Alexander HD,Nolan RL,Morris TC,Robertson JH

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of three onc-genes, c-myc, c-myb and c-fes, has been evaluated at the cellular level in myeloid and erythroid precursors of normal human bone marrow, by "in situ" hybridization with tritium-labelled probes. A relatively large amount of m-RNA from the three onc-genes was detected in myeloblasts and promy...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Emilia G,Donelli A,Ferrari S,Torelli U,Selleri L,Zucchini P,Moretti L,Venturelli D,Ceccherelli G,Torelli G

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigated the proliferation of three well-documented MM lines and 10 bone marrow samples from myeloma patients in response to rh-SCF alone and combined with Interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-3 and IL-3/GM-CSF fusion protein PIXY 321. Neoplastic plasma cells were highly purified (> 90%) by immunomagnetic dep...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lemoli RM,Fortuna A,Grande A,Gamberi B,Bonsi L,Fogli M,Amabile M,Cavo M,Ferrari S,Tura S

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in DNA copy number (CN) and DNA methylation represent important aberrations for lymphomas and other cancers. Here, for the first time, we show that the Illumina Infinium Methylation (IIM) assay, although not originally designed for CN profiling, is able to estimate CN changes. We compared the IIM CN profiles t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kwee I,Rinaldi A,Rancoita P,Rossi D,Capello D,Forconi F,Giuliani N,Piva R,Inghirami G,Gaidano G,Zucca E,Bertoni F

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:We describe a patient with both haemophagocytic syndrome and acute myocarditis probably associated with parvovirus B19 infection. The patient had a marked neutrophilia instead of neutropenia more usually observed in virus-associated haemophagocytic syndrome (VAHS). Endogenous serum concentrations of macrophage colony-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsuda H,Maeda Y,Nakagawa K,Nakayama M,Nishimura H,Ishihara A,Miyayama H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether human red cells contain a proteolytic system capable of rapidly degrading unstable proteins, the fate of pulse-labelled puromycyl polypeptides was investigated. In erythroid bone marrow cells these unstable polypeptides were degraded to TCA-soluble fragments with a mean half-life of 4 . 5 min. How...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vissers MC,Winterbourn CC,Carrell RW

更新日期：1983-03-01 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 combination of bortezomib and rituximab was evaluated in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) and Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM), in a Phase I and later, a randomized Phase II study. In the randomized study, 42 patients with recurrent/refractory disease received either: bortezomi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Agathocleous A,Rohatiner A,Rule S,Hunter H,Kerr JP,Neeson SM,Matthews J,Strauss S,Montoto S,Johnson P,Radford J,Lister A

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) occurring in a patient with untreated chronic lymphatic leukaemia (CLL) is presented. The diagnosis of two simultaneous leukaemic processes is based on morphological, cytochemical and immunological findings. The significance of the development of AML in patients with CLL is disc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lawlor E,McCann SR,Whelan A,Greally J,Temperley IJ

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma concentrations of erythropoietin (Ep), soluble transferrin receptors (sTfRs), iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC) and ferritin were monitored in five leukaemia patients undergoing autologous bone marrow stem cell transplantation (BMSCT) and in 10 lymphoma and 21 ovarian cancer patients undergoing autol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Testa U,Rutella S,Martucci R,Scambia G,D'Onofrio G,Pierelli L,Sica S,Benedetti Panici PL,Menichella G,Foti E,Mastroberardino G,Mancuso S,Leone G,Peschle C

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folate analogues were added to human bone marrow cells to determine their effect on deoxyuridine utilization in the deoxyuridine suppression test. Formyltetrahydrofolates fully corrected the impairment of dU utilization in pernicious anaemia marrows but tetrahydrofolate was relatively ineffective. All these analogues ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deacon R,Chanarin I,Perry J,Lumb M

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), which, 8 years later, transformed into granulocytic sarcoma in the brain and, subsequently, into acute myelocytic leukaemia. Repeated chromosome analyses showed a normal karyotype, until the time of leukaemic transformation when trisomy 8 was confirmed in cell...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fujii N,Ikeda K,Takahashi N,Kojima K,Kobayashi Y,Ashiba A,Takenaka K,Fukuda S,Shinagawa K,Ishimaru F,Niiya K,Miura I,Tanimoto M,Harada M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MLL rearrangements were analysed in the blood of a patient receiving chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using inverse polymerase chain reaction targeting exon 12, parallel sequencing and a custom algorithm design. Of thirteen MLL rearrangements detected, five were capable of generating MLL fusion genes, in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shih SJ,Fass J,Buffalo V,Lin D,Singh SP,Diaz MO,Vaughan AT

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients belonging to four families with 'atypical elliptocytosis' have been investigated. Clinical, haematological, erythrokinetic and enzymatic characteristics as well as the effect of splenectomy are discussed. These studies appear to define the fundamental features of a particular disorder or a variety of heredita...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Torlontano G,Fioritoni G,Salvati AM

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The very poor outcome of invasive fungal infections (IFI) in patients with haematological malignancies or recipients of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is largely attributed to their compromised host defence mechanisms. The restoration or augmentation of immune responses in these patients is now considered as...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Antachopoulos C,Roilides E

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation is commonly used to investigate patients with possible dense granule storage pool deficiency (delta SPD), but recent studies have shown that this investigation is not specific or sensitive for this disorder. We describe a simple one-step technique to detect mepacrine loaded platelets by flow cytom...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gordon N,Thom J,Cole C,Baker R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variable clinical outcomes of Multiple Myeloma (MM) patients are incompletely defined by current prognostication tools. We examined the clinical utility of high-resolution telomere length analysis as a prognostic marker in MM. Cohort stratification, using a previously determined length threshold for telomere dysfu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hyatt S,Jones RE,Heppel NH,Grimstead JW,Fegan C,Jackson GH,Hills R,Allan JM,Pratt G,Pepper C,Baird DM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative expression analysis of wild-typeETV6 in the disease state showed an absence of expression in ETV6-CBFA2 acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) when compared with non-ETV6-CBFA2 ALL and acute myeloid leukaemia. Fluorescent in-situ hybridization and loss of heterozygosity studies showed that 73% of the ETV6-CBF...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Patel N,Goff LK,Clark T,Ford AM,Foot N,Lillington D,Hing S,Pritchard-Jones K,Jones LK,Saha V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemotaxis of human malignant plasma cells is promoted by two extracellular matrix proteins (ECMs): fibronectin (FN) and laminin (LN). We examined the effect of the supernatant from a bone marrow stroma cell line, KM-101, on the chemotaxis of human malignant plasma cell lines to assess the chemotaxis-regulatory ro...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shibayama H,Tagawa S,Hattori H,Harigaya K,Taga T,Machii T,Kitani T

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation therapy using retinoic acids (RAs) or 1alpha25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (D3) is an attractive alternative to chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). However, with the exception of RA therapy for acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), RAs and D3 are not potent enough ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fenton SL,Drayson MT,Hewison M,Vickers E,Brown G,Bunce CM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dickkopf-1 (DKK1), expressed by myeloma cells, suppresses osteoblast function and plays a key role in bone disease in multiple myeloma. BHQ880, a human neutralizing IgG1 anti-DKK1 monoclonal antibody, is being investigated for its impact on multiple myeloma-related bone disease and as an agent with potential anti-myel...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Iyer SP,Beck JT,Stewart AK,Shah J,Kelly KR,Isaacs R,Bilic S,Sen S,Munshi NC

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of immunochemotherapy has improved the outcome of follicular lymphoma (FL). Recently, complete response at 30 months (CR30) has been suggested as a surrogate for progression-free survival. This study aimed to analyse the life expectancy of FL patients according to their status at 30 months from the start of tr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Magnano L,Alonso-Alvarez S,Alcoceba M,Rivas-Delgado A,Muntañola A,Nadeu F,Setoain X,Rodríguez S,Andrade-Campos M,Espinosa-Lara N,Rodríguez G,Sancho JM,Moreno M,Mercadal S,Carro I,Salar A,Garcia-Pallarols F,Arranz R,Ca

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In HbSC disease, as in sickle cell anaemia, there is a spectrum of clinical severity. A reduced mean corpuscular volume and haemoglobin concentration, traits typical of thalassaemia, might retard sickling. We therefore ascertained the prevalence of alpha-thalassaemia in 53 adults with HbSC disease and related alpha-gl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Steinberg MH,Coleman MB,Adams JG,Platica O,Gillette P,Rieder RF

更新日期：1983-11-01 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