Results of a multicentre UK-wide retrospective study evaluating the efficacy of pixantrone in relapsed, refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

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：: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：:Immunotherapies have emerged as highly promising approaches to treat cancer patients. Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is the most validated tumour immunotherapy available to date but its clinical efficacy is limited by toxicities, such as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and treatment resistance l...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Paczesny S

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously established a serum-free (SF) culture medium, which supports normal haemopoietic progenitor cell growth for at least 4 weeks as does conventional serum dependent (SD) medium. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of such a defined SF liquid medium which sustained in vitro residual norma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Da WM,Douay L,Barbu V,Fabrega S,Allieri MA,Drouet X,Deloux J,Giarratana MC,Ozsahin H,van den Akker J,Vanhaeke D,Gorin NC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific deletions of the 5' part of the TAL1 gene (tal(d)) are among the most frequent non-random genetic abnormalities in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL). They are usually detected by PCR from DNA with several primer pairs or by Southern blot analysis. Since tal(d) lead to expression of a SIL-TAL1 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Delabesse E,Bernard M,Landman-Parker J,Davi F,Leboeuf D,Varet B,Valensi F,Macintyre EA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effects of L-arginine (L-Arg) supplementation on nitric oxide metabolite (NOx) production, oral L-Arg was given to normal controls, sickle cell disease (SCD) patients at steady state and SCD patients hospitalized with a vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC). L-Arg (0.1 g/kg) increased NOx formation by 18.8 +/- ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Morris CR,Kuypers FA,Larkin S,Sweeters N,Simon J,Vichinsky EP,Styles LA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

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：:125I IgG anti-D binding to reticulocytes obtained by density fractionation is reduced relative to that bound to all other red cell (RBC) fractions. Maximum D antigen reactivity occurs following reticulocyte maturation with no detectable change in D reactivity of mature RBC throughout their life span. Reticulocytes hav...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gray LS,Kleeman JE,Masouredis SP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A t(5;12)(q33;p13) translocation has been detected in two patients with myeloid disorder and eosinophilia. Six other patients with haematological disease with eosinophilia with similar translocation have been published previously. The existence of a new entity, a myeloproliferative disorder with eosinophilia and t(5;1...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baranger L,Szapiro N,Gardais J,Hillion J,Derre J,Francois S,Blanchet O,Boasson M,Berger R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal (i.e. submicroscopic) residual disease (MRD) predicts outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To be used clinically, MRD assays must be reliable and accurate. Two well-established techniques, flow cytometry (FC) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), can detect leukaemic cells with a sensitivit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kerst G,Kreyenberg H,Roth C,Well C,Dietz K,Coustan-Smith E,Campana D,Koscielniak E,Niemeyer C,Schlegel PG,Müller I,Niethammer D,Bader P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematological characteristics have been compared in 29 subjects with heterozygous beta0 thalassaemia and in 33 subjects with heterozygous beta+ thalassaemia, identified by the type of sickle cell-beta thalassaemia among close relatives, in a Jamaican Negro population. Total haemoglobin, MCV and MCH were significantly...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Millard DP,Mason K,Serjeant BE,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1987 and January 1997, 69 eligible patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in either second (CR2) or third (CR3) complete remission (CR2 = 60, CR3 = 9) underwent 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide-purged autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. The patients' med...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Smith BD,Jones RJ,Lee SM,Piantadosi S,Vala MS,Fuller D,Gore SD,Noga SJ,O'Donnell PV,Braine H,Vogelsang GB,Fuchs EJ,Flinn IW,Brodsky RA,Ambinder RF,Miller CB

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and cytogenetic data were analysed in 54 patients with acute non-lymphocytic leukaemias (ANLL) or MDS (myelodysplastic syndromes) and deletion of the long arm of chromosome 7 (7q-), in order to determine if there is a commonly deleted region in 7q and to establish possible correlations between karyotypic feat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Velloso ER,Michaux L,Ferrant A,Hernandez JM,Meeus P,Dierlamm J,Criel A,Louwagie A,Verhoef G,Boogaerts M,Michaux JL,Bosly A,Mecucci C,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was used to detect human parvovirus B19 DNA in 38 blood products and start plasma pools from five different manufacturers. The products examined were albumin, factor VIII, intravenous (i.v.) and intramuscular (i.m) immunoglobulin batches. The majority of pools from all the man...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Saldanha J,Minor P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is the capacity to generate thrombin, and the enzymatic work that thrombin does, that determines blood coagulability. Therefore, measurement of the enzymatic work potential of thrombin provides a method for quantifying the composite effect of the multiple factors that determine coagulation capacity. The application...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baglin T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired switching from fetal haemoglobin (HbF) to adult globin gene expression leads to hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin (HPFH) in adult life. This is of prime interest because elevated HbF levels ameliorate β-thalassaemia and sickle cell anaemia. Fetal haemoglobin levels are regulated by complex mechanism...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Petruzzelli R,Gaudino S,Amendola G,Sessa R,Puzone S,Di Concilio R,d'Urzo G,Amendolara M,Izzo P,Grosso M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of serum macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1alpha) in bone disease and survival was evaluated in 85 newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) patients. MIP-1alpha was elevated in MM patients and correlated with the extent of bone disease, bone resorption markers and levels of soluble receptor activator...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Terpos E,Politou M,Szydlo R,Goldman JM,Apperley JF,Rahemtulla A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of survival time on a set of prognostic factors was explored by means of Cox's regression model in 137 cases of myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM). The following parameters recorded at diagnosis proved to be important independent indicators of a poor prognosis: a higher value for age, a lower v...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Barosi G,Berzuini C,Liberato LN,Costa A,Polino G,Ascari E

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary systemic amyloidosis (AL) is a plasma cell disorder characterized by deposition of monoclonal light chains in different organ systems. Although multiple and complex numerical chromosomal abnormalities have been described in patients with multiple myeloma, it is currently unknown whether such changes occur in s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fonseca R,Ahmann GJ,Jalal SM,Dewald GW,Larson DR,Therneau TM,Gertz MA,Kyle RA,Greipp PR

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and prognostic significance of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor c-MET (MET proto-oncogene) was analysed in 96 cases of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Tissue sections were immunohistochemically stained for HGF and c-Met. The prognosis of HGF-positive and c-Met-positive cases was si...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kawano R,Ohshima K,Karube K,Yamaguchi T,Kohno S,Suzumiya J,Kikuchi M,Tamura K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of 111Indium oxine as a platelet label for the performance of platelet life-span studies has been examined. Platelet life-span in normal subjects varied between 8 X 10 and 10 X 36 d. Patients with primary thrombocythaemia had clearly reduced platelet life-span whether or not they presented with vascular occlus...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bautista AP,Buckler PW,Towler HM,Dawson AA,Bennett B

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) were treated with cyclosporine. The treatment with cyclosporine was based on the hypothesis that immune-mediated bone-marrow damage is the common pathogenetic mechanism of aplasia and PNH, with lack of GPI-linked ligands for an immune attack (i.e. LFA-3, CD...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Kamp H,van Imhoff GW,de Wolf JT,Smit JW,Halie MR,Vellenga E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukaemia lymphoma (ATLL) is an aggressive disease caused by the human T-lymphotropic virus 1 (HTLV-I) with a short survival. Responses to interferon alpha (IFN-alpha) and zidovudine (AZT) have been documented but not with long-term follow-up. We treated 15 ATLL patients with IFN and AZT. Eleven patients ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Matutes E,Taylor GP,Cavenagh J,Pagliuca A,Bareford D,Domingo A,Hamblin M,Kelsey S,Mir N,Reilly JT

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of the inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 to the culture medium of human cord blood haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) has been shown to lead to an altered stromal cell-derived factor-1alpha-dependent migratory phenotype. This study investigated whether this effect was attributed to a diff...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kasenda B,Kassmer SH,Niggemann B,Schiermeier S,Hatzmann W,Zänker KS,Dittmar T

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive Y-microsatellite amplification system was developed for the detection of post bone marrow transplantation (BMT) chimaerism. The system is able to detect the DNA equivalent of a single male cell in a background of 10(5) female cells. For clinical applications it has the distinct advantage that the po...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lo YM,Noakes L,Roux E,Jeannet M,Chapuis B,Fleming KA,Wainscoat JS

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:Primary infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in childhood is usually asymptomatic, whereas infection in adolescence may result in infectious mononucleosis (IM) often followed by a fatigue syndrome. EBV latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) is expressed in latency and in many EBV-associated tumours, including non-Hodgkin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marshall NA,Culligan DJ,Johnston PW,Millar C,Barker RN,Vickers MA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid (GC) effects are mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Several studies have demonstrated that a lower number of receptors per cell were associated with poor GC response. The regulation of GR expression is complex; the levels of GR can be autologously regulated by its ligand and also by transcrip...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sánchez-Vega B,Gandhi V

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum antiplatelet IgG and platelet-associated IgG (PAIgG) were studied in 68 AIDS-free human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with severe immunologic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), for the presence of platelet autoantibodies. Serum IgG with antiplatelet activity was found in 72% of the sera. However, t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bettaieb A,Oksenhendler E,Fromont P,Duedari N,Bierling P

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 61 patients who underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in first chronic phase. Minimal residual disease was detected by the amplification of the leukaemia-specific BCR-ABL fusion mRNA with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using a highly sensitive n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cross NC,Hughes TP,Feng L,O'Shea P,Bungey J,Marks DI,Ferrant A,Martiat P,Goldman JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00