The presence of mutated and deleted PTEN is associated with an increased risk of relapse in childhood T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia treated with AIEOP-BFM ALL protocols.

abstract：:We report 14 normal peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donors > or = 60 years of age who had cytokine mobilization followed by PBSC apheresis for allogeneic transplantation. Mobilization was achieved with filgrastim (6 microg/kg twice daily). Their median age was 63.5 years (range 60-77), and 43% had a positive medical...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Anderlini P,Przepiorka D,Lauppe J,Seong D,Giralt S,Champlin R,Körbling M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the clinical and biological significance of serum thymidine kinase (TK) in adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) associated with human lymphotropic virus type-I (HTLV-I) and in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), TK was measured in 52 patients with ATL (acute ATL, 35 patients; lymphoma ATL, two patients; chronic ATL, 12 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sadamori N,Ichiba M,Mine M,Hakariya S,Hayashibara T,Itoyama T,Nakamura H,Tomonaga M,Hayashi K

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia is common (40-65%) and potentially serious in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). A systematic review was conducted to determine the safety and efficacy of adding a thrombopoietin-receptor (THPO-R) agonist to standard MDS treatment. MEDLINE, EMBASE and CENTRAL databases were searched. We included randomi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Prica A,Sholzberg M,Buckstein R

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Since glycoprotein IV (GPIV) has been shown to play an important role in the interaction of platelets with collagen and thrombospondin, the aggregation and secretion of GPIV-deficient platelets were examined. Using a binding assay with monoclonal 125I-OKM5 antibody against CD36 antigen and crossed immunoelectrophoresi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yamamoto N,Akamatsu N,Yamazaki H,Tanoue K

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant histiocytosis (MH)-like B-cell lymphoma (BCL) is a neoplastic proliferation of large B cells clinically characterized by fever, hepatosplenomegaly, haemophagocytosis and abnormal laboratory data, without lymphadenopathy or skin lesions. Interestingly, most cases have been reported in Asian patients, and it i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Murase T,Nakamura S,Tashiro K,Suchi T,Hiraga J,Hayasaki N,Kimura M,Murakami M,Mizoguchi Y,Suzuki T,Saito H

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a familial study of AT III, a type III antithrombin III variant which was identified in the propositus by gene analysis as Pro 41 Leu heterozygous mutation. None of the four members of the family who presented with defective heparin cofactor (hep-cofactor) activity, and therefore probably carried the mutat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de Roux N,Chadeuf G,Molho-Sabatier P,Plouin PF,Aiach M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To create immortal mesenchymal cell lines, we transduced primary human bone marrow mesenchymal cells with telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). TERT+ mesenchymal cells continued to grow for > 2 years; parallel TERT- cultures underwent senescence after 15 weeks. TERT+ mesenchymal cells did not form foci in soft agar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mihara K,Imai C,Coustan-Smith E,Dome JS,Dominici M,Vanin E,Campana D

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the clinical outcome and results of chimaerism analysis in various cell lineages of 30 patients given non-myeloablative conditioning, followed by allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). The commonest diagnoses were chronic myelogenous leukaemia (n = 11) and solid tumours (n = 11). Twenty-one patients rec...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mattsson J,Uzunel M,Brune M,Hentschke P,Barkholt L,Stierner U,Aschan J,Ringdén O

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down syndrome (DS) children have a 10-20-fold increased risk of developing ALL or AML compared to non-DS children. An increased disomic homozygosity of the polymorphic DNA markers in the pericentromeric region of chromosome 21q (21q11) has repeatedly been found in DS patients with ANLL-M7 and DS-specific transient abn...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cavani S,Perfumo C,Argusti A,Pierluigi M,Perroni L,Schmiegelow K,Petersen MB,Cotter FE,Strigini P,Dagna-Bricarelli F,Nizetić D

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells isolated from bone marrow (BM) aspirates of 15 patients with active multiple myeloma (MM) were cultured and analysed for in vitro proliferative response and Ig-synthesis upon stimulation with interleukin-3 (IL-3), interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). The proliferative response, determined as Ki-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sonneveld P,Schoester M,de Leeuw K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversible aggregation of red blood cells (RBC) plays an important role in determining blood flow properties, and it is this aggregation which increases blood viscosity at low shear rates. The structure and sites of venous thrombi, as well as the fact that stasis is a major predisposing factor in venous thrombosis, su...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chabanel A,Horellou MH,Conard J,Samama MM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three NUP98 chimaeras have previously been reported in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL): NUP98/ADD3, NUP98/CCDC28A, and NUP98/RAP1GDS1. We report a T-ALL with t(11;18)(p15;q12) resulting in a novel NUP98 fusion. Fluorescent in situ hybridisation showed NUP98 and SET binding protein 1(SETBP1) fusion signals...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Panagopoulos I,Kerndrup G,Carlsen N,Strömbeck B,Isaksson M,Johansson B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary long-term bone marrow cultures grown in 40 mM HEPES-buffered McCoy's 5A medium produced granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming units (CFU-GM) for a median of 9 weeks compared with 7 weeks with CO2/bicarbonate-buffered cultures. Reducing the medium glucose concentration (from 12.5 to 2.75 mM) extended the cultur...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tennant GB,Truran LN,Bailey-Wood R,Burnett AK

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the p53 tumour suppressor gene have frequently been observed in several types of solid tumours and are believed to be implicated in the development of these tumours. To determine the relevance of p53 mutations in haematologic neoplasms, we performed polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation pol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mori N,Wada M,Yokota J,Terada M,Okada M,Teramura M,Masuda M,Hoshino S,Motoji T,Oshimi K

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow blast cells of 174 child and 188 adult patients with AML were examined and characterized in terms of their FAB type, immunological phenotype (102 children, 123 adults) and karyotype (69 children, 95 adults). The incidence of FAB variants of AML proved similar in children and adults. In patients under 15 an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Frenkel MA,Tupitsyn NN,Protasova AK,Kadagidze ZG,Konstantinova LN,Fleischman EW

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-induced alteration of phosphoprotein during differentiation of HL-60 cells was studied. From the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis of phosphoproteins, a 45 kD phosphoprotein in the cytosolic fraction of DMSO-pretreated HL-60 cells was rapidly dephosphorylated by...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Oshizawa T,Yamaguchi T,Suzuki K,Yamamoto Y,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on outcome, prognostic factors, and treatment for very elderly non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) is sparse. We conducted a multicentre retrospective analysis of NHL patients ≥80 years (at diagnosis) treated between 1999 and 2009. Detailed characteristics were obtained including geriatric syndromes, activities of daily ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nabhan C,Smith SM,Helenowski I,Ramsdale E,Parsons B,Karmali R,Feliciano J,Hanson B,Smith S,McKoy J,Larsen A,Hantel A,Gregory S,Evens AM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a 2-year-old boy with a phenotype of combined hypo- and dysprothrombinaemia. Sequencing of polymerase-chain-reaction-amplified genomic DNA revealed three different mutations in heterozygosity, a G to A transition at position 7312, resulting in the replacement of arginine 271 by histidine, an A to G transiti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Akhavan S,Luciani M,Lavoretano S,Mannucci PM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified two patients with a t(2;4)(p24;q12) and a t(4;12)(q2?3;p1?2), respectively, in association with BCR-ABL and FIP1L1-PDGFRA negative chronic eosinophilic leukaemia. Molecular analysis revealed a novel STRN-PDGFRA fusion for the t(2;4) and ETV6-PDGFRA for the t(4;12). The fusions were confirmed by specific ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Curtis CE,Grand FH,Musto P,Clark A,Murphy J,Perla G,Minervini MM,Stewart J,Reiter A,Cross NC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) is a clonal disorder with myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative features. Its diagnosis is based on the presence of peripheral blood monocytosis and bone marrow aspirate findings, according to World Health Organization criteria. However, bone marrow trephine biopsy (BMTB) features ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ngo NT,Lampert IA,Naresh KN

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Serum ferritin level is one of the most commonly requested investigations in both primary and secondary care. Whilst low serum ferritin levels invariably indicate reduced iron stores, raised serum ferritin levels can be due to multiple different aetiologies, including iron overload, inflammation, liver or renal diseas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cullis JO,Fitzsimons EJ,Griffiths WJ,Tsochatzis E,Thomas DW,British Society for Haematology.

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the control of lysozyme gene expression in HL-60 cells induced to differentiate into macrophage-like cells with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). Differentiation, as evidenced by cellular adherence, and morphological changes corresponded temporally to an increase in nonspecific esterase activity. T...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Polansky DA,Yang A,Brader K,Miller DM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diamond Blackfan anaemia (DBA) is a rare, genetically and clinically heterogeneous, inherited red cell aplasia. Classical DBA affects about seven per million live births and presents during the first year of life. However, as mutated genes have been discovered in DBA, non-classical cases with less distinct phenotypes ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vlachos A,Ball S,Dahl N,Alter BP,Sheth S,Ramenghi U,Meerpohl J,Karlsson S,Liu JM,Leblanc T,Paley C,Kang EM,Leder EJ,Atsidaftos E,Shimamura A,Bessler M,Glader B,Lipton JM,Participants of Sixth Annual Daniella Maria Art

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the beta thalassaemia trait affects millions of people worldwide, there have been no controlled studies to determine whether it is associated with any clinical disability or abnormal physical signs. To address this question, 402 individuals were studied: 217 with beta thalassaemia trait, of whom 154 were awar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Premawardhena A,Arambepola M,Katugaha N,Weatherall DJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocations involving the MLL gene on the chromosome 11 (11q23) are frequently observed in acute leukaemia. The detection of this genetic change has a unique significance as a result of its implication of poor prognosis. To reveal the utility of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in detecting the MLL translo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kim HJ,Cho HI,Kim EC,Ko EK,See CJ,Park SY,Lee DS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To resolve the controversy concerning the role of p53 in the killing of resting lymphocytes by purine nucleoside analogues, we examined the cytotoxic effects of chlorodeoxyadenosine, fludarabine and deoxycoformycin (plus deoxyadenosine) on unstimulated spleen cells from p53-knockout versus wild-type mice. p53-knockout...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pettitt AR,Clarke AR,Cawley JC,Griffiths SD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) associated with erythrophagocytosis and a pericentric inversion of chromosome 8, inv(8)(p11q13). The haematological features were indistinguishable from those of patients with the t(8;16) syndrome and its variants. Our observations emphasize the importance of...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Coulthard S,Chase A,Orchard K,Watmore A,Vora A,Goldman JM,Swirsky DM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is characterized by frequent recurrences. Effective screening for relapses will enable intervention prior to overt episodes of TTP. The present study used a modified assay to detect ADAMTS13 (a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 motif, 13) ac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jin M,Casper TC,Cataland SR,Kennedy MS,Lin S,Li YJ,Wu HM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00