Treatment and outcome of Unicentric Castleman Disease: a retrospective analysis of 71 cases.

abstract：:In this study, quiescent bone marrow-derived CD34+ erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E) were found to be resistant to the inhibitory effects of tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and -beta as well as interferon (IFN)-alpha, -beta and -gamma, in contrast to those stimulated by a combination of erytrhropoietin (Epo) pl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ratajczak J,Kucia M,Reca R,Zhang J,Machalinski B,Ratajczak MZ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic expression and functional capacity of natural killer (NK) T-lymphocytes (E+, OKT3+) were analysed in a series of untreated patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL). The mean value of NK activity of B-CLL T-lymphocytes, tested against the K562 cell line, was significantly depressed (P l...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Foa R,Lauria F,Lusso P,Giubellino MC,Fierro MT,Ferrando ML,Raspadori D,Matera L

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal rearrangements involving the MECOM (MDS1 and EVI1 complex) locus are recurrent genetic events in myeloid leukaemia and are associated with poor prognosis. In this study, we assessed the role of MECOM locus protein EVI1 in the transcriptional regulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) involved in the leukaemic phenot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Weer A,Van der Meulen J,Rondou P,Taghon T,Konrad TA,De Preter K,Mestdagh P,Van Maerken T,Van Roy N,Jeison M,Yaniv I,Cauwelier B,Noens L,Poirel HA,Vandenberghe P,Lambert F,De Paepe A,Sánchez MG,Odero M,Verhasselt

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globin-gene mapping of DNA from 13 families with normal Hb A2 beta-thalassaemia (both type 1 and type 2) failed to detect any difference from normal in their globin-gene arrangement. We conclude that deletions such as those responsible for gamma beta-thalassaemia or a 'silent' Hb Lepore are not responsible for this ty...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kanavakis E,Metaxotou-Mavromati A,Kattamis C,Aksoy M,Weatherall DJ,Wood WG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article acknowledges the pioneering contribution of William Bate Hardy in shaping the concept of mast cell heterogeneity. In two outstanding papers, published in 1894 and 1895, he focussed on the 'wandering cells' (the modern leucocytes) in different mammalian species and distinguished two types of granula...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Crivellato E,Ribatti D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of the three major alleles (Fy(a)/Fy(b)/Fy) of the Duffy (FY) blood group system has recently been established but the Fy(x) phenotype associated with weak expression of the Fy(b) and other FY antigens is poorly understood. In the Fy(x) genes of five unrelated British and Swedish donors with the Fy...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Olsson ML,Smythe JS,Hansson C,Poole J,Mallinson G,Jones J,Avent ND,Daniels G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analysed the outcome of 267 patients with relapse/refractory acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) who received sequential chemotherapy including fludarabine, cytarabine and amsacrine followed by reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The transplants in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ringdén O,Labopin M,Schmid C,Sadeghi B,Polge E,Tischer J,Ganser A,Michallet M,Kanz L,Schwerdtfeger R,Nagler A,Mohty M,Acute Leukaemia Working Party of the EBMT.

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of heat-shockprotein 90 (Hsp90) have been proposed as a novel therapeutic option for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL), particularly as their mechanism of action appears independent of mutations of ATM or TP53. We investigated the activity of a novel Hsp90 inhibitor, SNX7081, against a panel of eight haem...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Best OG,Singh N,Forsyth C,Mulligan SP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyse the expression of NK-associated antigens in both peripheral blood and bone marrow lymphocytes from a large series of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients. 112 patients with untreated multiple myeloma (MM) were included in the study. 36 sex- and age-matched healthy volunteers w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： García-Sanz R,González M,Orfão A,Moro MJ,Hernández JM,Borrego D,Carnero M,Casanova F,Bárez A,Jiménez R,Portero JA,San Miguel JF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic analysis of a single intravenous injection of 100 mg iron(III) hydroxide-sucrose complex (Venofer) mixed with 52Fe(III) hydroxide-sucrose as a tracer was followed for 3-6 h in four generally anaesthetized, artificially ventilated minipigs using positron emission tomography (PET). The amount of injected radioac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Beshara S,Lundqvist H,Sundin J,Lubberink M,Tolmachev V,Valind S,Antoni G,Långström B,Danielson BG

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel method for the chemical modification of cytokines with synthetic polymers to increase the therapeutic efficacy of the former in vivo. A pH-reversible amino-protective reagent, dimethylmaleic anhydride (DMMAn), was used for modification of interleukin-6 (IL-6) with polyethylene glycol (PEG). The no...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsunoda S,Ishikawa T,Watanabe M,Kamada H,Yamamoto Y,Tsutsumi Y,Hirano T,Mayumi T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the in vivo effects and safety of the third generation bisphosphonate, zoledronate (ZOL) alone and combined with imatinib mesylate against primary Philadelphia chromosome positive (Ph+) leukaemic cells. ZOL inhibited the prenylation of Rap1A in leukaemic cells in vitro and synergised with imatinib to enhan...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Segawa H,Kimura S,Kuroda J,Sato K,Yokota A,Kawata E,Kamitsuji Y,Ashihara E,Yuasa T,Fujiyama Y,Ottmann OG,Maekawa T

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:We used minisatellite probes to analyse by DNA fingerprints the long-term engraftment (median 4.3 years, range 1-2) of 21 bone marrow transplantation recipients for severe aplastic anaemia. Patients received their graft from histocompatible siblings. They were conditioned with cyclophosphamide (150 mg/kg) and a 6GY th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Keable H,Bourhis JH,Brison O,Lehn P,Schenmetzler C,Devergie A,Gluckman E

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin binding on polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNL) was characterized. Heparin binding was specific, rapid, saturable and reversible. One single class of heparin binding sites was found with a dissociation constant of 1.22 mumol/l and 7.7 x 10(6) sites per PMNL. The binding was independent of the anticoagulant acti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Leculier C,Benzerara O,Couprie N,Francina A,Lasne Y,Archimbaud E,Fiere D

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) is an inherited disorder characterized by severe neutropenia and recurrent infections from an early age, with bone marrow showing a maturational arrest of granulopoiesis at the promyelocyte stage. Since the introduction of G-CSF therapy the prognosis for affected children has improv...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ryan M,Will AM,Testa N,Hayworth C,Darbyshire PJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL) have suboptimal outcomes using conventional CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) chemotherapy. The anti-folate pralatrexate, the first drug approved for patients with relapsed/refractory PTCL, provided a rationale to incorporate it into the front-line setting...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Advani RH,Ansell SM,Lechowicz MJ,Beaven AW,Loberiza F,Carson KR,Evens AM,Foss F,Horwitz S,Pro B,Pinter-Brown LC,Smith SM,Shustov AR,Savage KJ,Vose JM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor histocompatibility antigens (mHAs) are major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated peptides, which trigger T-cell responses that mediate graft versus host disease (GVHD) and graft versus leukaemia effects. We recently identified a new mHA epitope, termed ACC-1, which is presented by HLA-A*2402 and encoded ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nishida T,Akatsuka Y,Morishima Y,Hamajima N,Tsujimura K,Kuzushima K,Kodera Y,Takahashi T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failed surface expression of the complement decay-accelerating factor (DAF) due to mutation of the PIG-A gene is a hallmark of affected paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) blood elements. Previous findings that acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML) blasts evolving in a PNH patient differed from idiopathic AML blast...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stafford HA,Nagarajan S,Weinberg JB,Medof ME

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the characterization of a spontaneous lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) raised from the peripheral blood of a patient with Kostmann's congenital neutropenia. The LCL was composed of EBV-infected polyclonal B cells and displayed surface markers and pattern of growth in vitro typical of normal LCLs. The ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Corcione A,Roncella S,Cutrona G,Mori PG,Ferrarini M,Pistoia V

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analysed whether autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PSCT) improves engraftment, quality of life and cost-effectiveness when compared with autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). Relapsing progressive lymphoma patients (n = 204; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma n = 166; Hodgkin's dise...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vellenga E,van Agthoven M,Croockewit AJ,Verdonck LF,Wijermans PJ,van Oers MH,Volkers CP,van Imhoff GW,Kingma T,Uyl-de Groot CA,Fibbe WE

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is an important complication of bone marrow transplantation in humans. Risk factors are imprecisely defined and controversial. We analysed data from 2036 recipients of HLA-identical sibling transplants for leukaemia or aplastic anaemia to identify risk factors for GvHD. Analyses ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gale RP,Bortin MM,van Bekkum DW,Biggs JC,Dicke KA,Gluckman E,Good RA,Hoffmann RG,Kay HE,Kersey JH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that iron accumulation may contribute to atherogenesis by increasing free radical formation and oxidative stress. Epidemiological studies in which the association of iron status with atherosclerosis was assessed raised conflicting results. To test whether genetic haemochromatosis is associated wit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Franco RF,Zago MA,Trip MD,ten Cate H,van den Ende A,Prins MH,Kastelein JJ,Reitsma PH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet antibodies either bound to the surface of platelets or free in the serum were sought in patients who had low platelet counts for a variety of reasons. They were detected by finding excess IgG on the surface of washed platelets either directly or after incubation of the serum with normal platelets. The techniq...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hegde UM,Gordon-Smith EC,Worlledge S

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that phorbol ester-activated neutrophils kill both antibody non-coated and antibody-coated K562 target cells. In this report the contribution of the receptors Fc gamma III (CD16) and CR3 (CD11b/CD18) in the lytic process was investigated. In neutrophils CD16 and CR3 are up-regulated by ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gavioli R,Spisani S,Giuliani AL,Cosulich E,Risso A,Traniello S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone disease in patients with thalassaemia major is a multifactorial and still poorly understood process. The present study evaluated 45 thalassaemic patients using dual X-ray absorptiometry at three sites (lumbar spine, head of femur and forearm) to assess bone mineral density, in parallel with a series of biochemica...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Voskaridou E,Kyrtsonis MC,Terpos E,Skordili M,Theodoropoulos I,Bergele A,Diamanti E,Kalovidouris A,Loutradi A,Loukopoulos D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously shown that the abnormal surface characteristics and defective bactericidal function of polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) in the Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) are correlated with impaired microtubule assembly, and in one patient direct electron microscopic evidence for an anomaly in microtubule asse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boxer LA,Albertini DF,Baehner RL,Oliver JM

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V Leiden (FVL)-carrying relatives of selected patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) have much higher venous thrombotic risks than FVL-carrying relatives of unselected consecutive patients with VTE. To find an explanation for this, we explored other risk factors of VTE, in particular the presence of high fa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lensen R,Bertina RM,Vandenbroucke JP,Rosendaal FR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Ph1-positive chronic granulocytic leukaemia with hitherto undescribed translocations are presented. In case 1 the deleted part of chromosome number 22q- was translocated to the short arm of the X chromosome, t(X;22)(p22;q11). Pronounced basophilia, trisomy 19 in the majority of metaphases, and a partial c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hossfeld DK,Köhler S

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in platelet components (PC) may result in transfusion-related sepsis (TRS). Pathogen inactivation of PC with amotosalen (A-PC) can abrogate the risk of TRS and hence facilitate storage to 7 d. A randomized, controlled, double-blinded trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of A-PC stored for 6-7 d was condu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lozano M,Knutson F,Tardivel R,Cid J,Maymó RM,Löf H,Roddie H,Pelly J,Docherty A,Sherman C,Lin L,Propst M,Corash L,Prowse C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00