Interleukin 2 production in bone marrow of normal individuals and patients associated with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

abstract：:Familial aggregation, linkage and case-control studies support the role of germline genes in the aetiology of lymphoid malignancies. To further examine the role of genetic variation underlying susceptibility, we analysed 1536 single nucleotide polymorphisms in 152 genes involved in apoptosis, DNA repair, immune respon...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Liang XS,Caporaso N,McMaster ML,Ng D,Landgren O,Yeager M,Chanock S,Goldin LR

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethnic variations in red blood cell (RBC) antigens can be a source of alloimmunization, especially in migrant populations. To improve transfusion safety in continental Africa and countries with African migrants, we performed RBC genotyping to determine allele frequencies coding for high- and low-prevalence antigens. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Silvy M,Beley S,Granier T,Ba A,Chiaroni J,Bailly P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variations in DNA repair genes are thought to play an important role in the pathogenesis and development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). To further explore this hypothesis, we genotyped 319 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 27 DNA repair gene regions in 1946 cases and 1808 controls pooled from three...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shen M,Menashe I,Morton LM,Zhang Y,Armstrong B,Wang SS,Lan Q,Hartge P,Purdue MP,Cerhan JR,Grulich A,Cozen W,Yeager M,Holford TR,Vajdic CM,Davis S,Leaderer B,Kricker A,Severson RK,Zahm SH,Chatterjee N,Rothman N,

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study provides evidence for clonal evolution in pre-B-cell leukaemia. At diagnosis, the lymphoblasts from a 3-year-old boy were morphologically subtyped as L1 (French-American-British classification). Their immunophenotype was CALLA+, CIgM+, SIg-, TdT+, and the karyotype was pseudodiploid with a 1;19 translo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Abromowitch M,Williams DL,Melvin SL,Stass S

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) after haemopoietic stem cell transplantation is a serious complication that occurs in 8-22% of patients with high-risk factors. We retrospectively investigated tolerance and efficacy of humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (rituximab) as first-line treatment in 12...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Faye A,Quartier P,Reguerre Y,Lutz P,Carret AS,Dehée A,Rohrlich P,Peuchmaur M,Matthieu-Boué A,Fischer A,Vilmer E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clofarabine was the latest new drug to be approved, in 2004, for relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To investigate its value in the frontline treatment of ALL we applied clofarabine 5 × 40 mg/m(2) in combination with pegylated asparaginase (PEG-ASP) 1 × 2500 iu/m(2) in high risk ALL patients a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Escherich G,Zur Stadt U,Zimmermann M,Horstmann MA,CoALL study group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Point-of-care testing (POCT) in haematology has continued to grow in popularity and uptake throughout the world. The increasing demand to reduce the turnaround time of test results, coupled with rapid improvements in technology, have led to the development of several devices that are designed for use in different clin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Briggs C,Kimber S,Green L

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is an endothelial cell glycoprotein that acts as an anticoagulant. Mutation in the TM gene is a potential risk factor for thrombosis. The first TM mutation identified was a heterozygous substitution of T for G at nucleotide position 1456, which predicted Asp468 with Tyr in a Ser/Thr-rich domain. To...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nakazawa F,Koyama T,Saito T,Shibakura M,Yoshinaga H,Chung DH,Kamiyama R,Hirosawa S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin kappa (Igkappa) gene recombinations can be used - similarly to IgH rearrangements - as clonal markers in B-lineage leukaemias. Based on the extensive junctional diversity, these rearrangements represent valuable targets for the analysis of minimal residual disease (MRD). In order to provide a simple met...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stolz F,Panzer S,Panzer-Grümayer ER

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel polymorphism located in intron 1a of the human factor VII gene, caused by the nucleotide change G to A at position + 73. In a population of 128 healthy individuals from northern Italy, the variant A73 allele had a frequency of 0.21, whereas the frequency of the previously reported 10 bp inse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peyvandi F,Mannucci PM,Bucciarelli P,Zeinali S,Akhavan S,Sacchi E,Merlini PA,Perry DJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relapse of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) involving the eye is a rare but challenging problem. Twenty cases occurred in patients treated on the Medical Research Council United Kingdom Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia XI and ALL97 trials between 1991 and 2001, representing 2.2% of ALL relapses. Seventeen oc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Somervaille TC,Hann IM,Harrison G,Eden TO,Gibson BE,Hill FG,Mitchell C,Kinsey SE,Vora AJ,Lilleyman JS,MRC Childhood Leukaemia Working Party.

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin (TPO) is the primary regulator of platelet production and acts through binding its receptor, c-mpl, found on megakaryocyte progenitor cells, megakaryocytes and platelets. Circulating levels of TPO are regulated primarily by the clearance of TPO after it binds to c-mpl receptors on circulating platelets....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Li J,Xia Y,Kuter DJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we aimed to identify distinct structural and numerical chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood B cells of patients with myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), which reflect changes thought to occur at different stages of the disease process. Peripheral blood fr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zojer N,Schuster-Kolbe J,Assmann I,Ackermann J,Strasser K,Hübl W,Drach J,Ludwig H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AF-4 gene on human chromosome 4q21 is involved in reciprocal translocations to the ALL-1 gene on chromosome 11q23, which are associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemias. A set of recombinant phage carrying genomic fragments for the coding region and flanking sequences of the AF-4 gene were isolated. Phage inser...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nilson I,Reichel M,Ennas MG,Greim R,Knörr C,Siegler G,Greil J,Fey GH,Marschalek R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines for the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based assays to aid the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in high-risk haematology patients have not been formulated. We prospectively evaluated a nested PCR assay to detect Aspergillus in blood during 95 febrile neutropenic episodes, in patients with ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Halliday C,Hoile R,Sorrell T,James G,Yadav S,Shaw P,Bleakley M,Bradstock K,Chen S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukaemia invariably progresses from a drug-sensitive to a drug-resistant, aggressive acute leukaemia. The mechanisms responsible for this are unknown, although loss of p53 has been reported in approximately 25% of cases. Elevated expression of Bcr-Abl is also associated with disease progression. We ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Keeshan K,Cotter TG,McKenna SL

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH) is a genetic disorder caused by defective lymphocyte cytotoxicity, resulting in impaired lymphocyte homeostasis and macrophage infiltration of solid tissues and bone marrow, with extensive haemophagocytosis. It is invariably fatal unless treated by allogeneic haemato...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Almousa H,Ouachée-Chardin M,Picard C,Radford-Weiss I,Caillat-Zucman S,Cavazzana-Calvo M,Blanche S,de Saint Basile G,Le Deist F,Fischer A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In agreement with a recently published manuscript, this present study demonstrated that CD38+ sub-populations had increased proliferative activity as evidenced by higher Ki-67 expression (P < 0.0001). This raised the possibility that the CD38+ fraction is exposed to an increased risk of clonal evolution. However, seri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lin TT,Hewamana S,Ward R,Taylor H,Payne T,Pratt G,Baird D,Fegan C,Pepper C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H-2Kappab temperature-sensitive (ts) A58 transgenic (Immorto) mouse has been used previously to generate conditionally immortalized cells from a number of tissues. The present study aimed to investigate characteristics of primitive myeloid precursor cells derived from H-2Kappab-tsA58 bone marrow. Cell populations ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee C,Evans CA,Spooncer E,Pierce A,Mottram R,Whetton AD

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the molecular defect in two families with severe factor VII (FVII) deficiency. In family I, the proband was found to be homozygous for a novel 18 bp deletion in exon 8 (g.10896-10913del) resulting in the in-frame deletion of six amino acids in the serine protease domain. Molecular modelling sugge...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gomez K,Laffan MA,Kemball-Cook G,Pasi J,Layton M,Singer JD,Tuddenham EG,McVey JH

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sysmex SE-9500 automated cell counter provides an estimate of immature cells referred to as 'haemopoietic progenitor cells' (HPC). The aim of this study was to relate the HPC count to CD34+ cell levels in mobilized peripheral blood and to determine whether the HPC count was valuable in predicting apheresis yields ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pollard Y,Watts MJ,Grant D,Chavda N,Linch DC,Machin SJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve consecutive adults with severe acute aplastic anaemia, not having a bone marrow transplantation option, were prospectively randomized to receive either cyclosporin A alone or an equivalent amount of this immunosuppressive agent in combination with antilymphocyte serum. The minimum follow-up is 36 months, with h...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jacobs P,Wood L,Martell RW

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXP2 mutation causes a severe inherited speech and language defect, while the related transcription factors FOXP1, FOXP3 and FOXP4 are implicated in cancer. FOXP2 mRNA and protein expression were characterised in normal human tissues, haematological cell lines and multiple myeloma (MM) patients' samples. FOXP2 mRNA a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Campbell AJ,Lyne L,Brown PJ,Launchbury RJ,Bignone P,Chi J,Roncador G,Lawrie CH,Gatter KC,Kusec R,Banham AH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marginal zone lymphoma represents about 10% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs). 33% of patients with acquired angioedema (AAE) due to acquired C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) deficiency (C1-INH-AAE) have or will develop NHLs. C1-INH-AAE is a rare condition. We report the follow-up of 72 C1-INH-AAE patients, followed for a medi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Castelli R,Wu MA,Arquati M,Zanichelli A,Suffritti C,Rossi D,Cicardi M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucocyte alkaline phosphatase (LAP) is a marker of post-mitotic granulocytes and its activity is reduced or absent in chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) granulocytes as a consequence of LAP messenger RNA (mRNA) deficiency. We provide evidence that along the granulocytic maturation in normal marrow, the acquisition o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dotti G,Garattini E,Borleri G,Masuhara K,Spinelli O,Barbui T,Rambaldi A

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:AML1/RUNX1, which encodes a transcription factor essential for definitive haematopoiesis, is a frequent target of leukaemia-associated chromosome translocations. Point mutations of this gene have also recently been associated with leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). To further define the frequency and biolog...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nakao M,Horiike S,Fukushima-Nakase Y,Nishimura M,Fujita Y,Taniwaki M,Okuda T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) is caused by human T-cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I). It has been suggested that cytokines play a role in the development and in the neoplastic cell growth of ATL. However, the precise mechanism involved in this process still remains unclear. Interleukin-21 (IL-21) and its receptor (I...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ueda M,Imada K,Imura A,Koga H,Hishizawa M,Uchiyama T

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is a rare disease with varied presentation, myriad symptomatology and variable prognosis. Most patients present with cutaneous disease and mediator-related symptomatology with a small subset having systemic disease (systemic mastocytosis, SM). A subset of the latter develops synchronous or metachronous ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Radia DH,Green A,Oni C,Moonim M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone involvement is the commonest clinical manifestation of sickle cell disease both in the acute setting such as painful vaso-occlusive crises, and as a source of chronic, progressive disability such as avascular necrosis. Management of these problems is often difficult because of the diagnostic imprecision of most l...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Almeida A,Roberts I

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00