Detection of cells of megakaryocyte lineage in haematological malignancies by immuno-alkaline phosphatase labelling cell smears with a panel of monoclonal antibodies.

abstract：:Activating mutations of NOTCH1 are a common occurrence in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL), but its impact on T-ALL treatment is still controversial. In this study, the incidence, clinical features, and prognosis of 92 Chinese children with T-ALL treated using the Beijing Children's Hospital-2003 and Chine...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gao C,Liu SG,Zhang RD,Li WJ,Zhao XX,Cui L,Wu MY,Zheng HY,Li ZG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The action of clopidogrel on platelet receptors was analysed using platelets obtained from 11 healthy volunteers given 75 mg of clopidogrel daily for 8 d. Samples of blood were taken before treatment and after 8 d of medication. Determination of 2-methylthioadenosine diphosphate trisodium (2MesADP)-induced p...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Contreres JO,Dupuy E,Job B,Habib A,Bryckaert M,Rosa JP,Simoneau G,Herbert JM,Savi P,Levy-Toledano S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling has been implicated in multiple myeloma (MM) pathophysiology and is regarded as an actionable target for pharmacological intervention. Isoform-specific PI3K inhibition may offer the most focused treatment approach and could result in greater clinical effica...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hofmann C,Stühmer T,Schmiedl N,Wetzker R,Mottok A,Rosenwald A,Langer C,Zovko J,Chatterjee M,Einsele H,Bargou RC,Steinbrunn T

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new variants of erythrocytic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase have been found in one German patient and in another patient of Turkish origin. The enzymes were partially purified 165-fold and 111-fold respectively. Both revealed reduced activity, increased thermolability and a pH-optimum in the alkaline region (8....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gahr M,Bornhalm D,Schröter W

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 70-year-old man from an endemic area of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) developed rapid generalized lymphadenopathy and abdominal tumours. The white blood cell count was 198.3 x 10(9)/l with 93% lymphocytes, 66.3% of which expressed large granular lymphocytes (LGLs). Bone marrow and lymph nodes were ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sakamoto Y,Kawachi Y,Uchida T,Abe T,Mori M,Setsu K,Indo N

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of rituximab (R) to CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) chemotherapy was a milestone in the development of front-line therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). R-CHOP and equivalent rituximab-containing anthracycline-based regimens are now widely accepted as the standard...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gisselbrecht C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust method for obtaining chromosome preparations from individual haemopoietic colonies in semi-solid media is described. The accumulation of metaphases and the hypotonic treatment of cells were carried out in the culture dish and individual colonies were transferred onto poly-L-lysine-treated slides and fixed ste...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kadhim MA,Pocock DA,Lorimore SA,Wright EG

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleiotrophin (PTN), a tightly regulated angiogenic and mitogenic heparin-binding protein, is markedly elevated in a variety of aggressive solid tumours. The role of PTN in haematological malignancies, however, has not been previously evaluated. This study demonstrated that PTN serum levels were elevated in multiple my...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yeh HS,Chen H,Manyak SJ,Swift RA,Campbell RA,Wang C,Li M,Lee HJ,Waterman G,Gordon MS,Ma J,Bonavida B,Berenson JR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe eight patients (four children and four adults) with an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) with cytoplasmic granules or inclusions. The incidence of this variant of acute leukaemia in our whole series of patients with ALL is 1.8%. The granules or inclusions were usually positive for aspecific esterases (AN...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cantù-Rajnoldi A,Invernizzi R,Biondi A,Banfi P,Zoia A,De Fazio P,Polli N

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of bendamustine, bortezomib and dexamethasone (BBD) was evaluated as a first-line therapy for multiple myeloma. The original treatment regimen of bendamustine 80 mg/m2 , days 1, 4; bortezomib 1·3 mg/m2 , days 1, 4, 8, 11; dexamethasone 40 mg, days 1, 2, 3, 4 on a 28-day cycle (up to 8 cycles) was effic...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Berdeja JG,Bauer T,Arrowsmith E,Essell J,Murphy P,Reeves JA Jr,Boccia RV,Donnellan W,Flinn I

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-thymocyte globulins (ATG) are currently used to prevent graft-versus-host disease in haematopoietic stem cell transplants from alternative donors and to treat and prevent acute organ rejection after transplantation. Many recent studies have demonstrated that ATG can also be beneficial in patients with myeloma, ly...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Polito L,Bortolotti M,Farini V,Pedrazzi M,Tazzari PL,Bolognesi A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD37 is cell surface tetraspanin present on normal and malignant B cells. Otlertuzumab (TRU-016) is a novel humanized anti-CD37 protein therapeutic. Patients with relapsed or refractory follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma (FL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), or Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia (WM) received otlertuzumab at 2...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pagel JM,Spurgeon SE,Byrd JC,Awan FT,Flinn IW,Lanasa MC,Eisenfeld AJ,Stromatt SC,Gopal AK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) binding factor present in the serum from a patient in remission from lymphoma is described. Radioimmunoassay (RIA) repeatedly failed to detect circulating levels of CSF-1 in the peripheral blood system of this patient. Molecular analysis showed a normal CSF-1 gene structure ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baker AH,Cachia PG,Tennant GB,Whittaker JA,White D,Stanley ER,Burnett AK,Padua RA

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis (BCS/PVT) are frequently associated with polycythaemia vera (PV). In an attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of BCS/PVT secondary to PV (T-PV), CD11b neutrophil expression, neutrophil oxidative burst and platelet-neutrophil complexes (PNC) were assessed in 17 such patient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Alvarez-Larrán A,García-Pagán JC,Abraldes JG,Arellano E,Reverter JC,Bosch J,Cervantes F

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Over the past decades, a wealth of information has been reported about the pathogenic features of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). To this day, however, it is unclear whether the immune abnormalities associated with ITP play causative roles in the disease or are secondary epiphenomena brought on by the inflammatory proc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McKenzie CG,Guo L,Freedman J,Semple JW

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucormycosis has emerged as an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients, but contemporary data in children are lacking. We conducted a nationwide multicentre study to investigate the characteristics of mucormycosis in children with haematological malignancies. The cohort in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Elitzur S,Arad-Cohen N,Barg A,Litichever N,Bielorai B,Elhasid R,Fischer S,Fruchtman Y,Gilad G,Kapelushnik J,Kharit M,Konen O,Laor R,Levy I,Raviv D,Shachor-Meyouhas Y,Shvartser-Beryozkin Y,Toren A,Yaniv I,Nirel R,I

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated levels of haemoglobin F (Hb F) have been foudn in a wide range of haematological malignancies, but very high levels were found only in juvenile chronic myeloid leukaemia (JCML), and erythroleukaemia occurring in infancy. In both these disorders a reversion to a fetal form of erythropoiesis may occur, as judge...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sheridan BL,Weatherall DJ,Clegg JB,Pritchard J,Wood WG,Callender ST,Durrant IJ,McWhirter WR,Ali M,Partridge JW,Thompson EN

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxycarbamide (HC) (or hydroxyurea) has been reported to increase fetal haemoglobin levels and improve clinical symptoms in sickle cell anaemia (SCA) patients. However, the complete pathway by which HC acts remains unclear. To study the mechanisms involved in the action of HC, global gene expression profiles were o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Costa FC,da Cunha AF,Fattori A,de Sousa Peres T,Costa GG,Machado TF,de Albuquerque DM,Gambero S,Lanaro C,Saad ST,Costa FF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with acute immune haemolytic anaemia caused by diclofenac are described. Both patients had developed IgG drug-independent autoantibodies and drug-dependent antibodies. The drug-dependent antibodies in one patient reacted with red blood cells (RBC) only in the presence of urine from patients receiving dicl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Salama A,Göttsche B,Mueller-Eckhardt C

更新日期：1991-04-01 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 response to 0.8 ml of D-positive (ccDEE) red cells injected i.v., together with 1 microgram anti-D i.m., was studied in 13 D-negative male volunteers (test subjects); the red cells were labelled with 51Cr and were found to have a mean survival time of 24 d, after correction for Cr elution. Within the following 5 m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Contreras M,Mollison PL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty female patients with either primary anti-phospholipid syndrome (n = 26) or systemic lupus erythematosus (anti-phospholipid syndrome positive) (n = 14) were investigated for levels of factor XII, the presence of lupus anticoagulant and antibodies to cardiolipin, beta 2-glycoprotein I and factor XII. Twenty-one pa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jones DW,MacKie IJ,Gallimore MJ,Winter M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was hypothesized that contact between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) B-cells and marrow stromal cells impact both cell types. To test this hypothesis, we utilized a long-term primary culture system from bone biopsies that reliably generates a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC). Co-culture of MSC with CLL B-cells prot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ding W,Nowakowski GS,Knox TR,Boysen JC,Maas ML,Schwager SM,Wu W,Wellik LE,Dietz AB,Ghosh AK,Secreto CR,Medina KL,Shanafelt TD,Zent CS,Call TG,Kay NE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) is associated with impaired early immune reconstitution. This might be explained by a lower T-cell dose infused, the naivety of cord blood T-cells and the use of in vivo T-cell depletion. We studied the pattern of early immune reconstitution and the clinical outcome of children u...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chiesa R,Gilmour K,Qasim W,Adams S,Worth AJ,Zhan H,Montiel-Equihua CA,Derniame S,Cale C,Rao K,Hiwarkar P,Hough R,Saudemont A,Fahrenkrog CS,Goulden N,Amrolia PJ,Veys P

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin-receptor agonist that stimulates platelet production and increases platelet counts in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). This open-label, single-arm study evaluated consistency of response and safety following repeated intermittent dosing of eltrombopag 50 mg daily ove...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bussel JB,Saleh MN,Vasey SY,Mayer B,Arning M,Stone NL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a murine model to determine the impact of donor lymphocyte subsets on the incidence of primary marrow graft failure after transplantation of lymphocyte-depleted bone marrow. After lethal irradiation with 7.5 Gy, Balb/c mice received 1 x 10(5) to 4 x 10(7) GvH-nonreactive (C57 x Balb)F1 or GvH-reactive C57Bl/6 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Uharek L,Glass B,Gaska T,Gassmann W,Loeffler H,Mueller-Ruchholtz W

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) of the X-chromosome genes phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) and hypoxanthine phorphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) were used to determine the clonal nature of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in 22 patients. These included eight with refractory anaemia (RA), four with RA with rin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsukamoto N,Morita K,Maehara T,Okamoto K,Karasawa M,Omine M,Naruse T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal B-cell populations have been detected in the peripheral blood of apparently healthy individuals by flow cytometry. In 2005, the term monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL) was proposed to describe these findings. MBL may be immunophenotypically similar to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and, like CLL, th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rachel JM,Zucker ML,Fox CM,Plapp FV,Menitove JE,Abbasi F,Marti GE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00