B-cell activation in human plasma cell dyscrasias.

abstract：:Positron emission tomography using fluorine-18 (FDG-PET) is increasingly used in the staging and follow-up of malignant lymphomas, although its precise role has not yet been determined. This review considers the results reported at the different stages in the disease history and separately considers the major histolog...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Burton C,Ell P,Linch D

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that interleukin 2 (IL2) production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) is severely impaired post allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, whereas production of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is at most marginally depressed. To investigate the mechanisms behind this apparently differe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cooley MA,McLachlan K,Atkinson K

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia can be a complication of hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection. However, there is little published data regarding the clinical and laboratory manifestations of HCV-related thrombocytopenia (HCV-TP) compared with adult chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (CITP). We reviewed the medical records for all ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rajan SK,Espina BM,Liebman HA

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:35 patients with oral anticoagulant (OAC) related intracranial or intraspinal haemorrhage were studied to determine treatment received, outcome and rate of recurrent bleeding and thromboembolism after restarting OAC. All patients underwent active anticoagulant reversal and in 14 patients with prosthetic heart valves (...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Butler AC,Tait RC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) present with hypoxaemia and are mechanically ventilated to support gas exchange. We performed a retrospective, observational study of blood gas analyses (n = 3518) obtained from patients with COVID-19 to investigate changes in haemoglobin oxygen (Hb-O2 )...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vogel DJ,Formenti F,Retter AJ,Vasques F,Camporota L

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolyl hydroxylase (PH) is an important enzyme in collagen synthesis. It is required for the hydroxylation of prolyl residues in peptide chains in collagen synthesis. Serum PH activity was measured in patients with primary myelofibrosis (agnogenic myeloid metaplasia and myelofibrosis with prior history of polycythaemi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wang JC,Wong C,Kao WW

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the generation and functional characterization of a humanized immunoenzyme comprising a stable humanized single chain Fv (scFv) with grafted specificity of the anti-CD22 murine monoclonal antibody RFB4 and the human ribonuclease angiogenin (ANG). The fusion protein produced from transiently transfected ma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Krauss J,Arndt MA,Vu BK,Newton DL,Rybak SM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of anaemia and reticulocytosis by arylhydrazines was influenced by substituents on the benzene ring of phenylhydrazine. Arylhydrazines with ortho substituents, which would hinder the binding by haemoglobin of a ligand derived from the arylhydrazine, resulted in the least anaemia and reticulocytosis. Thes...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Itano HA,Hosokawa K,Hirota K

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-immune IgG binds to red cell integral membrane proteins obtained by mild alkaline extraction of ghosts. Detergent gel chromatography and electrophoretic analyses of IgG-membrane protein complexes obtained by nonionic detergent solubilization and affinity binding to protein A indicate that three polypeptides partic...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Victoria EJ,Mahan LC,Masouredis SP

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between the complement lysis sensitivity test and two-colour flow cytometric analysis using monoclonal antibodies to decay accelerating factor (DAF) and CD59/membrane attack complex inhibitory factor (MACIF) in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) and other haematol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shichishima T,Terasawa T,Saitoh Y,Hashimoto C,Ohto H,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Globin synthesis was studied in four Negro families including 10 members with Hb A-HPFH and four with Hb S-HPFH. The beta/alpha specific activity ratios in 10 of these HPFH heterozygotes were similar to those of the control group. In two patients with Hb A-HPFH, the beta/alpha ratio was slightly decreased in one (0.84...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Friedman S,Schwartz E,Ahern E,Ahern V

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloperoxidase (MPO) catalyses the formation of hypochlorous acid and is involved in many (patho)physiological processes. The present study was designed to determine the effect of two MPO promoter polymorphisms (463G/A and 129G/A) on enzyme activity. In 243 healthy controls, genotypes were determined and MPO activity...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rutgers A,Heeringa P,Giesen JE,Theunissen RT,Jacobs H,Tervaert JW

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:Neutrophils are amongst the first immune cells to arrive at sites of infection and play an important role as the host's first line of defence against invading pathogens. Defects of neutrophil number or function are usually recognized clinically by recurrent infections that often are life-threatening. Over the last few...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bouma G,Ancliff PJ,Thrasher AJ,Burns SO

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:The effects of oral contraceptive (OC) usage on platelet responsiveness to arachidonic acid metabolites was investigated. Platelets obtained from women who had been taking oral contraceptives for at least 3 months were compared with those of age-matched controls. Both the basal and prostacyclin (PGI2)-stimulated plate...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pan IQ,Hall ER,Wu KK

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in SOCS1 are frequent in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma and classical Hodgkin lymphoma. In the latter, SOCS1 mutations affect the length of the encoded protein (major mutations) and are associated with shorter patient survival. Two independent studies examined the prognostic impact of SOCS1 mutations in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mellert K,Martin M,Lennerz JK,Lüdeke M,Staiger AM,Kreuz M,Löffler M,Schmitz N,Trümper L,Feller AC,Hartmann S,Hansmann ML,Klapper W,Stein H,Rosenwald A,Ott G,Ziepert M,Möller P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The close association between translocation of the proto-oncogene bcl-2 and follicular lymphomas has been well established in Caucasian patients and the de-regulation of bcl-2 has been implicated in follicular lymphomagenesis. Similar molecular structural alterations have also been detected in diffuse lymphomas with a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Loke SL,Pittaluga S,Srivastava G,Raffeld M,Ho FC

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although individuals with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) have elevated baseline inflammation and endothelial activation, the acute phase response to maximal exercise has not been evaluated among children with SCA. We measured the acute phase response to maximal exercise testing for soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule (...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Liem RI,Onyejekwe K,Olszewski M,Nchekwube C,Zaldivar FP,Radom-Aizik S,Rodeghier MJ,Thompson AA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet associated C3c and C3d (PAC3c and PAC3d) were quantitated by enzyme linked assay in 105 patients with idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AITP) in whom elevated platelet associated immunoglobulins (IgG and IgM) had previously been documented. Increased levels of complement components were demonstrated in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hegde UM,Bowes A,Roter BL

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) is an aggressive lymphoma subtype that accounts for 6-8% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. The disease is mostly incurable and characterized by a continuous pattern of relapse. Major changes have recently been implemented in the management of MCL, but continuous relapses still mark this disease as a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Obrador-Hevia A,Serra-Sitjar M,Rodríguez J,Belayachi L,Bento L,García-Recio M,Sánchez JM,Villalonga P,Gutiérrez A,Fernández de Mattos S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral T-cell neoplasms are a biologically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare disorders that result from clonal proliferation of mature post-thymic lymphocytes. Natural killer (NK) cell neoplasms are included in this group. The World Health Organization classification of haemopoietic malignancies has d...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dearden CE,Johnson R,Pettengell R,Devereux S,Cwynarski K,Whittaker S,McMillan A,British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the subclassification of nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's disease (NSHD) according to the British National Lymphoma Investigation Group (BNLI) criteria, which had an independent prognostic value for 90 unselected patients diagnosed in our region in the period 1972-83, is still equivocal. Because survival...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Spronsen DJ,Vrints LW,Hofstra G,Crommelin MA,Coebergh JW,Breed WP

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inducibility of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins on affected paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) neutrophils (PMN) after both in vitro and in vivo stimulation was investigated. Fc gamma R-III (CD16), decay-accelerating factor (DAF/CD55) and 20 kD homologous restriction factor (HRF20/CD5...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ninomiya H,Muraki Y,Shibuya K,Nagasawa T,Abe T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-month-old child who had a haemolytic episode when he was 5 years old, and with psychomotor retardation, was found to have decreased red cell hexokinase activity. The mutant enzyme was characterized by an increased affinity for glucose associated with an increased inhibition constant for glucose-1,6-diphosphate. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Magnani M,Stocchi V,Canestrari F,Dachà M,Balestri P,Farnetani MA,Giorgi D,Fois A,Fornaini G

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyurea increases fetal haemoglobin in many patients with sickle cell anaemia, but its effectiveness in thalassaemia appears to be less consistent. We describe the response to hydroxyurea in an adult male with homozygous beta thalassaemia, symptomatic paraspinal extramedullary haemopoiesis, bone pain, and progress...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Saxon BR,Rees D,Olivieri NF

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously thought to be best described as a plasma cell disorder, Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM) is now understood to be a distinct clinicobiological entity. WM shares B-cell origin and certain other features with both chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and multiple myeloma (MM). WM and CLL arise from B-cells a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McMaster ML,Caporaso N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stroma free platelet lysate supernatant (PLS) was prepared by repeatedly freezing and thawing a human platelet suspension separated from platelet rich plasma by gel filtration. The material was potently thrombogenic in a stasis model in rabbits, but only when combined with a purified preparation of factor Xa. The do...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Giles AR,Nesheim ME,Hoogendoorn H,Tracy PB,Mann KG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant increases in prolyl hydroxylase activity, a key enzyme in the collagen biosynthetic pathway, were noted in the hepatic homogenates of iron-loaded animals as compared to controls. The increase in prolyl hydroxylase activity was seen without any light microscopic histologic evidence of cell necrosis or accum...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Weintraub LR,Goral A,Grasso J,Franzblau C,Sullivan A,Sullivan S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00