Cyclosporin A in the treatment of severe acute aplastic anaemia.

abstract：:Asparaginase (ASNase) is an important anti-leukaemic drug in the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). A substantial proportion of patients develop hypersensitivity reactions with anti-ASNase neutralising antibodies, resulting in allergic reactions or silent inactiv...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mondelaers V,Ferster A,Uyttebroeck A,Brichard B,van der Werff Ten Bosch J,Norga K,Francotte N,Piette C,Vandemeulebroecke K,Verbeke C,Schmidt S,Benoit Y,Lammens T,De Moerloose B

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL) is a B-cell tumour with a usually poor prognosis, characterized by the proliferation of small cleaved lymphocytes with a diffuse growth pattern. We report a polymerase chain reaction-based analysis of minimal residual disease in a patient who achieved complete remission after allogeneic bloo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Corradini P,Ladetto M,Astolfi M,Voena C,Tarella C,Bacigalupo A,Pileri A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advent of an improved commercial serum enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of circulating galactomannan (GM), a major constituent of Aspergillus cell walls, has contributed to the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in many haematology and transplant centres. However, the optima...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Maertens J,Theunissen K,Verbeken E,Lagrou K,Verhaegen J,Boogaerts M,Eldere JV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of heat-shock proteins (hsp) was analysed in the leukaemic cells of 12 patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and nine patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Using monoclonal antibodies to hsp70, hsp90 and hsp60 (ML30, a mycobacterial antigen with homology to human hsp60), we measured hsp level...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chant ID,Rose PE,Morris AG

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:The feasibility of marrow cryopreservation for autologous bone marrow transplantation after 7 d in liquid culture was assessed in 10 leukaemic patients. A median of 0.17 x 10(8) nucleated cells/kg and 0.4 x 10(4) CFU-GM/kg could be collected after the complete procedure, with overall a consistent cell loss. Long-term ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Stoppa AM,Maraninchi D,Lafage M,Mannoni P,Novakovitch G,Blaise D,Gaspard MH,Michel G,Carcassonne Y

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that multitransfused patients with severe aplastic anaemia (SAA) exhibit high numbers of alloreactive cytotoxic T lymphocyte precursors directed against their HLA identical siblings. In this study a group of patients who had received multiple blood transfusions for SAA, other haematological ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kaminski ER,Hows JM,Goldman JM,Batchelor JR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SAn ageing population and the continuing expansion of clinical indications for coumadin therapy have increased pressure on hospital anticoagulant clinics. One solution is patient self-testing (PST) of the international normalized ratio (INR) using capillary blood samples on point-of-care coagulation monitors at home. ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gardiner C,Williams K,Mackie IJ,Machin SJ,Cohen H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloablative conditioning prior to allogeneic stem cell transplantation causes a rapid increase in transferrin saturation and potentially toxic non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI) in plasma. We have studied the ability of repeatedly administered apotransferrin to maintain this iron in a transferrin-bound form. Twenty a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Parkkinen J,Sahlstedt L,von Bonsdorff L,Salo H,Ebeling F,Ruutu T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with neutropenia of more than 3 months duration often have evidence of immune-mediated destruction of mature neutrophils and variable abnormalities of myeloid precursors in their bone marrow. These patients often have anti-neutrophil antibodies which persist for several months. To further investigate the aeti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McClain K,Estrov Z,Chen H,Mahoney DH Jr

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human blood platelets were stored in autologous plasma at 4 degrees C or 22 degrees C and their surface changes were probed with three lectins--wheat germ agglutinin, lentil lectin and concanavalin A. Platelets stored at either temperature for different times showed increased sensitivity to lectins. Lectins which were...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dhar A,Ganguly P

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of the skeleton by plain radiography was compared to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine in 41 patients with multiple myeloma. In the lumbar spine, myeloma lesions were detected in 15 patients with radiography and in 28 patients with MRI. Radiography of the lumbar spine was not positive in a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tertti R,Alanen A,Remes K

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, leukaemia-associated antigens (LAA) recognized by T lymphocytes, such as Wilm's tumour-1 (WT-1) or pathogenesis-related protein-1 (PR-1), have been identified. For immunotherapies that employ antigen peptides, either alone or pulsed on dendritic cells (DC), the expression of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) mol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vollmer M,Li L,Schmitt A,Greiner J,Reinhardt P,Ringhoffer M,Wiesneth M,Döhner H,Schmitt M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelofibrosis is an enigmatic myeloproliferative neoplasm, despite noteworthy strides in understanding its genetic underpinnings. Driver mutations involving JAK2, CALR or MPL in 90% of patients mediate constitutive JAK-STAT signaling which, in concert with epigenetic alterations (ASXL1, DNMT3A, SRSF2, EZH2, IDH1/2 mut...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gangat N,Tefferi A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CDKN2 gene, encoding the cyclin-dependent kinase-4 inhibitor p16, is a putative tumour-suppressor gene because it is frequently altered in many malignant tumours. We analysed the CDKN2 gene in 44 cases of adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) by Southern blot analysis, polymerase chain reaction-mediated single-strand confo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Uchida T,Kinoshita T,Watanabe T,Nagai H,Murate T,Saito H,Hotta T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a serious form of acquired haemolytic anaemia with several features that make it unique, including the fact that it is caused by clonal expansion, in the context of bone marrow failure, of a haematopoietic stem cell that has a somatic mutation in a gene crucial for the syn...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Luzzatto L,Gianfaldoni G,Notaro R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a potent lipid mediator that is produced during the metabolism of sphingolipid by sphingosine kinase. S1P has been implicated in the migration and trafficking of lymphocytes and several lymphoid malignancies through S1P receptors. Moreover, the overexpression of sphingosine-1-phosphate...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Koresawa R,Yamazaki K,Oka D,Fujiwara H,Nishimura H,Akiyama T,Hamasaki S,Wada H,Sugihara T,Sadahira Y

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections continue to be a serious problem for severely neutropenic oncology and haematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplant patients. Although it is now possible to collect much larger numbers of neutrophils (PMNs) from donors stimulated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor + corticosteroids, the efficacy ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Strauss RG

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis accounting for the peculiar clinical and biological features of hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) is currently unknown. Deregulation of cell cycle genes plays a significant role in oncogenesis and there is considerable evidence suggesting that Cdk inhibitors (Ckis) function as tumour suppressors. We and o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chilosi M,Chiarle R,Lestani M,Menestrina F,Montagna L,Ambrosetti A,Prolla G,Pizzolo G,Doglioni C,Piva R,Pagano M,Inghirami G

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) was previously demonstrated to be a mediator of oxidative stress-induced apoptosis in irradiated neoplastic B-cells and B-cell precursors. Defective BTK expression in leukaemic B-cell precursors from infants with t(4;11) acute lymphoblastic leukaemia has been associated with radiation re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Uckun F,Ozer Z,Vassilev A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma iron turnover (PIT) and ferritin synthesis in the liver and spleen were studied in rats within the first 24 h of inflammation produced by turpentine injection. Comparison of the sequential changes in PIT and ferritin synthesis showed that alterations in ferritin synthesis preceded the changes in plasma iron exc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Konijn AM,Hershko C

更新日期：1977-09-01 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：: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：:A number of disorders cause iron overload: some are of genetic origin, such as hereditary haemochromatosis, while others are acquired, for instance due to repeated transfusions. This article reviews the treatment options for hereditary haemochromatosis, with special attention to the use of erythrocytapheresis. In gene...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rombout-Sestrienkova E,van Kraaij MG,Koek GH

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpura fulminans (PF) is a cutaneous manifestation of a dramatic and deadly syndrome of systemic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). It is characterized by microvascular thrombosis in the dermis followed by perivascular haemorrhage. Since two other related syndromes involve the protein C (PC) system, we und...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Madden RM,Gill JC,Marlar RA

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we have carried out haplotype analysis at the beta-globin gene cluster and defined the beta-thalassaemia mutations in a large Sardinian family, ascertained through a proband with thalassaemia major, in which several members were carriers of a beta-thalassaemia allele characterized by microcytosis, hypoch...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Oggiano L,Pirastu M,Moi P,Longinotti M,Perseu L,Cao A

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No episodes of clinically significant in vivo haemolysis have been reported in individuals with a novel form of decay accelerating factor (DAF) deficiency (Inab phenotype), nor do functional in vitro assays for complement-mediated haemolysis show the extreme sensitivity to lysis characteristic of paroxysmal nocturnal ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Merry AH,Rawlinson VI,Uchikawa M,Daha MR,Sim RB

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF) is an inflammatory cytokine that is elevated in a number of autoimmune diseases including immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a bleeding disorder characterized by low platelet counts. In vitro TNF blockade increases expansion of the regulatory T cell (Treg) IKZF2 (also termed Helios) subset i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zhong H,Bussel J,Yazdanbakhsh K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:210 patients, with a history of venous thrombosis, have undergone prothrombotic investigations. In nine cases a consistent deficiency of antithrombin was identified. In five there was a reduction in the plasma antigenic concentration of antithrombin and in a further four cases deficiency was due to the presence of a d...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Harper PL,Luddington RJ,Daly M,Bruce D,Williamson D,Edgar PF,Perry DJ,Carrell RW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of levels of D-dimer in plasma and serum, thrombin-antithrombin complex (TAT) in plasma and fibrinogen/fibrin fragment E antigen (FgE) in serum in a normal healthy control group and in patients with a range of disorders associated with hypercoagulability. Levels were determined in 31 normal heal...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boisclair MD,Lane DA,Wilde JT,Ireland H,Preston FE,Ofosu FA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00