PCR-monitoring of minimal residual leukaemia after conventional chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation in BCR-ABL-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

abstract：:In vitro culture of hairy cells (HC) (five patients) with alpha IFN (100 U/ml) significantly enhanced MHC and CD22 antigen expression and reduced CD25, sIg and FMC7 positivity, together with consistent but not significant reductions in CD9, 19 and HC2. A sixth patient, who was refractory to the effects of alpha IFN in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Till KJ,Cawley JC

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:A digital image processing technique has been used to quantitate bone marrow fibre in histological material (both biopsy and necropsy) from 17 cases of myelofibrosis. An attempt was made to correlate the results of these measurements with other diagnostically relevant parameters. Bone marrow fibre was found to correla...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bentley SA,Herman CJ

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analogous to T cells, Natural Killer (NK) cells may facilitate engraftment, combat infection, and control cancer in bone marrow or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); however, NK cells do not cause graft-versus-host disease. Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) regulate NK cell function, and recent...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Leung W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythroid colonies derived from the circulating early erythroid precursor (BFU-E) of a patient with congenital dyserythropoietic anaemia type I (CDA I) have been grown in plasma clot and studied by electron microscopy. The number of circulating BFU-E was in the normal range with a roughly normal appearance at the ligh...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vainchenker W,Guichard J,Bouguet J,Breton-Gorius J

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The routine methods for estimating erythrocyte size (volume and surface area) are not generally unbiased. Using geometric models introduces a bias determined by the ways in which real red blood corpuscles depart in size and shape from the simplistic ideal. Employing haematocrit and red corpuscle count to estimate mean...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mayhew TM,Mwamengele GL,Self TJ,Travers JP

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium uptake into isolated membrane vesicles from two patients with a grey platelet syndrome has been investigated. An increase in calcium transport appears in both patients when compared to controls. Determination of the kinetic parameters of the calcium transport system gave similar apparent affinity for calcium a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Enouf J,Lebret M,Bredoux R,Levy-Toledano S,Caen JP

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six hundred and nineteen patients with de novo acute myeloid leukaemia, entered into the Medical Research Council's eighth trial of therapy have been studied. All patients were treated with the same remission induction regimen. Pretreatment variables comprising age, clinical status, haematological status and a detaile...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Swirsky DM,de Bastos M,Parish SE,Rees JK,Hayhoe FG

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of factor IX gene polymorphisms is considered the best approach for prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection of haemophilia B when the identification of the gene mutation is not possible. Studies involving factor IX gene polymorphisms in Black populations are scarce and essentially restricted to the North-Ame...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Figueiredo MS,Bowen DJ,Silva Júnior WA,Zago MA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of oestrogen receptors (ER) and type II oestrogen binding sites (type II EBS) have been investigated by a whole cell assay in seven cases of acute lymphoid leukaemia (ALL) and 16 cases of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). ER were detected in 6/7 ALL patients with values ranging between 133 and 2268 sites/cel...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Larocca LM,Piantelli M,Leone G,Sica S,Teofili L,Panici PB,Scambia G,Mancuso S,Capelli A,Ranelletti FO

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a retrospective analysis of outcome in 45 patients with multiple myeloma receiving unrelated donor stem cell transplants (UD-SCT) in the UK between 1993 and 2002; 17 received myeloablative conditioning regimens and 28 received reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) protocols. Forty patients received pretran...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shaw BE,Peggs K,Bird JM,Cavenagh J,Hunter A,Alejandro Madrigal J,Russell NH,Sirohi B,Towlson K,Williams CD,Marks DI,Clinical Trials Committee of the British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic filamentous fungus that is currently the most frequent cause of invasive fungal disease in immunosuppressed individuals. Recent advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis of invasive aspergillosis have highlighted the multifactorial nature of A. fumigatus virulence and ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ben-Ami R,Lewis RE,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in patients with Fanconi's anaemia (FA) in transformation are very poor and only a few cases with favourable outcome have been reported. We present the follow-up of two FA-myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients with monosomy 7 and complex karyotype implicating chromosome 1...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ortega M,Caballín MR,Ortega JJ,Olive T,Coll MD

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are involved in the stable transmittance of the repressive state of their gene targets throughout the cell cycle. Mis-expression of PcG proteins can lead to proliferative defects and tumorigenesis. There are two separate multimeric PcG protein complexes: an EED-EZH2-containing complex and...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Visser HP,Gunster MJ,Kluin-Nelemans HC,Manders EM,Raaphorst FM,Meijer CJ,Willemze R,Otte AP

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have earlier demonstrated that in a family with a tendency to recurrent venous thrombosis the release of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) activity in blood after stimulation was abnormally low. This observation could be related either to an impaired release of t-PA into the blood stream or to a masking of the re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jørgensen M,Bonnevie-Nielsen V

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow culture in a patient with aplastic anaemia responding to anabolic steroid (methandienone) therapy, showed an unusually high degree of growth in unstimulated cultures. Growth in unstimulated cultures is due to factors with colony stimulating activity (CSA) released by monocyte macrophages in the bone marrow...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Francis GE,Berney JJ,Bateman SM,Hoffbrand AV

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：:Neutrophil hypersegmentation (NH) is an important haematological feature of cobalamin or folate deficiency. As iron deficiency and folate deficiency often occur in the same target groups it is important to establish whether iron deficiency alone is a cause of NH. We report a case-control study which addresses this iss...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Westerman DA,Evans D,Metz J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation of various degrees of severity, including fulminant hepatitis, may develop in 20-50% of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HbsAg)-positive patients undergoing immunosuppressive or cytostatic treatment. Lamivudine is a nucleoside analogue that can directly suppress HBV replication. ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rossi G,Pelizzari A,Motta M,Puoti M

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:Chemokines are a family of over 40 small (8 kDa) related proteins with the function of moving cells along a chemotactic gradient, either to organise cells within an organ or to facilitate the movement of leucocytes around the body. Mouse models have implicated the importance of the chemokine CXCL12 in haematopoiesis a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Laurence AD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study, we examined the association between cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and non-neutropenic fever immediately following autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for a variety of haematological malignancies and solid tumours. Sixty non-neutropenic febrile episodes (41 in CMV-seroposit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fassas AB,Bolaños-Meade J,Buddharaju LN,Rapoport A,Cottler-Fox M,Chen T,Lovchik JC,Cross A,Tricot G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic options for treatment of recurrence of leukaemia after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) are limited. A beneficial effect of donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI) has not previously been described in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) relapse. We report a case of AML with t(8;21), relapsing 3 months after...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Buzyn-Veil A,Belanger C,Audat F,Hermine O,Bodemer C,Ribrag V,Radford I,Poirel H,Chane C,Valensi F,Macintyre E,Varet B

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-induced alteration of phosphoprotein during differentiation of HL-60 cells was studied. From the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis analysis of phosphoproteins, a 45 kD phosphoprotein in the cytosolic fraction of DMSO-pretreated HL-60 cells was rapidly dephosphorylated by...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yamaguchi T,Oshizawa T,Yamaguchi T,Suzuki K,Yamamoto Y,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is the capacity to generate thrombin, and the enzymatic work that thrombin does, that determines blood coagulability. Therefore, measurement of the enzymatic work potential of thrombin provides a method for quantifying the composite effect of the multiple factors that determine coagulation capacity. The application...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baglin T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many cases of multiple myeloma (MM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) are cytogenetically normal, interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses reveal aberrations in the majority of the cases. Most likely, non-neoplastic cells are more prone to divide in culture tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nilsson T,Lenhoff S,Rylander L,Höglund M,Turesson I,Mitelman F,Westin J,Johansson B

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Karyotypic analysis was performed in a total of 69 patients with well-characterized idiopathic myelofibrosis. Karyotypic abnormalities were detected in 46% of cases examined during the chronic phase (29/63); with three abnormalities, del(13q), del(20q) and partial trisomy 1q, accounting for 75% of all abnormalities at...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Reilly JT,Wilson G,Barnett D,Watmore A,Potter A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-HSCT) is a standard treatment option for many patients with haematological malignancies. Historically, patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission for transplant-related toxicities have fared extremely poorly, with high ICU mortality rates...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Townsend WM,Holroyd A,Pearce R,Mackinnon S,Naik P,Goldstone AH,Linch DC,Peggs KS,Thomson KJ,Singer M,Howell DC,Morris EC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the characterization of a novel 7.9 kb deletion that eliminated one of the duplicated alpha-globin genes, causing an alpha+-thalassaemia phenotype in two independent carriers of Suriname-Indian origin. The molecular characterization of the deletion breakpoint fragment revealed neither involvement of Alu re...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Harteveld CL,van Delft P,Wijermans PW,Kappers-Klunne MC,Weegenaar J,Losekoot M,Giordano PC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00