Blast cells in child and adult AML: comparative study of morphocytochemical, immunological and cytogenetic characteristics.

abstract：:Activities of the red cell enzymes hexokinase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, lactic dehydrogenase and aspartate aminotransferase were measured in 17 chronic haemodialysis patients receiving androgen therapy, 15 untreated chronic haemodialysis patients and 15 normal subjects. Comp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Solomon LR,Hendler ED

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is curative for sickle cell anaemia (SCA), concerns about its short- and long-term toxicities limit its application. A potential toxicity is an adverse effect on growth. To identify an HCT growth effect, serial height and weight measurements from 53 children and adole...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Eggleston B,Patience M,Edwards S,Adamkiewicz T,Buchanan GR,Davies SC,Dickerhoff R,Donfield S,Feig SA,Giller RH,Haight A,Horan J,Hsu LL,Kamani N,Lane P,Levine JE,Margolis D,Moore TB,Ohene-Frempong K,Redding-Lallinger

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responsiveness of bone marrow erythroid progenitors (CFU-E and BFU-E) to recombinant human erythropoietin (rh-Ep) was investigated in vitro in 21 patients with multiple myeloma to assess the clinical usefulness of rh-Ep in this disease. CFU-E and BFU-E assays were performed by methylcellulose culture methods. The ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aoki I,Nishijima K,Homori M,Nakahara K,Higashi K,Ishikawa K

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet function was evaluated in eight patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL), seven Ph1 positive and one Ph1 negative. Seven of the eight patients' platelets had an absence of the second wave of adrenaline induced aggregation on at least one occasion, while five had impaired collagen aggregation. The pl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gerrard JM,Stoddard SF,Shapiro RS,Coccia PF,Ramsay NK,Nesbit ME,Rao GH,Krivit W,White JG

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the largest series reported to date, of individuals belonging to unrelated families carrying a beta-thalassaemia-like phenotype in whom the beta-globin gene was found to be structurally intact by sequence analysis. This genetic determinant appears haematologically heterogeneous, displaying either ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Faà V,Meloni A,Moi L,Ibba G,Travi M,Vitucci A,Cao A,Rosatelli MC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess sources of variability in platelet function tests in normal subjects, 64 healthy young adults were tested on 2-6 occasions at 2 week intervals using four methods: platelet aggregation (AGG) in platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in the Bio/Data PAP-4 Aggregometer (BD) and Chrono-Log Lumi-Aggregometer (CL); and AGG in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miller CH,Rice AS,Garrett K,Stein SF

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Chromosomal rearrangements involving the MECOM (MDS1 and EVI1 complex) locus are recurrent genetic events in myeloid leukaemia and are associated with poor prognosis. In this study, we assessed the role of MECOM locus protein EVI1 in the transcriptional regulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) involved in the leukaemic phenot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Weer A,Van der Meulen J,Rondou P,Taghon T,Konrad TA,De Preter K,Mestdagh P,Van Maerken T,Van Roy N,Jeison M,Yaniv I,Cauwelier B,Noens L,Poirel HA,Vandenberghe P,Lambert F,De Paepe A,Sánchez MG,Odero M,Verhasselt

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary familial and congenital polycythaemia (PFCP) is a disease characterized by increased red blood cell mass, and can be associated with mutations in the intracellular region of the erythropoietin (EPO) receptor (EPOR). Here we explore the mechanisms by which EPOR mutations induce PFCP, using an experimental syste...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gross M,Ben-Califa N,McMullin MF,Percy MJ,Bento C,Cario H,Minkov M,Neumann D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared pulmonary function tests (PFTs) with cardiac, pancreatic and liver iron in 76 thalassemia major (TM) patients. Restrictive lung disease was observed in 16%, hyperinflation in 32% and abnormal diffusing capacity in 3%. While no patients met Global Initiative for Chronic Lung Disease criteria for air...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sohn EY,Noetzli LJ,Gera A,Kato R,Coates TD,Harmatz P,Keens TG,Wood JC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy of Flt-3 ligand (FL) combined with TPO in myelosuppressed rhesus monkeys. The monkeys were subjected to 5 Gy total body irradiation (TBI), resulting in 3 weeks of profound pancytopenia, and received either 5 microg/kg of rhesus TPO i.v. on d 1 (n = 4) and 100 microg...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hartong SC,Neelis KJ,Wagemaker G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet-sized particle formation in the human megakaryoblastic leukaemia cell line MEG-01 and its subline MEG-01s was examined. MEG-01 and MEG-01s cells spontaneously released platelet-sized particles into the culture medium, in which the cells occasionally extended cytoplasmic processes similar to those of megak...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Takeuchi K,Satoh M,Kuno H,Yoshida T,Kondo H,Takeuchi M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison has been made between the prothrombin time test using British Comparative Thromboplastin (BCT) and a chromogenic substrate assay for factor VII in the assessment of laboratory control of oral anticoagulants in short-term and long-term patients. Opportunity was also taken to compare the findings with paral...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Poller L,Thomson JM,Bodzenta A,Easton AC,Latallo ZS,Chmielewska J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the clinical significance of CD21S expression of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tumour cells, we compared their clinical features, immunophenotype, response to therapy and outcome in relation to CD21S expression. Between 1987 and 1999, frozen sections from 240 DLBCL cases were examined for CD21S exp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ogawa S,Yamaguchi M,Oka K,Taniguchi M,Ito M,Nishii K,Nakase K,Ohno T,Kita K,Kobayashi T,Shiku H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In advanced chronic myeloid leukaemia patients, STI-571 produces complete haematological response in most cases and cytogenetic response in up to 50%. However, these patients often suffer periods of pancytopenia, which can lead to life-threatening complications, and is probably due to the small number of residual norm...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lewalle P,Meuleman N,Verhest A,Bron D,Martiat P

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of iron by bone marrow erythroblasts and its intracellular distribution have been studied in 23 patients with primary sideroblastic anaemia (SA), five patients with secondary SA and one patient with only non-ringed sideroblasts. EM of erythroblasts from 18 cases showed both mitochondrial iron deposits and c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： May A,de Souza P,Barnes K,Kaaba S,Jacobs A

更新日期：1982-12-01 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：:A prospective study of 7065 consecutive new pregnancies identified 230 with a positive screen, of which 27% (62/230) were 'enzyme-only' antibodies. 32 of these (52%) were potentially clinically important and were all of Rh specificity: 22 anti-E, seven anti-Cw, two anti-D and one anti-c. However, only three of these e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Clark D,Greiss MA,Urbaniak SJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis occurs in 37% of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and is related to an L-asparaginase-induced acquired antithrombin (AT) deficiency. The incidence dictates the need for anticoagulant prophylaxis. Direct thrombin inhibitors (DTI) are independent of AT for effect and may thus have advantages ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kuhle S,Lau A,Bajzar L,Vegh P,Halton J,Cherrick I,Anderson R,Desai S,McCusker P,Wu J,Abshire T,Mahoney D,Mitchell L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old boy with a bleeding disorder since infancy has a long bleeding time, normal platelet count and morphology and normal plasma factor-VIII activities. His platelets undergo normal shape change and primary aggregation in response to ADP but show defective 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) secretion and aggregation ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hardisty RM,Machin SJ,Nokes TJ,Rink TJ,Smith SW

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma cell lines express functional receptors for insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and several cell types that make up the bone marrow microenvironment produce these cytokines. This suggests that IGFs may play a role in survival and/or expansion of the malignant clone within the marrow in patients with mu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Xu F,Gardner A,Tu Y,Michl P,Prager D,Lichtenstein A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies grouped together by the Third Workshop on Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens on the basis of pan-macrophage reactivity on tissue sections were analysed in immunoprecipitation experiments. Antibodies Y2/131, EBM11, Ki-M6 and Ki-M7 all precipitated antigens of Mr 110,000 which were shown to be identical by pr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Micklem K,Rigney E,Cordell J,Simmons D,Stross P,Turley H,Seed B,Mason D

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cells from patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) have abnormal T4/T8 ratios and functions. Previously, we demonstrated that peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells from B-CLL patients secrete significant amounts of interleukin 2 (IL2) with an apparent dysregulation of accessory cells controlling...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rossi JF,Klein B,Commes T,Jourdan M,Janbon C

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of age upon therapeutic response to unfractionated heparin (UFH) in children is proposed to reflect quantitative and potentially qualitative differences in coagulation proteins across childhood. This study explores the UFH-dependent tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) release in children compared to prev...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Newall F,Johnston L,Summerhayes R,Lane G,Cranswick N,Monagle P,Ignjatovic V

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of a 17p13.1 deletion (loss of TP53) or 11q22.3 deletion (loss of ATM), by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients is associated with a poorer prognosis. Because TP53 and ATM are integral to the TP53 pathway, we hypothesized that 17p13.1- (17p-) and 11q22.3-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Greipp PT,Smoley SA,Viswanatha DS,Frederick LS,Rabe KG,Sharma RG,Slager SL,Van Dyke DL,Shanafelt TD,Tschumper RC,Zent CS

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoproliferative diseases of large granular lymphocytes (LDGL) may arise from either CD3+ T cells or CD3- natural killer (NK) cells. LDGL with clonal proliferation of large granular lymphocytes (LGL) is defined as LGL leukaemia. The number of patients with NK-LGL leukaemia reported is limited and the pathogenesis o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chou WC,Chiang IP,Tang JL,Su IJ,Huang SY,Chen YC,Liu MC,Lee FY,Wang CH,Shen MC,Chuang SM,Tien HF

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of naturally occurring mutations, such as the deletional thalassaemias and hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobins (HPFHs), have brought many insights into human globin switching, but limited data have been reported so far. We selected 15 individuals with elevated fetal haemoglobin (HbF) levels (>5...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee ST,Yoo EH,Kim JY,Kim JW,Ki CS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) were treated with cyclosporine. The treatment with cyclosporine was based on the hypothesis that immune-mediated bone-marrow damage is the common pathogenetic mechanism of aplasia and PNH, with lack of GPI-linked ligands for an immune attack (i.e. LFA-3, CD...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Kamp H,van Imhoff GW,de Wolf JT,Smit JW,Halie MR,Vellenga E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), JAK2V617F allele burden measurement has an impact on prognosis that helps in patient monitoring. Less is known about its usefulness in CALR-mutated cases. Additional mutations found by next-generation sequencing have also shown an impact on prognosis that may drive therapeutic ch...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cottin L,Riou J,Orvain C,Ianotto JC,Boyer F,Renard M,Truchan-Graczyk M,Murati A,Jouanneau-Courville R,Allangba O,Mansier O,Burroni B,Rousselet MC,Quintin-Roué I,Martin A,Sadot-Lebouvier S,Delneste Y,Chrétien JM,Hunaul

更新日期：2020-03-01 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