Significant amount of hepatocyte growth factor detected in blood and bone marrow plasma of leukaemia patients.

abstract：:The serum "uracil+uridine" level, expressed as uracil, has been measured in 21 cases of vitamin B12 deficiency, in which the serum folate was normal, and compared with the level in 97 normal subjects. The level in the vitamin B12 deficient group (11.9 mumol/1). was significantly lower than in the controls (15.7 mumol/...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Parry TE,Blackmore JA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thiol isomerase enzymes protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) and endoplasmic reticulum protein 5 (ERp5) are released by resting and activated platelets. These re-associate with the cell surface where they modulate a range of platelet responses including adhesion, secretion and aggregation. Recent studies suggest the...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Holbrook LM,Watkins NA,Simmonds AD,Jones CI,Ouwehand WH,Gibbins JM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is characterized by a paucity of neoplastic Hodgkin/Reed Sternberg (HRS) cells within a complex cellular milieu that is rendered immunologically incapable of reacting against CD30(+) HRS cells due to a plethora of immune escape mechanisms initiated by the neoplastic cells. Accounting f...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Venkataraman G,Mirza MK,Eichenauer DA,Diehl V

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the expression patterns of the members of the tumour necrosis factor receptor and ligand families have extensively been studied by flow-cytometry on stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNC), little or no flow-cytometric or immunohistological data exist about their expression in lymphoid tissue. A...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dürkop H,Anagnostopoulos I,Bulfone-Paus S,Stein H

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts (RARS) is distinguished by hyperplastic inefficient erythropoiesis, aberrant mitochondrial ferritin accumulation and anaemia. Heterozygous mutations in the spliceosome gene SF3B1 are found in a majority of RARS cases. To explore the link between SF3B1 mutations and anaemia, we...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Conte S,Katayama S,Vesterlund L,Karimi M,Dimitriou M,Jansson M,Mortera-Blanco T,Unneberg P,Papaemmanuil E,Sander B,Skoog T,Campbell P,Walfridsson J,Kere J,Hellström-Lindberg E

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZBCL) represents a distinct subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) which has been recently recognized and defined as a disease entity. Cytogenetically, these lymphomas reveal a high prevalence of trisomy 3, and recent data obtained by comparative genomic hybridization indicate t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dierlamm J,Pittaluga S,Stul M,Wlodarska I,Michaux L,Thomas J,Verhoef G,Verhest A,Depardieu C,Cassiman JJ,Hagemeijer A,De Wolf-Peeters C,Van den Berghe H

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal adhesive interaction between bone marrow stroma and progenitors, one of the causes of unregulated proliferation in chronic myelocytic leukaemia (CML), may be caused by some alterations in adhesion molecules on CML progenitors. We investigated the expression of adhesion molecules (CD44, VLA-5, VLA-4, LFA-1, IC...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kawaishi K,Kimura A,Katoh O,Sasaki A,Oguma N,Ihara A,Satow Y

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the potency of the C677T mutation in the methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene as a genetic risk factor in women with a history of early (12 weeks gestation) recurrent miscarriage (three or more consecutive pregnancy losses). Fifty-seven of the tota...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Holmes ZR,Regan L,Chilcott I,Cohen H

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The threat of infection by conventional transfusion-transmitted agents has been essentially eliminated from the blood supply in developed countries, thus focusing attention on the potential risk from emerging infections. Over recent years, actions have been taken to manage a number of such risks to blood safety. These...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dodd RY

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone involvement is the commonest clinical manifestation of sickle cell disease both in the acute setting such as painful vaso-occlusive crises, and as a source of chronic, progressive disability such as avascular necrosis. Management of these problems is often difficult because of the diagnostic imprecision of most l...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Almeida A,Roberts I

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low concentrations of collagen and anticardiolipin antibodies (ACLA), which were raised in rabbits by immunization with cardiolipin (CL), co-operatively activated human gel-filtrated platelets (GFP). GFP activated by adding ACLA 5 min prior to collagen (ACLA + Col) showed strong responses in cytosolic Ca2+ mobilizatio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wang L,Su CY,Chou KY,Wang CT

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression and prognostic significance of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor c-MET (MET proto-oncogene) was analysed in 96 cases of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Tissue sections were immunohistochemically stained for HGF and c-Met. The prognosis of HGF-positive and c-Met-positive cases was si...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kawano R,Ohshima K,Karube K,Yamaguchi T,Kohno S,Suzumiya J,Kikuchi M,Tamura K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects approximately 100,000 people in the US, 12,500 in the UK, and millions worldwide. SCD is typified by painful vaso-occlusive episodes, haemolytic anaemia and organ damage. A secondary complication is infection, which can be bacterial, fungal or viral. Universal newborn screening, routi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sobota A,Sabharwal V,Fonebi G,Steinberg M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UK National External Quality Assessment Service surveys indicate continuing problems in malaria diagnosis: inaccurate calculation of parasitaemia or failure to estimate it altogether, difficulty distinguishing Plasmodium vivax from P. ovale, reporting malaria parasites when none were present and misidentification of P...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bailey JW,Williams J,Bain BJ,Parker-Williams J,Chiodini PL,General Haematology Task Force of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive genomic analyses have underscored the diversity of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) between patients. Genetic heterogeneity of tumour clones within a patient may fuel tumour evolution. Several recurrently deregulated intra-cellular pathways are candidates for targeted therapies that are very promising and a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ghamlouch H,Nguyen-Khac F,Bernard OA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This communication reports a patient with concomitant expansions of CD4+ and CD8+ large granular lymphocytes. Immunological analyses revealed that the abnormally increased CD4+ LGL fraction was phenotypically similar to other reported persistent CD4+ LGL expansions, whereas the phenotypic profile for the CD8+ LGL comp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Richards SJ,Short M,Steed AJ,Scott CS

更新日期：1994-11-01 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

abstract：:We describe three patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia who developed impaired visual acuity in association with high leucocyte counts. Two of the patients were in the chronic phase of their disease and the third developed visual symptoms at the time of blastic transformation. Fundoscopy showed retinal haemorrh...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mehta AB,Goldman JM,Kohner E

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During definitive erythropoiesis, erythroid precursors undergo differentiation through multiple nucleated states to an enucleated reticulocyte, which loses its residual RNA/organelles to become a mature erythrocyte. Over the course of these transformations, continuous changes in membrane proteins occur, including shif...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kodippili GC,Spector J,Kang GE,Liu H,Wickrema A,Ritchie K,Low PS

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 3 von Willebrand disease, a recessive autosomally inherited bleeding disorder, refers to complete deficiency of von Willebrand factor (VWF). The novel Q1311X mutation was detected in the homozygous state in four Spanish patients from two apparently unrelated families of gypsy origin. The lack of specific amplific...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Casaña P,Martínez F,Haya S,Lorenzo JI,Espinós C,Aznar JA

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:In this study we show that in vitro cultured human polyclonal NK cell lines and clones express the Ki-1/CD30 Hodgkin-associated antigen, identified by the BER-H2 monoclonal antibody. The percentage of BER-H2+ cells ranged from 19% to 67% in five polyclonal NK cell lines and was 31% and 20% in two NK clones. The intens...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cambiaggi A,Cantoni C,Marciano S,De Totero D,Pileri S,Tazzari PL,Stein H,Ferrini S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with sickle cell anaemia (SCA), concomitant glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is usually described as having no effect and only occasionally as increasing severity. We analysed sequential clinical and biological data for the first 42 months of life in SCA patients diagnosed by neonatal sc...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Benkerrou M,Alberti C,Couque N,Haouari Z,Ba A,Missud F,Boizeau P,Holvoet L,Ithier G,Elion J,Baruchel A,Ducrocq R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with Jo-1 antibody-associated polymyositis (Jo-1 PM) had a Karnofsky score of 40% and severe muscle, liver and lung damage that was refractory to standard therapy. The female patient received an autologous T-cell-depleted haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after myeloablative conditioning. The transp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baron F,Ribbens C,Kaye O,Fillet G,Malaise M,Beguin Y

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three novel point mutations were detected in the glucocerebrosidase gene of three unrelated Gaucher's disease patients by direct sequencing of PCR products. The first is a C to G change at position 4263 in the genomic sequence (exon 7) which results in a proline to arginine change at position 266 in the mature enzyme ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Walley AJ,Ellis I,Harris A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient with uterine myoma (leiomyoma) and erythrocytosis in whom erythropoietin (Epo) production in the leiomyoma tissue was identified by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). A 48-year-old Japanese woman with uterine myoma showed marked e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Suzuki M,Takamizawa S,Nomaguchi K,Suzu S,Yamada M,Igarashi T,Sato I

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulation factor concentrates are known to inhibit a variety of immune reactions when assessed in vitro. This study assessed the immunomodulatory activity of a wide range of coagulation factor concentrates by measuring their inhibition of PHA-stimulated lymphocyte proliferation and reduction in IL-2 secretion. The h...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pearson HJ,Stirling D,Ludlam CA,Steel CM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD, D-glucose 6-phosphate: NADP oxido reductase, E.C. 1.1.1.49) variants, designated G6PD Napoli and G6PD Ferrara II, are described in propositi from two unrelated families. Characterization side by side of the two variants according to W.H.O. recommendations reveals minor ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Flora A,Morelli A,Benatti U,Giuntini P,Ferraris AM,Galiano S,Ravazzolo R,Gaetani GF

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the most common cause of infection in neutropenic patients has shifted from Gram-negative to Gram-positive bacteria. To compare the efficacy and toxicity of teicoplanin and vancomycin in neutropenic patients, we conducted a prospective study of 151 adult leukaemic patients hospitalized for intensive c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cony-Makhoul P,Brossard G,Marit G,Pellegrin JL,Texier-Maugein J,Reiffers J

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplification is defined as a copy number (CN) increase in a restricted region of a chromosome arm, and is a mechanism for acquired drug resistance and oncogene activation. In multiple myeloma (MM), high CNs of genes in a 1q12 approximately 23 amplicon have been associated with disease progression and poor progno...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sawyer JR,Tian E,Thomas E,Koller M,Stangeby C,Sammartino G,Goosen L,Swanson C,Binz RL,Barlogie B,Shaughnessy J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00