Immunodeficiency and IL-6 production by peripheral blood monocytes in multicentric Castleman's disease.

abstract：:A proportion of patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplants (BMT) for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in first chronic phase relapse; most of these relapses show features of chronic phase disease. We report here a series of five patients seen at a single institution over a 10 year period who developed blast ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cullis JO,Marks DI,Schwarer AP,Barrett AJ,Hows JM,Swirsky DM,Goldman JM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia is typically observed in patients undergoing cord blood transplantation. We hypothesized that delayed recovery of the platelet count might be caused by defects in the megakaryocytic differentiation pathway of cord blood progenitors. To test this hypothesis, we compared the features of in vitro megakar...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miyazaki R,Ogata H,Iguchi T,Sogo S,Kushida T,Ito T,Inaba M,Ikehara S,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelial hybridoma (EAhy926) cell line was employed to clarify whether antiphospholipid antibodies (aPA) [lupus anticoagulant (LA), antiprothrombin antibody (aPT) and/or anticardiolipin antibody (aCL)] and anti-endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) are identical, and establish whether beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2-G...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Matsuda J,Gotoh M,Gohchi K,Kawasugi K,Tsukamoto M,Saitoh N

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 306 cases of myeloproliferative disorders followed over a period of 21 years, 18 cases of well-documented acute leukaemia were encountered. Leukaemias were either acute myeloblastic or myelomonocytic and occurred from 6 months to 20 years after the initial diagnosis. Onset was relatively abrupt and the ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rosenthal DS,Moloney WC

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liposome-entrapped desferrioxamine was administered to iron-over-loaded 59Fe lavelled mice. When given orally or intraperitoneally entrapment did not enhance the effect of the chelator, but given intravenously liposomal desferrioxamine doubled the 59Fe excretion for a given dose of the drug, and excretion after a sing...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Young SP,Baker E,Huehns ER

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), we found a novel platelet-activating IgG (act-IgG) and an inhibitory IgG (inhi-IgG) that prevented activation induced by both CD9 monoclonal antibody (mAb) and the act-IgG. Purified IgG from the patient plasma caused a rise in [Ca2+]i and the aggregation of norm...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yanabu M,Nomura S,Fukuroi T,Suzuki M,Kawakatsu T,Kido H,Yamaguchi K,Kokawa T,Yasunaga K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a tissue kallikrein in polymorphonuclear (PMN) leucocytes of normal human blood and bone marrow by immunocytochemistry, radioimmunoassay and enzymology. Immunoreactive tissue kallikrein was visualized in the mature neutrophil leucocytes and in immature forms such as metamyelocytes and myelocytes. No...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Figueroa CD,MacIver AG,Bhoola KD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet mass (mean platelet volume x platelet count) can be derived from data obtained from the routine full blood count and separates patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) at diagnosis into three distinct prognostic groups: low platelet mass group - median survival 5 months and 5-year survival 0%; intermedia...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bowles KM,Warner BA,Baglin TP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 622 consecutive patients with acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) treated within the Gruppo Italiano per le Malattie Ematologiche dell'Adulto (GIMEMA) group during 1989-97 have been reviewed to assess the clinical effectiveness of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) on the incidence of early haemorrhagic deaths ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Di Bona E,Avvisati G,Castaman G,Luce Vegna M,De Sanctis V,Rodeghiero F,Mandelli F

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Dutch beta zero-thalassaemia has few clinical symptoms in homozygotes, elevated fetal haemoglobin (4-11%) in heterozygotes, and has a DNA deletion previously estimated as 10 kb which removes the beta-globin gene (Gilman et al, 1984). A DNA fragment containing the breakpoints of the Dutch beta zero-thalassaemia del...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gilman JG

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are considerable differences in haemopoietic activity between young children and adults on the one hand, and between adults and the elderly on the other. A fundamental unanswered question is whether these differences relate to discrete stages or are part of a continuous process. We have sought to define aspects ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Marley SB,Lewis JL,Davidson RJ,Roberts IA,Dokal I,Goldman JM,Gordon MY

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient myeloproliferative disorder (TMD) of the newborn and acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia (AMKL) in children with Down syndrome (DS) represent paradigmatic models of leukaemogenesis. Chromosome 21 gene dosage effects and truncating mutations of the X-chromosomal transcription factor GATA1 synergize to trigger TM...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Haemmerling S,Behnisch W,Doerks T,Korbel JO,Bork P,Moog U,Hentze S,Grasshoff U,Bonin M,Rieß O,Janssen JW,Jauch A,Bartram CR,Reinhardt D,Koch KA,Bandapalli OR,Kulozik AE

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the potential efficacy of l-asparaginase treatment in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients, we studied the in vitro resistance of French-American-British (FAB) subtypes of childhood AML to l-asparaginase using a methyl-thiazol-tetrazolium assay. We tested leukaemic cells obtained from 177 common acute lym...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Okada S,Hongo T,Yamada S,Watanabe C,Fujii Y,Ohzeki T,Horikoshi Y,Ito T,Yazaki M,Komada Y,Tawa A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel long-term cultured interleukin (IL)-3-dependent human myelodysplastic cell line, MDS92, was shown to contain several myeloid-lineage cells such as neutrophils, macrophages, eosinophils, and a small number of megakaryocyte-lineage cells. Therefore this cell line possesses at least bipotential characteristics of...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tohyama K,Tohyama Y,Nakayama T,Ueda T,Nakamura T,Yoshida Y

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autoimmune mechanism in the pathogenesis of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is suggested by response to immunosuppression, with CD8+ T-lymphocytes implicated in the haematopoietic suppression. We therefore sought evidence for human leucocyte antigen (HLA) restriction and variant frequency differences in selected pol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gowans D,O'Sullivan A,Rollinson S,Roddam P,Groves M,Fegan C,Morgan G,Bowen D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene hMLH1 have recently been linked to the development of some hereditary and sporadic cancers which frequently display widespread microsatellite instability (MSI). Conflicting results regarding the extent of MSI in myeloid leukaemias prompted us to perform mutational analys...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Auner HW,Olipitz W,Hoefler G,Bodner C,Konrad D,Crevenna R,Linkesch W,Sill H

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in multiple myeloma support the notion that the associated bone disease, characterized by increased osteoclastogenesis and suppressed osteoblastogenesis, is both a consequence and necessity of tumour progression. Osteoblastogenesis is suppressed by secreted inhibitors and dysregulation of cell-surface 'coupli...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Yaccoby S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and clonal proliferation of B cells, including B cell lymphoma, has recently been demonstrated. However, the mechanism of malignant transformation is still unknown. It has been shown that B cells from patients with type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia (MC), s...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zuckerman E,Zuckerman T,Sahar D,Streichman S,Attias D,Sabo E,Yeshurun D,Rowe J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Further analysis of rat urine containing labelled catabolites derived from administered 3H- or 14C-labelled folic acid is described. The results support previously described studies, and show that folate catabolism in the rat takes place by cleavage of the C9-N10 bond, and not by excretion of inactive forms of the vit...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Murphy M,Boyle PH,Weir DG,Scott JM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled study of the effect of vitamin E on platelet functions was performed on nine splenectomized and 16 non-splenectomized beta-thalassaemia/haemoglobin E (beta-thalassaemia/HbE) patients. The patients were supplemented with a daily dose of vitamin E (525 IU) for 3 months. The ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Unchern S,Laoharuangpanya N,Phumala N,Sipankapracha P,Pootrakul P,Fucharoen S,Wanachivanawin W,Chantharaksri U

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an historical account of the randomised trials in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in the UK between the years 1978 to 2004, describing their gestation, the treatments used and the main lessons learnt. Those lessons include: (1) how best to use chlorambucil, which was the first effective treatment for CLL; (2) th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Catovsky D,Else M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), differentiation therapy can be complicated by the development of a differentiation syndrome (DS). Pulmonary infiltration of differentiating leukaemic cells is a key event in the development of DS. Several mediators have been identified that may promote migration and extravasatio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Luesink M,Jansen JH

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：:We studied a 2-year-old boy with a phenotype of combined hypo- and dysprothrombinaemia. Sequencing of polymerase-chain-reaction-amplified genomic DNA revealed three different mutations in heterozygosity, a G to A transition at position 7312, resulting in the replacement of arginine 271 by histidine, an A to G transiti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Akhavan S,Luciani M,Lavoretano S,Mannucci PM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets in an infant with Chediak-Higashi (C-H) syndrome without bleeding manifestations and not in the accelerated phase showed abnormal function consistent with storage pool disorder as shown by abnormal aggregation, decreased storage capacity and release of [14C]5-HT, low endogenous 5-HT, reduced ATP and ADP with...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boxer GJ,Holmsen H,Robkin L,Bang NU,Boxer LA,Baehner RL

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3q21q26 syndrome leukaemias are characterised by dystrophic megakaryocytes, elevated platelet counts, ectopic EVI1 protein production and poor prognosis. To investigate the molecular basis of this disease, we developed a model system to examine the biological activity of EVI1 in a megakaryocyte progenitor cell lin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kilbey A,Alzuherri H,McColl J,Calés C,Frampton J,Bartholomew C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of the p53 tumour suppressor gene occur in 20% of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) patients in blastic crisis, but it is still uncertain whether this inactivation plays a role in the pathogenesis of blastic transformation or in maintaining the leukaemic proliferation in CML, as it does in several solid tumour...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lanza F,Bi S,Moretti S,Castoldi G,Goldman JM

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:We evaluated the performance of eight d-assays for the exclusion of deep vein thrombosis (DVT); Biopool AutoDimer, Biopool MiniQuant, bioMèrieux MDA D-Dimer, VIDAS, Dade Behring D-Dimer Plus, Trinity Biotech AMAX, NycoCard D-dimer and IL Test D-Dimer. The assays were evaluated both as stand-alone tests, and in combina...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gardiner C,Pennaneac'h C,Walford C,Machin SJ,Mackie IJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00