Treatment results of three consecutive Brazilian cooperative childhood ALL protocols: GBTLI-80, GBTLI-82 and -85. ALL Brazilian Group.

abstract：:GM-CSF transgenic mice were crossed with mice with homozygous inactivation of the gene encoding the common beta chain (beta c) of the GM-CSF receptor to produce mice with constitutively elevated GM-CSF levels but no high-affinity GM-CSF receptors. GM-CSF transgenic beta c -/- mice had exceptionally elevated serum GM-C...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Metcalf D,Mifsud S,Di Rago L,Robb L,Nicola NA,Alexander W

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-lineage phenotype in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is associated with in vitro drug resistance and a higher relapse-risk compared to a precursor B phenotype. Our study was aimed to investigate whether mutations in the ATM gene occur in childhood T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL)...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Meier M,den Boer ML,Hall AG,Irving JA,Passier M,Minto L,van Wering ER,Janka-Schaub GE,Pieters R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells are identified based on their functional ability to migrate via the blood circulation of transplanted recipients, to home to the host bone marrow and to durably repopulate this organ with high levels of maturing myeloid and lymphoid cells. While a small pool of undifferentiated stem cells with...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Lapidot T,Kollet O

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological bone marrow (BM) microenvironment plays a major role in controlling growth and survival of clonal plasma cells (PC); this might translate into different patterns of expression of molecules involved in immune responses on PC from different types of monoclonal gammopathies (MG). We have studied the exp...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Pérez-Andrés M,Almeida J,Martín-Ayuso M,Moro MJ,Martín-Nuñez G,Galende J,Borrego D,Rodríguez MJ,Ortega F,Hernandez J,Moreno I,Domínguez M,Mateo G,San Miguel JF,Orfao A,Spanish Network on multiple myeloma (G03\/136).,Spani

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the myeloperoxidase (MPO) gene was studied, by means of Northern blot analysis in 14 cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 11 cases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), and 6 cases of CML blast crisis, and in HL60 cells before and after induction of terminal differentiation with retinoic acid (RA), ph...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Ferrari S,Tagliafico E,Ceccherelli G,Selleri L,Calabretta B,Donelli A,Temperani P,Sarti M,Sacchi S,Emilia G

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the case with thrombosis, prognostic models for survival and leukemic transformation (LT) in essential thrombocythemia (ET) are not available. Among 605 patients with ET seen at our institution and followed for a median of 84 months, 155 died and LT was documented in 20 patients (3.3%). In a multivariable analy...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Gangat N,Wolanskyj AP,McClure RF,Li CY,Schwager S,Wu W,Tefferi A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sorafenib, a novel drug for metastatic renal cancer, has broad-spectrum activity against multiple tyrosine kinases, including Raf-1, vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and platelet-derived growth factor receptor. However, little is known about its effects on the immune system. In this report, we examine the e...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Zhao W,Gu YH,Song R,Qu BQ,Xu Q

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In B-CLL IgV(H) genes mutational status is a major prognostic factor. Since sequencing of IgV(H) genes is not available in most laboratories, an easily performed surrogate assay is desirable. To identify the best surrogate assay, and to better discriminate prognostic subgroups we analyzed clinical and biological data ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Magnac C,Porcher R,Davi F,Nataf J,Payelle-Brogard B,Tang RP,Oppezzo P,Lévy V,Dighiero G,Ajchenbaum-Cymbalista F

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The t(9;11)(p21;q23) has been associated with characteristic clinical features and a superior treatment outcome in previously untreated pediatric acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), but has not been well studied in children with secondary AML. This translocation was detected in 6.7% of de novo and 46% of secondary AML ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Sandoval C,Head DR,Mirro J Jr,Behm FG,Ayers GD,Raimondi SC

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of cytokines and in vitro cytokine production by lymph node mononuclear cells (LNMC) were studied in four patients with angio-immunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia (AILD) or AILD-type T cell lymphoma. An increased level of serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) was detected on initial diagnosis in both of...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Yamamura M,Honda M,Yamada Y,Itoyama T,Sohda H,Yubashi T,Momita S,Kamihira S,Ohmoto Y,Tomonaga M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-remission treatment (PRT) in patients with cytogenetically normal (CN) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR1) is debated. We studied 521 patients with CN-AML in CR1, for whom mutational status of NPM1 and FLT3-ITD was available, including the FLT3-ITD allelic ratio. PRT consisted of reduce...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Versluis J,In 't Hout FE,Devillier R,van Putten WL,Manz MG,Vekemans MC,Legdeur MC,Passweg JR,Maertens J,Kuball J,Biemond BJ,Valk PJ,van der Reijden BA,Meloni G,Schouten HC,Vellenga E,Pabst T,Willemze R,Löwenberg B,O

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During infection with different retroviruses, high levels of unintegrated extrachromosomal DNA accumulate in infected cells. While extrachromosomal linear DNA is the immediate precursor of the integrated provirus, the function, if any, of extrachromosomal circular DNA has been unclear. Several groups have attempted to...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Cara A,Reitz MS Jr

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural rearrangements involving the short arm of chromosome 12 occur in 10% of cases of childhood acute lymphoid leukemia. The translocation t(12;17)(p13;q21), an uncommon 12p abnormality, was identified in five of 2620 cases (0.2%) successfully karyotyped by the Pediatric Oncology Group or St Jude Children's Rese...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Krance RA,Raimondi SC,Dubowy R,Estrada J,Borowitz M,Behm F,Land VJ,Pullen J,Carroll AJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) is the etiological agent of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) and of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM). In both diseases, expression of viral message can generally only be demonstrated by the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Berneman ZN,Gartenhaus RB,Reitz MS Jr,Klotman ME,Gallo RC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and the classical non-specific cross-reacting antigens (NCAs) belong to the CEA gene family which is part of the immunoglobulin superfamily. In normal hematopoiesis, CEA gene family members (CGMs) have only been reported on cells of myeloid and monocytic origin. In the present study,...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Hanenberg H,Baumann M,Quentin I,Nagel G,Grosse-Wilde H,von Kleist S,Göbel U,Burdach S,Grunert F

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p210 bcr-abl fusion protein tyrosine kinase oncogene has been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL). Specific intracellular functions performed by p210 bcr-abl have recently been delineated. We considered the possibility that p210 bcr-abl may also regulate the abundance of inosine 5...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Gharehbaghi K,Burgess GS,Collart FR,Litz-Jackson S,Huberman E,Jayaram HN,Boswell HS

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains incurable with chemoimmunotherapy, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) offers the potential for cure. We assessed the outcomes of 108 CLL patients undergoing first allogeneic HSCTs, 76 with reduced-intensity (RIC) and 32 with myeloablative conditioni...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Brown JR,Kim HT,Armand P,Cutler C,Fisher DC,Ho V,Koreth J,Ritz J,Wu C,Antin JH,Soiffer RJ,Gribben JG,Alyea EP

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in 52 adults with de novo acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) at the initial diagnosis. We tested 52 patients by flow cytometry using the MRK16 monoclonal antibody (MoAb). To investigate the phenotype for multidrug resistance, 41 of the patients were analyzed using ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Ino T,Miyazaki H,Isogai M,Nomura T,Tsuzuki M,Tsuruo T,Ezaki K,Hirano M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cladribine has been reported to have little activity in fludarabine- refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We sought to determine whether resistance to therapy with cladribine in fludarabine-refractory CLL patients represented primary drug resistance or the inability to tolerate the myelosuppression associate...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Byrd JC,Peterson B,Piro L,Saven A,Vardiman JW,Larson RA,Schiffer C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acquired kinase mutation JAK2V617F plays a central role in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). However, the mechanisms responsible for the malignant hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell (HSPC) expansion seen in patients with MPNs are not fully understood, limiting the effectiveness of current treatment. Endothelial...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Zhan H,Lin CHS,Segal Y,Kaushansky K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the clinical relevance of in vitro drug chemoresistance in childhood acute myeloid leukemia, we used an MTT assay to test leukemic cells from 132 newly diagnosed children. Patients were diagnosed according to the French-American-British (FAB) classification as follows: M0 (n = 12), M1 (n = 16), M2 (n = 53...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Yamada S,Hongo T,Okada S,Watanabe C,Fujii Y,Ohzeki T

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The B-cell receptor (BCR) and its immature form, the precursor-BCR (pre-BCR), have a central role in the control of B-cell development, which is dependent on a sequence of cell-fate decisions at specific antigen-independent checkpoints. Pre-BCR expression provides the first checkpoint, which controls differentiation o...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Eswaran J,Sinclair P,Heidenreich O,Irving J,Russell LJ,Hall A,Calado DP,Harrison CJ,Vormoor J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted therapies are frequently combined with standard cytotoxic drugs to enhance clinical response. Targeting the B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) family of proteins is an attractive option to combat chemoresistance in leukemia. Preclinical and clinical studies indicate modest single-agent activity with selective BCL-2 in...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Teh TC,Nguyen NY,Moujalled DM,Segal D,Pomilio G,Rijal S,Jabbour A,Cummins K,Lackovic K,Blombery P,Thompson E,Ekert PG,Lessene G,Glaser SP,Huang DCS,Roberts AW,Guthridge MA,Wei AH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetic deregulation is involved in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) pathogenesis and epigenetic targeting drugs are in clinical trial. Since the first results with histone-deacetylase inhibitors in AML are controversial, novel single and combined treatments need to be explored. It is tempting to combine chromatin-targ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Chaib H,Nebbioso A,Prebet T,Castellano R,Garbit S,Restouin A,Vey N,Altucci L,Collette Y

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) catalyses the S-methylation of thiopurines, including 6-mercaptopurine and 6-thioguanine. TPMT activity exhibits genetic polymorphism, with about 1/300 inheriting TPMT deficiency as an autosomal recessive trait. If treated with standard doses of thiopurines, TPMTdeficient patients a...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： McLeod HL,Krynetski EY,Relling MV,Evans WE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the presence of tumor antigens, the paucity of clinically significant T-cell mediated immune responses against human tumors is striking. This may, in part, be because of the inability of cancer cells to function as efficient antigen-presenting cells. For full activation, T cells must receive two signals delive...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Gribben JG,Cardoso AA,Schultze JL,Nadler LM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although allogeneic bone marrow transplantation has been shown to be a highly effective treatment for acute and chronic leukemia, leukemic relapse remains a significant problem. Leukemic relapse occurs in recipient cells in the majority of cases, but the paucity of donor cell leukemias may reflect the sensitivity of t...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Mc Cann SR,Lawler M,Gardiner N,O'Riordan J,Humphries P,De Arce M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) possess broad immunomodulatory capacities that are currently investigated for potential clinical application in treating autoimmune disorders. Third-party MSCs suppress alloantigen-induced proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells providing the rationale for clinical use in g...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Malcherek G,Jin N,Hückelhoven AG,Mani J,Wang L,Gern U,Diehlmann A,Wuchter P,Schmitt A,Chen B,Ho AD,Schmitt M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:East Asians, Asian Indians and Amerindians have a five to ten-fold lower age-adjusted incidence rate (AAIR) of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) compared with persons of predominately European descent. The data we review suggest a genetic rather than environmental basis for this discordance. All these populations ar...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Yang S,Varghese AM,Sood N,Chiattone C,Akinola NO,Huang X,Gale RP

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Schedule dependency of idarubicin (Ida) and doxorubicin (Dox) toxicity was investigated in vitro using the K562 human leukemia cell line. For Dox, repeated exposure to the IC30 (d x 3) resulted in comparable survival as single exposure to the total accumulative dose (20%). For Ida, repeated exposure to the IC30 (d x 3...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Minderman H,Buscaglia MD,Rustum YM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00