Removal of cytomegalovirus DNA from donor blood by filtration.

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：:The feasibility of DNA diagnosis for haemophilia A was tested in South African patients and families by screening for the common inversion mutation in the factor VIII gene and for the intragenic microsatellite markers in introns 13 and 22. The allele frequencies at the two microsatellite loci were significantly differ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dangerfield BT,Manga P,Field SP,Hartman E,Jenkins T,Krause A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a severe disease of platelets (small size, thrombocytopenia) and lymphocytes (immunodeficiency) arising from mutations of the X-chromosome gene WASP. Because of the prominent role of cytoskeletal abnormalities, particularly the paucity of surface microvilli, in the cellular pathol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shcherbina A,Bretscher A,Rosen FS,Kenney DM,Remold-O'Donnell E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 1000 monoclonal antibodies (MAB), previously characterized in terms of reactivity with various haemopoietic cells and including representatives from each of the currently known Clusters of Differentiation (CD), have now been evaluated by us for reactivity against human endothelial cells. In the current study, scr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Favaloro EJ,Moraitis N,Bradstock K,Koutts J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to develop a model system for analysing iron metabolism in a relatively homogeneous population of early red cell precursors, the intracellular distribution of 59Fe was examined in Friend murine erythroleukaemic cells after induction of haemoglobin synthesis with dimethylsulphoxide. After incubation of th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peto TE,Rutherford TR,Thompson JL,Weatherall DJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In type 1 Gaucher disease a bleeding tendency occurs which is partly caused by thrombocytopenia due to massive splenomegaly. In addition, low levels of factors IX and XI have been described. The mechanism responsible for these clotting factor abnormalities is unknown. We performed a detailed study of parameters of coa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hollak CE,Levi M,Berends F,Aerts JM,van Oers MH

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two patients with acute leukaemia who received emetogenic cytotoxic drugs and were on therapeutic doses of sodium valproate for epilepsy. Neither patient reported significant nausea nor vomited at any time during the chemotherapy, at times requiring no anti-emetic treatment whatsoever. We suggest that this a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Aiken TC,Collin RC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) of the X-chromosome genes phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) and hypoxanthine phorphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) were used to determine the clonal nature of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in 22 patients. These included eight with refractory anaemia (RA), four with RA with rin...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsukamoto N,Morita K,Maehara T,Okamoto K,Karasawa M,Omine M,Naruse T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic deletions of the short arm of chromosome 12 are common recurring alterations found in a wide range of haematological neoplasias, including childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most frequent paediatric malignancy. Such a loss of genetic material suggests the presence of a tumour suppressor gen...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baccichet A,Sinnett D

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognosis of paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with primary induction failure (PIF) is extremely poor, and effective treatment strategies have not been established. We investigated the clinical and biological features of paediatric AML patients with PIF registered to the Japanese Paediatric Leukaemia/Lympho...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Miyamura T,Moritake H,Nakayama H,Tanaka S,Tomizawa D,Shiba N,Saito AM,Tawa A,Shimada A,Iwamoto S,Hayashi Y,Koike T,Horibe K,Manabe A,Mizutani S,Taga T,Adachi S

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Elevated plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) levels are associated with venous thromboembolism, although their significance is unclear. PAI-1 levels are influenced by a PAI-1 promoter dimorphism (4G/5G), the 4G allele being associated with increased PAI-1 activity. We investigated whether the 4G allele influence...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Visanji JM,Seargent J,Tahri D,Croft SA,Makris M,Preston FE,Peake IR,Daly ME

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preclinical data suggests anti-lymphoma potential for statins, metformin and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors. We performed a retrospective population-based study of all adults aged ≥66 years diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) or transformed lymphoma treated with a rituximab containing regimen, be...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Smyth L,Blunt DN,Gatov E,Nagamuthu C,Croxford R,Mozessohn L,Cheung MC

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of the inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 to the culture medium of human cord blood haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) has been shown to lead to an altered stromal cell-derived factor-1alpha-dependent migratory phenotype. This study investigated whether this effect was attributed to a diff...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kasenda B,Kassmer SH,Niggemann B,Schiermeier S,Hatzmann W,Zänker KS,Dittmar T

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

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：:The tumour suppressor TP53 (previously termed p53) mediates a pathway that is considered to be one of the most important mechanisms in the maintenance of genomic stability. The function of TP53 can be abrogated by genomic deletion, mutation, or deregulation of upstream and downstream participants in the TP53 pathway. ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cheung KJ,Horsman DE,Gascoyne RD

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since grey zone lymphoma (GZL) was originally included in the 2008 World Health Organization classification as a B-cell lymphoma unclassifiable with features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), new biological and clinical knowledge have been learned. It is i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kritharis A,Pilichowska M,Evens AM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet associated C3c and C3d (PAC3c and PAC3d) were quantitated by enzyme linked assay in 105 patients with idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AITP) in whom elevated platelet associated immunoglobulins (IgG and IgM) had previously been documented. Increased levels of complement components were demonstrated in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hegde UM,Bowes A,Roter BL

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a high incidence of subacute, chronic and sometimes occult intracranial subdural haematoma (SDH) occurring during intensive chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with a monoblastic component. Between March 1990 and January 1993, 86 AML patients from our institution were randomized in the multicentri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jourdan E,Dombret H,Glaisner S,Micléa JM,Castaigne S,Degos L

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some case reports and a Japanese series suggest benefit from the use of rituximab in patients with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVL). Rituximab efficacy was evaluated in Western patients with IVL, comparing outcome of 10 patients treated with rituximab + chemotherapy (R-CT) and of 20 patients treated with chem...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ferreri AJ,Dognini GP,Bairey O,Szomor A,Montalbán C,Horvath B,Demeter J,Uziel L,Soffietti R,Seymour JF,Ambrosetti A,Willemze R,Martelli M,Rossi G,Candoni A,De Renzo A,Doglioni C,Zucca E,Cavalli F,Ponzoni M,Interna

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the aim of producing unique targets for malignant cells we have identified peptide ligands for the clonal surface immunoglobulin isolated from the B cells of a chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patient. The peptides were identified from random-peptide phage-display libraries. The obtained ligands bound specific...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Buhl L,Szecsi PB,Gisselø GG,Schafer-Nielsen C

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective marrow stroma or microenvironment have been proposed as one of several mechanisms to account for bone marrow failure in aplastic anaemia (AA). Stem cell factor (SCF), the ligand for the c-kit receptor, is produced mainly by marrow stromal cells and seems to reflect the haemopoietic function of bone marrow st...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kojima S,Matsuyama T,Kodera Y

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy with imatinib mesylate is limited by cellular resistance in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Further, the limited availability of matching stem cell donors or an unfavourable risk profile for allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) reduces the number of therapeutic options in a number of patients. To assess...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kreuzer KA,Klühs C,Baskaynak G,Movassaghi K,Dörken B,le Coutre P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the ability of acute myelogenous leukaemia blasts to spontaneously differentiate in vitro, bone marrow and/or blood mononuclear cells from 63 patients with acute myelogenous leukaemia were incubated in liquid suspension cultures containing human serum, without addition of chemical inducers of differentiation....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baer MR,Dessypris EN,Stein RS,Cousar JB,Krantz SB

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal B-cell differentiation is a multi-step process, from short-lived plasmablasts to mature long-lived plasma cells (PC). The anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family member Bfl-1/A1 plays a critical role in the survival of mature B cells. However, its potential involvement at the later stages of B-cell development remains hi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tarte K,Jourdan M,Veyrune JL,Berberich I,Fiol G,Redal N,Shaughnessy J Jr,Klein B

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MLL rearrangements were analysed in the blood of a patient receiving chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using inverse polymerase chain reaction targeting exon 12, parallel sequencing and a custom algorithm design. Of thirteen MLL rearrangements detected, five were capable of generating MLL fusion genes, in...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shih SJ,Fass J,Buffalo V,Lin D,Singh SP,Diaz MO,Vaughan AT

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a simple approach for molecular characterization and locus assignment of structural mutants by direct sequencing of enzymatically amplified DNA selective to alpha 1 and alpha 2 globin gene regions. Nucleotide substitution of two structural variants (Stanleyville II alpha 2(78Lys) and J Mexico alpha 2(54Glu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dodé C,Rochette J,Krishnamoorthy R

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow angiogenesis is suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and endothelial cells may mediate chemosensitivity. This study investigated in vitro endothelial effects of coculture of microvascular endothelial cells (MVEC) with AML cells derived from 33 consecutive AML patien...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hatfield K,Øyan AM,Ersvaer E,Kalland KH,Lassalle P,Gjertsen BT,Bruserud Ø

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive B-cell lymphoproliferative disease (BLPD)-like lesions develop in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice inoculated with peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from EBV-seropositive donors. We used this model to investigate the pathogenesis of EBV-associated BLPD. Tumour inci...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Johannessen I,Asghar M,Crawford DH

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously thought to be best described as a plasma cell disorder, Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM) is now understood to be a distinct clinicobiological entity. WM shares B-cell origin and certain other features with both chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and multiple myeloma (MM). WM and CLL arise from B-cells a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McMaster ML,Caporaso N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00