Humanized CD52 monoclonal antibody Campath-1H as first-line treatment in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

abstract：:Human blood platelets were stored in autologous plasma at 4 degrees C or 22 degrees C and their surface changes were probed with three lectins--wheat germ agglutinin, lentil lectin and concanavalin A. Platelets stored at either temperature for different times showed increased sensitivity to lectins. Lectins which were...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dhar A,Ganguly P

更新日期：1988-09-01 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 first step in thrombin-induced aggregation of blood platelets is binding of thrombin to specific receptors on the platelet membrane. Elucidation of the nature of this receptor in human platelets was attempted using radioactively labelled thrombin. In disc gel electrophoresis an extract of thrombin-treated platelet...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ganguly P

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four unrelated patients with chronic haemolysis and markedly reduced red blood cell (RBC) glutathione (49.5%, 12.6%, 11.5% and 15% of the normal concentration respectively), a severe glutathione synthetase (GSH-S, EC 6.3.2.3) deficiency was found. One case exhibited a neonatal haemolytic anaemia associated with oxo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Corrons JL,Alvarez R,Pujades A,Zarza R,Oliva E,Lasheras G,Callis M,Ribes A,Gelbart T,Beutler E

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence, clinical associations and pathogenic role of newly identified autoantibodies to the erythropoietin receptor (EPOR) in patients with anaemia were investigated. Sera from 203 patients with immune-related or chronic kidney diseases were screened for anti-EPOR antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hara A,Furuichi K,Higuchi M,Iwata Y,Sakai N,Kaneko S,Wada T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of ethnic disparities in malignancies have revealed variation in clinical outcomes. In multiple myeloma (MM), previous literature has focused only on patients of Caucasian and African-American (AA) descent. We present a Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-based outcome analysis of MM patients from...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ailawadhi S,Aldoss IT,Yang D,Razavi P,Cozen W,Sher T,Chanan-Khan A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is thought to play some role in the genesis of fibrosis associated with myeloproliferative disorders. In addition, transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) has been confirmed to promote fibrotic process. Both PDGF and TGF-beta have been shown to cooperate with epidermal growth f...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Martyré MC,Magdelenat H,Bryckaert MC,Laine-Bidron C,Calvo F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen Chapel Hill II is a hereditary, abnormal fibrinogen which is characterized by poor substrate reactivity toward thrombin, factor XIIIa and plasmin. The patient has a low plasma level of clottable protein with normal antigen concentration, high amounts of fibrinogen related material in serum, and prolonged th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Carrell N,McDonagh J

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an aggressive B cell lymphoma, where survival has been remarkably improved by use of protocols including high dose cytarabine, rituximab and autologous stem cell transplantation, such as the Nordic MCL2/3 protocols. In 2008, a MCL international prognostic index (MIPI) was created to enabl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nordström L,Sernbo S,Eden P,Grønbaek K,Kolstad A,Räty R,Karjalainen ML,Geisler C,Ralfkiaer E,Sundström C,Laurell A,Delabie J,Ehinger M,Jerkeman M,Ek S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brown Norwegian rat transplanted with promyelocytic leukaemic cells (BNML) has been used as a model for human acute myeloid leukaemia. We have previously shown that both the blood supply to the bone marrow and the metabolic rate decrease in relation to the leukaemic development in these rats. Here we have investig...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mortensen BT,Jensen PO,Helledie N,Iversen PO,Ralfkiaer E,Larsen JK,Madsen MT

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A digital image processing technique has been used to quantitate bone marrow fibre in histological material (both biopsy and necropsy) from 17 cases of myelofibrosis. An attempt was made to correlate the results of these measurements with other diagnostically relevant parameters. Bone marrow fibre was found to correla...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bentley SA,Herman CJ

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current laboratory diagnostic methods for invasive fungal infection (IFI) in haemato-oncology patients are insensitive, resulting in late diagnosis and contributing to high mortality. In recent years, progress has been made in the development and evaluation of sensitive sero-diagnostic assays, including detection of g...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McLintock LA,Jones BL

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) display both haematological and biological heterogeneity with variable leukaemia potential. MicroRNAs play an important role in tumour suppression and the regulation of self-renewal and differentiation of haematopoietic progenitors. Using a microarray platform, we evaluated microRNA...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sokol L,Caceres G,Volinia S,Alder H,Nuovo GJ,Liu CG,McGraw K,Clark JA,Sigua CA,Chen DT,Moscinski L,Croce CM,List AF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of human DNA topoisomerase IIalpha (topo IIalpha) in drug resistance, we selectively inhibited topo IIalpha gene expression in U937 human monocytic leukaemia cells stably transfected with a plasmid that allowed for Zn-mediated conditional expression of a human alpha-topo IIalpha antisense sequence....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Towatari M,Adachi K,Marunouchi T,Saito H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various levels of thrombin generation were induced by the infusion of a combination of factor Xa (F.Xa) and phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylserine (PCPS) vesicles into normal dogs and non-human primates. In the dog, an immediate loss of von Willebrand factor antigen (vWF:Ag) with a progressive recovery to normal level...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Toh CH,Hoogendoorn H,Giles AR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and twenty-six patients were diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), according to the French-American-British (FAB) criteria, over a 13-year period, and studied retrospectively in a single institution in order to study indicators which were prognostically significant. Analysis of clinical and labora...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cunningham I,MacCallum SJ,Nicholls MD,Byth K,Hewson JW,Arnold B,Motum PI,Mulligan SP,Crane GG

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:The alpha+ thalassaemias are the most common single gene disorders of humans, yet little is known about their haematological characteristics in childhood. Blood samples have been collected randomly from more than 2000 individuals in village communities in Vanuatu in the South West Pacific and analysed for alpha thalas...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Williams TN,Maitland K,Ganczakowski M,Peto TE,Clegg JB,Weatherall DJ,Bowden DK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that parenteral deferroxamine can prolong life in patients with iron overload. We have developed a non-human primate model of iron overload and have accurately determined negative iron balance in parenteral and oral studies of deferroxamine and a new chelator, desferrithiocin. Cebus mo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wolfe LC,Nicolosi RJ,Renaud MM,Finger J,Hegsted M,Peter H,Nathan DG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fanconi anaemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease strongly predisposing to bone marrow failure and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Four FA genes, corresponding to complementation groups A, C, F and G, have been cloned, but the molecular functions of the corresponding proteins are unknown. The high risk of AML in F...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Xie Y,de Winter JP,Waisfisz Q,Nieuwint AW,Scheper RJ,Arwert F,Hoatlin ME,Ossenkoppele GJ,Schuurhuis GJ,Joenje H

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to investigate the relative role of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in the activation and cytokine-mediated priming of neutrophil superoxide production. PLA2 activity was measured with a radiometric assay which discriminates between PLA2 and the downstream enzyme, 5-lipoxygenase. In cells that had n...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Roberts PJ,Williams SL,Linch DC

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells (EC) were isolated from the umbilical vein of a newborn girl with type I 'platelet low' von Willebrand disease (I vWD) and endothelial localization and release and the ability of subendothelial von Willebrand factor (vWF) to support platelet adhesion were compared with those of normal EC. vWF was det...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Federici AB,de Groot PG,Moia M,Ijsseldijk MJ,Sixma JJ,Mannucci PM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpura fulminans (PF) is a cutaneous manifestation of a dramatic and deadly syndrome of systemic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). It is characterized by microvascular thrombosis in the dermis followed by perivascular haemorrhage. Since two other related syndromes involve the protein C (PC) system, we und...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Madden RM,Gill JC,Marlar RA

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelofibrosis is characterized by splenomegaly and debilitating constitutional symptoms that negatively impact patients' quality of life. ROBUST, a UK, open-label, phase II study, evaluated the safety and efficacy of ruxolitinib in patients with myelofibrosis (N = 48), including intermediate-1 risk patients. The prima...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mead AJ,Milojkovic D,Knapper S,Garg M,Chacko J,Farquharson M,Yin J,Ali S,Clark RE,Andrews C,Dawson MK,Harrison C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 33-year-old man presented with hepatosplenomegaly and lymphadenopathy. Bone marrow findings were consistent with Philadelphia-positive accelerated-phase chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL). Lymph node histology and immunhistochemistry were diagnostic of T lymphoblastic lymphoma. Molecular studies on lymph node DNA ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jacob A,Rowlands DC,Patton N,Holmes JA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a uniform series of 170 untreated myeloma patients (MM) we investigated the distribution of T cell subsets in peripheral blood (PB) and their relationship with the most relevant disease characteristics, including survival. CD4 cells were significantly decreased both in percentage and absolute numbers (P less than 0...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： San Miguel JF,González M,Gascón A,Moro MJ,Hernández JM,Ortega F,Jiménez R,Guerras L,Romero M,Casanova F

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil hypersegmentation (NH) is an important haematological feature of cobalamin or folate deficiency. As iron deficiency and folate deficiency often occur in the same target groups it is important to establish whether iron deficiency alone is a cause of NH. We report a case-control study which addresses this iss...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Westerman DA,Evans D,Metz J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested whether parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is involved in benign lymph node swelling as a causative agent. The serum specimens from 13 patients with lymph node swelling of unidentified cause were tested for IgM and IgG antibody against PVB19 by Western blot analysis. Five patients had IgM antibody, and PVB19 DNA was det...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tsuda H,Maeda Y,Nakagawa K

更新日期：1993-11-01 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