Evidence of involvement of cytotoxic antibodies directed against patients's HLA class II produced by transfused donor-derived B cells in post-transfusion graft-versus-host disease.

abstract：:The significance of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH(pos) ) cells and leucocyte subset telomere lengths in paediatric aplastic anaemia (AA) is unknown. Among 22 children receiving immunosuppressive therapy (IST) for AA, 73% (16/22) were PNH(pos) , of whom 94% achieved at least a partial response (PR) to IST; ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tutelman PR,Aubert G,Milner RA,Dalal BI,Schultz KR,Deyell RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：:The bleeding time in healthy volunteers was determined according to both the Ivy and the Simplate II techniques. A significantly longer bleeding time in people with blood group O than in people with non-O blood groups was demonstrated with both techniques. This difference could not be attributed to a difference in sex...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Caekebeke-Peerlinck KM,Koster T,Briët E

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-related neutropenia is a common observation in AIDS patients. Haematological growth factors are therefore increasingly used in combination with myelotoxic agents to reduce the risk of infection and to improve the haematological tolerance of these regimens. We report a case of an AIDS patient with Kaposi's sarcoma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hermans P,Gori A,Lemone M,Franchioly P,Clumeck N

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new variants of erythrocytic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase have been found in one German patient and in another patient of Turkish origin. The enzymes were partially purified 165-fold and 111-fold respectively. Both revealed reduced activity, increased thermolability and a pH-optimum in the alkaline region (8....

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gahr M,Bornhalm D,Schröter W

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the incidence and potential prognostic value of thyroid abnormalities after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) without total body irradiation (TBI) conditioning. 77 consecutive patients who received a chemotherapy-alone-based conditioning regimen pretransplant were included. Free serum thyroxine (...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Toubert ME,Socié G,Gluckman E,Aractingi S,Espérou H,Devergie A,Ribaud P,Parquet N,Schlageter MH,Beressi JP,Rain JD,Vexiau P

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The novel multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 has selectivity against cell cycle and transcriptional cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) as well as fms-like tyrosine kinase receptor-3 (FLT3). Inhibition of transcriptional CDKs preferentially depletes short-lived proteins such as MCL1. We evaluated the in vitro toxicity of TG02 to...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Pallis M,Abdul-Aziz A,Burrows F,Seedhouse C,Grundy M,Russell N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel polymorphism located in intron 1a of the human factor VII gene, caused by the nucleotide change G to A at position + 73. In a population of 128 healthy individuals from northern Italy, the variant A73 allele had a frequency of 0.21, whereas the frequency of the previously reported 10 bp inse...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peyvandi F,Mannucci PM,Bucciarelli P,Zeinali S,Akhavan S,Sacchi E,Merlini PA,Perry DJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe eight patients (four children and four adults) with an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) with cytoplasmic granules or inclusions. The incidence of this variant of acute leukaemia in our whole series of patients with ALL is 1.8%. The granules or inclusions were usually positive for aspecific esterases (AN...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cantù-Rajnoldi A,Invernizzi R,Biondi A,Banfi P,Zoia A,De Fazio P,Polli N

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) with high fetal haemoglobin (HbF) tend to have a lower incidence of complications and longer survival due to inhibition of deoxyhaemoglobin S (HbS) polymerisation by HbF. HbF-containing cells, namely F cells, are strongly influenced by genetic factors. We measured the percentage...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Urio F,Nkya S,Rooks H,Mgaya JA,Masamu U,Zozimus Sangeda R,Mmbando BP,Brumat M,Mselle T,Menzel S,Luzzatto L,Makani J

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercalcaemia complicating acute myelogenous leukaemia is a rare but well-recognized phenomenon. In most cases the pathogenetic mechanism causing the hypercalcaemia remains poorly understood. We recently studied in detail two patients with acute myelogenous leukaemia who developed hypercalcaemia during the course of ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gewirtz AM,Stewart AF,Vignery A,Hoffman R

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of iron by bone marrow erythroblasts and its intracellular distribution have been studied in 23 patients with primary sideroblastic anaemia (SA), five patients with secondary SA and one patient with only non-ringed sideroblasts. EM of erythroblasts from 18 cases showed both mitochondrial iron deposits and c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： May A,de Souza P,Barnes K,Kaaba S,Jacobs A

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the level of MCL1 gene expression using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction in lymph nodes of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). MCL1 expression in patients in complete remission (CR) was significantly lower than in patients with progressive disease (PD, P = 0.0043). The di...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kuramoto K,Sakai A,Shigemasa K,Takimoto Y,Asaoku H,Tsujimoto T,Oda K,Kimura A,Uesaka T,Watanabe H,Katoh O

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of soluble CD9 antigen released into spent medium from bone marrow (BM) cells were assayed using a unique enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. We demonstrated that a considerable amount of soluble CD9 antigen was consistently detected in the spent medium from CD9+ leukaemic blasts, but little from normal or r...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Komada Y,Zhang SL,Zhou YW,Shibata T,Azuma E,Sakurai M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AML1/RUNX1, which encodes a transcription factor essential for definitive haematopoiesis, is a frequent target of leukaemia-associated chromosome translocations. Point mutations of this gene have also recently been associated with leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). To further define the frequency and biolog...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Nakao M,Horiike S,Fukushima-Nakase Y,Nishimura M,Fujita Y,Taniwaki M,Okuda T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A female patient with delayed haemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti-M antibody is described. Diagnosis was based on laboratory evidence of haemolysis and on characteristic serological findings. Anti-M was detected in the recipient's serum 7 d after the last transfusion episode. This alloantibody had not been pre...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sancho JM,Pujol M,Fernández F,Soler M,Manzano P,Feliu E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is a rare disease with varied presentation, myriad symptomatology and variable prognosis. Most patients present with cutaneous disease and mediator-related symptomatology with a small subset having systemic disease (systemic mastocytosis, SM). A subset of the latter develops synchronous or metachronous ha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Radia DH,Green A,Oni C,Moonim M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the role of human CD52 antibody (Campath-1H) in six patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) treated to maximal response with purine analogues (fludarabine/deoxycoformycin) in whom persistent leukaemic infiltration of blood and bone marrow had precluded autologous stem cell transplantation. Five p...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dyer MJ,Kelsey SM,Mackay HJ,Emmett E,Thornton P,Hale G,Waldmann H,Newland AC,Catovsky D

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 30% of patients with severe aplastic anaemia (SAA) unresponsive to one course of immunosuppressive (IS) therapy with antithymocyte or antilymphocyte globulin can achieve complete or partial remission after a second IS treatment. Among various second-line treatments, rabbit ATG (r-ATG) could represent a safe and ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Di Bona E,Rodeghiero F,Bruno B,Gabbas A,Foa P,Locasciulli A,Rosanelli C,Camba L,Saracco P,Lippi A,Iori AP,Porta F,De Rossi G,Comotti B,Iacopino P,Dufour C,Bacigalupo A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis (BCS/PVT) are frequently associated with polycythaemia vera (PV). In an attempt to elucidate the mechanisms of BCS/PVT secondary to PV (T-PV), CD11b neutrophil expression, neutrophil oxidative burst and platelet-neutrophil complexes (PNC) were assessed in 17 such patient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Alvarez-Larrán A,García-Pagán JC,Abraldes JG,Arellano E,Reverter JC,Bosch J,Cervantes F

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL6) plays a central role in multiple myeloma pathogenesis and confers resistance to corticosteroid-induced apoptosis. We therefore evaluated the efficacy and safety of siltuximab, an anti-IL6 monoclonal antibody, alone and in combination with dexamethasone, for patients with relapsed or refractory mult...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Voorhees PM,Manges RF,Sonneveld P,Jagannath S,Somlo G,Krishnan A,Lentzsch S,Frank RC,Zweegman S,Wijermans PW,Orlowski RZ,Kranenburg B,Hall B,Casneuf T,Qin X,van de Velde H,Xie H,Thomas SK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive Y-microsatellite amplification system was developed for the detection of post bone marrow transplantation (BMT) chimaerism. The system is able to detect the DNA equivalent of a single male cell in a background of 10(5) female cells. For clinical applications it has the distinct advantage that the po...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lo YM,Noakes L,Roux E,Jeannet M,Chapuis B,Fleming KA,Wainscoat JS

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new method to detect the major beta-thalassaemia mutations of the Mediterranean countries (IVS I-1, IVS I-6, IVS I-110, CD-37 and CD-39). The procedure is based upon real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), using specific fluorescently labelled hybridization probes. The melting curves for each of the sp...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Moreno I,Bolufer P,Perez ML,Barragán E,Sanz MA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the use of aberrant antigen expression detected by flow cytometry in the diagnosis and clinical handling of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Such aberrancies offer a valuable tool for the proper classification of these myeloid malignancies according the World ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ossenkoppele GJ,van de Loosdrecht AA,Schuurhuis GJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelets of a young man with the grey platelet syndrome were severely depleted of all seven alpha-granule proteins assayed as well as partially deficient in alpha-mannosidase and alpha-fucosidase; four other lysosomal enzymes were present in normal concentrations. Total platelet 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) and aden...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Srivastava PC,Powling MJ,Nokes TJ,Patrick AD,Dawes J,Hardisty RM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to clarify the effect of human T cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I) infection on virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cells, a herpes simplex virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cell clone was infected with HTLV-I in vitro. The cytotoxic activity of the clone was found to have declined early after HTLV-I infecti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Inatsuki A,Yasukawa M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advent of an improved commercial serum enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of circulating galactomannan (GM), a major constituent of Aspergillus cell walls, has contributed to the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in many haematology and transplant centres. However, the optima...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Maertens J,Theunissen K,Verbeken E,Lagrou K,Verhaegen J,Boogaerts M,Eldere JV

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet function was evaluated in eight patients with chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL), seven Ph1 positive and one Ph1 negative. Seven of the eight patients' platelets had an absence of the second wave of adrenaline induced aggregation on at least one occasion, while five had impaired collagen aggregation. The pl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gerrard JM,Stoddard SF,Shapiro RS,Coccia PF,Ramsay NK,Nesbit ME,Rao GH,Krivit W,White JG

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was hypothesized that contact between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) B-cells and marrow stromal cells impact both cell types. To test this hypothesis, we utilized a long-term primary culture system from bone biopsies that reliably generates a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC). Co-culture of MSC with CLL B-cells prot...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ding W,Nowakowski GS,Knox TR,Boysen JC,Maas ML,Schwager SM,Wu W,Wellik LE,Dietz AB,Ghosh AK,Secreto CR,Medina KL,Shanafelt TD,Zent CS,Call TG,Kay NE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00