A nonsense mutation in the GPIIb heavy chain (Ser 870-->stop) impairs platelet GPIIb-IIIa expression.

abstract：:Patients with aplastic anaemia (AA) frequently develop paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) as a late complication. We investigated the frequency of the development of PNH features including a glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchoring defect in 73 Japanese patients with AA. A deficient expression of CD59 was...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Azenishi Y,Ueda E,Machii T,Nishimura J,Hirota T,Shibano M,Nakao S,Kinoshita T,Mizoguchi H,Kitani T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment response assessment in multiple myeloma (MM) relies on the detection of paraprotein in serum and/or urine, bone marrow morphology and immunohistochemistry. With remarkable advances in therapy, particularly in the newly diagnosed setting, achievement of complete remission became frequent, creating the need to...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bal S,Weaver A,Cornell RF,Costa LJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of the epidemiology and clinical features of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection. Once classically described as an acute hepatitis associated with waterborne outbreaks in areas of poor sanitation, HEV is now recognised to be endemic in Europe and is pr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： O'Gorman J,Burke Á,O'Flaherty N

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pralatrexate inhibits folic acid metabolism, and preclinical studies have shown that it is cytotoxic to multiple myeloma cells. This phase 1 study investigated the safety and efficacy of pralatrexate in combination with bortezomib in adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. A standard 3 + 3 design was used...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dunn TJ,Dinner S,Price E,Coutré SE,Gotlib J,Hao Y,Berube C,Medeiros BC,Liedtke M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, leukaemia-associated antigens (LAA) recognized by T lymphocytes, such as Wilm's tumour-1 (WT-1) or pathogenesis-related protein-1 (PR-1), have been identified. For immunotherapies that employ antigen peptides, either alone or pulsed on dendritic cells (DC), the expression of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) mol...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vollmer M,Li L,Schmitt A,Greiner J,Reinhardt P,Ringhoffer M,Wiesneth M,Döhner H,Schmitt M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in DNA copy number (CN) and DNA methylation represent important aberrations for lymphomas and other cancers. Here, for the first time, we show that the Illumina Infinium Methylation (IIM) assay, although not originally designed for CN profiling, is able to estimate CN changes. We compared the IIM CN profiles t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kwee I,Rinaldi A,Rancoita P,Rossi D,Capello D,Forconi F,Giuliani N,Piva R,Inghirami G,Gaidano G,Zucca E,Bertoni F

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials with individual cytokines and extensive in vitro studies have provided the basis for the in vivo use of these molecules in combination. Animal models, with haemopoietic growth factors as well as preliminary studies in humans--as shown by our studies with the sequential use of IL-3 and GM-CSF in patient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kanz L,Brugger W,Bross K,Mertelsmann R

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five monoclonal antibodies have been tested for their ability to bind to myeloid precursor cells in normal human bone marrow. Indirect immunofluorescence and the fluorescence activated cell sorter was used to separate cells according to their reactivity for trial culture in vitro in order to grow granulocyte-macrophag...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Crawford DH,Francis GE,Wing MA,Edwards AJ,Janossy G,Hoffbrand AV,Prentice HG,Secher D,McConnell I,Kung PC,Goldstein G

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft failure is a life-threatening complication after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We report a cohort of 19 consecutive patients (median age: 8·5 years) with acute leukaemias (n = 14) and non-malignant diseases (n = 5) who experienced graft failure after previous HSCT from matched (n = ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Teltschik HM,Heinzelmann F,Gruhn B,Feuchtinger T,Schlegel P,Schumm M,Kremens B,Müller I,Ebinger M,Schwarze CP,Ottinger H,Zips D,Handgretinger R,Lang P

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:Three patients with probable congenital erythrocytosis were studied to determine the role of erythropoietin (ESF) in their disease. In addition, haemoglobin function was measured and ESF excretion determined in response to reduction in the haemoglobin concentration. In two cases ESF excretion was clearly elevated abov...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Whitcomb WH,Peschle C,Moore M,Nitschke R,Adamson JW

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in the epigenetics of cancer, with an increasing understanding that this form of genomic modification plays a critical role in pathogenesis. The malignant phenotype results from a step-wise increase of both genetic abnormalities and epigenetic modifications, leading to...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boultwood J,Wainscoat JS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future progress in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) requires both the characterisation of key drivers of the disease and novel, innovative approaches to tackle these vulnerabilities. The present study focussed on the pre-clinical evaluation of a novel drug class, BMI-1 modulators, in MM. We demonstrate potent ac...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bolomsky A,Muller J,Stangelberger K,Lejeune M,Duray E,Breid H,Vrancken L,Pfeiffer C,Hübl W,Willheim M,Weetall M,Branstrom A,Zojer N,Caers J,Ludwig H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FLT3-internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutations are heterogeneous with regards to length and proportion of DNA harbouring the mutation and the expression level of FLT3 also varies widely, however very little is known about the biological effects of these variables. We studied FLT3-associated biological parameters in ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Seedhouse CH,Pallis M,Grundy M,Shang S,Russell NH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic abnormalities (CA), especially of chromosome 13, have been used to identify a subgroup of previously untreated multiple myeloma (MM) patients with very poor prognosis despite high-dose therapy (HDT). We examined the prognostic implications of CA in 1000 MM patients receiving melphalan-based tandem autotran...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jacobson J,Barlogie B,Shaughnessy J,Drach J,Tricot G,Fassas A,Zangari M,Giroux D,Crowley J,Hough A,Sawyer J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycythaemia vera (PV) patients' blood burst-forming units-erythroid (BFU-E) have an enhanced sensitivity to stem cell factor (SCF) compared to normal BFU-E. To characterize SCF receptors on erythroid progenitors from normal individuals and PV patients, we performed binding experiments using radioiodinated recombinan...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dai CH,Krantz SB,Koury ST,Kollar K

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the response of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) cells to Wnt proteins. Accumulation of beta-catenin was measured by Western blotting and immunofluorescence microscopy. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis of B-cell progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Khan NI,Bradstock KF,Bendall LJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clofarabine was the latest new drug to be approved, in 2004, for relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). To investigate its value in the frontline treatment of ALL we applied clofarabine 5 × 40 mg/m(2) in combination with pegylated asparaginase (PEG-ASP) 1 × 2500 iu/m(2) in high risk ALL patients a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Escherich G,Zur Stadt U,Zimmermann M,Horstmann MA,CoALL study group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:ATOH8 has previously been shown to be an iron-regulated transcription factor, however its role in iron metabolism is not known. ATOH8 expression in HEK293 cells resulted in increased endogenous HAMP mRNA levels as well as HAMP promoter activity. Mutation of the E-box or SMAD response elements within the HAMP promoter ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Patel N,Varghese J,Masaratana P,Latunde-Dada GO,Jacob M,Simpson RJ,McKie AT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a trial using recombinant human interleukin-2 (rhIL-2) immunotherapy for acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML) in remission, eosinophilia was observed in all patients. We used in-vitro clonogenic assays to investigate the mechanism of the eosinophilia in five patients. The mean eosinophil count increased from 0.05...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Macdonald D,Gordon AA,Kajitani H,Enokihara H,Barrett AJ

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we aimed to identify distinct structural and numerical chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood B cells of patients with myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), which reflect changes thought to occur at different stages of the disease process. Peripheral blood fr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Zojer N,Schuster-Kolbe J,Assmann I,Ackermann J,Strasser K,Hübl W,Drach J,Ludwig H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta2-glycoprotein I (beta2GPI) is an important target antigen for antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and thus beta2GPI polymorphisms may influence aPL production and the development of antiphospholipid syndrome. We have studied the relationship between the Val247Leu and Trp316Ser beta2GPI polymorphisms and the aPL sta...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Camilleri RS,Mackie IJ,Humphries SE,Machin SJ,Cohen H

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of alpha-thalassaemia in an Italian population has been determined by a survey of random cord bloods for the presence of Hb Bart's. 144 out of 4730 (3%) had detectable amounts of Hb Bart's. Furthermore, alpha-globin gene analysis of 100 random cord bloods showed that five out of 100 had the common type o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Velati C,Sampietro M,Biassoni M,Cappellini MD,Wainscoat JS,Higgs DR,Fiorelli G

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duffy blood group antigens are carried on a glycoprotein that is predicted to pass through the erythrocyte membrane seven times and is a promiscuous chemokine receptor. The Fy(a- b-) phenotype is present in two-thirds of African-American Blacks but is rare in Caucasians. In Blacks, the phenotype is due to a non-functi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rios M,Chaudhuri A,Mallinson G,Sausais L,Gomensoro-Garcia AE,Hannon J,Rosenberger S,Poole J,Burgess G,Pogo O,Reid M

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the description in 1974 of the 5q--syndrome, only 29 cases have been reported. Over a 3 1/2 year period cytogenetic culture of bone marrow submitted from 344 patients being investigated for a blood disorder revealed nine patients with anomalies of chromosome 5. In five of these patients (samples arising from 37 ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tinegate H,Gaunt L,Hamilton PJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of complementary RNA molecules of junctional regions of rearranged T-cell-receptor-gamma genes show a pattern of conformational polymorphisms which is specific for an individual lymphocytic clone. In a blinded study we analysed formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded histological specimens from gastrointestinal lym...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Koch OM,Probst M,Tiemann M,Jakob I,Volkenandt M,Wienecke R,Buer J,Atzpodien J,Lenz HJ,Danenberg PV

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:Elevated levels of haemoglobin F (Hb F) have been foudn in a wide range of haematological malignancies, but very high levels were found only in juvenile chronic myeloid leukaemia (JCML), and erythroleukaemia occurring in infancy. In both these disorders a reversion to a fetal form of erythropoiesis may occur, as judge...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sheridan BL,Weatherall DJ,Clegg JB,Pritchard J,Wood WG,Callender ST,Durrant IJ,McWhirter WR,Ali M,Partridge JW,Thompson EN

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet activating factor (PAF) derived from antigen-stimulated, IgE-sensitized rabbit basophils acts on platelets to induce aggregation and secretion of their content of granule-bound vasoactive amines. Despite this, PAF did not activate platelet factor 3. In contrast, collagen induced aggregation, secretion and PF3...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Henson PM,Landes RR

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00