Exon/intron structure of the human AF-4 gene, a member of the AF-4/LAF-4/FMR-2 gene family coding for a nuclear protein with structural alterations in acute leukaemia.

abstract：:2-3-Dihydroxybenzoic acid was evaluated as a potentially useful, orally effective iron-chelating drug by performing iron balance studies in patients with beta-thalassaemia major. The administration of this substance at 25 mg/kg/d to five patients for 8 d caused an average increase in iron excretion of 4.5 mg/d. When t...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Peterson CM,Graziano JH,Grady RW,Jones RL,Vlassara HV,Canale VC,Miller DR,Cerami A

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of rituximab (R) to CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) chemotherapy was a milestone in the development of front-line therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). R-CHOP and equivalent rituximab-containing anthracycline-based regimens are now widely accepted as the standard...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gisselbrecht C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article acknowledges the pioneering contribution of William Bate Hardy in shaping the concept of mast cell heterogeneity. In two outstanding papers, published in 1894 and 1895, he focussed on the 'wandering cells' (the modern leucocytes) in different mammalian species and distinguished two types of granula...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Crivellato E,Ribatti D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic relevance of karyotype has been established in adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) patients treated with chemotherapy but not definitively evaluated in an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) setting. To determine the factors affecting the outcome of allogeneic BMT for adults with precurso...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lee S,Kim DW,Kim YJ,Park YH,Min CK,Lee JW,Min WS,Kim CC

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state haemoglobin (Hb) desaturation is a common finding in sickle cell anaemia (Hb SS) that could predispose to stroke by limiting oxygen delivery to the brain. To determine its association with the risk of overt stroke, we examined the relationship between daytime Hb saturation measured by pulse oximetry (SpO(...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Quinn CT,Variste J,Dowling MM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) is linked to intravascular haemolysis, impaired nitric oxide bioavailability, renal dysfunction, and early mortality. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous inhibitor of nitric oxide synthases (NOS), is associated with vascular disease i...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kato GJ,Wang Z,Machado RF,Blackwelder WC,Taylor JG 6th,Hazen SL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Diamond Blackfan anaemia (DBA) is a rare, genetically and clinically heterogeneous, inherited red cell aplasia. Classical DBA affects about seven per million live births and presents during the first year of life. However, as mutated genes have been discovered in DBA, non-classical cases with less distinct phenotypes ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vlachos A,Ball S,Dahl N,Alter BP,Sheth S,Ramenghi U,Meerpohl J,Karlsson S,Liu JM,Leblanc T,Paley C,Kang EM,Leder EJ,Atsidaftos E,Shimamura A,Bessler M,Glader B,Lipton JM,Participants of Sixth Annual Daniella Maria Art

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the analysis of prognostic factors in a cohort of 660 patients entered in the first Medical Research Council trial in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) between 1978 and 1984. The majority (94%) of patients were aged 50 or over and the number of men (M) was almost twice that of women (F) with an M:F ratio o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Catovsky D,Fooks J,Richards S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoids: all-transretinoic acid (tretinoin), 13-cis retinoic acid (isotretinoin) and the aromatic retinoids etretinate and acitretin have a preventive and therapeutic effect on chemically-induced tumours. Clinically, retinoids have shown variable effectiveness in therapy and/or prevention of oncological diseases...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bollag W

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of 51 cases of essential thrombocythaemia (ET), in chronic or leukaemic phase, was investigated for p53 gene and RAS oncogenes mutations by PCR-SSCP-direct sequencing. No RAS oncogenes mutations were detected, but p53 mutations were identified in three cases: 1/27 cases (approximately 4%) in chronic phase not ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Neri A,Fracchiolla NS,Radaelli F,Boletini A,Ribera S,Migliorini C,Trecca D,Maiolo AT

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters of host defence were investigated in 30 patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). A newly devised perfusion system was used to study the kinetics in whole blood of leucocyte adherence, phagocytosis, killing and solubilization of a mixture of Staph. aureus and Str. pneumoniae, and secretion of lactoferrin. A ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boghossian SH,Wright G,Webster AD,Segal AW

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replicative potential of human CD56(+) CD3(-) natural killer (NK) cells is unknown. We found that by exposing NK cells to the leukaemic cell line K562 genetically modified to express 4-1BB ligand and interleukin 15 (K562-mb15-41BBL), they expanded for up to 30 population doublings, achieving numbers that ranged fr...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Fujisaki H,Kakuda H,Imai C,Mullighan CG,Campana D

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel human leukaemia cell line, designated TMD7, was established from blast cells of a patient with de novo acute myeloblastic leukaemia with trilineage myelodysplasia (AML/TLD). As seen in the original blast cells, TMD7 cells expressed CD7, CD13, CD33 and CD34 and showed an abnormal karyotype containing -5, -7, -8...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tohda S,Sakano S,Ohsawa M,Murakami N,Nara N

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (Allo-HSCT) is a standard treatment option for many patients with haematological malignancies. Historically, patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission for transplant-related toxicities have fared extremely poorly, with high ICU mortality rates...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Townsend WM,Holroyd A,Pearce R,Mackinnon S,Naik P,Goldstone AH,Linch DC,Peggs KS,Thomson KJ,Singer M,Howell DC,Morris EC

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptome of the CD34+ cells was determined in a group of 10 patients with the 5q- syndrome using a comprehensive array platform, and was compared with the transcriptome of CD34+ cells from 16 healthy control subjects and 14 patients with refractory anaemia and a normal karyotype. The majority of the genes ass...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Boultwood J,Pellagatti A,Cattan H,Lawrie CH,Giagounidis A,Malcovati L,Della Porta MG,Jädersten M,Killick S,Fidler C,Cazzola M,Hellström-Lindberg E,Wainscoat JS

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) lines specific for allogeneic antigens were generated by in vitro stimulation of donor-derived peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from patients who received human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-matched allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). One of the allogeneic anti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Matsushita M,Yamazaki R,Ikeda H,Mori T,Sumimoto H,Fujita T,Okamoto S,Ikeda Y,Kawakami Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of steady state haemoglobin levels in sickle cell-haemoglobin C (SC) disease were investigated by measuring routine haematological and biochemical indices, red cell survival, oxygen affinity, pitted erythrocytes, and red cell and plasma volumes in 31 adult patients (15 male; 16 female). Red cell survi...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bannerman RM,Serjeant B,Seakins M,England JM,Serjeant GR

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative natural killer (NK) cell lymphomas/leukaemias are a group of recently characterized haematolymphoid malignancies sharing an immunophenotype of CD3/Leu4- CD3epsilon+ CD56+, and a genotype of germline T-cell receptor genes. They frequently present in extranodal sites and exhibit a highly aggressive clinical...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Wong KF,Chan JK,Kwong YL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T(3;14)(q27;q32) is frequently detected in B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, especially the diffuse large cell type and the follicular type. The BCL6 gene encoding a putative transcriptional factor which resides on 3q27 rearranges to the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene on 14q32 in this chromosomal translocation. T...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kawamata N,Nakamura Y,Miki T,Sato E,Isobe Y,Furusawa S,Hirosawa S,Oshimi K

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia is a common finding in pregnancy, occurring in approximately 7-10% of pregnancies. It may be a diagnostic and management problem, and has many causes, some of which are specific to pregnancy. Although most cases of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy are mild, and have no adverse outcome for either mother o...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Myers B

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) can be cured in most of the patients, but in case of refractory disease or relapse after autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) the prognosis becomes very poor. In these patients a consensus about the standard approach has not been achieved so far and only allogeneic SCT has shown a long-te...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Corradini P,Sarina B,Farina L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that a graft-vs.-myeloma effect (GVM) and its associated clinical remission of the disease can be induced by donor lymphocyte infusion in myeloma patients who have relapsed after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Although it is believed that GVM is induced by allospecific T cells,...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chiriva-Internati M,Du J,Cannon M,Barlogie B,Yi Q

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translocation t(14;18) and its t(2;18) and t(18,22) variants, which involve the BCL2 genetic hallmark for follicular lymphoma (FL), have been reported in several cases of chronic B-cell lymphoproliferative disease (CLPD) and frequently in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). We describe here the clinical, morpholo...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baseggio L,Geay MO,Gazzo S,Berger F,Traverse-Glehen A,Ffrench M,Hayette S,Callet-Bauchu E,Verney A,Morel D,Jallades L,Magaud JP,Salles G,Felman P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Juvenile haemochromatosis or haemochromatosis type 2 is a rare autosomal recessive disorder which causes iron overload at a young age, affects both sexes equally and is characterized by a prevalence of hypogonadism and cardiopathy. Patients with haemochromatosis type 2 have been reported in different ethnic groups. Li...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： De Gobbi M,Roetto A,Piperno A,Mariani R,Alberti F,Papanikolaou G,Politou M,Lockitch G,Girelli D,Fargion S,Cox TM,Gasparini P,Cazzola M,Camaschella C

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides circulating in normal plasma, von Willebrand factor (VWF) is also stored at relatively high concentration within the alpha-granules of platelets. This pool of platelet VWF exists distinct from plasma VWF, and is enriched in haemostatically-active high molecular weight multimers. Interestingly, the glycosylatio...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： McGrath RT,McRae E,Smith OP,O'Donnell JS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of parenteral administration of IL-11 on gastrointestinal iron absorption was evaluated. A significant increase in the absorption of 59Fe-tagged food iron fed to fasting rats was observed when two subcutaneous injections of IL-11 were given 48 and 24 h prior to testing. Relatively similar increases of 25% w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Baynes RD,Cook JD,Keith J

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloproliferative disorders (MPD) are reported in 25-65% of patients with splanchnic vein thrombosis (SVT). Diagnostic criteria for MPD have not been fully established in this context. Using clusters of abnormal megakaryocytes in bone marrow (BM) biopsy as a reference standard for Philadelphia negative MPD, we assess...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Chait Y,Condat B,Cazals-Hatem D,Rufat P,Atmani S,Chaoui D,Guilmin F,Kiladjian JJ,Plessier A,Denninger MH,Casadevall N,Valla D,Brière JB

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) detected by the central portion of von Willebrand factor cDNA, which recognizes the true gene and in addition pseudogenic sequences, were characterized and mapped. Small cDNA fragments which hybridized with DNA from families with von Willebrand disease were u...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bernardi F,Marchetti G,Casonato A,Gemmati D,Patracchini P,Legnani C,DeRosa V,Girolami A,Conconi F

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe neutropenia and protracted thrombocytopenia remain serious clinical problems following cord blood transplantation (CBT) due to the paucity of stem and progenitor cells in the grafts. Administration of ex-vivo expanded megakaryocyte progenitor cells may facilitate platelet production. We propose a novel strategy...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deutsch V,Hubel E,Kay S,Ohayon T,Katz BZ,Many A,Zander A,Naparstek E,Grisaru D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00