abstract：:We studied the respiration and glucose utilization of suspensions of cultured lymphocytes. Respiration was measured by a couloximetric method using closed systems without a gas-suspension interface. The sensitivity of the method allowed measurements during a time interval of less than 1 hr. We found that the respirati...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Sand T,Condie R,Rosenberg A

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the lymphocytes from three children with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) is described. Parallel tubular arrays (PTA) were found in a large percentage of circulating lymphocytes (53%, 41%, and 13%) in three SCID patients when compared to age-matched controls. The size of these incl...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Payne CM,Jones JF,Sieber OF Jr,Fulginiti VA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with recurrent pulmonary abscess, weight loss, and alcoholism was found to have extremely high serum vitamin B12 and unsaturated vitamin B12-binding capacity (UBBC) levels. While transcobalamin (TC) II was also increased, most of his UBBC was due to an abnormal binding protein which carried greater than 80% ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Carmel R,Tatsis B,Baril L

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty consecutive patients with Hodgkin disease in continuous complete remission and off treatment for at least 5 yr (range 5-25 yr, median 9 yr) were studied with a battery of immunologic parameters. Skin test reactivity to four common antigens, sensitization to 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene, absolute lymphocyte count, r...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Case DC Jr,Hansen JA,Corrales E,Young CW,Dupont B,Pinsky CM,Good RA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations of the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) were tested to determine the best screening method for detection of inhibitors of factor VIII. Variables tested included the duration of preincubation of a mixture of patient plasma and factor VIII source (normal plasma), the ratio of the patient plasma to the normal...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Lossing TS,Kasper CK,Feinstein DI

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to intravenous challenge with sheep erythrocytes was determined in Sprague-Dawley rats following autotransplantation of splenic tissue into the subcutaneous tissue, peritoneal cavity, or a surgically created omental pouch. There was a marked rise in heterophil antibody titer following intravenous challeng...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Schwartz AD,Dadash-Zadeh M,Goldstein R,Luck S,Conway JJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anticoagulant activity from adult Schistosoma mansoni whole worm homogenate is described. The inhibitor appears to be specific for the contact activation step of the intrinsic pathway. Experiments with both human and mouse plasmas have defined the specificity of the inhibitor as follows: (1) It lengthens the partia...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Tsang VC,Damian RT

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the clinical and immunoglobulin features of a patient with gamma heavy chain disease (HCD), who presented with a clinical picture suggestive of an underlying malignancy rather than the usual picture of lymphoma or granulomatous disease. A unique clinical feature was the nearly total replacement o...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Faguet GB,Barton BP,Smith LL,Garver FA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal human bone marrow contains cells capable of forming colonies of hemopoietic cells in fibrin clots in diffusion chambers implanted intraperitoneally (i.p.) into irradiated mice. The present paper describes the proliferation of such colony-forming units (CFUD) in cultures in vivo. Cells harvested from diffusion c...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Jacobsen N

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrolyte disturbances in leukemia can be the result of the disease process or drug therapy. One group of electrolyte abnormalities is related to the stage of the leukemic process. Included in this group are newly diagnosed patients who may show elevated serum potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium--a result of their ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： O'Regan S,Carson S,Chesney RW,Drummond KN

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the nature of null cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) we tested null lymphoblasts and other leukemic cells for human T and B lymphocyte antigens detected by reciprocally absorbed rabbit antisera prepared against autologous T and B lymphoblast cell lines HSB-2 and SB. Blasts from 4 of 4 patients with T ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kaplan J,Ravindranath Y,Peterson WD Jr

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid sensitive spectrophotometric assay for the measurement of methylmalonic and propionic acids in urine is described. The assay is based upon the quantitation of propionic acid using acetyl coenzyme A synthetase isolated from baker's yeast. This enzyme is highly specific for acetate and propionate, and acetate in...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Frenkel EP,Kitchens RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study presents evidence that all human serum contains a class of high-affinity folate binders (KA=2.8 X10(10 liters/mole), which migrate as a single peak on gel filtration. Failure of previous studies to detect this characteristic in all but a minority of subjects is attributable to its variable, often tot...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Colman N,Herbert V

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Fetal" erythrocytes are present in older children and certain adults with hematologic disorders. To determine if regenerating bone marrow produces such cells, we examined the blood of seven allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients. Six patients were engrafted with donor cells, while on e patients recovered autolo...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Alter BP,Rappeport JM,Huisman TH,Schroeder WA,Nathan DG

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven of twenty-four patients with severe aplastic anemia given marrow grafts from HLA-identical siblings between October 1970 and March 1973 are alive with normal marrow function and continued evidence of engraftment 3-5 yr later. Ten have been leading normal lives with no immunosuppressive or other drug therapy sin...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Storb R,Thomas ED,Buckner CD,Clift RA,Fefer A,Fernando LP,Giblett ER,Johnson FL,Neiman PE

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-three patients with circulating anticoagulants were studied at The New York Hospital. The lupus-type anticoagulant, an inhibitor of the prothrombin activator complex, was demonstrated in 58 patients. The inhibitor was identified using the blood and tissue thromboplastin inhibition tests. Inhibition by the lupus...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Schleider MA,Nachman RL,Jaffe EA,Coleman M

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If bone marrow transplantation is to become widely applicable in the treatment of patients with leukemia and aplastic anemia, the necessity to have a perfectly histocompatible donor must be overcome. In an effort to define the roles of HL-A type and mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) reactivity in the determination of suc...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Feig SA,Opelz G,Winter HS,Falk PM,Neerhout RC,Sparkes R,Gale RP

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkylureas are capable of inhibiting sickling in vitro and the gelation of solutions of hemoglobin S at concentrations between 0.05 and 0.1 M with increasing effectiveness that is directly proportional to the length of the alkyl chain (butyl greater than propyl greater than ethyl greater than methyl). 6The inhibitory ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Elbaum D,Roth EF Jr,Neumann G,Jaffé ER,Bookchin RM,Nagel RL

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral lymphocytes from normal individuals and from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) were cultured in vitro for 1-7 days. The growth response to phytohemagglutinin (PHA) was quantitated by the incorporation of tritiated uridine into RNA nucleotide during a 2-hr pulse with the radioisotope. While th...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Schultz EF,Davis S,Rubin AD

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of heterologous anti-human platelet antibody on human platelet function was examined in the presence and absence of whole plasma as an in vitro model for antibody-induced immune damage to cells. Heterologous IgG anti-human platelet antibody mediated platelet aggregation and released serotonin from both plat...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Colman RW,Schreiber AD

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha thalassemias are associated with a decrease in alpha chain synthesis. Hemoglobin H (HbH) disease is a moderately severe form of alpha thalassemia characterized by the production of 5%--20% of HbH, while alpha thalassemia trait is a milder form of alpha thalassemia. In two patients with HbH disease, the ratio...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Natta CL,Ramirez F,Wolff JA,Bank A

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course and treatment of a life-threatening hemorrhagic episode in a patient with hemophilia A whose plasma contained a high concentration of an inhibitor of factor VIII activity is presented. The inhibitor of factor VIII was localized to the most anodal fractions of immunoglobulin G on electrophoresis, and was thu...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Sonoda T,Solomon A,Krauss S,Cruz P,Jones FS,Levin J

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of minimal amounts of fibrinogen-fibrin intermediates in human plasma was visualized by an agglutination reaction of glutaraldehyde-treated human erythrocytes coated with purified fibrin monomers. A degree of monomer coating was established which produced erythrocytes not agglutinated by normal plasma but...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Largo R,Heller V,Straub PW

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia was produced in dogs with radiation-induced leukopenia to study the comparative efficacy of several different therapies. In a randomized control trial, five treatment regimens were compared: no antibiotics or granulocytes (controls), gentamicin (5 mg/kg/day), carbenicillin (500 mg/kg/d...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Dale DC,Reynolds HY,Pennington JE,Elin RJ,Herzig GP

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a serum factor in chronic renal failure (CRF) which inhibits erythropoietin-stimulated erythropoiesis was studied, using a technique in which dog marrow cells were stimulated to produce heme in the presence of human serum. In the total series comparing 27 normal sera with 52 CRF sera, less heme was syn...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Wallner SF,Kurnick JE,Ward HP,Vautrin R,Alfrey AC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure liquid chromatography analysis of polyamines in bone narrow from leukemic and nonleukemic subjects demonstrated increased concentrations of putrescine, spermidine, and spermine associated with increased cellularity. The most striking abnormality was the marked elevation of putrescine. Bone marrow polyami...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Rennert O,Miale T,Shukla J,Lawson D,Frias J

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two assays to detect the action of colony-inhibiting cells. In the first assay, we used a simple density separation technique to remove dense neutrophils (PMN) from suspensions of blood and of bone marrow cells prior to culture in semisolid agar. Conditions were arranged to ensure that control suspensions ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Broxmeyer HE,Baker FL,Galbraith PR

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microsomal fraction of M1 cells (an established cell line of myeloid leukemia) was capable of catalyzing acylation of sn-glycerol 3-phosphate by long-chain fatty acyl-CoA thioesters. The principal lipid product formed was identified as phosphatidic acid. Palmityl-CoA, stearyl-CoA, and oleyl-CoA were more effective...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Okuma M,Ichikawa Y,Yamashita S,Kitajima K,Numa S

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients developed thrombocytopenia associated with an in vitro platelet to leukocyte adherence phenomenon (PLAP). In one patient, whole serum, intact plasma, and the IgG fraction of the serum could induce the PLAP of normal platelets in normal whole blood or buffy coat preparations. Passage of serum over a Sephar...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Greipp PR,Gralnick HR

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhanced tolerance to combination chemotherapy has been cited as an ancillary benefit of staging laparotomy and splenectomy in Hodgkin's disease. Seventeen patients with Hodgkin's disease and 15 with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were subjected to nontherapeutic splenectomy as part of the staging procedure prior to their ini...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Ihde DC,DeVita VT,Canellos GP,Young RC

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoiesis-inhibiting factors (EIF) have been demonstrated in plasma from hypertransfused animals and from polycythemic individuals during periods of hyperoxia, but there is a decided discrepancy in the data published. In the present paper methodologic variations of a bioassay for demonstrating the erythropoiesis-...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Lindemann R

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and grey collie dogs with cyclic neutropenia are known to suffer from an increased rate of bacterial infection. Because of the previously described microanatomic abnormalities of lysosome formation found in the polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) of dogs with canine cyclic neutropenia, studies of these cells we...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Chusid MJ,Bujak JS,Dale DC

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive leukapheresis has been used as the initial treatment of chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) in six patients. The number of leukaphereses ranged from 3 in 7 days to 13 in 39 days (mean, 8 in 22 days). The procedures were well tolerated, and in all patients there was improvement in hematologic values, in most ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Lowenthal RM,Buskard NA,Goldman JM,Spiers AS,Bergier N,Graubner M,Galton DA

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of the relationship between thrombocytopenia and increased vascular fragility, changes in the endothelium of capillaries and postcapillary venules of the tongue were examined by electron microscopy. Adult male albino rabbits (4 kg) were maintained thrombocytopenic (platelets less than 20,000/cu mm) up to 24...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Kitchens CS,Weiss L

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shape and parameters of platelet size distributions were studied in 50 normal persons and 97 patients in order to test the proposed thesis that platelet size heterogeneity results mainly from aging in the circulation. This thesis was contradicted (1) by size distributions of age-homogeneous, newly-born cell popula...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Paulus JM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte kinetic studies employing 51-chromium-labeled autologous lymphocytes were performed in nine normal volunteers in order to determine the effects of hydrocortisone administration on the recirculating versus the nonrecirculating intravascular lymphocyte pools. Following infusion of labeled cells, the recircula...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Fauci AS,Dale DC

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Containers constructed of polyvinylchloride (PVC) are used for the storage of platelet concentrates (PC) for transfusion, At 22 degrees C, pH often falls to such low levels (pH is less that 6.0) that viability is lost. Far lesser degrees of pH fall are observed in bags constructed of polyethylene (PE). In this study, ...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Murphy S,Gardner FH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient, CAL, with gamma heavy chain disease is presented who has had a complete remission lasting over 2 yr with combination chemotherapy consisting of pulsatile cyclophosphamide and prednisone. The patient exhibited many features of an atuoimmune process including a vasculitis, low serum complement levels, a posit...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Lyons RM,Chaplin H,Tillack TW,Majerus PW

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hydroxyurea in 35 patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL), who either had entered an accelerated phase of the disease or had experienced excessive myelosuppression following alkylating agents, was studied. By either intravenous or oral administration, the drug was successful in reducing periphe...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Schwartz JH,Cannellos GP

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of nitroblue tetrazolium dye by human neutrophils was measured in the presence of serum in which the complement system had been activated through the alternate pathway by interaction with inulin. Neutrophils incubated with serum inulin supernatants reduced the dye and showed a general increase in oxidati...

journal_title：Blood

authors： Strauss RG,Mauer AM,Asbrock T,Spitzer RE,Stitzel AE

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00