abstract：:Natural killer (NK)-cell malignancies are uncommon diseases. Previously known as polymorphic reticulosis or angiocentric T-cell lymphomas, they are classified by the World Health Organization as NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type and aggressive NK-cell leukemia. They are prevalent in Asia and South America, but exceptiona...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Kwong YL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1111 children with acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML) were treated in four consecutive Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (BFM) studies from 1978 to 1998. The first cooperative trial AML-BFM 78 established intensive chemotherapy with seven drugs, CNS irradiation and 2-year maintenance, achieving a long-term survival ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Creutzig U,Zimmermann M,Ritter J,Reinhardt D,Hermann J,Henze G,Jürgens H,Kabisch H,Reiter A,Riehm H,Gadner H,Schellong G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteopontin (OPN) is a multifunctional bone matrix glycoprotein that is involved in angiogenesis, cell survival and tumor progression. In this study we show that human myeloma cells directly produce OPN and express its major regulating gene Runx2/Cbfa1. The activity of Runx2/Cbfa1 protein in human myeloma cells has al...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Colla S,Morandi F,Lazzaretti M,Rizzato R,Lunghi P,Bonomini S,Mancini C,Pedrazzoni M,Crugnola M,Rizzoli V,Giuliani N

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The T-lineage phenotype in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is associated with in vitro drug resistance and a higher relapse-risk compared to a precursor B phenotype. Our study was aimed to investigate whether mutations in the ATM gene occur in childhood T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL)...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Meier M,den Boer ML,Hall AG,Irving JA,Passier M,Minto L,van Wering ER,Janka-Schaub GE,Pieters R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood acute lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias are stratified into molecular and cytogenetic subgroups important for prognosis and therapy. Studies have shown that gene expression profiles can discriminate between leukemia subtypes. Thus, proteome analysis similarly holds the potential for characterizing differen...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Hegedus CM,Gunn L,Skibola CF,Zhang L,Shiao R,Fu S,Dalmasso EA,Metayer C,Dahl GV,Buffler PA,Smith MT

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have defects in both cellular and humoral immunity. Since CD152 (CTLA-4) plays a critical role in downregulating T-cell responses, we studied the expression of surface and cytoplasmic CD152 (sCD152 and cCD152, respectively) in freshly isolated T cells from treatment-naï...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Motta M,Rassenti L,Shelvin BJ,Lerner S,Kipps TJ,Keating MJ,Wierda WG

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib (STI571, Gleevec/Glivec) is a potent selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor and is used successfully in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). While karyotype alterations, in addition to the Philadelphia chromosome, are a common phenomenon of progressing CML, the observation of BCR-ABL-negative leukemi...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Fabarius A,Giehl M,Frank O,Duesberg P,Hochhaus A,Hehlmann R,Seifarth W

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite improved prognosis in acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML) children with Down syndrome (DS), therapy-related toxicity remained a problem. We compared 67 DS patients from study AML-BFM 98 with 51 DS patients of the previous study AML-BFM 93, and the non-DS groups of both studies. Compared to non-DS patients, DS pa...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Creutzig U,Reinhardt D,Diekamp S,Dworzak M,Stary J,Zimmermann M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal translocations involving the MYC oncogene are a hallmark of Burkitt lymphoma but they are only found in a varying frequency in mature Burkitt-type acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). We have investigated samples of 56 sporadic Burkitt leukemia/lymphoma patients for the translocations t(8;14)(q24;q32), t(...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Burmeister T,Schwartz S,Horst HA,Rieder H,Gökbuget N,Hoelzer D,Thiel E

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MUM1 (multiple myeloma oncogene 1)/IRF4 (interferon regulatory factor 4) is a transcription factor that is activated as a result of t(6;14)(p25;q32) in multiple myeloma. MUM1 expression is seen in various B-cell lymphomas and predicts an unfavorable outcome in some lymphoma subtypes. To elucidate its role in B-cell ma...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Uranishi M,Iida S,Sanda T,Ishida T,Tajima E,Ito M,Komatsu H,Inagaki H,Ueda R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cell-type lymphoproliferative diseases of granular lymphocytes can be subdivided into aggressive NK cell leukemia (ANKL) and chronic NK cell lymphocytosis (CNKL). One reason for the poor outcome in ANKL is leukemic infiltration into multiple organs. The mechanisms of cell trafficking associated wit...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Makishima H,Ito T,Asano N,Nakazawa H,Shimodaira S,Kamijo Y,Nakazawa Y,Suzuki T,Kobayashi H,Kiyosawa K,Ishida F

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that inherited predisposition contributes to the development of haematological malignancies is generally thought of as being a relatively new idea. However, Videbaek made a clear enunciation of such a hypothesis in 1947, from a study of tumour incidence in relatives of patients with different leukaemias. To...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Jønsson V,Houlston RS,Catovsky D,Yuille MR,Hilden J,Olsen JH,Fajber M,Brandt B,Sellick G,Allinson R,Wiik A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both conventional chimerism analysis (CCA) and lineage-specific chimerism analysis (LCA) have potential pitfalls as diagnostic means for the detection of minimal residual disease after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (aHCT). Therefore, the present study examines the results of both methods in order to de...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Zeiser R,Spyridonidis A,Wäsch R,Ihorst G,Grüllich C,Bertz H,Finke J

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of natural killer (NK) cells leads to degranulation and secretion of cytotoxic granula. During this process, the lytic granule membrane protein CD107a becomes detectable at the cell surface. Based on this phenomenon, we have analyzed by a novel flow cytometry-based assay, the number and phenotype of NK ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Penack O,Gentilini C,Fischer L,Asemissen AM,Scheibenbogen C,Thiel E,Uharek L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the TS-2 acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cell line that contains a t(1;19)(q23;p13.3) but lacks E2A-PBX1 fusion typically present in leukemias with this translocation. We found that the t(1;19) in TS-2 fuses the 19p13 gene DAZAP1 (Deleted in Azoospermia-Associated Protein 1) to the 1q23 gene MEF2D (Myoc...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Prima V,Gore L,Caires A,Boomer T,Yoshinari M,Imaizumi M,Varella-Garcia M,Hunger SP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions from the derivative chromosome 9, der(9), of the translocation, t(9;22)(q34;q11), at the site of the ABL/BCR fusion gene, have been demonstrated by fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH), in both Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)....

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Robinson HM,Martineau M,Harris RL,Barber KE,Jalali GR,Moorman AV,Strefford JC,Broadfield ZJ,Cheung KL,Harrison CJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B cells secrete vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in vitro, have constitutively active VEGF receptors R1 and R2, and respond to exogenous VEGF by specifically upregulating Mcl-1 and XIAP in association with decreased cell death. We found that epi...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Lee YK,Shanafelt TD,Bone ND,Strege AK,Jelinek DF,Kay NE

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying p210(BCR/ABL) oncoprotein-mediated transformation in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is not fully understood. We hypothesized that p210(BCR/ABL) suppresses expression of genes which may explain at least some of the pathogenetic features of CML. A subtractive cDNA library was created between...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Jongen-Lavrencic M,Salesse S,Delwel R,Verfaillie CM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological bone marrow (BM) microenvironment plays a major role in controlling growth and survival of clonal plasma cells (PC); this might translate into different patterns of expression of molecules involved in immune responses on PC from different types of monoclonal gammopathies (MG). We have studied the exp...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Pérez-Andrés M,Almeida J,Martín-Ayuso M,Moro MJ,Martín-Nuñez G,Galende J,Borrego D,Rodríguez MJ,Ortega F,Hernandez J,Moreno I,Domínguez M,Mateo G,San Miguel JF,Orfao A,Spanish Network on multiple myeloma (G03\/136).,Spani

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is associated with chromosomal aberrations characterized by juxtaposition of proto-oncogenes to T-cell receptor gene loci (TCR), resulting in the deregulated transcription of these proto-oncogenes. Here, we describe the molecular characterization of a novel chromosomal aberr...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Przybylski GK,Dik WA,Wanzeck J,Grabarczyk P,Majunke S,Martin-Subero JI,Siebert R,Dölken G,Ludwig WD,Verhaaf B,van Dongen JJ,Schmidt CA,Langerak AW

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal transducer and activator of transcription (Stat)3 is constitutively activated in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL), where it protects tumour cells against apoptosis. The constitutive activation of Stat3 leads to a constitutive expression of suppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS)-3. In healthy cells, SOCS-3 is ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Brender C,Lovato P,Sommer VH,Woetmann A,Mathiesen AM,Geisler C,Wasik M,Ødum N

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although reciprocal chromosomal translocations are not typical for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), we identified the novel t(1;6)(p35.3;p25.2) in eight patients with this disorder. Interestingly, all cases showed lack of somatically mutated IgV(H). Clinical, morphological, immunologic, and genetic feature...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Michaux L,Wlodarska I,Rack K,Stul M,Criel A,Maerevoet M,Marichal S,Demuynck H,Mineur P,Kargar Samani K,Van Hoof A,Ferrant A,Marynen P,Hagemeijer A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) translocation breakpoints identifies genes of biological importance in the development of normal and malignant B cells. Long-distance inverse PCR (LDI-PCR) was first applied to amplification of IGH gene translocations targeted to the joining (IGHJ) regions. We repo...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Sonoki T,Willis TG,Oscier DG,Karran EL,Siebert R,Dyer MJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies involving identical twins with concordant leukemia and retrospective scrutiny of archived neonatal blood spots have shown that the TEL-AML1 fusion gene in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) frequently arises before birth. A prenatal origin of childhood leukemia was further supported by the de...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Teuffel O,Betts DR,Dettling M,Schaub R,Schäfer BW,Niggli FK

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allelic losses on chromosome 12p12-13 are associated with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and several solid neoplasias, suggesting the presence of a tumor suppressor locus. The recent construction of a transcription map of this locus has enabled the identification of eight genes, of which five were previo...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Montpetit A,Larose J,Boily G,Langlois S,Trudel N,Sinnett D

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal rearrangements of the MLL gene are among the most common chromosomal abnormalities in both Acute Lymphoblastic and Myeloid Leukemia. The MLL gene, located on the 11q23 chromosomal band, is involved in more than 40 recurrent translocations. In the present study, we describe the development and validation of ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Maroc N,Morel A,Beillard E,De La Chapelle AL,Fund X,Mozziconacci MJ,Dupont M,Cayuela JM,Gabert J,Koki A,Fert V,Hermitte F

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 or -2 and specific prostaglandin (PG) synthases catalyze the formation of various PGs. We investigated the expression and activity of COX-1 and -2 during granulocyte-oriented maturation induced by all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) of NB4 cells, originated from a human acute promyelocytic leukemia (...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Rocca B,Morosetti R,Habib A,Maggiano N,Zassadowski F,Ciabattoni G,Chomienne C,Papp B,Ranelletti FO

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroviral insertional mutagenesis in BXH2 mice commonly induces myeloid leukemias. One of the most frequently involved genes in experimental studies is Meis 1. In contrast to other genes in murine models, Meis 1 has not been affected by recurrent chromosomal translocations or point mutations in human leukemias. We fo...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Lasa A,Carnicer MJ,Aventín A,Estivill C,Brunet S,Sierra J,Nomdedéu JF

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current MRD studies in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) mainly use T-cell receptor gamma, delta and SIL-TAL1 gene rearrangements as MRD-PCR targets. However, low frequency or limited diversity of these markers restricts the number of evaluable patients, particularly because two markers are recommended for M...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Brüggemann M,van der Velden VH,Raff T,Droese J,Ritgen M,Pott C,Wijkhuijs AJ,Gökbuget N,Hoelzer D,van Wering ER,van Dongen JJ,Kneba M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the fusion of the TEL gene to the Syk gene in myelodysplastic syndrome with t(9;12)(q22;p12). TEL-Syk fusion transformed interleukin-3 (IL-3)-dependent murine hematopoietic cell line BaF3 to growth factor independence. Here, we investigate the intracellular signal transduction of the stable tran...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Kanie T,Abe A,Matsuda T,Kuno Y,Towatari M,Yamamoto T,Saito H,Emi N,Naoe T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia-specific promoters and enhancers for gene therapy had never been reported. Since the Wilms' tumor gene WT1 is overexpressed in almost all types of leukemia, WT1 is an ideal target of leukemia-specific therapy. To explore the possibility of gene therapy for leukemia using WT1 promoter and enhancer, their activ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Hosen N,Yanagihara M,Nakazawa T,Kanato K,Nishida S,Shirakata T,Asada M,Masuda T,Taniguchi Y,Kawakami M,Tsuboi A,Ikegame K,Oka Y,Ogawa H,Kawase I,Oji Y,Sugiyama H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of apoptosis has been linked to prolonged survival of malignant B cells expressing bcl-2. The aim of the present study was to analyze the amount of bcl-2 protein expressed along normal human B-cell maturation and to establish the frequency of aberrant bcl-2 expression in B-cell malignancies. In normal bone marrow...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Menendez P,Vargas A,Bueno C,Barrena S,Almeida J,De Santiago M,López A,Roa S,San Miguel JF,Orfao A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of imatinib on chlorambucil (CLB) cytotoxicity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) lymphocytes was examined in vitro. Imatinib sensitizes the WSU and I83 human CLL cell lines, 10- and two-fold, respectively, to CLB. Furthermore, in primary cultures of malignant B-lymphocytes obtained from 12 patients with...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Aloyz R,Grzywacz K,Xu ZY,Loignon M,Alaoui-Jamali MA,Panasci L

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) by, for instance, curcumin is becoming an important new approach in combination with chemotherapy or irradiation for the treatment of a variety of cancers including haematological malignancies. A dose-limiting side effect of anticancer therapy in the gastrointestina...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： van't Land B,Blijlevens NM,Marteijn J,Timal S,Donnelly JP,de Witte TJ,M'Rabet L

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells could be undetectable by flow cytometry or polymerase chain reaction after sequential treatment with fludarabine and Campath-1H. Concern has been raised regarding the ability to mobilize sufficient peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPCs) for autografting after purine analogue...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Montillo M,Tedeschi A,Rossi V,Cairoli R,Pungolino E,Intropido L,Cafro AM,D'Avanzo G,Farioli R,Brando B,Scarpati B,Veronese S,Morra E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adhesion molecules and stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1)/CXCR4 signaling play key role in homing and mobilization of hematopoietic progenitor (HPC) and hematopoietic cancer clonogenic cells (HCC). High expression of VLA-4 is required for homing of HPC and HCC, whereas downregulation of these molecules is required ...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Gazitt Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a European BIOMED-2 collaborative study, multiplex PCR assays have successfully been developed and standardized for the detection of clonally rearranged immunoglobulin (Ig) and T-cell receptor (TCR) genes and the chromosome aberrations t(11;14) and t(14;18). This has resulted in 107 different primers in only 18 mul...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： van Dongen JJ,Langerak AW,Brüggemann M,Evans PA,Hummel M,Lavender FL,Delabesse E,Davi F,Schuuring E,García-Sanz R,van Krieken JH,Droese J,González D,Bastard C,White HE,Spaargaren M,González M,Parreira A,Smith JL,Mor

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial genome instability has recently been demonstrated in a wide variety of human tumours and is implicated in the development of the myelodysplastic syndromes, a heterogeneous group of haematological disorders with an increased risk of malignant transformation. We therefore investigated the incidence of soma...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： He L,Luo L,Proctor SJ,Middleton PG,Blakely EL,Taylor RW,Turnbull DM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel approaches have been designed to treat leukemia based on our understanding of the genetic and biochemical lesions present in different malignancies. This meeting report summarizes some of the recent advances in leukemia treatment. Based on the discoveries of cellular oncogenes, chromosomal translocations, monocl...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Larson RA,Daley GQ,Schiffer CA,Porcu P,Pui CH,Marie JP,Steelman LS,Bertrand FE,McCubrey JA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to improve leukemia-free survival (LFS) without the treatment-related morbidity of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation or multiple prolonged cycles of consolidation chemotherapy, we evaluated the long-term outcome of autologous transplantation of peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPCs) as postremission t...

journal_title：Leukemia

authors： Collisson EA,Lashkari A,Malone R,Paquette R,Emmanouilides C,Territo MC,Schiller GJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00