abstract：:Malignant B-1 cells derived from NZB mice, a murine model of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, produce significantly higher levels of IL-10 mRNA than normal B-1 or B cells. IL-10 may act as an autocrine growth factor for malignant B-1 cells. By addition of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides specific for IL-10 mRNA, we were a...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Peng B,Mehta NH,Fernandes H,Chou CC,Raveché E

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the clinical and morphological differences between de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with trilineage myelodysplasia (AML/TMDS) and AML developed from de novo myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), we analyzed 12 and 13 cases, respectively. The median age of AML/TMDS patients was lower, but not significantly s...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Kuriyama K,Miyazaki Y,Arimura K,Nagai K,Nakamura H,Matsuo T,Tomonaga M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we explored the effects of bryostatin-5 on the clonogenic response of normal bone marrow mononuclear (BM) cells and HL60 myeloid leukemia cells. Leukemic HL60 colony formation was strongly inhibited by bryostatin-5 depending on dose and schedule. An inhibitory effect on HL60 colony formation was readily ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： van der Hem KG,Dräger AM,Odding JH,Langenhuijsen MM,Huijgens PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that heparin and heparan sulfate stimulate the growth of human erythroleukemia cells in vitro in the presence of serum or plasma. To determine whether heparin and other glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are involved in the growth of leukemia cells, effects of GAGs on the growth of three leukemia cell ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Maurer AM,Han ZC,Dhermy D,Brière J

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukotrienes and lipoxins are bioactive lipoxygenase products formed by leukocytes alone or in collaboration with other cells. While the physiological role of lipoxins remains to be clarified, accumulating evidence shows that leukotrienes are important mediators in asthma and inflammation. Consequently, recent clinica...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Stenke L,Reizenstein P,Lindgren JA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between platinum-DNA adducts in leukemic cells and the success of remission induction therapy in adult patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). Freshly isolated cells from pre-treatment bone marrow aspirates of 14 patients were incubated with cispl...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Armstrong SG,Browman GP,Benger AM,Meyer RM,McKay KL,Singh G

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD13/aminopeptidase-N, an enzyme expressed by myeloid cells, may be important in the regulation and signalling pathways that control myeloid growth and differentiation. In this study we have used the myeloid leukaemic cell line HL60, and its ability to differentiate when induced by all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), to s...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Razak K,Allen PD,Kelsey SM,Gutteridge CN,Newland AC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) has been proven active against a range of malignancies in isolated tissue culture systems and in human clinical trials, but the duration of its effects has been transient. Recent evidence indicates that the basis for the limited duration of ATRA's activity, at least in one form of leukem...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Mehta K,Sadeghi T,McQueen T,Lopez-Berestein G

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemic blasts of two patients with acute leukemia exhibited similar characteristics. They were heterogeneous in size with a diameter of 14-30 microns in smears and unclassifiable by morphological, cytochemical, immunophenotypic and ultrastructural examinations. Cytogenetic examinations of both revealed a near-tetrap...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Lemez P,Jelínek J,Michalová K,Koubek K,Schwarz J,Malasková V,Rypácková B,Jirásek A,Brezinová J,Hrabánek J

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the role of cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to cytomegalovirus (CMV) in leukemic children after CMV infection, CMI to CMV antigen was studied using CMV-specific lymphocyte blastogenic responses (LBR) and interferon (IFN) production. Four children, who continuously secreted CMV in urine more than 2 years afte...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Ihara T,Yasuda N,Isaji M,Torigoe S,Ito M,Kamiya H,Sakurai M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of LGL leukemia is not known; however, we recently detected HTLV-II in a patient with LGL leukemia. In this study, we found that sera from 6 of 28 patients with LGL leukemia were positive for HTLV-I/II using a whole virus ELISA; moreover, the ELISA-negative sera were near the positive cut-off value. There...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Loughran TP Jr,Sherman MP,Ruscetti FW,Frey S,Coyle T,Montagna RA,Jones B,Starkebaum G,Poiesz BJ

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three patients with Ph positive chronic myeloid leukaemia in blastic phase were studied. Additional abnormalities were found in 29 (55%) patients and were more common in myeloid (64%) than lymphoid (45%) blast crisis. The most frequent were +Ph (32%), +8 (28%), +19 (19%), +20 (9%) and +21 (9%). i(17q) (9%) was a...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Nanjangud G,Kadam PR,Saikia T,Bhisey AN,Kumar A,Gopal R,Chopra H,Nair CN,Advani SH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 27 patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) quality of life was studied using three different instruments, Life Ingredient Profile, Karnofsky Performance Scale and Vitagram. The course of the disease was followed during the induction period, remission, relapse and in the terminal phase. We...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Stalfelt AM

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelodysplastic syndromes are a heterogeneous group of hematopoietic stem cell diseases in which both diagnosis and prognosis are determined by cellular morphologic criteria. In some patients, prognosis is poor due to proliferation of immature cells, i.e. development of acute leukemia. An important clinical decisi...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Woodlock TJ,Seshi B,Sham RL,Cyran EM,Bennett JM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 98 female patients in remission (2-240 months) from childhood ALL to determine the clonality status of their hematopoiesis. Thirty-one (31.6%) were heterozygous at the PGK locus for the BstX1 endonuclease restriction site, permitting X-linked clonality assays to be performed. Two patients were in relapse at...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Busque L,Ilaria R Jr,Tantravahi R,Weinstein H,Gilliland DG

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, HL60 AML cells treated with tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), interferon-gamma (IFN), and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) displayed decreased growth and viability, enhanced monocytic pathway differentiation and endogenous TNF release. Endogenous TNF release by LPS/TNF/IFN treated HL60 cells was postula...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Treon SP,Anand B,Ulevitch R,Broitman SA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The culture supernatants from 43 human cell lines obtained during log phase and from purified normal peripheral blood B-lymphocytes cultured at 10(6) cells ml-1 for 48 h in RPMI 1640-5% fetal calf serum were examined for interleukin-8 (IL-8) using Elisa kits. Constitutive IL-8 production was found for 14/15 B-cell lin...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Srivastava MD,Srivastava R,Srivastava BI

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodamine 123 is transported by the transmembrane efflux pump P glycoprotein (Pgp). We used this fluorescent dye to study multidrug resistance (MDR) activity in normal and leukemic CD34+ cells. These immature cells had a high degree of MDR activity. Among leukemic cells, CD34+ leukemias had significantly higher MDR ac...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Drenou B,Fardel O,Amiot L,Fauchet R

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The onset of acute myeloid leukemia following ionizing radiation or alkylating agent exposure is antedated months to years by the development of 'preleukemia', or secondary myelodysplastic syndrome (sMDS). Mitochondrial abnormalities induced by chloramphenicol and clonal deletions of mitochondrial DNA (mt DNA) in the ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Hatfill SJ,La Cock CJ,Laubscher R,Downing TG,Kirby R

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new cell line, designated MO1043, was established from the peripheral blood (PB) of a patient with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Both the PB leukemia cells and MO1043 were found to have an abnormal cytogenetic marker of trisomy 12, the most common cytogenetic abnormality in CLL. In addition, both the PB...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Kawata A,Han T,Dadey B,Weier HU,Okazaki M,Yokota S,Fukiage T,Xiao H,Block AM,Barcos M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of mesna on intracellular accumulation of cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) in murine normal and neoplastic lymphocytes was studied. Simultaneous exposure of cells to mesna at concentrations ranging from 0.25 to 1.0 mM and 3H-Ara-C (40.0 nM) resulted in a strong inhibition of Ara-C uptake in normal lymphocytes. ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Jastrzebski Z,Czyzewska-Szafran H,Remiszewska M,Côte-Rozanes C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acute promyelocytic leukemia in the rat (BNML) has been used in model studies on pathogenesis and therapy of human acute myeloid leukemia. The blood supply to bone marrow during BNML development has hitherto not been examined, even though in general, blood flow to hematopoietic tissues might affect drug treatment a...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Iversen PO,Thing-Mortensen B,Nicolaysen G,Benestad HB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the survival of clonogenic neoplastic cells of a murine pre-B-lymphoma (BCl-1) of the spleen in culture. We have found quantitative deficiencies such as reduced surface adherence of stromal cells and impaired CFU-F (colony forming units-fibroblast) and pre-CFU-F colony and layer formation in stromal cu...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Prindull G,Ben-Ishay Z,Bergholz M,Prindull B

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a patient affected with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with lymphocyte surface mu and kappa determinants and vacuolated bone marrow plasma cells, the serum contained polymers of a truncated mu chain and normal-sized kappa chains. These light chains were present as monomers and covalent dimers in studies performed und...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Cogné M,Aucouturier P,Brizard A,Dreyfus B,Duarte F,Preud'homme JL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo infection by HTLV-I is characterized by the lack of virus expression in the host's infected cells and in most cases it is clinically inapparent. The present study shows that exposure of HTLV-I-infected human T-cells to a maximal non-toxic dose of 3-MC remarkably enhances virus expression. This stimulatory effe...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Feldman G,Aboud M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at optimizing the conditions for flow cytometric detection of myeloperoxidase (MPO), cytoplasmic CD3 (cCD3), and cytoplasmic CD22 (cCD22), which seem to be more reliable lineage-associated markers in acute leukemia than surface antigens. Fixation methods employing saponin as detergent resulted in accu...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Drach D,Drach J,Glassl H,Gattringer C,Huber H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of the inhibition of proliferation of human leukaemia 60 (HL60) cells by S-D-lactoylglutathione in vitro was investigated. The median inhibitory concentration IC50 value was 66 microM (95% C.I. 50-87 microM; n = 18). The inhibition of leukaemia cell growth required exposure of HL60 cells to S-D-lactoylgl...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Edwards L,Clelland JD,Thornalley PJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 35 adult patients with morphologically undifferentiated peroxidase-negative acute leukemia that failed to meet the criteria for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and compared them to patients with FAB M1-M7 seen by the same physicians. The diagnosis of minimally differentiated acute leukemia (MD-AL) was ass...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Cadwell FJ,Burns CP,Dick FR,Jones MP,Heckman KD,Weiner GJ,Goeken JA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the clinical usefulness of interleukin 2 (IL-2) on myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), the serum IL-2 level, the effect of IL-2 on the proliferation of blasts, and the cell-mediated cytotoxic effect of IL-2 on blasts were examined in MDS patients. Of 18 patients, 2 patients had an increased serum IL-2 level. ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Ogata K,Yokose N,Ito T,An E,Dan K,Nomura T

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell line PER-423 was derived from the cells of a patient with an immature acute T-lymphoblastic leukaemia and the growth of this human cell line is strictly dependent on interleukin-2 (IL-2). PER-423 cells express the p75 (beta) subunit of the IL-2 receptor (IL-2R beta), while the p55 chain (IL-2R alpha) is not detec...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Kees UR,Ford J,Peroni SE,Ranford PR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MTT cell viability assay is widely used in determining drug sensitivity profiles for patients with hematological malignancies and in primary screening of potential chemotherapeutic drugs. Because the multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype is associated with these malignancies, and since many vital dyes are effluxed ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Marks DC,Belov L,Davey MW,Davey RA,Kidman AD

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FcRIII (CD16) expression on neutrophils from 17 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) was studied by flow cytometry using monoclonal antibodies. A variable proportion of CD16-negative neutrophils were found both in CML patients in chronic phase (3 out of 8 patients) and in CML patients in hematological remissio...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Carulli G,Gianfaldoni ML,Azzara A,Papineschi F,Vanacore R,Minnucci S,Testi R,Ambrogi F

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beagle dogs were treated with recombinant human interleukin 2 (IL-2) 6 x 10(6) International Units (IU)/day for 7 consecutive days following conditioning with sublethal (200 cGy) or lethal (400 cGy) doses of high-dose rate whole body irradiation (WBI) and reconstitution with 2 x 10(8)/kg autologous bone marrow cells, ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Samuel S,Nagler A,Or R,Slavin S

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When spleen cells of mice grafted with STIL-3 C5 cells, a leukemic T-cell line producing IL-3, are cultured in vitro, a high IL-3 activity is detectable in the culture supernatant. However, when bone marrow cells of the same grafted mice are cultured under similar conditions, hardly any IL-3 activity is detectable. To...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Sugimoto K,Taniguchi S,Ogata H,Ikehara S,Fujita J,Mori KJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to elucidate the regulatory roles of GMP reductase (GMPR) and IMP dehydrogenase (IMPDH) on purine interconversion during differentiation. Treatment of HL-60 cells with retinoic acid (1 microM) induced granulocytic differentiation which was accompanied with a 2.4-fold increase in GMPR and 55% d...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Nakamura H,Natsumeda Y,Nagai M,Takahara J,Irino S,Weber G

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic B-lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells may be regulated by immune functions. In an attempt to analyze such functions, helper factors (IL-1 alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-6), T-cell products (sCD4 and sCD8) and sIL-2R and beta 2-microglobulin were measured in serum of patients at different stages of the disease. Patient...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Aguilar-Santelises M,Loftenius A,Ljungh C,Svenson SB,Andersson B,Mellstedt H,Jondal M

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 17,633 U.S. white male insurance policy holders whose use of tobacco was characterized in a 1966 self-administered questionnaire, there were 49 deaths from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and 21 from multiple myeloma (MM) during a 20-year follow-up. Men who had ever smoked cigarettes had an elevated mortality from ...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Linet MS,McLaughlin JK,Hsing AW,Wacholder S,Co Chien HT,Schuman LM,Bjelke E,Blot WJ

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myelodysplastic syndrome is a paradigm of human preleukaemia. Normal haemopoiesis is progressively displaced by an abnormal clone derived from a mutated stem cell. The initial mutation is unknown but its occurrence may be related to the overall load of random mutations which are a consequence of both intrinsic DNA...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Jacobs A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MDS is primarily a disease of the elderly. Cases who give a history of exposure to X-rays, cytotoxic drugs or leukaemogenic chemicals may be younger. Many cases of MDS present because of an incidental blood count. The most prominent clinical features are those of anaemia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia. Because haemopo...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Hamblin T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggressive chemotherapy of myelodysplastic syndromes is rarely feasible because these disorders predominantly occur in elderly patients who often have concurrent illnesses. Alternative treatment modalities must therefore be evaluated. This review summarizes the results that have been obtained with low-dose chemotherap...

journal_title：Leukemia research

authors： Aul C,Gattermann N

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00