abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (b-FGF) mediates a variety of biological responses such as angiogenesis and hematopoiesis. We examined the effect of b-FGF on human neutrophil functions in vitro. The surface expression of effector cell molecules on neutrophils was determined by flow cytometry and monoclonal antibodies. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Takagi S,Takahashi K,Katsura Y,Matsuoka T,Ohsaka A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Downregulation of apoptosis has been proposed as a mechanism of clonal expansion in low-grade B cell neoplasms. We have previously described an unusual case of CD5+ B cell lymphoma characterized by cycles of leukemic phase alternating with spontaneous remission. In the present study, we examined the involvement of apo...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Aizman I,Many A,Peller S,Ramot B,Kaufmann Y

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas/APO-1 (CD95) is a cell surface molecule that can transduce apoptotic signals into cells. We examined the expression of Fas antigen on CD4+ and CD8+ T cells of patients who received total body irradiation (TBI) as a preparative regimen for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Numbers of peripheral blood lymphocy...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Fujimori Y,Saheki K,Itoi H,Okamamoto T,Kakishita E

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marginal-zone B cells of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) are the normal counterpart of the neoplastic cells in MALT lymphoma. In both cases these lymphocytes express surface immunoglobulins, but are negative when stained for B cell associated antigens like CD10 and CD23. Furthermore, the B cell gene rearr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Fritscher-Ravens A,Petrasch S,Tiemann M,Wacker H,Dörr T,Kemmeries G,Hilgers W,Reinacher-Schick A,Kunstmann E,Schmiegel W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the effect of granulocyte/colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the onset of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), we investigated whether the incidence of ARDS due to pulmonary infection differed between the G-CSF group which received chemotherapy with G-CSF and historical controls without G-CSF....

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Takahashi Y,Kobayashi Y,Chikayama S,Ikeda M,Kondo M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of hemoglobin A(2) (HbA(2)) are present in most beta-thalassemia carriers. The mechanism of this effect is not understood, although the increase may result from transcriptional and posttranscriptional changes. In the present study, we quantitate delta-globin mRNA levels in peripheral-blood-enriched re...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Huang SZ,Zeng FY,Chen MJ,Ren ZR,Shen M,Rodgers GP,Schechter AN,Zeng YT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old Japanese female was admitted to our hospital due to a 2-month history of vomiting after eating. Examination of the small intestinal tract revealed a tumor with calcification in the inner portion, from the horizontal portion to the ascending portion of the duodenum, and jejunojejunostomy was performed. Th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ishikawa T,Kobayashi Y,Omoto A,Adachi Y,Nakagawa S,Kaneko T,Nishida K,Miyamoto Y,Chimori Y,Yoshikawa T,Kondo M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cell (TC) contamination of stem cell products can contribute to relapse after high dose chemotherapy and stem cell rescue. A new purging technology using replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus (Adv) containing the p53 tumor suppressor gene (Adv-p53) has been suggested to reduce tumor contamination of autol...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hirai M,Kelsey LS,Maneval DC,Vaillancourt M,Talmadge JE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary plasma cell leukemia (PCL) is a rare form of plasma cell neoplasm with a poor prognosis. Conventional melphalan-based treatments have been most disappointing. We report the case of a 62-year-old man with a primary form of PCL treated with VAD combination achieving an objective response, and who received high-d...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Panizo C,Rifón J,Rodríguez-Wilhelmi P,Cuesta B,Rocha E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the role of thrombopoietin (c-Mpl ligand, TPO) in 'hypersplenic' thrombocytopenia, we used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to examine changes in serum TPO levels accompanied with splenectomy in 6 patients with liver cirrhosis, 4 patients with gastric cancer, and 2 patients with lymphoid malignancies. W...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ichikawa N,Kitano K,Shimodaira S,Ishida F,Ito T,Kajikawa S,Tahara T,Kato T,Kiyosawa K

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the in vivo effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the surface expression of putative counterligands for endothelial selectins on neutrophils in healthy volunteers. G-CSF (50 microg/m2/day) was administered subcutaneously to 5 healthy volunteers for 4 days. The expression of surface ant...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Ohsaka A,Saionji K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) is characterized by a high frequency of infections, including those of viral aetiology. Previous reports have demonstrated a specific immunologic response to influenza virus vaccine in B-CLL patients with normal IgG levels. In this study, we have evaluated different immunop...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Marotta G,Bucalossi A,Galieni P,Bigazzi C,Nuti S,Valenzin PE,Bocchia M,Lauria F

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the chronic wound, the normal cascade of inflammation, granulation and reconstruction phases of healing is interrupted. Cytokines are now known to orchestrate different biochemical mediators resulting in the restoration of the healing phases. Growth factors may play a significant role in stimulating wound repair by...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nath C,Gulati SC

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia (AILD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by diffuse lymphadenopathy, fever, hepatosplenomegaly, hemolytic anemia, and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia. Morphologically, the involved lymph nodes demonstrate complete effacement of the normal arch...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Sallah S,Gagnon GA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of rapidly binding coagulation factor inhibitors from antiphospholipid antibodies is a challenge for the hemostaseologic laboratory, especially with respect to the different therapeutic consequences. Several immunological and functional assays for the diagnosis of these disorders have been proposed. He...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Steinbrueckner B,Steigerwald U,Keller F,Ordung R,Neuenroth L,Reuther J,Klinker H,Schwender S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated double (specific and nonspecific) esterase (DE) staining in marrow cells of 237 patients with the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Additional abnormalities of neutrophilic granules were examined cytochemically and immunocytochemically for myeloperoxidase activity and antigen elastase, lactoferrin and C...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Elghetany MT,Peterson B,MacCallum J,Nelson DA,Varney JF,Sullivan AK,Silverman LR,Schiffer CA,Davey FR,Bloomfield CD

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) with a rapidly growing left cervical tumor 5 months after the initial diagnosis of CML. This tumor was diagnosed as a very early manifestation of extramedullary myeloblastoma by a minimally invasive method. A fine needle aspirate (26-gauge needle) was obtained...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Karthaus M,Meran JG,Wilkens L,Soudah B,Diedrich H,Krauter J,Ganser A,Heil G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have retrospectively analyzed a series of 19 patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and chronic thrombocytopenia not attributable to hypersplenism or to other causes. Antiplatelet antibodies were present in 81% of cases. Response to prednisone was observed in 6 of 7 patients and 1 of 3 patients responded t...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hernández F,Blanquer A,Linares M,López A,Tarín F,Cerveró A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an unusual case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) complicated by subclavian artery occlusion in a 32-year-old man with severe aplastic anemia, who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation. He was severely neutropenic after the conditioning for transplantation, but he had no history of fungal ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Hashino S,Imamura M,Tanaka J,Mori A,Noto S,Kobayashi S,Kasai M,Asaka M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymopoietin (TP) was originally isolated as a 5-kD 49-aa protein from bovine thymus and was subsequently observed to affect T-cell differentiation and function. We report here the molecular cloning of a murine TP cDNA. The 2,514 bp fragment contains a 630 bp open reading frame that encodes for 210 aa, highly homologo...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Theodor L,Shoham J,Berger R,Gokkel E,Trachtenbrot L,Simon AJ,Brok-Simon F,Nir U,Ilan E,Zevin-Sonkin D,Friedman E,Rechavi G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been studying hematopoietic effects by the tachykinins, which like many other neuropeptides can be expressed in neural and nonneural tissues. Substance P (SP) and neurokinin-A (NK-A), members of the tachykinins are immune and hematopoietic modulators. SP and NK-A are derived from the preprotachykinin-I gene (P...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Rameshwar P,Gascón P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of adhesion receptors are expressed on the blast cells in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia. The panel of receptors expressed demonstrates heterogeneity just as there is morphologic, histochemical, cytogenetic, and molecular genetic variation between various cases of acute myelogenous leukemia. The ad...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Liesveld JL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of Hodgkin's disease which initially presented with a thyroid tumor in an 18-year-old-man is reported. The tumor involved most of the thyroid gland but was well demarcated, and the border between the tumor and the remnants of the thyroid gland was relatively clear, suggesting secondary Hodgkin's disease in...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nakamura S,Mizukami Y,Yokoyama K,Saito Y,Ohtake S,Matsuda T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum soluble interleukin-6 receptor (sIL-6R) concentrations were measured in 50 patients with plasma cell dyscrasias using a commercially available immunoenzymatic assay kit. There were 40 patients with multiple myeloma (MM), 5 patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), 3 patients with s...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Papadaki H,Kyriakou D,Foudoulakis A,Markidou F,Alexandrakis M,Eliopoulos GD

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia/lymphoma (B-CLL) patient with an adrenocortical adenoma. He was treated initially with oral cyclophosphamide and prednisolone for 2 months, followed by low-dose prednisolone for an additional 2 years, which resulted in the prompt disappearance of CLL cells. After a per...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Adachi Y,Adachi M,Hinoda Y,Fukushima H,Takahashi T,Imai K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia is uncommon and comprises about 5% of acute nonlymphoid leukemias in the French-American-British classification. Cell lines from such leukemias are relatively rare with only about 8 reported in the literature. We established a cell line from a case of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia ari...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Skinnider LF,Pabello P,Zheng CY

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the pharmacokinetics of rhG-CSF after a single intraperitoneal injection 2 h post-TBI in B6D2F1 lethally irradiated mice and to analyze the effect of rhG-CSF on the endogenous response of interleukin-3 (IL-3), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Kádár E,Sureda A,Mangues MA,Inglés-Esteve J,Valls A,García J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria parasites growing inside human erythrocytes differ from mammalian cells in their mode of acquisition of bioavailable iron and in their susceptibility to the antiproliferative action of iron chelators. We have assessed here three major properties associated with these phenomena: (a) the stage-dependent nature o...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Cabantchik ZI,Glickstein H,Golenser J,Loyevsky M,Tsafack A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review the problem of lymphoma classification in the light of the Revised European-American Lymphoma (REAL) scheme, recently proposed by the International Lymphoma Study Group (ILSG). The REAL classification is a list of clinicopathologic entities, all well known from the literature, upon which the ILSG members agr...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Pileri SA,Ceccarelli C,Sabattini E,Santini D,Leone O,Damiani S,Leoncini L,Falini B

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that CD44 mediates adhesive interactions between hematopoietic progenitor cells and the stromal microenvironment. Ligands of CD44 include several extracellular matrix components, such as hyaluronic acid and fibronectin. Antibodies against CD44 have been shown to induce homotypic T cell aggregatio...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Oostendorp RA,Spitzer E,Dörmer P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleural effusion in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a relatively rare phenomenon. We report a case of a pleural effusion associated with B-cell CLL but with predominantly reactive T lymphocytes in the effusion. A cell surface phenotype study showed that T lymphocytes predominated in the pleural effusion, althoug...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Miyahara M,Shimamoto Y,Sano M,Nakano H,Shibata K,Matsuzaki M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new deletion of the beta-globin gene cluster was characterized in a Turkish family. A 6-year-old male and his father were heterozygotes for this deletion. They presented with mild hypochromic microcytic anemia associated with elevated Hb F (15%) and normal Hb A2 levels (2.0%). This newly described Turkish type (delt...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Oner R,Oner C,Erdem G,Balkan H,Ozdağ H,Erkan M,Gümrük F,Gürgey A,Altay C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferferon alfa-2b (IFN) plays a major role in the current management of previously untreated patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) as well as patients with CML who have relapsed after bone marrow transplantation. Hydroxyurea (HU) is the best conventional drug for treatment of CML in the chronic phase. Ten ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bourantas KL,Syrou M,Tsiara S,Danella M,Konstantinides P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 14 adult patients presenting with fever and cytopenia of the peripheral blood and histiocytic hyperplasia with hemophagocytosis (HHH) in the bone marrow regarding an association of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) by using in situ hybridization (ISH) and also evaluated the clinical and lab...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Han K,Kim Y,Kahng J,Lee J,Moon Y,Kang C,Shim S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of methylprednisolone on fresh cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has been studied using the differential staining cytotoxicity (DiSC) assay resulting in LC90s of < or = 0.2 to 2,000 micrograms/ml. Cells from previously treated patients were, on average, significantly more sensitiv...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Bosanquet AG,McCann SR,Crotty GM,Mills MJ,Catovsky D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-year-old Japanese woman with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and t(6;9) received peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT). Although chromosomal studies just prior to and following PBSCT showed a normal karyotype, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) detected the mRNA derived from th...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Nakano H,Shimamoto Y,Suga K,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thrombogenicity of prothrombin complex concentrates (PCCs) has been known as a risk factor since their first clinical use about 30 years ago. The development of in vivo models to define the thrombogenic components in PCCs was instrumental in providing a logical basis for selecting in vitro assays to screen for the...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： MacGregor I,McLaughlin L,Drummond O,Prowse C,Ferguson J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration accompanying Hodgkin's disease were treated with plasma exchange in combination with chemotherapy or radiation therapy, respectively. Significant improvement in neurologic symptoms was obtained in 1 of them. ...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Cehreli C,Payzin B,Undar B,Yilmaz U,Alakavuklar MN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient regression in the lymphocyte count of a patient with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) after viral infection is reported. A similar event occurred under natural interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) treatment. It was confirmed that the event was not caused by a direct cytotoxic effect of IFN-alpha by analyz...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Shirono K,Ikebe M,Inada T,Tsuda H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a patient with recurrence of Hodgkin's disease and severe liver disease of unknown origin in whom autoimmune neutropenia developed. Because of possible seronegative viral hepatitis he was treated with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin instead of steroids. He responded with a prompt but transitory increa...

journal_title：Acta haematologica

authors： Schoengen A,Fembacher PM,Schulz PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00