abstract：:We measured histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity in 17 patients with primary myelofibrosis (PMF); 19 with other myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) and 16 normal volunteers. Significantly elevated HDAC levels were shown in patients with PMF compared with other MPN patients and normal volunteers (p<0.05). Sixteen patients...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Wang JC,Chen C,Dumlao T,Naik S,Chang T,Xiao YY,Sominsky I,Burton J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proliferation index in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has not been validated in the context of aggressive therapy regimens in the rituximab era. We assessed Ki67 and PIM1 (a cell cycle-related gene upregulated in blastoid MCL) expression by immunohistochemistry in a phase II study Cancer and Leukemia Group B 59909 of ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Hsi ED,Jung SH,Lai R,Johnson JL,Cook JR,Jones D,Devos S,Cheson BD,Damon LE,Said J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and lymphotoxin alpha (LT-alpha) have been shown to play an important role in the pathogenesis of limphoproliferative disease. Both cytokines regulate cell-survival and cell-death in leukemic cells. TNF-alpha and LT-alpha are highly produced in chronic lymphotic leukemia (CLL) a...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Jevtovic-Stoimenov T,Kocic G,Pavlovic D,Macukanovic-Golubovic L,Marjanovic G,Djordjevic V,Tosić N,Pavlović S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hodgkin lymphomas are characterised by the presence of rare malignant cells in a background of non-neoplastic inflammatory cells. Flow cytometric analysis of involved tissues is generally not thought to be useful in establishing the diagnosis, because of the small number of neoplastic cells present. However, two recen...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Rahemtullah A,Harris NL,Dorn ME,Preffer FI,Hasserjian RP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) is currently employed as a treatment for relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), where it can induce remission in greater than 90% of patients, but is ineffective in patients with non-APL acute myeloid leukemia (AML). As2O3 induces apoptosis in APL cells through mechanisms dependent and i...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Coe E,Schimmer AD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rituximab is widely used for CD20+ non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The use of rituximab has been uncommonly associated with pulmonary toxicity. We report here a single institution experience on the clinical characteristics, diagnosis, treatment and outcome of rituximab-induced interstitial lung disease. From May 2007 to F...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Liu X,Hong XN,Gu YJ,Wang BY,Luo ZG,Cao J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a hematopoietic stem cell disease with distinct biological and clinical features. The Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome and BCR/ABL fusion gene is the major cytogenetic and molecular marker of CML chronic phase. However, the molecular mechanisms of disease progression are not well known. R...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Zhang S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated patients with newly diagnosed ALL treated at the Cleveland Clinic during the years 1996 through 2005. Cox proportional hazards analysis was used to identify univariate and multivariate correlates of complete remission, overall survival and progression-free survival. On univariate analysis, significant pro...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Advani AS,Jin T,Ramsingh G,Tiu R,Saber W,Theil K,Sobecks R,Sekeres M,Copelan E,Sungren S,Tripp B,Kalaycio M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide and its analogue lenalidomide are potent anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic and immunomodulatory drugs, successfully used for the treatment of hematological cancers, in particular multiple myeloma (MM). Both drugs reveal a dual mechanism of action: they target tumour cells by direct cytotoxicity and, indir...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Vallet S,Palumbo A,Raje N,Boccadoro M,Anderson KC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary marginal zone lymphoma is a rare disease arising from bronchial-associated lymphoid tissue (BALT). There is limited information on clinical presentation, natural history and treatment of this type of lymphoma. We conducted a retrospective review of patients with biopsy-proven BALT lymphoma treated at our ins...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Stefanovic A,Morgensztern D,Fong T,Lossos IS

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HMGB1 is a high mobility group protein that can act either as a DNA binding protein or extracellularly as a cytokine-like danger signal. Extracellular HMGB1, either actively secreted or passively released by necrotic cells, is linked to inflammation and cancer. Herein, the results of a study to quantify the expression...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Meyer A,Staratschek-Jox A,Springwald A,Wenk H,Wolf J,Wickenhauser C,Bullerdiek J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BCL6 is a transcriptional repressor often expressed constitutively in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) due to mutations of its genomic locus. BCL6 mediates aberrant survival, proliferation, genomic instability and differentiation blockade in DLBCL cells. The biochemical study of BCL6 mediated gene repression has...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Parekh S,Privé G,Melnick A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In developed nations, Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is rare in <5-year olds and represent a minority in developing countries. Little is reported about the biology and behavior of these very young patients compared with older children. 18.75% of our pediatric HL patients (0 - 14 years) were <5 years at diagnosis. This group ha...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Belgaumi A,Al-Kofide A,Joseph N,Jamil-Malik R,Khafaga Y,Sabbah R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the initial success of imatinib as frontline therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), several second-generation therapeutics have been developed with increased potency and the ability to inhibit the majority of imatinib-resistant mutations. Here, we review the current knowledge about the target specificit...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Hantschel O,Rix U,Superti-Furga G

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the prognostic role of 18FDG-PET performed before ASCT in patients affected by lymphoma who underwent high-dose chemotherapy followed by ASCT as first-line treatment for high-risk disease or as second-line or more for relapsed or refractory disease. We retrospectively analyzed 53 consecutive patients, 14 ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Crocchiolo R,Canevari C,Assanelli A,Lunghi F,Tassara M,Stanghellini ML,Clerici D,Landoni C,Servida P,Bernardi M,Peccatori J,Ferreri A,Gianolli L,Bordignon C,Caligaris-Cappio F,Ciceri F,Fazio F

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe myelosuppression is one of the major adverse effects of Idarubicin (IDA). Especially, after two sequential therapy courses, IDA showed a stronger myelosuppression than after the first course. IDA was metabolized in liver by carbonyl reducing enzymes (CRE) to its 13-OH metabolite, idarubicinol(IDAol),which is mo...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Yamashita T,Fukushima T,Ueda T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prednisone, etoposide, procarbazine and cyclophosphamide (PEP-C) oral combination chemotherapy regimen (prednisone 20 mg, cyclophosphamide 50 mg, etoposide 50 mg, and procarbazine 50 mg with an oral anti-emetic) was employed at our center to treat 22 patients with heavily pretreated, recurrent mantle cell lymphoma...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Coleman M,Martin P,Ruan J,Furman R,Niesvizky R,Elstrom R,George P,Leonard J,Kaufmann T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and ninety-six untreated de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients were treated with homoharringtonine + cytosine arabinoside (HA) based induction therapy composed of three chemotherapeutic drugs (HAD/M, D-daunorubicin-DNR, M-mitozantrone-MTZ) used in our hospital for the past 12 years. The patient pop...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Mi Y,Xue Y,Yu W,Liu S,Zhao Y,Meng Q,Bian S,Wang J

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-infiltrating immune cells perform a crucial function in host immune reactions against diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). In this study, we have identified a subset of tumor-infiltrating FOXP3-positive regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the initial DLBCL biopsy specimens, and have evaluated their prognostic signif...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Lee NR,Song EK,Jang KY,Choi HN,Moon WS,Kwon K,Lee JH,Yim CY,Kwak JY

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HMG-CoA Reductase inhibitors (statins) induce apoptosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells in vitro; however, the concentrations associated with cell death in AML cells are higher than those clinically tolerated during prolonged therapy. We therefore wished to determine whether short exposures to lovastatin might i...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Burke LP,Kukoly CA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is essential for proper management. However, immunophenotypic detection of relapse by flow cytometry in B-lineage ALL can be confounded by several factors, including lack of a unique immunophenotype and modulation of aberrant phenotypes after treatment. We hyp...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Kenney B,Zieske A,Rinder H,Smith B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anamorsin is a cell-death-defying factor, which was originally isolated as a molecule that conferred resistance to apoptosis induced by growth factor starvation. In order to evaluate anamorsin expression levels in malignant lymphoma, we immunostained paraffin-embedded sections with anti-anamorsin monoclonal antibodies...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Shizusawa T,Shibayama H,Murata S,Saitoh Y,Sugimoto Y,Matsumura I,Ogawa H,Sugiyama H,Fukuhara S,Hino M,Kanamaru A,Yamauchi A,Aozasa K,Kanakura Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterogeneous group of malignancies are associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. These malignancies arise in both immunosuppressed and immunocompetent individuals and can be divided into three patterns of latency depending on the viral genes that are expressed. In Type III latency malignancies, such as po...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Cohen JI,Bollard CM,Khanna R,Pittaluga S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic stem-cell transplantation (SCT) is potentially curative treatment for AML and MDS. New conditioning regimens are continuously explored trying to reduce toxicity while maintaining antileukemia effect. Treosulfan is an alkylating agent with in vitro cytotoxicity against leukemia as well as myeloablative and i...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Shimoni A,Hardan I,Shem-Tov N,Rand A,Yerushalmi R,Nagler A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The V617F mutation of the JAK2 tyrosine kinase is found in a majority of patients with myeloproliferative disorders. Flow cytometry assays for quantitation of phosphorylated and total protein for JAK2, STAT5, and heat shock proteins (HSPs) were developed to facilitate the study of the JAK/STAT pathway. A cell line hom...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Bareng J,Jilani I,Gorre M,Kantarjian H,Giles F,Hannah A,Albitar M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is characterized by the presence of chimeric protein BCR-ABL associated with high tyrosine kinase (TK) activity, which leads to cell tumorogenicity, resistance to apoptosis, and differentiation. Gossypol is a natural polyphenolic compound isolated from cottonseed and has antiproliferativ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Meng Y,Li Y,Li J,Li H,Fu J,Liu Y,Liu H,Chen X

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose melphalan therapy with peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation is a standard treatment for younger patients with untreated multiple myeloma that results in high overall and complete response (CR) rates, and improved event-free and overall survival compared with standard chemotherapy alone. Inductio...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Oakervee H,Popat R,Cavenagh JD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the possibility of immunotherapy for multiple myeloma (MM) using myeloma-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) that were stimulated in vitro by dendritic cells (DCs) pulsing with purified and optimized myeloma lysates. CD14(+) cells were cultured in the presence of GM-CSF and IL-4. On day 6, the imma...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Lee JJ,Choi BH,Kang HK,Park MS,Park JS,Kim SK,Pham TN,Cho D,Nam JH,Kim YJ,Rhee JH,Yang DH,Kim YK,Kim HJ,Chung IJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clofarabine is a good generation purine nucleoside analogue designed to overcome the limitations and to incorporate the best qualities of both cladribine and fludarabine. Clofarabine is thought to work via three mechanisms: inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase; incorporation to DNA; and induction of apoptosis. Given...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Kantarjian HM,Jeha S,Gandhi V,Wess M,Faderl S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To distinguish the similarities or differences between T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) and T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL), we retrospectively analyzed the clinical, immunophenotypic, cytogenetic, and molecular characteristics in 37 children diagnosed between December 1990 and December 2003. Compara...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Uyttebroeck A,Vanhentenrijk V,Hagemeijer A,Boeckx N,Renard M,Wlodarska I,Vandenberghe P,Depaepe P,De Wolf-Peeters C

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SV40 DNA sequences have been detected in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients. A link between SV40 and NHL is biologically plausible since SV40 causes hematological malignancies in laboratory rodents. We investigated 266 Egyptian cases of hematological malignancies (158 NHL, 54 HD, 26 ALL, 13 AML, 8 CLL, 7 CML) and 34 subj...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Zekri AR,Mohamed W,Bahnassy A,Refat L,Khaled M,Shalaby S,Hafez M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic profile of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has been reported to be significantly different from that of other indolent lymphoproliferative disorders, Topoisomerase IIalpha, glutathione-s-transferasepi (GSTpi) and ABCG2 (BCRP) chemoresistance genes being over-expressed in MCL. In our study, expression levels of ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Galimberti S,Nagy B,Benedetti E,Pacini S,Brizzi S,Caracciolo F,Papineschi F,Ciabatti E,Guerrini F,Fazzi R,Canestraro M,Petrini M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (IFR) is a life-threatening infection. Its onset is subtle and a late diagnosis leads to severe complications. Death may occur within a few weeks notwithstanding treatment. We describe a comprehensive pre- and post-operative approach to care for haematological patients with IFR. Five hae...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Vener C,Carrabba M,Fracchiolla NS,Costa A,Fabio G,Hu C,Sina C,Guastella C,Pignataro L,Deliliers GL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible role for DNA mismatch repair defects and microsatellite instability (MSI) in the pathogenesis of a number of B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders has recently been debated. To gain further insight into the impact of MSI on B-CLL, we evaluated samples from a series of 982 patients using the mono-satellite ma...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Sellick GS,Lubbe SJ,Matutes E,Catovsky D,Houlston RS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man in late middle age presented with fever, systemic symptoms, raised inflammatory markers and anaemia of chronic disease. Despite two months of investigation, the diagnosis of a haematological malignancy was made only at autopsy. ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Gabriel IH,Chong N,Rice A,Negus R,Bain BJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rearrangement of the immunoglobulin genes (IG) provides a large diversity of B-cell receptors conformations and allows the immune system to respond differently to foreign antigens. In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), there are a restricted number of stereotyped B-cell receptors rearranged by the tumor B-cells b...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Tobin G

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the expression of Gravin (a tumor suppressor gene belonging to the A kinase anchoring protein family) in samples of acute leukaemia and to explore its association with the prognosis. The study group consisted of 162 people (137 patients with acute leukaemia and 25 volunteers as c...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Yildirim M,Paydas S,Tanriverdi K,Seydaoglu G,Disel U,Yavuz S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment options for patients who relapse following autologous transplantation for Hodgkin's lymphoma are limited. There are anecdotal reports of lengthy remissions following second autologous procedures, although treatment-related toxicity can be significant. We report a single centre experience of second autologous...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Thomson KJ,Peggs KS,Blundell E,Goldstone AH,Linch DC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD95 is a cell-surface receptor that mediates apoptosis. A possible association between CD95 mutations and extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) has been reported. To further elucidate this question, a mutation analysis within the 5' region and exon 9 of CD95 was performed in a series of 66 DLBCL patients,...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Scholl V,Stefanoff CG,Hassan R,Spector N,Renault IZ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study has explored the possible value of sCA-125 as a prognostic factor in Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL). From August 1992 to June 2005 sCA-125 was measured at presentation and at the end of the treatments in 221 newly diagnosed adult patients with HL. In this study 90/221 (41%) patients showed a value greater t...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Russo F,Lastoria S,Svanera G,Capobianco G,de Chiara A,Francia Rd,Squame E,de Martinis F,Pinto A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00