abstract：:Plasma cells isolated from bone marrow (BM) aspirates of 15 patients with active multiple myeloma (MM) were cultured and analysed for in vitro proliferative response and Ig-synthesis upon stimulation with interleukin-3 (IL-3), interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). The proliferative response, determined as Ki-...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Sonneveld P,Schoester M,de Leeuw K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following diagnostic criteria are proposed to classify four clinical subtypes of HTLV-1 associated adult T-cell leukaemia-lymphoma (ATL): (1) Smouldering type, 5% or more abnormal lymphocytes of T-cell nature in PB, normal lymphocyte level (less than 4 x 10(9)/l), no hypercalcaemia (corrected calcium level less th...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Shimoyama M

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing (IEF) in the pH range 2.5-5.0 has been used to compare the immunoreactive (ir) erythropoietin (Epo) in paired samples of serum and urine from three patients, two with idiopathic aplastic anaemia and one with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria and also from three anaemic rats. Serum samples only ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tam RC,Coleman SL,Tiplady RJ,Storring PL,Cotes PM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that phorbol ester-activated neutrophils kill both antibody non-coated and antibody-coated K562 target cells. In this report the contribution of the receptors Fc gamma III (CD16) and CR3 (CD11b/CD18) in the lytic process was investigated. In neutrophils CD16 and CR3 are up-regulated by ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Gavioli R,Spisani S,Giuliani AL,Cosulich E,Risso A,Traniello S

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although 5-fluorouracil (FUra) has been the drug of choice for the treatment of patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma, the response rates are in the range of 15% and the median survival times do not exceed 9 months. Interferon alpha (IFN alpha) has limited antitumour activity in this disease. Recent clinical tri...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Rustum YM

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials with individual cytokines and extensive in vitro studies have provided the basis for the in vivo use of these molecules in combination. Animal models, with haemopoietic growth factors as well as preliminary studies in humans--as shown by our studies with the sequential use of IL-3 and GM-CSF in patient...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kanz L,Brugger W,Bross K,Mertelsmann R

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TH line was established by bringing tumour cells from a multiple myeloma patient into suspension culture and subsequently cloning them by limiting dilution. The cultured cells show marked heterogeneity; there are ultrastructural differences between small and large TH cells, particularly with respect to the rough e...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Weinreich SS,von dem Borne AE,van Lier RA,Feltkamp CA,Slater RM,Wester MR,Zeijlemaker WP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) were produced against the blood group KEL1 glycoprotein (93 kD component) immunopurified from human erythrocytes. One monoclonal antibody, 5A11 (IgGa, kappa), detects by immunoblotting a 93 and 184 kD component from KEL: 1,-2 or KEL: -1,2 red cell membrane preparations, separated b...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jaber A,Loirat MJ,Willem C,Bloy C,Cartron JP,Blanchard D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinoids: all-transretinoic acid (tretinoin), 13-cis retinoic acid (isotretinoin) and the aromatic retinoids etretinate and acitretin have a preventive and therapeutic effect on chemically-induced tumours. Clinically, retinoids have shown variable effectiveness in therapy and/or prevention of oncological diseases...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bollag W

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis is an uncommon disease characterized by a proliferation of tissue mast cells involving various organs, particularly the bone marrow. Though rare, the association of mastocytosis and haematological malignancies is well established. However, the frequency of mastocytosis reported in patients with essential ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Le Tourneau A,Gaulard P,D'Agay MF,Vainchencker W,Cadiou M,Devidas A,Haioun C,Clauvel JP,Audouin J,Diebold J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a phase II study, 12 patients with a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and anaemia (nine transfusion-dependent) were treated with recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) to assess the therapeutic effect on erythropoiesis and on transfusion requirement. Patients with a low risk of developing acute leukaemia were incl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Kamp H,Prinsze-Postema TC,Kluin PM,den Ottolander GJ,Beverstock GC,Willemze R,Fibbe WE

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and gamma-interferon induced transcription of class I HLA genes in chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) cell lines through the formation of a complex between nuclear proteins and the transcriptional enhancers associated with these genes. Although gamma-interfe...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Seong D,Sims S,Johnson E,Lyding J,Lopez A,Garovoy M,Talpaz M,Kantarjian H,Lopez-Berestein G,Reading C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a multifunctional haematopoietin which can promote production of several blood cell lineages, though the predominant target cells are neutrophils, monocytes, and their precursors. Occasional undesirable clinical effects include eosinophilia, an increase in b...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kurzrock R,Talpaz M,Gomez JA,Estey EH,O'Brien S,Hirsch-Ginsberg C,Koller C,Freireich EJ,Gutterman JU

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human plasma cell leukaemia cell line (HSM-2) and a subclone (HSM-2.3) have been established from the bone marrow of a patient with bi-phenotypic leukaemia. Proliferation assays using a variety of cytokines demonstrated that HSM-2 proliferated in response to recombinant interleukin-6 (rIL-6), but did not respond to ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kobayashi M,Miyagishima T,Imamura M,Maeda S,Gotohda Y,Iwasaki H,Sakurada K,Miyazaki T

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) mRNA was studied in human adherent monocytes in response to the protein kinase C activator, oleolyl-acetylglycerol (OAG), the calcium-ionophore A23187 and the cyclic AMP elevating agents, dibutyryl c-AMP (DBcAMP), cholera toxin an...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Vellenga E,van der Vinne B,De Wolf JT,Halie MR

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously established a serum-free (SF) culture medium, which supports normal haemopoietic progenitor cell growth for at least 4 weeks as does conventional serum dependent (SD) medium. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of such a defined SF liquid medium which sustained in vitro residual norma...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Da WM,Douay L,Barbu V,Fabrega S,Allieri MA,Drouet X,Deloux J,Giarratana MC,Ozsahin H,van den Akker J,Vanhaeke D,Gorin NC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multiparameter flow-cytometrical method for the quantitation of CD34(+)-cells present in adult human peripheral blood cells (PBMC) has been developed. PBMC from 13 healthy adult subjects were analysed for CD34(+)-cells by flow-cytometry, with only the lymphoid population of cells negative for anti-CD3-moAb included ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Serke S,Säuberlich S,Huhn D

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with acute immune haemolytic anaemia caused by diclofenac are described. Both patients had developed IgG drug-independent autoantibodies and drug-dependent antibodies. The drug-dependent antibodies in one patient reacted with red blood cells (RBC) only in the presence of urine from patients receiving dicl...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Salama A,Göttsche B,Mueller-Eckhardt C

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to clarify the effect of human T cell leukaemia virus type I (HTLV-I) infection on virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cells, a herpes simplex virus-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cell clone was infected with HTLV-I in vitro. The cytotoxic activity of the clone was found to have declined early after HTLV-I infecti...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Inatsuki A,Yasukawa M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangement of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene is widely exploited as a marker of B cell lineage and clonality in the pathology of lymphoproliferative disorders. We have developed a simple, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based method for detecting IgH gene rearrangement which relies on the observation tha...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Deane M,Norton JD

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:210 patients, with a history of venous thrombosis, have undergone prothrombotic investigations. In nine cases a consistent deficiency of antithrombin was identified. In five there was a reduction in the plasma antigenic concentration of antithrombin and in a further four cases deficiency was due to the presence of a d...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Harper PL,Luddington RJ,Daly M,Bruce D,Williamson D,Edgar PF,Perry DJ,Carrell RW

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of in vivo bioassay for erythropoietin (EPO) is described. This method is based on the measurement of immature reticulocytes in EPO-treated mice using an automatic microcell counter, and is simpler and more precise than the existing methods of polycythaemic mouse assay and starved rat assay. Normal mice w...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Kawamura A,Imai N,Kawaguchi T,Hayakawa T

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilia B Leyden is characterized by severe factor IX deficiency during childhood with partial resolution at puberty or following the administration of anabolic steroids. The disorder has recently been associated with point mutations in the putative factor IX promoter region, which contains an imperfect direct rep...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Royle G,Van de Water NS,Berry E,Ockelford PA,Browett PJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is thought to play some role in the genesis of fibrosis associated with myeloproliferative disorders. In addition, transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) has been confirmed to promote fibrotic process. Both PDGF and TGF-beta have been shown to cooperate with epidermal growth f...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Martyré MC,Magdelenat H,Bryckaert MC,Laine-Bidron C,Calvo F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the most common cause of infection in neutropenic patients has shifted from Gram-negative to Gram-positive bacteria. To compare the efficacy and toxicity of teicoplanin and vancomycin in neutropenic patients, we conducted a prospective study of 151 adult leukaemic patients hospitalized for intensive c...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Cony-Makhoul P,Brossard G,Marit G,Pellegrin JL,Texier-Maugein J,Reiffers J

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reasons why some patients with multiple myeloma (MM) do not develop severe bone loss, or even develop sclerotic bone lesions, remain unclear. In order to answer this question at the cellular and tissue level, we evaluated the histological bone condition of 10 patients with MM who never developed lytic bone lesions...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Bataille R,Chappard D,Marcelli C,Rossi JF,Dessauw P,Baldet P,Sany J,Alexandre C

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported here is the first example of a partial D antigen stimulating the production of anti-D: stimulation was of fetal origin. During her second pregnancy, anti-D developed in the serum of a D-negative mother who had received Rh immunoglobulin after the birth of her first D-positive child. Her second baby had modera...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Mayne K,Bowell P,Woodward T,Sibley C,Lomas C,Tippett P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the complement-susceptibility of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) lymphocytes in relation to their dysfunction. When assessed by complement-mediated lysis induced by monoclonal antibodies (CD5 or CD20) and rabbit complement, the complement-susceptibility of lymphocytes from patients with PNH,...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Tomiyama J,Ninomiya H,Abe T

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited tryptic digestion of native spectrin (Sp) has revealed several variants in hereditary pyropoikilocytosis (HPP) and in a subset of patients with hereditary elliptocytosis (HE). In most cases, tryptic peptide corresponding to the alpha I (N-terminal) 80 kD domain is wholly or partially replaced by smaller fragme...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Lecomte MC,Gautero H,Garbarz M,Boivin P,Dhermy D

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a trial using recombinant human interleukin-2 (rhIL-2) immunotherapy for acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML) in remission, eosinophilia was observed in all patients. We used in-vitro clonogenic assays to investigate the mechanism of the eosinophilia in five patients. The mean eosinophil count increased from 0.05...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Macdonald D,Gordon AA,Kajitani H,Enokihara H,Barrett AJ

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a simple approach for molecular characterization and locus assignment of structural mutants by direct sequencing of enzymatically amplified DNA selective to alpha 1 and alpha 2 globin gene regions. Nucleotide substitution of two structural variants (Stanleyville II alpha 2(78Lys) and J Mexico alpha 2(54Glu...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Dodé C,Rochette J,Krishnamoorthy R

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous or allogeneic peripheral blood T cells can stimulate the human megakaryocyte progenitor cell (CFU-Meg)-derived colony formation in a dose-dependent fashion in agar cultures of nonadherent (NA), T cell-depleted (NT) bone marrow (BM) cells. Low concentrations of monocytes and T cells can collaborate in the st...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Hamaguchi H,Takano N,Saito K,Enokihara H,Furusawa S,Shishido H

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The close association between translocation of the proto-oncogene bcl-2 and follicular lymphomas has been well established in Caucasian patients and the de-regulation of bcl-2 has been implicated in follicular lymphomagenesis. Similar molecular structural alterations have also been detected in diffuse lymphomas with a...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Loke SL,Pittaluga S,Srivastava G,Raffeld M,Ho FC

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation has been proposed as a new technology to decrease immunogenicity of leucocytes in platelet transfusions. UV radiation also induces platelet aggregation, which occurs most effectively at wavelengths between 240 and 280 nm and falls off sharply above 300 nm. In order to m...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： van Prooijen HC,van Marwijk Kooy M,van Weelden H,Aarts-Riemens MI,Borghuis L,Akkerman JW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of oestrogen receptors (ER) and type II oestrogen binding sites (type II EBS) have been investigated by a whole cell assay in seven cases of acute lymphoid leukaemia (ALL) and 16 cases of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). ER were detected in 6/7 ALL patients with values ranging between 133 and 2268 sites/cel...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Larocca LM,Piantelli M,Leone G,Sica S,Teofili L,Panici PB,Scambia G,Mancuso S,Capelli A,Ranelletti FO

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MHC-unrestricted cytotoxic lymphocytes, namely natural killer (NK) and lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells, have been implicated in the regulation of haemopoiesis. To investigate the possible role of these lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of aplastic anaemia (AA), we studied their functions in the peripheral blood ...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Myint AA,Malkovska V,Morgan S,Luckit J,Wonke B,Gordon-Smith EC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relationship between normal B-cells, B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) cells and hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) cells the three cell types were incubated with phorbol myristic acetate (PMA). The parameters studied were morphology, immunophenotype and tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP)...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Visser L,Poppema S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a familial study of AT III, a type III antithrombin III variant which was identified in the propositus by gene analysis as Pro 41 Leu heterozygous mutation. None of the four members of the family who presented with defective heparin cofactor (hep-cofactor) activity, and therefore probably carried the mutat...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： de Roux N,Chadeuf G,Molho-Sabatier P,Plouin PF,Aiach M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an ongoing effort to identify point mutations causing beta-thalassaemia, we have found two previously unreported mutations which are located in the Poly A site of the beta-globin gene. The screening programme used amplified DNA and dot-blot hybridization with several 32P-labelled oligonucleotide probes. DNA samples...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Jankovic L,Efremov GD,Petkov G,Kattamis C,George E,Yang KG,Stoming TA,Huisman TH

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten characteristics of bone marrow (BM) biopsies in paraffin sections, obtained at diagnosis from patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) classified according to the FAB criteria, were analysed to identify both the most relevant morphologic data and any possible influence on survival. Agreement between two obser...

journal_title：British journal of haematology

authors： Ríos A,Cañizo MC,Sanz MA,Vallespí T,Sanz G,Torrabadella M,Gomis F,Ruiz C,San Miguel JF

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00