Annals ofHematology

Volume: 2 - Number: 4 - March 15, 2002

Outstanding

Thalidomide and its analogs overcome drug resistance of human multiple myeloma cells to conventional therapy

Mechanisms of HIV-associated lymphocyte apoptosis

Bcl-2 rearrangement in patients with chronic hepatitis C associated with essential mixed cryoglobulinemia type II

Cellular drug resistance profiles in childhood acute myeloid leukemia: differences between FAB types and comparison with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Articles

Nonimmunoglobulin (non-Ig)/BCL6 gene fusion in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma results in worse prognosis than Ig/BCL6

Bcl-2 rearrangement in patients with chronic hepatitis C associated with essential mixed cryoglobulinemia type II

Chemokines

Down-regulation of neutrophil functions by the ELR+ CXC chemokine platelet basic protein

T-lymphocyte production of macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha is critical to the recruitment of CD8+ T cells to the liver, lung, and spleen during graft-versus-host disease

Gene Therapy

Induction of B-cell tolerance by retroviral gene therapy

Guidelines and Clinical Assays

Long-term follow-up of remission duration, mortality, and second malignancies in hairy cell leukemia patients treated with pentostatin

Diagnostic value of dominant T-cell clones in peripheral blood in 363 patients presenting consecutively with a clinical suspicion of cutaneous lymphoma

Prognostic significance of CD56 expression for ALK-positive and ALK-negative anaplastic large-cell lymphoma of T/null cell phenotype

Ex vivo expanded peripheral blood progenitor cells provide rapid neutrophil recovery after high-dose chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer

Hematopoiesis

Murine hematopoietic stem cell characterization and its regulation in BM transplantation

Imprinting of insulin-like growth factor 2 is modulated during hematopoiesis

Generation of murine dendritic cells from flt3-ligand-supplemented bone marrow cultures

Immunobiology

Induction of neutrophil responsiveness to myeloperoxidase antibodies by their exposure to supernatant of degranulated autologous neutrophils

Tumor-specific recognition of human myeloma cells by idiotype-induced CD8+ T cells

Treatment with liposome-encapsulated clodronate as a new strategic approach in the management of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a mouse model

Arsenic-interferon-alpha-triggered apoptosis in HTLV-I transformed cells is associated with Tax down-regulation and reversal of NF-kappaB activation

Insulin-like growth factor I is a dual effector of multiple myeloma cell growth

Neoplasia

Phosphorylation-deficient Stat1 inhibits retinoic acid-induced differentiation and cell cycle arrest in U-937 monoblasts

Cellular drug resistance profiles in childhood acute myeloid leukemia: differences between FAB types and comparison with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Phagocytes

Down-regulation of the chemokine receptor CCR5 by activation of chemotactic formyl peptide receptor in human monocytes

Red Cells

Nonsense mutations in the human beta-globin gene lead to unexpected levels of cytoplasmic mRNA accumulation

Reviews and Trials

CD40-ligand (CD154) gene therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Crystallographic structure and functional interpretation of the cytoplasmic domain of erythrocyte membrane band 3

A phase I/II trial of iodine-131-tositumomab (anti-CD20), etoposide, cyclophosphamide, and autologous stem cell transplantation for relapsed B-cell lymphomas

Thalidomide and its analogs overcome drug resistance of human multiple myeloma cells to conventional therapy

Mechanisms of HIV-associated lymphocyte apoptosis