Annals ofHematology

Volume: 3 - Number: 20 - October 15, 2003

Outstanding

Generalized crystal-storing histiocytosis associated with monoclonal gammopathy: molecular analysis of a disorder with rapid clinical course and review of the literature

Role of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) in neutrophil activation: GM-CSF enhances TLR2 expression and TLR2-mediated interleukin 8 responses in neutrophils

Essential role of the C5a receptor in E coli-induced oxidative burst and phagocytosis revealed by a novel lepirudin-based human whole blood model of inflammation

Expression patterns of Th1 and Th2 cytokine genes in childhood idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) at presentation and their modulation by intravenous immunoglobulin G (IVIg) treatment: their role in prognosis

Brief Reports

Cyclosporine inhibition of P-glycoprotein in chronic myeloid leukemia blast phase

Homozygosity for nondeletion -0 thalassemia resulting in a silent clinical phenotype

Distinct contributions of CD4+ and CD8+ naive and memory T-cell subsets to overall T-cell-receptor repertoire complexity following transplantation of T-cell-depleted CD34-selected hematopoietic progenitor cells from unrelated donors

Rta of the human herpesvirus 8/Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus up-regulates human interleukin-6 gene expression

Immunobiology

Peripheral blood but not tissue dendritic cells express CD52 and are depleted by treatment with alemtuzumab

Cyclosporin A blocks the expression of lymphotoxin , but not lymphotoxin , in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

IFN--mediated inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by natural killer T-cell ligand, -galactosylceramide

Developmental kinetics and lifespan of dendritic cells in mouse lymphoid organs

Identification of the genes differentially expressed in human dendritic cell subsets by cDNA subtraction and microarray analysis

B cells immortalized by a mini-Epstein-Barr virus encoding a foreign antigen efficiently reactivate specific cytotoxic T cells

Glucocorticoids and rituximab in vitro: synergistic direct antiproliferative and apoptotic effects

Expression patterns of Th1 and Th2 cytokine genes in childhood idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) at presentation and their modulation by intravenous immunoglobulin G (IVIg) treatment: their role in prognosis

Neoplasia

Spontaneous and drug-induced apoptosis is mediated by conformational changes of Bax and Bak in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Generalized crystal-storing histiocytosis associated with monoclonal gammopathy: molecular analysis of a disorder with rapid clinical course and review of the literature

Phagocytes

Role of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) in neutrophil activation: GM-CSF enhances TLR2 expression and TLR2-mediated interleukin 8 responses in neutrophils

Essential role of the C5a receptor in E coli-induced oxidative burst and phagocytosis revealed by a novel lepirudin-based human whole blood model of inflammation

Transplantation

Mixed peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for autoimmune disease in BXSB/MpJ mice

Crucial role of timing of donor lymphocyte infusion in generating dissociated graft-versus-host and graft-versus-leukemia responses in mice receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplants

Donor lymphocyte infusions mediate superior graft-versus-leukemia effects in mixed compared to fully allogeneic chimeras: a critical role for host antigen-presenting cells