Annals ofHematology

Volume: 4 - Number: 25 - March 15, 2004

Outstanding

Role for macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1 and MIP-1 in the development of osteolytic lesions in multiple myeloma

Rehydration of high-density sickle erythrocytes in vitro

Role for granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in the generation of human T regulatory type 1 cells

Second malignancy after Hodgkin disease treated with radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy: long-term risks and risk factors

Brief Reports

Rituximab treatment of refractory fludarabine-associated immune thrombocytopenia in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Rituximab treatment results in impaired secondary humoral immune responsiveness

Skewed X-chromosome inactivation in monochorionic diamniotic twin sisters results in severe and mild hemophilia A

Clinical observations and therapeutic assays

Racial and ethnic differences in survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Results of consecutive trials for children newly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia from the Australian and New Zealand Children's Cancer Study Group

Second malignancy after Hodgkin disease treated with radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy: long-term risks and risk factors

Stanford V regimen and concomitant HAART in 59 patients with Hodgkin disease and HIV infection

Studies of FLT3 mutations in paired presentation and relapse samples from patients with acute myeloid leukemia: implications for the role of FLT3 mutations in leukemogenesis, minimal residual disease detection, and possible therapy with FLT3 inhibitors

Successful treatment of posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) following renal allografting is associated with sustained CD8+ T-cell restoration

Hemostasis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

Protein S Gla-domain mutations causing impaired Ca2+-induced phospholipid binding and severe functional protein S deficiency

Role of the adapter protein SLP-76 in GPVI-dependent platelet procoagulant responses to collagen

Sequential cytoplasmic calcium signals in a 2-stage platelet activation process induced by the glycoprotein Ib mechanoreceptor

Structural requirements for the activation of human factor VIII by thrombin

Sustained integrin ligation involves extracellular free sulfhydryls and enzymatically catalyzed disulfide exchange

Immunobiology

Regulation of FcRI-mediated degranulation by an adaptor protein 3BP2 in rat basophilic leukemia RBL-2H3 cells

Role for granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in the generation of human T regulatory type 1 cells

Into the blood

Starting out right: Kozak sequences and clots

Neoplasia

Response to histone deacetylase inhibition of novel PML/RAR mutants detected in retinoic acid-resistant APL cells

Role for macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1 and MIP-1 in the development of osteolytic lesions in multiple myeloma

SU5416 and SU5614 inhibit kinase activity of wild-type and mutant FLT3 receptor tyrosine kinase

Original plenary

Response of Diamond-Blackfan anemia to metoclopramide: evidence for a role for prolactin in erythropoiesis

Phagocytes

Role of PI3-kinase-dependent Bad phosphorylation and altered transcription in cytokine-mediated neutrophil survival

Red Cells

Rehydration of high-density sickle erythrocytes in vitro

Splenectomy prolongs in vivo survival of erythrocytes differently in spectrin/ankyrin- and band 3-deficient hereditary spherocytosis