Annals ofHematology

Volume: 10 - Number: 105 - December 15, 2010

Outstanding

The phenotypic and functional characteristics of umbilical cord blood and peripheral blood natural killer cells (pages 185–191)

Ten years of cord blood transplantation: from bench to bedside (pages 192–199)

Improving cord blood transplantation in children (pages 217–226)

Cord blood banking: a historical perspective (pages 236–245)

Myeloid neoplasia

Effect of the nonpeptide thrombopoietin receptor agonist Eltrombopag on bone marrow cells from patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome

Peripheral blood T cells in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients at diagnosis have abnormal phenotype and genotype and form defective immune synapses with AML blasts

Phagocytes, granulocitos, and myelopoyesis

Regulation of myelopoiesis through syntenin-mediated modulation of IL-5 receptor output

Red cells, iron, and erytropoiesis

The water channel aquaporin-1 partitions into exosomes during reticulocyte maturation: implication for the regulation of cell volume

Brief report Amelioration of Sardinian B0 thalassemia by genetic modifiers

Reviews

The phenotypic and functional characteristics of umbilical cord blood and peripheral blood natural killer cells (pages 185–191)

Ten years of cord blood transplantation: from bench to bedside (pages 192–199)

Immune regulatory cells in umbilical cord blood: T regulatory cells and mesenchymal stromal cells (pages 200–206)

Cord blood transplantation for haematological malignancies: conditioning regimens, double cord transplant and infectious complications (pages 207–216)

Improving cord blood transplantation in children (pages 217–226)

Cord blood banking: ‘providing cord blood banking for a nation’ (pages 227–235)

Cord blood banking: a historical perspective (pages 236–245)

Alternative haematopoietic stem cell sources for transplantation: place of umbilical cord blood (pages 246–261)

Improving outcomes of cord blood transplantation: HLA matching, cell dose and other graft- and transplantation-related factors (pages 262–274)

Thrombosis and hemostasis

Factor VIII C1 domain residues Lys 2092 and Phe 2093 contribute to membrane binding and cofactor activity

Transplantation

The human alloreactive CD4+ T-cell repertoire is biased to a Th17 response and the frequency is inversely related to the number of HLA class II mismatches

Brief report Bortezomib, tacrolimus, and methotrexate for prophylaxis of graft-versus-host disease after reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplantation from HLA-mismatched unrelated donors

Vascular Biology

GRP-78 secreted by tumor cells blocks the antiangiogenic activity of bortezomib