Annals ofClinical Medicine

Volume: 1 - Number: 25 - July 13, 2001

Outstanding

Articles

Prognostic factors in Waldenström macroglobulinemia: a report on 232 patients with the description of a new scoring system and its validation on 253 other patients

In vivo generation of human dendritic cell subsets by Flt3 ligand

GATA factor transgenes under GATA-1 locus control rescue germline GATA-1 mutant deficiencies

The role of immunoglobulin translocations in the pathogenesis of B-cell malignancies

Plasma levels of the differentiation inhibitory factor nm23-H1 protein and their clinical implications in acute myelogenous leukemia

Molecular features responsible for the absence of immunoglobulin heavy chain protein synthesis in an IgH- subgroup of multiple myeloma

Induction of monocyte tissue factor expression by homocysteine: a possible mechanism for thrombosis

A topological study of the human gamma-glutamyl carboxylase

Interleukin-15 redirects the outcome of a tolerizing T-cell stimulus from apoptosis to anergy

Caspase-independent commitment phase to apoptosis in activated blood T lymphocytes: reversibility at low apoptotic insult

TEL/AML1 gene fusion is related to in vitro drug sensitivity for L-asparaginase in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Wild-type HFE protein normalizes transferrin iron accumulation in macrophages from subjects with hereditary hemochromatosis

A novel application of cyclosporine A in nonmyeloablative pretransplant host conditioning for allogeneic BMT

Guidelines and Clinical Assays

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with thromboembolic complications: meta-analysis of 2 prospective trials to assess the value of parenteral treatment with lepirudin and its therapeutic aPTT range

Successful in vivo purging of CD34-containing peripheral blood harvests in mantle cell and indolent lymphoma: evidence for a role of both chemotherapy and rituximab infusion

Perspectives

Splenectomy selectively affects the distribution and mobility of the recirculating lymphocyte pool

Molecular characterization of a granulocyte macrophage-colony-stimulating factor receptor alpha subunit-associated protein, GRAP

Reviews and Trials

Constitutive elevation of serum alpha-fetoprotein in Fanconi anemia

The immunophenotype of 177 adults with acute myeloid leukemia: proposal of a prognostic score

Erythropoietin, iron, and erythropoiesis

alpha-Thalassemia resulting from a negative chromosomal position effect