Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . November 11th, 1996
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Transfusion (Clinical Trials) - Multicenter Study Should Yield Data on Transfusion Practices for HIV+
Blood Banking (Anti-D) - Partial D Phenotype DFR Causes Hemolytic Disease Newborn
Blood Banking (Chagas Disease-Screening) - Less False Negative Results with EIA in Brazil
Blood Banking (International-Asia) - China Silent on Discovery of HIV in Over-the-Counter Blood Product
Blood Banking (Legal Issues) - Most HIV Infected Hemophiliacs Accept Companies' Settlement
HIV Testing - Study Questions Effort To End Anonymous Testing
HIV Testing (Legal Issues) - Judge Upholds Arbitrator Ruling in HIV Home Test
HIV Vaccines - Weak Anti-Gag Antibodies Associated with Rapid CD4 Decline
Industry News (Joint Venture) - Patent License Agreement Signed for Stem Cell Technology
Obstetrics (Prenatal Diagnosis) - Prenatal Test Devised May Replace Conventional Testing Methods
Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 - Ataxia Linked to Newly Found Gene
Thrombosis (Diagnostics) - FDA Clearance Received for Thrombus Precursor Protein Test
Thrombosis (Treatment) - Clot Buster Provides Help for Heart Attack Sufferers
Tissue Engineering - Skin Substitutes Successfully Modified for Delivery of Therapeutics
Transplantation - Biologic Difference Exists between Peripheral Blood Progenitors and Bone Marrow
Animal Models - "Models of Human Platelet Gene Expression In Vivo."
Hematological Malignancies - "Multiple Myeloma in a Pediatric Patient."
Immunotherapy - "Restoring HLA Class II Expression in CIITA Deficient Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome."
Transfusion Medicine - "Engraftment with Whole or Purified Blood Stem Cells (PBSC) in Children: Tokushima Experience."
Transfusion Medicine - "Modulation of Radiation (XRT)- and Transplantation (BMT) Induced Hematopoietic Damage after use of Cytokines."
Transfusion Medicine (Animal Models) - "A Murine Model for Human Cord Blood Transplantation."
Transfusion Medicine (BMT) - "Partially Mismatched Related Donors Allow for Early Allogeneic Transplant Intervention and Improved Disease Free Survival in Young Patients with Poor Prognosis Acute Leukemia."
Blood Banking (Guidelines) - "Comparative Clinical Studies of Platelet Concentrates: Effects on Clinical Outcome and the Use of Healthcare Resources."
Blood Banking (Storage) - "Effect of Cold Storage on the Haemostatic Cascade Systems."
Blood Groups - "Molecular Genetic Analysis of Variant Phenotypes of the ABO Blood Group System."
Cytomegalovirus - "Direct Growth Suppression of Myeloid Bone Marrow Progenitor Cells But Not Cord Blood Progenitors by Human Cytomegalovirus in vitro."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Impact of Various Handling and Storage Conditions on Quantitative Detection of Hepatitis C Virus RNA."
Diagnostics (HCV) - "Quantification of Hepatitis C Virus-Infected Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells by in situ Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction."
Diagnostics (Opportunistic Infections) - "Evaluation of an Extended Blood Culture Protocol to Isolate Fastidious Organisms from Patients with AIDS."
Hematopoietic Disease - "The Level of mRNA Encoding the Amphotropic Retrovirus Receptor in Mouse and Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells Is Low and Correlates with the Efficiency of Retrovirus Transduction."
Hemophilia - "Intracellular Retention of a Factor VIII Protein with an Arg(2307)->Gln Mutation as a Cause of Haemophilia A."
Ophthalmology (Eye Banking) - "Screening Potential Corneal Donors for HIV-1 by Polymerase Chain Reaction and a Colorimetric Microwell Hybridization Assay."
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura - "Postoperative Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Following Cardiovascular Surgeries."
Transfusion (Autologous) - "Preoperative Autologous Blood Donation: Clinical, Economic, and Ethical Issues."
Transplantation (Stem Cells) - "Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Advanced Hematologic Malignancies: A Retrospective Comparison with Marrow Transplantation."
Virology (Viral Load) - "Association of Plasma Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Level with Risk of Clinical Progression in Patients with Advanced Infection."
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