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Blood Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . July 10th, 2003

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Leukemia Vaccine - Peptide-pulsed dendritic cells produce little clinical effect

Stem Cell Transplantation - CD34+ enrichment doesn't improve elutriated graft outcome in non-cancer patients

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Stem cell allografts effective after reduced-intensity conditioning

Stem Cell Transplantation - CD34 cell dose has significant impact on outcome of related, unrelated grafts

Stem Cell Transplantation - Low dose improves survival in peripheral blood recipients

Umbilical Cord Blood - Phenotype of long-term engrafting cells identified

Anticoagulant Therapy - Argatroban used in bypass surgery can avoid heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

B-Cell Activation - The BAFF receptor has a unique structure that holds BAFF in the BAFF cage

B-Cell Lymphoma - IgH clonality can be determined by PCR from paraffinized bone marrow

Behcet Disease - Cytotoxic T-cell lymphoma development may result in internal bleeding

Blood Safety - Pakistani injection drug users twice as likely to donate blood

Breast Cancer - Allogeneic stem cell transplantation yields some good for metastatic disease

Cancer Therapy - The new monoclonal antibody AA98 targets antigen in tumor vessels

Cardiology - Statins enhance the function of endothelial progenitor cells

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia - Phase II clinical trial of Dacogen and Gleevec combination therapy initiated

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia - Filgrastim safe for stem cell mobilization during imatinib treatment

Diabetes - Blood products and medical data repository available for diabetes research

End-Stage Renal Disease - One of the differences between men and women is that men get transplants more

Ethics - AMA backs cloning for research purposes

Hematology - Murine embryos defective for angiogenesis yield hematopoiesis information

Hematology - Platelet-derived growth factor -C has a VEGF-like structure

Hematology - Rituximab results are mixed in those with interferon-resistant cryoglobulinemia

Hemophilia - HCV-positive hemophiliacs get comprehensive cancer therapy with surveillance

Hemophilia - Hemophilia prophylaxis has risks also, including catheter-associated thrombosis

Hypereosinophilic Syndrome - Study provides new tool to diagnose and halt aggressive blood disorder

Immune Responses - The human integrin alpha 4-subunit has variants without amino acid substitutions

Immunoassay Development - Serum levels of brain derived neurotrophic factor may be measureable by ELISA

Insulin - Study addresses how chromium picolinate enhances blood glucose metabolism

Leukemia - Patients receiving i.v. 6-mercaptopurine had decreased survival after ALL relapse

Lung Cancer - Hydrogen peroxide induces alveolar stem cell proliferation

Lymphoid Cancer - New data highlight Aranesp efficacy in anemic patients

Multiple Myeloma - AMD-3100 mobilizes stem cells in cancer patients

Multiple Myeloma - Bisphosphonates are treatment of choice for patients with MM, bone complications

Multiple Sclerosis - Blood monocytes decrease with interferon-beta therapy

Occupational Disease - New guidelines for occupational exposure to blood-borne virus released

Pediatric Mononucleosis - Epstein-Barr virus DNA can be detected in blood of antibody-negative infants

Pneumococcal Disease - Lowering age for preventive vaccine could save lives, money, study says

Septicemia - In U.S.A., nosocomial infections of cancer patients are mostly staphylococcal

Stem Cell Research - A new selection protocol generates purified bone marrow stromal stem cells

Stem Cell Research - Divergent maturation pathways seen in hepatic progenitor cells

Stem Cell Research - Embryonic cell SAPK/JNK activation characterized

Stem Cell Research - Geron announces U.K. authorization for stem cell derivation

Stem Cell Research - Hepatoblast antigen marker identified

Stem Cell Research - Novel assay aids study of mammary stem cells

Stem Cell Research - Novel germ cell transcription regulator identified

Stem Cell Research - Novel model aids study of embryonic cardiac cells

Stem Cell Research - Novel model can improve study of embryonic skin development

Stem Cell Research - Novel oncogene underlies embryonic cell-induced tumorogenesis

Stem Cell Research - Novel sorting technique aids study of hepatocyte differentiation

Stem Cell Research - Novel technique enables osteoprogenitor fingerprinting

Stem Cell Research - Osteoblast contact has little effect on mesenchymal stem cell-induced osteogenesis

Stem Cell Research - Primordial germ cells have limited myogenic potential

Stem Cell Research - Pumilio-Nanos protein interaction involved in germ cell development

Stem Cell Research - Splenic stromal cells can be 'reprogrammed' as osteoblasts

Stem Cell Transplantation - Bacterial contamination of stem cell products linked to faulty cryopreservation

Stem Cell Transplantation - Neural stem cells can integrate into spinal cord after injection

Stem Cell Transplantation - Survival rates for high-risk patients similar with or without HLA-identical donor

T-Cell Homeostasis - Major histocompatibility complex is partially involved

T-Cell Homeostasis - Sphingolipid intermediates are involved in activation-induced cell death

Thrombolytic Therapy - Treatment of myocardial infarction with streptokinase can have adverse effects

Tissue Engineering - Artificial organs research presented at societies' joint annual meeting

Transplantation Tolerance - Study: Cellular and humoral sensitization against donor tissue should be tested

Trypanocidal Target -  Trypanosoma brucei needs peroxin PEX14 in its glycosome to survive in blood

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