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Blood Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . July 24th, 2003

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Umbilical Cord Blood - Volume reduction not needed for safe transplantation

Blood Substitute - Lead levels shouldn't affect hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier function

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia - Interferon-alpha treatment does not affect stem cell transplant outcome

Kidney Transplant - Reactivation of childhood-acquired human polyomaviruses may lead to rejection

Stem Cell Research - Human herpesvirus-6 inhibits hematopoiesis

Stem Cell Transplantation - Novel minor histocompatibility antigen identified

Stem Cell Transplantation - Rituximab impairs mobilization and engraftment

Apheresis - AABB and ASFA partner to publish indication categories for therapy

Bacterial Pleurisy - Pleurisy is found associated with Rickettsia conorii infection

Beta Thalassaemia - Prenatal diagnosis could aid treatment

Blood Transfusions - Asian American community encouraged to donate blood

Breast Cancer - High-dose chemo/stem cell therapy doesn't improve outcome

Cancer Immunotherapy - Novel culture methods improve production of tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells

Cancer Prognosis - Elevated endostatin predicts poor survival in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients

Cardiovascular Disease - Heart revascularization with endothelial precursor cells is a feasible strategy

Chemokine Receptor CXCR4 - Mutation may give WHIM syndrome myelokathexis, papillomavirus susceptibility

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - European committee grants positive opinion on MabCampath survival claim

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - KRN5500 has significant in vitro activity against human CLL cells

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia - Novel T-cell clone targets malignant stem cells

Crystal Structure - Reovirus binds human junctional adhesion molecule 1 at a dimeric Ig site

Deep Vein Thrombosis - Some patients are found to have an ala601Thr mutation in the plasminogen gene

Exercise and Infection - Distance running increases reactive oxygen species and serum opsonic activity

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Alloimmune sera neutralizes virus through hindrance-mediated anti-HLA effect

Heart Transplant - Knowledge from animal models should soon give ideas as to arteriopathy therapy

Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Stem cell transplantation can resolve symptoms

Kidney Transplant - Polyomavirus infection reduction might improve with early detection, cidifovir

Leukemia - Medi-507 demonstrated prolonged survival in preclinical model of leukemia

Lymphoma - Docetaxel has limited activity in relapsed and refractory patients

Lymphoma - Primary sinonasal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma masquerades as chronic rhinosinusitis

Memory T Cells - IL-15 appears to be directly involved in maintaining persistence

Multiple Myeloma - In multiple myeloma, Tc-99m-MIBI imaging can detect bone marrow disease

Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - MALT1 may be a dominant oncogene that plays a role in the pathogenesis of B-NHL

Peritoneal Catheter - Microlaparoscopic technique for peritoneal dialysis catheter placement presented

Policy - Fertility experts urge European Union not to ban stem cell research

Postoperative Infection - Patients with postoperative infections have sticky neutrophils before operation

Protein C Deficiency - Mutation and impaired secretion from Golgi to ER is probably due to conformation

Stem Cell Research - Estrogen receptor beta helps regulate differentiation

Stem Cell Research - GPI-80 plays key role in myeloid differentiation

Stem Cell Research - Human foreskin feeders can nourish human embryonic stem cells in culture

Stem Cell Research - Novel system enables thyrocyte generation from embryonic cells

Stem Cell Research - Postnatal endothelial stem cells present possibilities for neovascularization

Stem Cell Research - Researchers find stem cells with potential to repair muscle, produce blood cells

Stem Cell Research - SOX genes involved in retinoic acid-induced neural differentiation

Stem Cell Research - Some skeletal muscle cells can transdifferentiate into cardiac cells

Stem Cell Research - Stem cell factor does not mediate GnRH analogs' effects on spermatogonia

Stem Cell Transplantation - Autotransplantation usually best choice for advanced leukemia patients

Stem Cell Transplantation - Large-scale production of T-cell-depleted grafts feasible

Stem Cell Transplantation - Mesial temporal sclerosis may be result of cyclosporin A toxicity

Stem Cell Transplantation - Nonmyeloablative MEDI-507-based conditioning effective

Stem Cell Transplantation - Pancreatic tumor regression seen after treatment

Stem Cell Transplantation - Strong graft-versus-leukemia effect seen in Ph+ ALL patients

Stem Cell Transplantation - T-cell immunophenotyping may aid clinical cytomegalovirus control

Stem Cells - Scientists find potential stem cells in amniotic fluid - a new source?

T Cell Activation - Memory T-cells that have the 2C receptor interact with many MHC-I proteins

Transplant Medicine - Migratory adult stem cells could be exploited to revise host genetics

Transplant Medicine - Problems of inter-species transplantation described

Virology - Differentiation of HSV thymidine kinase gene length has clinical importance

Virus Detection - Automated response for tracking SARS, West Nile gains acceptance

West Nile Virus - Infected blood donation found

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