Blood Weekly

Immunotherapeutic Agents - Anemia is one of the risks following anticancer immunotherapy

Intravenous Immunoglobulin - Stroke may be an adverse effect associated with any IVIg therapy

Juxtaglomerular Apparatus - Phospholemman and similar protein are separate in extraglomerular mesangium

Leukemia - Hemolytic uremic syndrome may be associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Leukemia - Herpes simplex virus tested as gene therapy vector

Leukemia - NSAID use may be associated with risk of adult leukemia

Leukemia Research - Novel mast cell lines may aid research into mast cell malignancy

Leukemia Therapy - SDF-1 inhibitors can disrupt leukemia cell activity

Lymphoma - DNA microarray analysis aids understanding of malignant lymphomas

Lymphoma - The two subtypes of Burkitt lymphoma have unexplained different prognoses

Lymphoma - Thrombocytopenia after bone marrow transplantation may be antitumor autoimmune reaction

Mergers and Acquisitions - DaVita acquires Rockford Health System's outpatient kidney dialysis programs

Mergers and Acquisitions - SeraCare acquires BioMedical Resources

Monkeypox - Viral inactivation processes safeguard against transmission

Myelofibrosis - Stem cell transplantation effective but risky for myelofibrosis patients

Neurodegenerative Disease - Nitric oxide regulates stem cell division in the adult brain

Neurotrophin Prevalence - Nerve growth factor concentrations in normal people decrease with age

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - Nipent is active in low-grade, B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Orthobiologics - GenSci OrthoBiologics accredited by American Association of Tissue Banks

Patient Safety - New system to reduce specimen handling errors

Pediatric Cancer Therapy - Stem cell transplantation can resolve neuroblastoma

Pregnancy - Maternal serum IL-10 is elevated but constant during normal pregnancy

Pulmonary Disease - COPD reversibility to beta(2)-agonist is related to degree of eosinophilia

Receptor Studies - B cell receptor signalling and Bcmd/BR3 are needed in B cell maturation

Receptor Studies - Blood donor screen shows ethnic variation in KIRs, gives new KIR profiles

SARS - Company says Inactine led to inactivation of SARS virus in blood

Stem Cell Research - Differentiated mesenchymal stem cells have highly reversible phenotype and genotype

Stem Cell Research - GM-CSF receptor isoforms modulates hematopoietic cell differentiation

Stem Cell Research - Notch ligand Jagged-1 does not affect primitive CD34- hematopoietic cells

Stem Cell Therapy - NIH $1.4M grant to further research on adult stem cell therapy

Stem Cell Transplantation - Fludarabine/thiotepa/TBI conditioning for stem cell transplantation has high toxicity

Stem Cell Transplantation - Rhinovirus infections can be deadly in bone marrow graft recipients

Stem Cell Transplantation - Stem cell mobilization with recombinant G-CSF can induce myeloid cell tetraploidy

Stem Cell Transplantation - Veno-occlusive disease risk factors identified for pediatric stem cell transplant patients

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 is upregulated in patients with SLE

Thrombophilia Risk - Factor V Leiden and prothrombin genotyping can be done quickly with new method

Thrombosis - New pill can treat DVT without complications of current therapy

Thrombosis - Study detects patients at risk for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Thymic Cancer - Severe aplastic anemia can be associated with thymic carcinoma

Umbilical Cord Blood - Cord blood sera environment may be responsible for putative cell immaturity

Viral Immune Evasion - EBV's LMP-1 protein may make regulatory T cells secrete immunosuppressive IL-10

West Nile Virus - Hawaii Biotech says its West Nile vaccine shows 100% protection