Blood Weekly

Leukemia - Leukemia, lymphoma cells prefer extravasation by means of laminin isoforms 8, 10

Leukemia - Targeted therapy of FLT3 may help the fight against leukemia, other malignancies

Lymphoma Therapy - Salvage allo-SCT effective for lymphoma patients who relapse after auto-SCT

Mathematical Modeling - Evolution of virulence of microparasites appears to be due to multiple factors

Mergers and Acquisitions - Historical Autographs U.S.A. to acquire biomedical device company

Metastasis - Stem cells shed light on cancer's spread

Multiple Myeloma - The angiogenic response in CAM assays is sometimes time-dependent

Myelodysplastic Syndrome - Loss of PIASy stem-cell expression may be involved in MDS pathogenesis

Obstetrics - Artery embolization before hysterectomy for placenta accreta reduces blood loss

Obstetrics - The prostaglandin analogue misoprostol manages postpartum hemorrhage

Oncology - RNA assays detect HCV infections better in those with non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Personnel - James J. Rahal, MD, West Nile virus expert, named to scientific advisory board

Personnel - Marrow transplant surgeon to chair medical and scientific advisory board

Potential Anti-inflammatory - Antiprotozoan drug imidocarb upregulates macrophage expression of IL-10

Protein Kinase Receptor - RACK-1 functions as a scaffold protein in cytokine signalling complexes

Pulmonary Medicine - Heme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide in pulmonary medicine reviewed

Regulatory Proteins - Notch is involved in proliferation, TCR activation, IFN-gamma product in T cells

Rheumatoid Arthritis - Blood and genetic sample bank available for rheumatoid arthritis research

SIDS - Beta-casomorphin penetration of the blood brain barrier may lead to apnea, SIDS

Sepsis - Improvement during first 24 hours is critical to survival of severe sepsis

Stem-Cell Research - A mathematical model offers insight into the promise of antiangiogenic therapy

Stem-Cell Research - Brain-derived neurotrophic factor enhances differentiation of grafted neural stem cells

Stem-Cell Research - Immature stem-cell populations in cord blood and bone marrow characterized

Stem-Cell Research - Neural crest stem-cell defects in TrkC null mice identified

Stem-Cell Research - Pluripotent stem cells isolated from mouse inner ear

Stem-Cell Research - Role of CD43 in cell-cell adhesion elucidated

Stem-Cell Research - TGF-beta triggers cell cycle arrest in CD34(+)CD38(-)c-kit(high) stem cells

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Ganciclovir treatment raises risk of CMV disease after SCT

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Human platelet antigen mismatch does not affect SCT outcome

Stem-Cell Transplantation - IL-7 enhances peripheral T-cell recovery in stem-cell allograft recipients

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Mathematical model of PBSC kinetics may improve harvest

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Non-MHC genes also influence HSCT outcome

Stem-Cell Transplantation - PCR platelet chimerism analysis can prevent unnecessary transfusions in pediatric SCT patients

Stroke - Treadmill exercise may suppress hippocampal apoptosis following stroke/ischemia

T-Cell Activity - A regulatory T-cell subset in gut lymphoid tissue has specific immune functions

T-Cell Adhesion - T-cell immunoactivity may be modulated by beta subunit of LFA-1's adhesiveness

Thrombosis - Curacyte awarded grant to fund development of factor Xa inhibitors

Tolerance Induction - Signals are jammed in T-cell receptors with too much antigen; tolerance emerges

Transfusion Medicine - Companies seek to enhance security of transfusions through positive patient ID

Transplant Medicine - Bone cells help call the shots for the blood's stem cells within

Transplant Medicine - Cytomegalovirus infection in kidney transplant precedes rejection in 36% cases

Transplant Medicine - HLA-C matching, allele variation are important in liver transplant rejection

Transplant Medicine - New guidelines published on unrelated marrow transplants

Transplant Medicine - Regulatory CD4, CD25 pos T cells will be the future of rejection prevention

Transplant Medicine - Topical tacrolimus may help resolve cutaneous chronic graft-versus-host disease

Transplantation - Undetected tumors won't change cancer-related liver transplant outcomes