Blood Weekly

Hemodialysis - Diagnostic model helps detect cardiomegaly in dialysis patients

Infectious Disease - Cryptococcocis often causes death in liver transplant candidates

Obstetrics - Multiple vitamin deficiencies associated with anemia in last trimester

Stem-Cell Research - Novel model allows analysis of molecular pathogenesis of neuronal degeneration

Transfusion-Transmitted Virus - TT virus can replicate in bone marrow as well as in the liver

Adverse Drug Effects - Non-protein bound iron may be responsible for chemotherapy-induced toxicity

Allergy & Immunology - IgG4-switched B cells may undergo secondary switch to IgE in allergen exposure

Allergy & Immunology - Malassezia enhances natural killer cell-induced dendritic cell maturation

Allergy Medicine - Grass pollen-specific marker allergens molecularly characterized

Apoptosis - ARC protects against cell death through interaction with Bax

Assisted Reproduction - Anticoagulant heparin increases pregnancy rates

Bacterial Endotoxin - A synthetic peptide derived from BPI: aa 148-161 neutralizes endotoxin

Bacterial Infection -  C. pneumoniae-induced IFN-gamma dependent on 88-IFN-alpha beta-STAT1 signaling

Bacteriology -  L. pneumophila Philadelphia-1 magA expression developmentally regulated

Bacteriology -  Rickettsia prowazekii Madrid E strain proteome analyzed

Biomaterial - Silk fibroin nets form scaffolds that support microvessel development

Blood Supply - Red Cross in Central Oregon has only day's worth of some blood types on hand

Blood Volume Analyzer - LA County hospital to obtain BVA-100 for CCU

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Clinical trial to study Talabostat in advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - FDA accepts HuMax-CD20 IND application for chronic lymphocytic leukemia study

Cord Blood Banking - Fifth BioArchive order placed by cord blood bank company in Taiwan

Coronavirus - SARS-CoV proteinase inhibitors may be developed from existing drugs

Cryopreservation - Chinese cord blood stem cell bank adopts BioArchive system

Diabetes - Islet-cell transplantation studies in primates to be conducted at UC Davis

Diagnostics - FDA approves new Reveal G2 Rapid HIV-1 antibody test

Endocrinology - Physical training may alter inflammatory factors/reduce delayed muscle soreness

Fungal Infection - Clinical factors predict fluconazole resistance/Candida blood infection survival

Gene Expression - BTLA negative regulator of activation and/or function of hemopoietic cell types

Gene Regulation - Ets gene PEA3 assists beta-catenin-Lef-1/c-Jun in OPN transcription regulation

Genomics - Polymorphic GATA site in IL-12R beta 2 promoter region affects transcription

Gynecologic Cancer - Alfa-epoietin can improve anemia in patients with gynecological cancer

HIV/AIDS - P24 tag useful tool for purifying and detecting recombinantly expressed scFvs

HIV/AIDS Research - Antigen-specific T cells migrate away from CXCR4-binding HIV-1 gp120

HIV/AIDS Research - Association not found between CCL3-L1 absence and HIV-1 infection susceptibility

HIV/AIDS Research - Furin processing likely mechanism for inactivating extracellular HIV-1 Tat

HIV/AIDS Research - HIV-1 RT and integrase proteins interact during viral replication

HIV/AIDS Research - HIV-1 immune response differs in exposed seronegative and seropositive partners

HIV/AIDS Research - Integrase plays important role during the RT step of the HIV life cycle

HIV/AIDS Research - Potential protective effect of HLA DQB1*06 alleles on course of HIV disease

HIV/AIDS Research - Structural/thermodynamic escape mechanism found from HIV-1 protease mutation

HIV/AIDS Research - Subtype D HIV-1 isolated from untreated individual highly resistant to NNRTIs

HIV/AIDS Research - TARTAR dimer therapeutic target for treatment of HIV-1 infection

HIV/AIDS Serology - Seronegative infection and AIDS is caused by HIV-1 A2 subsubtype

HIV/AIDS Therapy - ART efficacy after protease inhibitor failure better in NNRTI-naive patients

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Atazanavir is a new option for treatment of HIV infection

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Enfuvirtide safe and effective for adult and pediatric HIV-1 infection

HIV/AIDS Therapy - HAART effects survival and surrogate markers in vertically HIV-infected children

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Methadone plus HAART can be implemented with good results in HIV-infection

HIV/AIDS Transmission - HLA-DRB1 and -DQB1 variants associated with HIV-1 transmission events

HIV/AIDS Transmission - Substance abuse influences risky sex behavior

HIV/AIDS Treatment - CC-chemokine levels lack correlation with HIV-1 stage and response to treatment

HIV/AIDS-Related Conditions - Inflammatory and reactive arthropathies more prevalent in HIV infection

HIV/AIDS-Related Disease - CdCSH1p may have a role in adhesion of C. dubliniensis to fibronectin

HIV/AIDS-Related Disease - Chemokine-induced signaling pathways may mediate cell growth in Kaposi sarcoma

HIV/AIDS-Related Disease - Novel therapies developed for treatment of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma

HIV/AIDS-Related Disease - Prevalence of P. carinii mutations increased in the United States

HIV/AIDS-Related Disease - QTD PCR of oral-wash samples accurate and noninvasive for diagnosis of PCP

Hematology - Multiple myeloma patients require screening before receiving thalidomide

Hematology - Stimulated CD40 ligand stops mantle cell lymphoma proliferation

Hemotoxicity - HemoGenix launches HALO hemotoxicity test platform in Korea

Hepatitis Transmission - Viral hepatitis transmission in ambulatory health settings reviewed

Hepatitis Virus - Novel class of phosphonate nucleosides potent and selective anti-HBV agent

Herpesvirus - Post-translational HHV-6 IE1 protein modification by SUMO peptides characterized

Herpesvirus - Theta defensins protect cells from HSV by inhibiting viral adhesion/entry