Blood Weekly

Blood Banking - Rehydrated RBCs sufficiently deformable for normal microcirculation transit

Blood Safety - NAT testing finds hepatitis B in a blood donor with unapparent acute infection

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Distinct recovery phases of innate cellular-mediated immunity after BMT

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Flow cytometry/microbead platform evaluates immune reconstitution after BMT

Tissue Engineering - Organoid culture in elliptic hollow fibers develops hybrid artificial liver

Aspergillosis - EIA/qPCR used to diagnose invasive aspergillosis in high-risk patients

Bacterial Evolution - VNTRs appropriate evolutionary marker for studying bacterial transmission events

Biomedical Engineering - Sonic hedgehog gene enhanced tissue engineering stimulates bone formation

Blood Safety - 54-year-old woman dies after receiving wrong blood

Blood Safety - Patients accidentally infected with hepatitis C respond well to interferon

Blood Substitute - Enrollment complete in phase 2 clinical trial of hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier

HIV/AIDS Research - Findings advance knowledge in HIV/AIDS research

Business Update - Company announces entry into field of regenerative medicine

Business Update - Sentigen Holding Corp. Announces the Sale of Its Specialty Media Division

Cancer Therapy - Evotec OAI to provide process validation for phase III compound, AMD 3100

Cancer Therapy - Findings advance knowledge in cancer therapy research

Cardiac Cell Therapy - Review details clinical potential of stem cell sources for cardiac cell therapy

Cardiology - Tryptase is proangiogenic in the healing heart

Chronic Hepatitis C - Liver regeneration does not affect HCV recurrence after split liver transplant

Collaborations - Company signs research agreement with Detroit hospital to target ER care

Colon Cancer - Nondegraded total RNA extracted from colonocytes from normal/malignant tissue

Cryptococcus Diagnostics - RT-PCR assay detects and quantitates Cryptococcus neoformans

Drug Development - Modified heparin antagonizes angiogenesis without affecting coagulation

Drug Development - P3 and P4 moieties analyzed, novel binding of factor VIIa inhibitor revealed

Embryonic Research - Failure to degrade poly(ADP-ribose) causes early embryonic lethality

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli - Phenotypes determined for ETEC associated with early childhood diarrhea

Escherichia Coli 0157 Diagnostics - IS1203 PCR rapidly genotypes Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157

Finance - Developer, manufacturer of human cell lines reports 2004 results

Finance - HIF-focused company completes equity financing

Finance - Maker of ultrasound-enhanced microcatheters raises $18M in series B financing

Finance - Pharmaceutical company hires banking firm to identify partners, investors

Gastroenterology - Cathepsin B blockade stops reperfusion-induced liver damage in steatotic livers

Gene Expression - Interleukin regulation of gene expression studied, role of adherence shown

HIV/AIDS Coinfection -  Schistosoma mansoni/HIV-1 coinfection leads to CD4 cell reduction

HIV/AIDS Coinfection - CD4 counts higher in HIV-positive patients infected with Helicobacter pylori

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Real-time PCR rapidly discriminates between HIV-2 genotypes A and B

HIV/AIDS Drug Side Effects - Mitochondrial pathogenesis in AIDS due to NRTI-induced DNA polymerase inhibition

HIV/AIDS Encephalitis - Increased FKBP12 may explain vulnerability of basal ganglia to HIV infection

HIV/AIDS Mental Health - Substance P has role in pathophysiology of stress/depression in HIV infection

HIV/AIDS Neurology - CCR2 polymorphisms affect neuropsychological impairment in HIV-1-infected adults

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Acute SIV brain infection leads to upregulation of IL6 ad IFN-regulated genes

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Amyloid precursor protein may facilitate monocyte entry into brain

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Conformational flexibility retained in HIV-1 Rev-RNA complexes

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV-specific CTLs from long-term survivors select a unique T cell receptor

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - LEDGF/p75 prevents proteasomal degradation of HIV-1 integrase

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - MCP-1-2578G allele associated with elevated MCP-1 in cerebrospinal fluid

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Macrophage-secreted MMP 9 is down-regulated following HIV-1 infection

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Soluble toll-like receptor 2 associated with progression of HIV infection

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Ubiquitinated histone H1B is a cofactor to HIV-1 resistance factor

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Urokinase plasminogen activator receptor important in HIV-associated dementia

HIV/AIDS Pediatrics - HAART should be initiated in symptomatic children aged 12 months or older

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Fear of test result and stigmatization are barriers to HIV testing in Bali

HIV/AIDS Research - Data advance knowledge in HIV/AIDS research

HIV/AIDS Research - Tissue culture model analyzes macrophage activation in the brain

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Antiretroviral enfuvirtide is not an inhibitor of p450 cytochrome

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Enfuvirtide improves health-related quality of life in HIV-infected patients

HIV/AIDS Therapy - HAART adherence is the most relevant factor for virological success

HIV/AIDS Therapy - HPLC/UV method suitable for pharmacokinetics of abacavir in plasma

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Molecular basis determined for GLUT4 inhibition by protease inhibitors

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Protease inhibitors impair glucose-stimulated insulin secretion from beta cells

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Studies add new findings to HIV/AIDS therapy body of knowledge

HIV/AIDS-Associated Dementia - Antibody markers identified in HIV-associated dementia

HIV/AIDS-Associated Dementia - Blood-brain barrier compromise has role in pathogenesis of HIV-related dementia

HIV/AIDS-Associated Dementia - HIV dementia risk is associated with apolipoprotein E4 in older persons

HIV/AIDS-Associated Dementia - Oxidative stress markers increased in actively progressive HIV dementia

HIV/AIDS-Associated Infection - Severe respiratory disease necessitating hospitalization decreased in HAART era

HIV/AIDS-Related Dementia - Brain water diffusion contributes to cognitive deficits in HIV infection

HIV/AIDS-Related Dementia - CD14+ macrophage hybrid phenotype circulates in persons with high HIV viral load

HIV/AIDS-Related Dementia - HIV dementia is an evolving disease

HIV/AIDS-Related Lipodystrophy - F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose PET visualizes lipodystrophy in HIV-infected patients

Hematology - Cells secrete interleukin-1 alpha after intramarrow gene transfer