Blood Weekly
Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . June 1st, 2006
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Anopheles Mosquito Research - Anopheles mosquitoes successfully reared on membrane apparatus with human whole blood
Diet & Nutrition - Maternal diet influences cord plasma levels of beta-carotene and vitamin C but not A and E
Hematology - Cell-mediated lysis of autologous platelets occurs in chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Platelet Recovery - Automated method measures immature platelet fraction after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Tissue Engineering - Electrospun silk-fibroin-based scaffolds developed for bone tissue engineering
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia - PBSCT well tolerated and feasible in older patients with acute myelogenous leukemia
Adverse Drug Reaction - Disulfiram-induced liver injury clarified
Alzheimer Disease - Long-term use of statin drugs for treating Alzheimer disease is safe, task force confirms
Awards - Heinz receives Keller Global Visionary Award for support of SGHI micronutrient program
Business & Finance - Cylex announces first quarter revenues increased 74% over Q1 2005
Business Update - Daxor announces signed trial agreement with St. Francis Medical Center of Honolulu
Business Update - Diomed announces shipment of first VeinViewer Imaging Systems
Business Update - FibroGen licenses oral HIF-PH inhibitors to Astellas for treating anemia in other countries
Cancer Therapy - Endogenous pretreatment plasma folate modulates the methotrexate effect
Cardiovascular Research - Job stress does not contribute to chronic high blood pressure
Cystic Fibrosis - First cystic fibrosis sibling cord blood collected in Australia
Developmental Biology - Wnt and LIF act synergistically to maintain pluripotency of embryonic stem cells
Diet & Nutrition - Hearts of fructose-fed rats protected against ischemia-reperfusion injury
Finance - Cerus Corporation announces first quarter revenues up
Finance - Cytori Therapeutics receives $1.5 million payment for option granted to Olympus
Finance - U.S. Bank, Accentia Biopharmaceuticals partner to use tax credits for biopharma industry
Finance - ViaCell reports Q1 2006 total revenues of $12.1 million up from $10.1 million a year ago
Finance - VNUS Medical Technologies reports $13.4 million revenues in Q1 2006
HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - HIV-1 progression affected by nonsense mutation 428G->A in fucosyltransferase FUT2 gene
Hematology - U.S. FDA approves decitabin for injection for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes
Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus-infected transplants outcome improved by treatment regimen
Hepatitis C Virus - Post-liver transplantation hepatitis C is influenced by HLA mismatches
Hepatocellular Carcinoma - HCC is treatable by laparoscopic liver resection in chronic liver disease
High Blood Pressure - U.S. FDA approves higher dose formulations of Novartis' Diovan HCT for high blood pressure
Huntington Disease - Noninvasively transplanted neural stem-like cells migrate to striatum in Huntington disease
Immunotherapy - Immunotherapy targets latent membrane protein 1 in EBV-associated NK cell lymphoma
Ischemia - Myocardial infarction is prevented by hyperoxic preconditioning via Bcl-2 expression
Kienbock Disease - Stem cell-seeded hybrid tendon rolls used to treat Kienbock disease
Legal Issues - U.S. patent office issues office actions rejecting claims in umbilical cord blood patents
Leukemia - Leukemic transformation might be promoted by constitutional trisomy 21
Leukemia - scFISH probes developed to detect single-copy intervals in acute promyelocytic leukemia
Liver Disease - Infectious hepatitis, fatty liver, are principal topics of conference
Liver Transplantation - Transhepatic biliary stenting during liver transplantation may reduce biliary complications
Local Anesthetics - Corgentech presents 3268 Phase 3 data at Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting
Macular Degeneration - Vasculogenesis-related cells may be forerunners of choroidal neovascularization
Myeloma - Spinal cord compression due to myeloma treated more effectively by long-course radiotherapy
Myocardial Infarction - Infarcted rat hearts grow new vessels and tissue after stem cell transplantation
Neural Stem Cell Research - Endothelial cells stimulate neural progenitor cells into astrocytes and neurons
Neurogenesis - Hematopoietic transcription factor Scl critical for neuronal development
Neurogenesis - Neurogenin1 is a determinant of brain dopaminergic neurons
Obesity Complications - Increased adrenergic tone may constrain reactive hyperemia in obese Zucker rats
Obstetrics - Abortion decision due to prenatal thalassemia diagnosis may not be due to faith
Patents - Power3 Medical files permanent patent on test for ALS and Parkinson
Patents - ThermoGenesis receives Japanese patent allowance on 16 new claims for BioArchive system
Personnel - James Shapiro, MD, joins Sanguine in developing islet cell transportation testing
Pompe Disease - U.S. FDA approves Genzyme's Myozyme for patients with Pompe disease
Quality Assurance - StemCyte receives accreditation from Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy
Stem Cell Research - BM-derived cell mobilization by G-CSF ameliorates radiation-induced salivary gland damage
Stem Cell Research - Inner ear cells originate from bone marrow-derived hematopoietic stem cells
Stem Cell Research - LeX may bind and present growth factors important for proliferation and self-renewal
Stem Cell Research - Melatonin affects osteogenesis
Stem Cell Research - Mesenchymal stem cells evoke neovascularization and healing in wound models
Stem Cell Research - Osteoblast mesenchymal stem cell differentiation involves CCN1/Cyr61
Stem Cell Research - Pancreatic precursor cells showed glucose sensitivity and islet-like structures in culture
Stem Cell Research - Quantitative PCR analyzes neural progenitor cell culture state
Stem Cell Research - TGF-beta 2 supports human embryonic stem cell expansion on mouse embryonic fibroblasts
Stem Cell Transfer - Bone marrow-derived mononuclear cell injection improves myocardial function
Stem Cell Transplantation - Intracerebral neural stem cell transplantation treats central nervous system lesions
Thrombocytopenia Therapy - Bivalirudin offers treatment alternative for anticoagulation therapy
Thrombosis - Catheter-related thrombosis incidence in adult cancer patients was low
Tissue Engineering - Chondroprogenitor cells expanded on macroporous microcarriers
Tissue Engineering - Nanotopography stimulates osteogenesis towards osteoblastic phenotype
Transplantation Biology - Hepatitis C post transplantation recurrence is not influenced by living donor status
Transplantation Biology - HLA-DR13 is associated with lower graft survival rates in hepatitis B
Transplantation Biology - Liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C can be treated with a daclizumab regimen
Tuberculosis & Transplant Medicine - Tuberculin positivity prevalence high among asymptomatic pretransplant patients in Turkey
Bioengineering - Recent findings from the People's Republic of China and United States illuminate research in bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering - Data from Germany, Japan and the People's Republic of China advance knowledge in biomedical engineering research
Biomedical Engineering - New findings from the United States and Singapore in the area of biomedical engineering detailed
Biomedical Engineering - Reports from Japan and the United States add new data to biomedical engineering research
Biomedical Engineering - Reports from the United States, Germany and United Kingdom advance knowledge in biomedical engineering research
Blood Banks - Researchers from the United States detail new studies and findings in the area of blood banks
Cancer Treatment - Reports from the United States add new data to cancer treatment research
Cancer Treatment - Studies from Switzerland and the United States describe new findings in cancer treatment research
Cardiology - New data from Germany, Finland and Italy lluminates research in cardiology
Cardiology - New findings in cardiology described from the United States, Sweden and Italy
Cardiology - Reports from the United States describe recent advances in cardiology research
Cardiology - Researchers from Belgium, the United States and Turkey detail new studies and findings in the area of cardiology
Cardiology - Researchers from the United States and Israel report details of new studies and findings in the area of cardiology
Cardiology - Researchers' data from the United States and Canada advance cardiology research
Cardiology - Researchers' findings from the United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico advance cardiology research
Cell Biology - Researchers from Finland, Turkey and the United States report recent findings in cell biology
Cell Biology - Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland detail new studies and findings in the area of cell biology
Diabetes - Findings from Scotland, France and Japan describe new data in diabetes research
Environmental - New findings in environmental described from the United States and Denmark
Genetics - Data from the United States, Iceland and Spain advance knowledge in genetics research
Genetics - New findings from Netherlands, Denmark and Canada in the area of genetics detailed
Heart Attack - New research from the United States, United Kingdom and Greece in the area of heart attack detailed
Heart Disease - Findings from Italy, Canada and the United Kingdom in heart disease provide new insights
Hemangioendothelioma - New data from Germany and the United States lluminates research in hemangioendothelioma
Hepatitis C Virus - Reports from Spain, Canada and the United States add new data to hepatitis C virus research
Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Researchers from the United States and Japan detail new studies and findings in the area of hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Studies from Italy, the People's Republic of China and the South Korea advance knowledge in hepatocellular carcinoma research
Herpes - Reports from the United States and Japan describe recent advances in herpes research
Ischemia - Researchers from Australia, Turkey and the United States describe findings in ischemia studies
Kidney Disease - Studies from the United Kingdom, United States and Australia describe new findings in kidney disease research
Leishmania - Recent findings in leishmania described by researchers from Turkey, the United Kingdom and Spain
Leukemia - Findings from the United States and United Kingdom in leukemia provide new insights
Leukemia - New findings from France and the United States in the area of leukemia described
Leukemia - Recent findings from the United States and France illuminate research in leukemia
Leukemia - Studies from France, Japan and Italy advance knowledge in leukemia research
Transplants - Research from Turkey, Sweden and Germany add new data to transplants body of knowledge
Transplants - Researchers from Japan, Italy and the United States publish new studies and findings in the area of transplants
Transplants - Researchers from the United States and Spain report recent findings in transplants
Transplants - Researchers from the United States, Belgium and Greece detail new studies and findings in the area of transplants
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