Hematology Week

Hepatitis C Virus - Core-specific precursor T cell response reflects viral load in chronic hepatitis C

Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Findings in hepatocellular carcinoma provide new insights

Hypertension - Hypertension has unexpected beneficial effect on femorofemoral bypass graft patency

Hypoxia - Hypoxia delays the ontogeny of cardiovascular control in zebrafish

Hypoxia - Supercooling varies glycogen, free glucose, and lactate in organs of Chrysemys picta

Imaging - Sixteen-slice multidetector-row CT useful in determination of coronary artery lumen diameter

Imaging - Sonography can detect trisomies and other chromosome abnormalities

Influenza - Children with neurological and neuromuscular diseases should receive annual flu shot

Information Technology - Software for blood donor centers offers selective reporting of parameters

Ischemia - Heat stress increases the effectiveness of early ischemic preconditioning in spinal cord protection

Ischemia - Livers retrieved with short warm ischemia times may be acceptable for transplantation

Ischemia - Localized ectopic waves are essential in the progression of ectopic activity

Ischemia - Thrombospondin-1 induction in rat myocardial infarction is accelerated by ischemia/reperfusion

Leukemia - Combination regimen shown effective in treating B-cell lymphocytic leukemia

Leukemia - Common genetic variants linked to infection risk in children undergoing therapy

Leukemia - Data advance knowledge in leukemia research

Leukemia - Pathogenesis and therapy of acute myelogenous leukemia discussed

Lipid Research - Expression of PXR antagonizes cholic acid-mediated changes in plasma lipoprotein profile

Medical Devices - Covered metallic stents optimal for gallbladder carcinoma patients

Medical Devices - Fenestrated endograft gets CE Mark approval for complex aortic aneurysms

Medical Devices - Fractional flow reserve is valid marker of stent restenosis severity

Medical Devices - Georgetown University Hospital acquires BVA-100 blood volume analyzer

Medical Devices - Prototype of non-invasive method to measure hematocrit is complete

Medical Devices - Stentless aortic bioprostheses have excellent hemodynamic performance

Medical Devices - ThromboCheck enables home monitoring of prosthetic valves via digital frequency analysis

Medical Devices - Vasotrac enables noninvasive BP monitoring during prone anesthesia in adolescents

Metabolism - Dietary iron deficiency induces ventricular dilation and mitochondrial ultrastructural aberrations

Myelodysplastic Syndromes - Pharma company seeking authorization to market Revlimid in European Union

Neovascularization - Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor augments bone marrow-induced neovascularization

Nephrology - Cavitation detected in pig kidneys during shock-wave lithotripsy

Nosocomial Infections - Vfend equals two-drug candidemia regimen, with fewer serious side effects

Oncology - Data advance knowledge in oncology research

Ophthalmology - Bevacizumab intravitreal injection may be treatment for macular edema from vein occlusions

Osteoarthritis - Blood-based osteoarthritis biomarker paper published

Pain Management - Flavonoid treatment has little impact on pain or bleeding after ambulatory stapled hemorrhoidopexy

Parkinson Disease - Stem cell implantation shows beneficial effect on Parkinson disease

Pediatric Cancer - Malfunctioning events and catheter-related infections occurred rarely

Peptides - An immunoluminometric assay can measure midregional proadrenomedullin in plasma

Peripheral Vascular Disease - Autologous cell implantation improves limb ischemia in patients with peripheral arterial disease

Pharmaceutical Research - Antibiotic daunomycin binds to human serum albumin at nonclassical drug binding site

Pharmacology - Microdialysis plus capillary electrophoresis detects trimebutine maleate in rabbit blood

Physiology - Osmosensitive mechanisms contribute to the water drinking-induced pressor response in humans

Prognostics - Circulating plasma cells predicted survival in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma

Prognostics - Concentration of thymidine kinase 1 used as proliferation marker in solid tumors

Prognostics - ETV6/RUNX1 rearrangement indicated good prognosis

Prognostics - Imatinib-induced inhibition of ABL kinase activity predicted patient response

Prognostics - Serum amyloid A protein predicts complications in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Reproduction - Large-conductance K⁺ channels regulate basal uteroplacental blood flow in ovine pregnancy

Respiratory Medicine - Anticoagulant therapy reduces mortality risk

Spinal Cord Injury - Antibody to IL-6R suppresses secondary injury and glial scar formation in spinal cord injury

Stem Cell Disorders - Telomerase activity in MDS may be insufficient to compensate for telomere shortening

Stem Cell Research - Angiopoietin-2 stimulates endothelial progenitor cell migration

Stem Cell Research - Ascorbic acid promotes osteoclastogenesis from embryonic stem cells

Stem Cell Research - Chronic intrathecal injections of a large volume of fluid increase mast cells in the CNS

Stem Cell Research - ESCs generate progeny by microinsemination of male germ cells from chimeric mice

Stem Cell Research - Electromagnetic fields affect transcript levels of apoptosis-related genes

Stem Cell Research - Embryonic stem cells cocultured with Thy1-positive cells differentiate into hepatocytes

Stem Cell Research - Inflammatory endothelial cells disrupt the repair capacity of endothelial progenitor cells

Stem Cell Research - Neural stem cell differentiation is dependent upon endogenous caspase-3 activity

Stem Cell Research - Neuroprotection by stem cell factor in cortical neurons involves Akt and NF kappa B

Stem Cell Research - Repression of DNA replication licensing in quiescence is independent of geminin

Stem Cell Research - Stem cells may potentially be used to modify aging

Stem Cell Therapy - Infused mesenchymal stem cells enhance recovery from I/R-induced acute renal failure

Stem Cell Transplantation - Allogenic chimeric mouse model indicate some donor stem cells exist more than 6 months

Stem Cell Transplantation - Bone marrow remains a significant source of stem cells for autologous HSCT

Stem Cell Transplantation - Higher NK cell dose reduces nonrelapse mortality and infectious events after SCT

Stem Cell Transplantation - Increased DMSO concentration associated with toxicity in stem cell transplantation

Stem Cell Transplantation - Increased TNF levels associated with increased risk of CMV infection after AHSCT

Stem Cell Transplantation - Nonmyeloblative SCT costs the same as myeloblative SCT after considering price of complications

Stem Cell Transplantation - Oral mucosal pathology is common in pediatric patients with cGVHD after HSCT

Stem Cell Transplantation - Perception of problematic social support associated with poor survival after SCT

Stem Cell Transplantation - Prospective monitoring of TNF-alpha and IFN gamma predicts onset of GVHD after ASCT

Stem Cell Transplantation - Protein C levels during HSCT conditioning do not predict veno-occlusive disease

Stem Cell Transplantation - Risk/benefit ratios of GVHD/graft-versus-leukemia effect differ among diseases

Surgery - Clamping of the renal artery recommended during laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

Surgical Technology - 3D CT angiography of internal carotid artery facilitates endoscopic approach

Surgical Technology - Concomitant abdominal and thoracic endovascular repair feasible for multilevel disease

Surgical Technology - Ex situ resection techniques and liver autotransplantation discussed

Surgical Technology - Microkeratome with artificial chamber provides reliable thickness and low endothelial cell loss

Surgical Technology - Single-photon emission CT and balloon occlusion show comparable hypoperfusion

Surgical Technology - SmartSuction HARMONY surgical suction pump cleared by U.S. FDA

Thrombosis - Hemostatic risk factors in predicting arterial thrombotic events clarified

Tissue Engineering - Bioresorbable composites enable adequate suitable properties for bone tissue engineering

Tissue Engineering - Full-thickness cartilage defects of the femoral condyle repaired with implant

Tissue Engineering - Highly differentiated 3D tissues reconstructed by stacking layers of small hepatocytes

Tissue Engineering - Serum deprivation improves repopulation of acellular matrices with valvular interstitial cells

Transplant Medicine - Patients fare well without steroids after hepatitis C-related liver transplants

Transplant Medicine - Pig-to-nonhuman primate organ xenotransplantation reviewed

Transplant Medicine - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of transplant medicine

Transplantation - Cold or heat shock does not improve skeletal myoblast engraftment in infarcted myocardium

Urology - Vascular endothelial growth factor enhances bladder acellular matrix graft regeneration

Varicose Veins - EVLT developer launches next-generation DELTA laser platform

Vascular Disease - Data indicate that adipose stem cells form blood vessels and improve blood flow

Vasculitis - Patients with hepatitis C-associated nerve lesions have altered immune response factors

Virology - Joint Nordic prospective study indicates HHV8 is not linked to multiple myeloma risk