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BACKGROUND
Low levels of serum albumin have been reported to be associated with a poor prognosis in lymphoproliferative disorders.
RESULTS
Clinical and laboratory data were retrospectively evaluated in a series of 342 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In univariate analysis, survival
The effect of lymphocytosis-promoting factor (LPF) on antibody response in mice was estimated under different sets of experimental conditions. Four- and 6-week-old mice were intravenously inoculated with LPF. Three days later these mice were inoculated either intraperitoneally or intravenously with
Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a new diagnostic tool which could be applied repeatedly to investigate the nature of lesion in pulmonary diseases. To evaluate the clinical significance of the difference in immunoglobulin content for the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant pulmonary
Cytotoxic effector lymphocytes were induced in cultures of mouse spleen or lymph node cells by lymphocytosis promoting factor (LPF). The LPF-activated cytotoxic cells: (a) were not generated unless proliferation occurred; (b) sedimented in the lighter density fraction of a bovine serum albumin
HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM) is endemic in southwest Japan and frequently shows T-lymphocyte alveolitis. In the present study, we investigated 13 patients with HAM to determine if they showed increased levels of soluble IL-2 receptors, a marker of lymphocyte activation, in bronchoalveolar
Cytokines are widely involved in physiologic as well as immunoinflammatory and fibrosing processes of the lung. The aim of this work was to study, by bronchoalveolar lavage, two groups of human interstitial lung diseases (ILD) with fibrosing propensity (ie, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis [IPF], n =
BACKGROUND
Among patients with indolent form of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, some of them will progress into more advanced stages. To better define this subpopulation of patients, we attempted to define some parameters capable of predicting a pejorative clinical outcome.
METHODS
Eighty-eight
The thymic region of neonatal Swiss mice was exposed to doses varying from 1000 R to 2000 R of X-irradiation. The animals did not show any signs of wasting syndrome up to 6 months after irradiation. At this time hyperplasia of the thymus with an associated lymphocytosis was evident in irradiated
Vasculitis with intramural pseudocyst formation primarily in the cerebellar white matter, but also in nuclei of the medulla, resulted in leakage of IgG and albumin and vacuolation of the neuropil (vasogenic oedema) in brains from chickens with clinical signs of Marek's disease virus (MDV)-induced
Thirty-two cases of hydatidiform mole without endometrial invasion of chorial tissue and 17 of invasive mole were studied to ascertain whether these two diseases can be differentiated by various immune parameters. All of hydatidiform 11 of invasive mole were sampled at a state of "mole in utero"
The single i.p. injection of 2.5 times 10-8 killed B. pertussis cells protected 23 out of a group of 24 NMRI mice (95.8%) against the subsequent intracerebral infection, whilst 13 out of 24 mice (54.2%) survived the intracerebral challenge with virulent B. pertussis cells after prior oral
BACKGROUND
Hematological and biochemical abnormalities are among the most common clinicopathological manifestations of HIV patients on ART. Consequently, the development and assessment of indigenous antiretroviral drugs with minimal abnormalities becomes a necessity. The objective of this
Immune complexes have been thought to participate in the pathogenesis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, but the role of complement components is not defined. In our study of nine patients with summer-type hypersensitivity pneumonitis (summer-type HP), C1q in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) was
Suberosis--the lung disease suffered by cork industry workers--may present in the form of either hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) or obstructive pulmonary disease (OPD) with asthma-like symptoms or chronic bronchitis. Mast cells play an important role in pulmonary inflammation and are particularly
A Phase I study of bacterially synthesized recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) was undertaken in 21 patients with advanced malignancy or neutropenia. rhGM-CSF was administered once daily by i.v. bolus injection (0.3 to 3 micrograms/kg/day) or 2-h i.v.