TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 18, Issue 10 (October 2004)
Commentaries |
Original Manuscripts |
Correspondence |
Opinions and Ideas |
Book Review
Keynote Address: Acute Leukemia Forum, San Francisco, 16 April 2004
The role of allogeneic transplantation in high-risk acute myelogenous leukemia FREE
W R Drobyski
Leukemia 18: 1565-1568; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403482
Commentaries
Malignant hematopoietic cell lines: in vitro models for the study of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma FREE
H G Drexler and R A F MacLeod
Leukemia 18: 1569-1571; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403465
Is it now the time to update treatment protocols for lymphomas with new anti-virus systems? FREE
M Luppi, P Barozzi, L Potenza, G Riva, M Morselli and G Torelli
Leukemia 18: 1572-1575; advance online publication, July 29, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403447
Treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia in children: arsenic or ATRA FREE
Y Ravindranath, J Gregory and J Feusner
Leukemia 18: 1576-1577; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403479
Controlling TRAIL-mediated caspase-3 activation FREE
O Micheau and D Mérino
Leukemia 18: 1578-1580; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403497
Original Manuscripts
Therapy
Low-dose oral etoposide-based induction regimen for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first bone marrow relapse FREE
N Hijiya, A Gajjar, Z Zhang, J T Sandlund, R C Ribeiro, J E Rubnitz, S Jeha, W Liu, C Cheng, S C Raimondi, F G Behm, G K Rivera, M V Relling and C-H Pui
Leukemia 18: 1581-1586; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403467
Treatment of children with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia with arsenic trioxide: a single center experience FREE
B George, V Mathews, B Poonkuzhali, R V Shaji, A Srivastava and M Chandy
Leukemia 18: 1587-1590; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403480
Morphology
A distinctive nuclear morphology in acute myeloid leukemia is strongly associated with loss of HLA-DR expression and FLT3 internal tandem duplication FREE
S J Kussick, D L Stirewalt, H S Yi, K M Sheets, E Pogosova-Agadjanyan, S Braswell, T H Norwood, J P Radich and B L Wood
Leukemia 18: 1591-1598; advance online publication, September 2, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403458
CLL
Farnesyltransferase inhibitor BMS-214662 induces apoptosis in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells FREE
I Marzo, P Pérez-Galán, P Giraldo, N López-Royuela, M Gómez-Benito, L Larrad, P Lasierra, D Rubio-Félix, A Anel and J Naval
Leukemia 18: 1599-1604; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403469
Phase II study of theophylline in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a study of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (E4998) FREE
P H Wiernik, E Paietta, O Goloubeva, S J Lee, D Makower, J M Bennett, J L Wade, C Ghosh, L S Kaminer, J Pizzolo and M S Tallman for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
Leukemia 18: 1605-1610; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403494
ALL
Incidence and relevance of secondary chromosome abnormalities in childhood TEL/AML1+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia: an interphase FISH analysis FREE
A Attarbaschi, G Mann, M König, M N Dworzak, M M Trebo, N Mühlegger, H Gadner and O A Haas on behalf of the Austrian Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (BFM) Cooperative Study Group
Leukemia 18: 1611-1616; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403471
Down Syndrome
Distinct gene signatures of transient and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia in Down syndrome FREE
J Lightfoot, J K Hitzler, A Zipursky, M Albert and P F Macgregor
Leukemia 18: 1617-1623; advance online publication, September 2, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403466
Leukemia in Twins
Prenatal origin of separate evolution of leukemia in identical twins FREE
O Teuffel, D R Betts, M Dettling, R Schaub, B W Schäfer and F K Niggli
Leukemia 18: 1624-1629; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403462
Minimal Residual Disease in ALL
Analysis of minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: comparison between RQ-PCR analysis of Ig/TcR gene rearrangements and multicolor flow cytometric immunophenotyping FREE
M Malec, V H J van der Velden, E Björklund, J M Wijkhuijs, S Söderhäll, J Mazur, M Björkholm and A Porwit-MacDonald
Leukemia 18: 1630-1636; advance online publication, August 5, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403444
Minimal Residual Disease in CLL
Comparative analysis of minimal residual disease detection using four-color flow cytometry, consensus IgH-PCR, and quantitative IgH PCR in CLL after allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplantation FREE
S Böttcher, M Ritgen, C Pott, M Brüggemann, T Raff, S Stilgenbauer, H Döhner, P Dreger and M Kneba
Leukemia 18: 1637-1645; advance online publication, September 2, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403478
APL Biology
The expression of immediate early gene X-1 (IEX-1) is differentially induced by retinoic acids in NB4 and KG1 cells: possible implication in the distinct phenotype of retinoic acid-responsive and -resistant leukemic cells FREE
A Arlt, J Minkenberg, B Kocs, M Gro
mann, M-L Kruse, U R Fölsch and H Schäfer
Leukemia 18: 1646-1655; advance online publication, August 12, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403481
Dendritic Cells in CML
Defective blood dendritic cells in chronic myeloid leukemia correlate with high plasmatic VEGF and are not normalized by imatinib mesylate FREE
N Boissel, P Rousselot, E Raffoux, J-M Cayuela, O Maarek, D Charron, L Degos, H Dombret, A Toubert and D Rea
Leukemia 18: 1656-1661; advance online publication, September 2, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403474
Apoptosis
Interleukin-1
maintains an apoptosis-resistant phenotype in the blast cells of acute myeloid leukaemia via multiple pathways FREE
J Turzanski, M Grundy, N H Russell and M Pallis
Leukemia 18: 1662-1670; advance online publication, August 12, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403457
Differential involvement of Bax and Bak in TRAIL-mediated apoptosis of leukemic T cells FREE
J Han, L A Goldstein, B R Gastman, A Rabinovitz, G-Q Wang, B Fang and H Rabinowich
Leukemia 18: 1671-1680; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403496
BMT
Mixed hematopoietic chimerism at day 90 following allogenic myeloablative stem cell transplantation is a predictor of relapse and survival FREE
R Lamba, E Abella, D Kukuruga, J Klein, S Savasan, M H Abidi, A Mohamed and E Peres
Leukemia 18: 1681-1686; advance online publication, August 19, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403468
Myeloma
DNA methylation changes in multiple myeloma FREE
O Galm, S Wilop, J Reichelt, E Jost, G Gehbauer, J G Herman and R Osieka
Leukemia 18: 1687-1692; advance online publication, August 19, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403434
Lymphomas
Establishment of a novel anaplastic large-cell lymphoma-cell line (COST) from a 'small-cell variant' of ALCL FREE
L Lamant, E Espinos, M Duplantier, N Dastugue, A Robert, M Allouche, J Ragab, P Brousset, C Villalva, R D Gascoyne, T Al Saati and G Delsol
Leukemia 18: 1693-1698; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403464
Antitumor effects of bortezomib (PS-341) on primary effusion lymphomas FREE
J An, Y Sun, M Fisher and M B Rettig
Leukemia 18: 1699-1704; advance online publication, September 2, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403460
Variant t(2;11)(p11;q13) associated with the IgK-CCND1 rearrangement is a recurrent translocation in leukemic small-cell B-non-Hodgkin lymphoma FREE
I Wlodarska, P Meeus, M Stul, L Thienpont, E Wouters, L Marcelis, H Demuynck, J-L Rummens, V Madoe and A Hagemeijer
Leukemia 18: 1705-1710; advance online publication, August 12, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403459
Response to antiviral treatment in hepatitis C virus-associated marginal zone lymphomas FREE
C Kelaidi, F Rollot, S Park, M Tulliez, B Christoforov, Y Calmus, P Podevin, D Bouscary, P Sogni, P Blanche and F Dreyfus
Leukemia 18: 1711-1716; advance online publication, July 29, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403443
A long-term follow-up of 33 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who received the BEAM high-dose intensification regimen with cytokine support only and no transplant FREE
J Ph Laporte, M Yeshurun, L Fouillard, M Labopin, C Cailliot, S Lesage, F Isnard, A Najman and N-C Gorin
Leukemia 18: 1717-1721; advance online publication, August 5, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403427
Variable frequencies of MALT lymphoma-associated genetic aberrations in MALT lymphomas of different sites FREE
B Streubel, I Simonitsch-Klupp, L Müllauer, A Lamprecht, D Huber, R Siebert, M Stolte, F Trautinger, J Lukas, A Püspök, M Formanek, T Assanasen, H-K Müller-Hermelink, L Cerroni, M Raderer and A Chott
Leukemia 18: 1722-1726; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403501
Correspondence
Clinical significance of minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia after first relapse FREE
A von Stackelberg, K Seeger, G Henze and C Eckert
Leukemia 18: 1727-1728; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403475
Reply to the letter from von Stackelberg et al FREE
E Coustan-Smith and D Campana
Leukemia 18: 1728-1729; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403477
VH gene analysis of hairy cell leukemia reveals a homogeneous mutation status and suggests its marginal zone B-cell origin FREE
V Vanhentenrijk, A Tierens, I Wlodarska, G Verhoef and C D Wolf-Peeters
Leukemia 18: 1729-1732; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403503
CD38 modifications in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: are they relevant? FREE
P Ghia, G Guida, C Scielzo, M Geuna and F Caligaris-Cappio
Leukemia 18: 1733-1735; advance online publication, September 2, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403504
Identification of a rare e6a2 BCR-ABL fusion gene during the disease progression of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia: a case report FREE
S Hayette, I Tigaud, X Thomas, M French, M C Perrin, F Nicolini, M Michallet and J P Magaud
Leukemia 18: 1735-1736; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403476
Altered splicing in hematological malignancies reveals a tissue-specific translational block of the Src-family tyrosine kinase fyn brain isoform expression FREE
C Picard, J Gabert, D Olive and Y Collette
Leukemia 18: 1737-1739; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403499
Opinions and Ideas
Riddle: What do aplastic anemia, acute promyelocytic leukemia, and chronic myeloid leukemia have in common? FREE
R A Brodsky and R J Jones
Leukemia 18: 1740-1742; advance online publication, September 9, 2004; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2403487
