TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 20, Issue 9 (September 2006)
Editorials |
Spotlight Review |
Original Articles |
Letters to the Editor |
Obituary |
Corrigendum
Leading Article
International uniform response criteria for multiple myeloma
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B G M Durie, J-L Harousseau, J S Miguel, J Bladé, B Barlogie, K Anderson, M Gertz, M Dimopoulos, J Westin, P Sonneveld, H Ludwig, G Gahrton, M Beksac, J Crowley, A Belch, M Boccadaro, I Turesson, D Joshua, D Vesole, R Kyle, R Alexanian, G Tricot, M Attal, G Merlini, R Powles, P Richardson, K Shimizu, P Tosi, G Morgan and S V Rajkumar on behalf of the International Myeloma Working Group
Leukemia 20: 1467-1473; advance online publication, July 20, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404284
Editorials
The fever of stem cells has taken possession of us! FREE
M Z Ratajczak and N M-B Killmann
Leukemia 20: 1474; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404311
Myeloproliferative disorders: premalignant, stem cell, G1 diseases?
H Lelièvre, A Ferrand, M-J Mozziconacci, D Birnbaum and B Delaval
Leukemia 20: 1475-1480; advance online publication, June 29, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404295
Treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes with exogenous erythropoietin: a new therapeutic paradigm
S D Mundle and A Raza
Leukemia 20: 1481-1483; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404291
The role of cytogenetics in myeloma
F Zhan, J Sawyer and G Tricot
Leukemia 20: 1484-1486; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404330
Spotlight Review
Membrane-derived microvesicles: important and underappreciated mediators of cell-to-cell communication FREE
J Ratajczak, M Wysoczynski, F Hayek, A Janowska-Wieczorek and M Z Ratajczak
Leukemia 20: 1487-1495; advance online publication, July 20, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404296
Cytogenetics and molecular genetics of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: from thymocyte to lymphoblast
C Graux, J Cools, L Michaux, P Vandenberghe and A Hagemeijer
Leukemia 20: 1496-1510; advance online publication, July 6, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404302
Ubiquitylation in normal and malignant hematopoiesis: novel therapeutic targets
J A F Marteijn, J H Jansen and B A van der Reijden
Leukemia 20: 1511-1518; advance online publication, July 27, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404319
Hyperforin, a new lead compound against the progression of cancer and leukemia?
C Quiney, C Billard, C Salanoubat, J D Fourneron and J P Kolb
Leukemia 20: 1519-1525; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404301
Original Articles
Therapy
Imatinib and methylprednisolone alternated with chemotherapy improve the outcome of elderly patients with Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results of the GRAALL AFR09 study
A Delannoy, E Delabesse, V Lhéritier, S Castaigne, F Rigal-Huguet, E Raffoux, F Garban, O Legrand, S Bologna, V Dubruille, P Turlure, O Reman, M Delain, F Isnard, D Coso, P Raby, A Buzyn, S Caillères, S Darre, C Fohrer, A Sonet, C Bilhou-Nabera, M-C Béné, H Dombret, P Berthaud and X Thomas for the Group for Research in Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (GRAALL)
Leukemia 20: 1526-1532; advance online publication, July 13, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404320
Long-term follow-up of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphomas treated up-front with high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation
P Corradini, C Tarella, F Zallio, A Dodero, M Zanni, P Valagussa, A M Gianni, A Rambaldi, T Barbui and S Cortelazzo
Leukemia 20: 1533-1538; advance online publication, July 27, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404306
Acute Leukemias
Perforin polymorphism A91V and susceptibility to B-precursor childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Children's Oncology Group
P A Mehta, S M Davies, A Kumar, M Devidas, S Lee, T Zamzow, J Elliott, J Villanueva, J Pullen, Y Zewge and A Filipovich
Leukemia 20: 1539-1541; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404299
Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders
Gene expression signatures associated with the resistance to imatinib
Y-J Chung, T-M Kim, D-W Kim, H Namkoong, H K Kim, S-A Ha, S Kim, S M Shin, J-H Kim, Y-J Lee, H-M Kang and J W Kim
Leukemia 20: 1542-1550; advance online publication, July 20, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404310
Stem Cells
Role of DNA methylation for expression of novel stem cell marker CDCP1 in hematopoietic cells
H Kimura, E Morii, J-i Ikeda, S Ezoe, J-X Xu, N Nakamichi, Y Tomita, H Shibayama, Y Kanakura and K Aozasa
Leukemia 20: 1551-1556; advance online publication, July 13, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404312
A high proportion of donor CD4+ T cells expressing the lymph node-homing chemokine receptor CCR7 increases incidence and severity of acute graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation for hematological malignancy
I Yakoub-Agha, P Saule, S Depil, J-B Micol, C Grutzmacher, F Boulanger-Villard, F Bauters, J-P Jouet, J-P Dessaint and M Labalette
Leukemia 20: 1557-1565; advance online publication, July 6, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404308
Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics
Establishment of a new human acute monocytic leukemia cell line TZ-1 with t(1;11)(p32;q23) and fusion gene MLL-EPS15
M Sagawa, T Shimizu, T Shimizu, N Awaya, T Mitsuhashi, Y Ikeda, S Okamoto and M Kizaki
Leukemia 20: 1566-1571; advance online publication, July 6, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404305
Oncogenes Fusion Genes and Tumor Supressor Genes
Aberrant stabilization of c-Myc protein in some lymphoblastic leukemias
S Malempati, D Tibbitts, M Cunningham, Y Akkari, S Olson, G Fan and R C Sears
Leukemia 20: 1572-1581; advance online publication, July 20, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404317
Animal Models
MN1-TEL, the product of the t(12;22) in human myeloid leukemia, immortalizes murine myeloid cells and causes myeloid malignancy in mice
C Carella, J Bonten, J Rehg and G C Grosveld
Leukemia 20: 1582-1592; advance online publication, June 29, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404298
Lymphoma
Evidence for an oncogenic role of AHI-1 in Sezary syndrome, a leukemic variant of human cutaneous T-cell lymphomas
A Ringrose, Y Zhou, E Pang, L Zhou, A E-J Lin, G Sheng, X-J Li, A Weng, M W Su, M R Pittelkow and X Jiang
Leukemia 20: 1593-1601; advance online publication, July 13, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404321
Restoration of shp1 expression by 5-AZA-2'-deoxycytidine is associated with downregulation of JAK3/STAT3 signaling in ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma
Y Han, H M Amin, C Frantz, B Franko, J Lee, Q Lin and R Lai
Leukemia 20: 1602-1609; advance online publication, July 27, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404323
Myeloma
Deletion of chromosome 13 detected by conventional cytogenetics is a critical prognostic factor in myeloma
L Chiecchio, R K M Protheroe, A H Ibrahim, K L Cheung, C Rudduck, G P Dagrada, E D Cabanas, T Parker, M Nightingale, A Wechalekar, K H Orchard, C J Harrison, N C P Cross, G J Morgan and F M Ross on behalf of the UK Myeloma Forum
Leukemia 20: 1610-1617; advance online publication, July 6, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404304
Letters to the Editor
Megakaryocyte colony-forming unit growth is enhanced by alemtuzumab: in vitro experiments and a case report of acquired amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenic purpura
M Doubek, Z Ko
ístek, D Havranová, L 
mardová and J Mayer
Leukemia 20: 1618-1619; advance online publication, July 20, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404337
Suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 is overexpressed in erythroid precursors of myelodysplastic syndrome
A F Baker, W Bellamy, W R Tate, W B Bair III, R Heaton and A F List
Leukemia 20: 1620-1621; advance online publication, July 20, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404322
The JAK2V617F mutation is detectable at very low level in peripheral blood of healthy donors
P Sidon, H El Housni, B Dessars and P Heimann
Leukemia 20: 1622; advance online publication, June 15, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404292
TPM3/PDGFRB fusion transcript and its reciprocal in chronic eosinophilic leukemia
R Rosati, R La Starza, L Luciano, P Gorello, C Matteucci, V Pierini, S Romoli, B Crescenzi, B Rotoli, M F Martelli, F Pane and C Mecucci
Leukemia 20: 1623-1624; advance online publication, July 13, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404307
REL-positive double minute chromosomes in follicular lymphoma
J C Reader, X F Zhao, M S Butler, A P Rapoport and Y Ning
Leukemia 20: 1624-1626; advance online publication, June 15, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404289
Unusual immunophenotypic shift in a patient with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
V H J van der Velden, K van Lom, P G Hoogeveen, H B Beverloo and D A Breems
Leukemia 20: 1626-1629; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404297
Imatinib mesylate does not impair the immunogenicity of human myeloid blood dendritic cells
R Wehner, M Wendisch, K Schäkel, M Bornhäuser, U Platzbecker, B Mohr, A Temme, M Bachmann, E P Rieber and M Schmitz
Leukemia 20: 1629-1632; advance online publication, July 13, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404315
Non-classical antileukemia activity of early recovering NK cells after induction chemotherapy and HLA-identical stem cell transplantation in myeloid leukemias
G Sconocchia, D del Principe and A J Barrett
Leukemia 20: 1632-1633; advance online publication, June 29, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404300
Cord blood donor cell leukemia in recipients
M F Greaves
Leukemia 20: 1633-1634; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404293
Trisomy 4, a new chromosomal abnormality in Waldenström's macroglobulinemia: a study of 39 cases
C Terré, F Nguyen-Khac, C Barin, M J Mozziconacci, V Eclache, C Léonard, E Chapiro, H Farhat, A Bouyon, P Rousselot, S Choquet, M Spentchian, P Dubreuil, V Leblond and S Castaigne
Leukemia 20: 1634-1636; advance online publication, July 13, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404314
A novel somatic K-Ras mutation in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
C Reimann, M Arola, M Bierings, A Karow, M M van den Heuvel-Eibrink, H Hasle, C M Niemeyer and C P Kratz
Leukemia 20: 1637-1638; advance online publication, July 6, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404303
A novel translocation t(3;21)(p21;q22) in acute myelogenous leukemia preceding a late-appearing Philadelphia chromosome
A Quintás-Cardama, L V Abruzzo, F J Giles, J Jorgensen, J Cortes, J E Sarriera, H Kantarjian and S Verstovsek
Leukemia 20: 1638-1640; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404283
Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts associated with marked thrombocytosis harbors JAK2 mutation and shows overlapping myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic features
S A Wang, R P Hasserjian, J M Loew, E V Sechman, D Jones, S Hao, Q Liu, W Zhao, M Mehdi, N Galili, B Woda and A Raza
Leukemia 20: 1641-1644; advance online publication, July 27, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404316
Nucleophosmin status may influence the therapeutic decision in de novo acute myeloid leukemia with normal karyotype
V Bardet, L D Costa, C Elie, S Malinge, C Demur, J Tamburini, P C Lefebvre, F Witz, B Lioure, E Jourdan, A Pigneux, N Ifrah, M Attal, F Dreyfus, P Mayeux, C Lacombe, A Bennaceur-Griscelli, O A Bernard, D Bouscary and C Récher for the GOELAMS: Groupe Ouest Est d'étude des Leucémies et des Autres Maladies du Sang
Leukemia 20: 1644-1646; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404294
Inhibition of bortezomib-induced apoptosis by red blood cell uptake
L M C Wheat, S L Kohlhaas, J Monbaliu, R De Coster, A Majid, R J Walewska and M J S Dyer
Leukemia 20: 1646-1649; advance online publication, June 22, 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404290
Obituary
Top of pageCorrigendum
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 20: 1651; doi:10.1038/sj.leu.2404347
