BACKGROUND: In newly diagnosed AML, high remission rates are typically achieved with IC, but the response is often transient, and detectable residual disease in the bone marrow post-chemotherapy is predictive of early relapse. Emerging data show that the identification ...

Abstract Abstract 2995 Background: Multiple myeloma (MM) cell survival is dependent on the ability to produce and secrete immunoglobulins, requiring precise coordination of protein synthesis and degradation. Inhibition of these processes may be responsible for the exqu...

Abstract Abstract 968 Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a promising strategy that could improve the long-term outcome of patients. A limitation of current therapies is their inability to eradicate the leukemic stem cell (LSC), which is resp...

Central venous catheter thrombosis can cause venous obstruction and pulmonary embolism. To determine the extent to which catheter thrombosis is triggered by the contact or extrinsic pathway of coagulation, we used antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) to selectively knock d...

![Figure][1] A 15-year-old young man presented to the emergency department with a 3-week history of sharp left-sided chest pain, shortness of breath on exertion, and a low-grade intermittent fever. Chest radiograph revealed increased density in the upper left lobe, thus...

Abstract BCR-ABL is responsible for the initial phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), which is effectively treated by the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib. Over time, patients become resistant to treatment and progress to blast crisis, an event that is ...

Abstract The proteasome is an enzymatic complex that rids cells of excess and misfolded proteins and possesses chymotrypin, trypsin, and caspase-like enzymatic activity. To date, all of the proteasome inhibitors approved for clinical use or in clinical trials inhibit th...

Background: Less-fit patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or high-risk myelodysplasia (MDS) age 60 years and older constitute the majority of patients with AML/MDS but are not well represented in clinical trials. DNA-methyltransferase inhibitor (HMA) monotherapy ...

AbstractIn this study we sought to extend the plasma half-life while maintaining the potent antithrombin activity of hirudin. We hypothesized that gene fusion of hirudin to albumin would result in the expression of a slowly cleared hirudin molecule. A hirudin variant 3 ...

Abstract Blast cells from 20 patients with acute leukemia (13 diagnosed myeloblastic and 7 as lymphoblastic, using the FAB classification) were studied using antibodies to lineage-specific differentiation markers. The phenotypic findings were usually consistent with the...