This review will focus on pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pALL), highlighting risk factors, classification, presentation, risk group assignment and treatment stratification, treatment, outcome, and long-term consequences of therapy. Other forms of pediatric leukemia, such as acute and chronic myeloid leukemia are not reviewed. The reader is referred to several recent publications review...

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Obituary British dermatology and the Bristol medical community suffered a grievous loss on 1.7.92 when Bob and Anne warm vvere both killed in a car crash near Salisbury, while they were travelling to the Bournemouth Meeting of the British and he and Anne had been such central figures in the Association for so many years that it was difficult to believe he Meeting could continue in their absence...

Introduction In the underlying study we evaluated different single-use filtration systems for cell separation and harvest clarification in 1,000 L scale. A screening of different depth filters was carried out with various single-use filters from Pall, Cuno (3M), Millipore and Sartorius Stedim. In total, we included 85 depth filtrations in the screening. Out of that, two single-use filtration sy...

Hybrids as various resources have valuable importance in tree breeding. Today, improvement programs by using poplar and willows and their hybrids play basic role in supplying wood and decreasing pressure on natural forests. This research was carried out in order to study inter-generic hybridization possibility between Salix aegyptica and Populus caspica species from Salicaceae to achieve new hy...