Between April 1988 and July 1998, 510 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) underwent unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation (BMT) facilitated by the National Marrow Donor Program. Median age was 38 years (range, <1-62 years). Several conditioning regimens and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis methods were used, and T-cell depletion was used in 121 patients. Donors were ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine if children undergoing reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (RIC-AlloHSCT) have lower incidence of acute toxicities and, subsequently, require less supportive care than is required with myeloablative conditioning (MAC)-AlloHSCT. An additional purpose is to examine later outcomes by comparing 100-day transplantation-rel...

Accumulation and retention of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) has been reported within post viral-encephalitic brains, however, the full extent to which these cells modulate neuroinflammation is yet to be elucidated. Here, we used Foxp3-DTR (diphtheria toxin receptor) knock-in transgenic mice, which upon administration of low dose diphtheria toxin (DTx) results in specific deletion of Tregs. We inve...

PURPOSE Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis (HAEC) is a serious complication of Hirschsprung's disease (HD), with generalized sepsis and high mortality rate. Although the surgical correction of HD is mostly successful, challenges remain in the management of children with repeated episodes of enterocolitis. The authors describe a novel modification of transanal rectal mucosectomy and partial i...

The potential benefits of unrelated donor marrow transplantation are offset by the immunologic complications of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and infection. Therefore, we used cryopreserved umbilical cord blood (UCB) as a strategy to reduce the risks of GVHD and treatment-related mortality (TRM) and improve survival. Data on 102 patients (median age 7.4 years) who received transplants betwee...

The global tendency to apply sustainable criteria in most of the productive fields and the limited durability and the pathologies that reinforced concrete elements suffer are aspects that explain the increasing necessity of strengthening this type of structures. The evolution of strengthening techniques has consisted in the development of new technologies that ease the application of the soluti...

While combinatorial models of transcriptional regulation can be inferred for metazoan systems from a priori biological knowledge, validation requires extensive and time-consuming experimental work. Thus, there is a need for computational methods that can evaluate hypothesized cis regulatory codes before the difficult task of experimental verification is undertaken. We have developed a novel com...

Textile-Reinforced Mortar (TRM) is a modern and compatible strengthening strategy for existing masonry, which consists in plastering the walls by means of mortar layers with embedded grids or textiles made long fibers. TRM can be very useful reduction seismic vulnerability masonry buildings, since fiber-based reinforcement, carrying high tensile stresses, opposes widening cracks provides “pseud...

INTRODUCTION Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is a potentially curative option for patients with CML. The optimal donor is an HLA-identical sibling but transplants using unrelated volunteers can also be successful. The factors influencing survival after allogeneic SCT for CML are reasonably well defined. Recently however, the Seattle group have emphasised the influence of a high marrow cell...