adipose tissue secretes a large number of adipocytokines such as leptin, resistin, and adiponectin. many of these hormones and cytokines are altered in obese individuals and may lead to disruption of the normal balance between cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. the aim of our work was to investigate the disturbance of secretion of adiponectin and resistin in de novo and relapse...

acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is a malignant disorder of lymphoid precursor cells, which could be classified according to morphological and cytochemical methods as well as immunophenotyping. twenty patients with all, who had been referred to the children's medical center hospital, during the year 2007, were enrolled in this study in order to evaluate the morphologic and immunophenotypic pr...

background: hairy cell leukemia (hcl) is a chronic b-cell lymphoid leukemia characterized by pancytopenia, splenomegaly, myelofibrosis and the presence in peripheral blood, bone marrow and spleen of atypical lymphoid cells with a hairy aspect. the study aims to evaluate a group of patients with hairy cell leukemia, hospitalized in the clinic of hematology and oncology, kermanshah, iran, on a pe...

maintenance treatment for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml) in remission has recently been controversially discussed and even abandoned by several groups. an analysis of 16 published multicenter trials, however, revealed the highest probabilities of relapse free survival (rfs) in the range of 35-42 % at 4-5 years only in patients assigned to maintenance treatment when adult age and int...

a 54 year old man with history of cardiomyopathy and chronic fibrillation first presented with bloody diarrhea. then during the assessment of his abnormal lab. data revealed cast nephropathy in renal biopsy, gamma peak in protein electrophoresis and fine lytic lesions in skull graphy. his bone marrow aspiration showed multiple myeloma and blood smear revealed plasma cell leukemia. our patient w...

During aging phenotypic changes in the hematopoietic system occur, and possible reason of these can be accumulation gene mutations stem cells or early blood progenitors. Although are mostly neutral, some may give progenitor a proliferative advantage. In this case clonal hematopoiesis will arise, which is characterized by formation genetically distinct subpopulation cells. Clonal become basis fo...

acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is one of the most common cancers among children. although there have been tremendous treatments, none of them have led to a precise cure. the use of herbal medicines which are safe and non-toxic have been demonstrated in this study. curcumin is a polyphenol, hydrophobic product that is derived from turmeric plant. curcumin has anti-toxic, anti-bacterial, anti...

previous studies have demonstrated some significant differences in hla allele frequencies in leukemic patients and normal subjects. we have analyzed hla class ii alleles and haplotypes in 60 iranian patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) and 180 unrelated normal subjects. blood samples were collected after obtaining informed consents. from the patients and control dna extraction and hla...

background: acute leukemias are characterized by neoplastic proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells and accumulation of blasts and immature cells in the bone marrow. we applied a selective panel of immunohistochemical markers on bone marrow trephine tissue sections and observed their utility in diagnosis and typing of acute leukemia. materials and methods: the study was done at psg institute ...

nucleostemin (ns), a stem cell-abundant nucleolar protein, is critical for maintaining the self-renewal and proliferative properties of normal and cancerous stem cells. recent data suggests that ns signaling is important for proliferation of t-cells and leukemia cells. this study was conducted to verify the role of ns in pathogenesis and treatment of t-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (t-all). o...