Frequencies of 35 HLA A, B, C, and DR antigens were determined in 1,834 leukemic Caucasoids to evaluate possible associations between HLA and leukemia. In comparison with the frequencies of HLA antigens in published controls, the frequency of Cw3 was significantly higher in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (relative risk = 2.64, P less than 0.0002), acute myelogenous leukemia (relativ...

High levels of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase have been observed in leukocytes of 7 out of 20 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia in acute blast phase of the disease. These levels are comparable to the levels observed in human and calf thymus gland and cell lines with some T cell characteristics (Molt 4 and 8402). Negligible levels of this activity were observed in chronic myeloge...

Nonhuman primate antisera defining leukemia-associ ated and normal Tand B-lymphocyte-associated anti gens were used to characterize serologically the cells from acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMML) and chronic myelogenous leukemia patients in blast crisis (CML-BC). Earlier studies demonstrated that nonhuman primate an tisera to chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute myelogen ous leukemia, and chro...

INTRODUCTION Chronic myelogenous leukemia is often treated using tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as dasatinib. Here we describe a rare case of inflammatory myopathy in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia treated with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor dasatinib. CASE PRESENTATION A 69-year-old Caucasian man with imatinib-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia achieved complete molecular re...

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Replication of a strain of fowl plague virus adapted to human myeloblasts was studied in leukemia cell cultures derived from the venous blood of 20 adult patients suffering from acute leukemia (15 acute myelogenous, 4 acute lymphatic, and 1 chronic myelogenous leukemia in acute blastic crisis). Virus multiplication was observed in the cultures of 18 patients. Sufficient adaptation of the virus ...

T HE ASSOCIATION of a variety of chromosome abnormalities with human leukemias has been well established. The discovery of the Philadelphia chromosome is of particular significance because it is the first instance in which there is an association of a specific chromosome abnormality with a particular type of leukemia. The Philadelphia ( Ph1 ) chromosome is present in the marrow of most patients...