... typically involving grouping genes with correlated expressions into bins and then selecting representatives from each bin, have also been used One of the more interesting recent developments in gene ... effects of the training data, and result in prediction failures In contrast, unsupervised learning targets on classifying cases in a dataset into several subgroups by evaluating the major variance ... similarity is calculated between two clusters Candidates include single linkage, complete linkage, average linkage, and centroid linkage Single linkage takes the similarity of the nearest samples between...
... assess the HRQOL inchildhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemia (ALL) patients in Indonesia and to assess the influence of demographic and medical characteristics on HRQOL Methods Setting Indonesia is ... n = 42 in the non-intensive phase), ** self-reports (n = 22 in intensive treatment and n = 24 in non intensive treatment); proxy-reports (n = 31 in intensive treatment and n = 33 in non intensive ... determinants: monthly income level of parents and assigned hospital class during the diagnostic process Both determinants are obtained routinely during admission to the clinic and recorded in the...
... assess the HRQOL inchildhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemia (ALL) patients in Indonesia and to assess the influence of demographic and medical characteristics on HRQOL Methods Setting Indonesia is ... n = 42 in the non-intensive phase), ** self-reports (n = 22 in intensive treatment and n = 24 in non intensive treatment); proxy-reports (n = 31 in intensive treatment and n = 33 in non intensive ... determinants: monthly income level of parents and assigned hospital class during the diagnostic process Both determinants are obtained routinely during admission to the clinic and recorded in the...
... insulin and leptin receptors are located in key brain areas, such as the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus In some cells of hypothalamus, leptin and insulin activate both JAK-STAT and PI3K signaling ... may be the reason of leptin resistance The closed-loop leptin/insulin feedback makes the GH/insulin/leptin relations understandable [30,31] According to Link et al leptin might serve as a good ... and leptin receptor genes on the metabolism of adipose tissue in survivors of childhood ALL In our cohort we found highly significant increase in leptin levels in overweight patients in the entire...
... antimetabolite-based therapy of childhood ALL to illustrate the challenges we face in individualized medicine, and how they can be addressed ChildhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemiaIn the industrialized countries ... medicine and childhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemia for implementing individualized medicine the following issues need to be addressed: The patients exhibit variable treatment responses in terms ... of childhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemiaLeukemia 2010, 24:345-354 Schmiegelow K, Bjork O, Glomstein A, et al: Intensification of mercaptopurine/methotrexate maintenance chemotherapy may increase...
... TCTG-tandem duplication in NPM1exon 12 Leukemia 2007, 21:366-367 Rau R, Brown P: Nucleophosmin (NPM1) mutations in adult and childhoodacute myeloid leukemia: towards definition of a new leukemia entity ... mutations in 1485 adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia Blood 2006, 107:4011-4020 Ahmad F, Mandava S, Das BR: Mutations of NPM1 gene in de novo acute myeloid leukemia: determination of incidence, ... FLT3 mutations inchildhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemia Med Oncol 2009, 26:460-462 Thiede C, Creutzig E, Reinhardt D, Ehninger G, Creutzig U: Different types of NPM1 mutations in children and...
... Health-related quality of life during post-induction chemotherapy in children with acutelymphoblasticleukemiain remission: An influence of corticosteroid therapy Int J Oncol 1997, 11(2):333-339 ... frequently been used in pediatric oncology studies [22,32-34] and includes subscales with age-specific questions for determining problems in relevant areas during cancer treatment such as pain, nausea, ... confirm these findings and provide more detailed information on the relationship between sleep and QoL, and on factors affecting sleep in pediatric ALL and in children with cancer in general Abbreviations...
... cell lines (such as human skin fibroblasts, glioblastoma and colon carcinoma lines) and primary lymphocytes [13-15] Furthermore, CD was induced by IR in human hepatoblastoma cell line performing ... irradiation; IR, ionizing radiation; HVR2, hypervariable region 2; nDNA, nuclear DNA; ALL, acutelymphoblastic leukemia; MGB, minor groove binder; ROS, reactive oxygen species; Competing interest: The ... (ALL) patients undergoging total body irradiation (TBI) precondionting as human beings in vivo irradiation model The advantage of using this model lies in full view of in vivo microenvironment,...
... clinical significance of TEL-AML1 as MRD in CD 10 positive ALL is needed to determine how to best integrate TEL-AML1 testing into routine patient care Abbreviations ALL: Acutelymphoblastic leukemia; ... Masera G, Bartram CR: Minimal residual disease inchildhoodacutelymphoblastic leukemia: analysis of patients in continuous complete remission or with consecutive relapse Leukemia 1992, 6:282-288 ... Endo C, Oda M, Nishiuchi R, Seino Y: Persistence of TEL-AML1 transcript inacutelymphoblasticleukemiain long-term remission Pediatr Int 2003, 45:275-280 McLean TW, Ringold S, Neuberg D, Stegmaier...
... expressed in myeloid leukemias [7,8] Conclusion We demonstrated the presence of the SET-NUP214 gene in the T-ALL cell line LOUCY and in the AML cell line MEGAL by genomic sequencing In both cell lines, ... SET-NUP214 screening in cell lines SET-NUP214 screening in cell lines SET-NUP214 expression screening performed with a SET exon forward primer and a NUP214 exon 18 reverse primer Cell lines LOUCY and ... recurrent deletion, del(9)(q34.11q34.13) in patients with T-cell acutelymphoblasticleukemia (T-ALL) [4] It has also been reported in a single case of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) [5] SETNUP214 positive...
... showed that the inhibition of BCL11B expression by siRNA selectively inhibited proliferation and effectively induced apoptosis in human T-cell acutelymphoblasticleukemia (T-ALL) cell lines (Jurkat, ... other four genes of interest in the healthy controls Discussion Increasing numbers of translocations involving the BCL11B locus [8,10,11] or high levels of BCL11B mRNA expression in most T-ALL cases ... of caspases BCL2L1 may inactivate caspase-8 by decreasing death-inducing signaling complex (DISC) formation in the plasma membrane, nucleus, and Golgi complex while diverting DISC formation to...
... transforming in undifferentiated leukemia [3,5] and one report of Ph negative T-ALL in a patient receiving treatment [6] TMZ is an oral alkylating agent that is now known to be active against a ... its mutagenic Page of potential Some clinical trials have started to include carcinogenic potential as a point of assessment in longterm safety monitoring of the drug [11] Hartmut Geiger et al ... Armitage JO, Carbone PP, Connors JM, Levine A, Bennett JM, Kroll S: Treatment-related myelodysplasia and acuteleukemiain non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients J Clin Oncol 2003, 21:897-906 Macdonald...
... transforming in undifferentiated leukemia [3,5] and one report of Ph negative T-ALL in a patient receiving treatment [6] TMZ is an oral alkylating agent that is now known to be active against a ... its mutagenic Page of potential Some clinical trials have started to include carcinogenic potential as a point of assessment in longterm safety monitoring of the drug [11] Hartmut Geiger et al ... Armitage JO, Carbone PP, Connors JM, Levine A, Bennett JM, Kroll S: Treatment-related myelodysplasia and acuteleukemiain non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients J Clin Oncol 2003, 21:897-906 Macdonald...
... hypotheses concerning an infectious origin of childhoodleukemia ‘Population mixing’ hypothesis by Kinlen In early 1980, an unusual increase in the incidence of childhoodleukemia was observed in young ... Identifying the Etiology of AcuteLymphoblasticLeukemiain Children http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/52716 [37] Infante-Rivard C, Krajinovic M, Labuda D, Sinnett D Childhoodacutelymphoblasticleukemia ... of the population mixing studies had failed to find an increase in a symptomatic infection in adults or children, paralleling the increase in leuke‐ mia incidence Considering that there are viruses...
... discussed below The finding of similar outcomes in males and females is reassuring Initial reports of inferior outcomes in girls came from relatively small studies using combinations of methotrexate ... neuropsychological outcome in ALL are poorly understood and in fact in other areas of acute brain injury, such as head injury, girls usually have better outcomes than boys Again, changes in therapy protocols ... intrathecal chemotherapy compared with 18 Gy cranial radiation as CNS treatment inacutelymphoblastic leukemia: findings from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ALL Consortium Protocol 95-01 J Clin...
... rare presentation of acutelymphoblastic leukaemia in an adult JOP 2010, 11:72-74 Takamatsu T: Preferential infiltration of liver sinusoids inacutelymphoblasticleukemia Rinsho Ketsueki 2001, ... report any recent change in his medications and was tolerating his aspirin, sitagliptin, fosinopril, metformin and repaglinide without reported side effects His physical examination was significant ... biopsy of the liver showing small to medium-sized lymphoblasts infiltrating the hepatic parenchyma Page of Figure Bone marrow biopsy showing lymphoblastic infiltration instructions to follow up...
... protein for phosphoserin motifs Regulated the interactions and subcellular localization of signalling molecules γ-Catenin Forms a complex with α- and β-Catenin to Cadherins, that are involved in ... formation and maintenance of the histo-architecture Plasmonogen activator inhibitor-2 (PAI-2) Involved in the regulation and inhibition of binding between urokinase-type plasminogen activator ... distinguishes between acutelymphoblasticleukemiain infants and in older children Blood 1989, 73(2):527-532 Strahler JR, Kuick R, Hanash SM: Diminished phosphorylation of a heat shock protein...
... able to induce apoptosis inleukemia cells via caspase activation and involvement of both intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis Background The Endocrine Disrupting Compounds are defined ... FLIP: FLICE Inhibitor Protein; TRAIL: TNF Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand; RA: Retinoic Acid; RB: Retinoblastoma Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... sub-G1 peack in all the cell lines tested, HL60 being the most resistant one In NB4 cells, a model from promyelocytic leukemia containing the fusion protein PMLRARα and sensitive to retinoids, the...