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Ken H Young

Ken H Young

Professor of Pathology
Pathology
ken.young@duke.edu
1-919-668-7568, 40 Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710
40 Duke Medicine Circle, Box #3712 DUHS, Durham, NC 27710
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Selected Publications

Proinflammatory GSDMD activation in live macrophages and DLBCL cells marks cognate interactions and better prognosis.

Journal Article Blood Adv · December 4, 2025 Pyroptosis is a form of programmed cell death characterized by the cleavage of gasdermin (GSDM) family proteins that form pores in the plasma membrane, cell rupture, and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. In this study, we performed immunohistochem ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distinct B/myeloid and T-lymphoblast populations at separate anatomic sites in mixed-phenotype acute leukemia with BCR::ABL1 fusion.

Journal Article J Hematop · September 22, 2025 The pluripotency of malignant blasts in acute leukemias is a growing area of scientific and clinical interest. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemias (MPALs) are defined by the presence of blasts showing evidence of differentiation along at least two lineages. Cu ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Concurrent or subsequent lymphomatous effusion in large B-cell lymphoma portends a dismal prognosis: A multi-institutional study.

Journal Article Am J Clin Pathol · September 9, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Rare large B-cell lymphomas (LBCLs) present with concurrent or subsequent lymphomatous effusion (solid-effusion LBCL, SE-LBCL), which may have an inferior prognosis compared with their noneffusion counterpart. In addition, the relationship betwe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Erythroblastic Sarcoma in Adults and Children: Different Pathways to the Same Destination.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · August 2025 Erythroblastic sarcoma (ES), the mass-forming presentation of acute erythroid leukemia, is a rare and challenging diagnosis. Given the limited number of published cases, the diagnostic criteria, immunophenotype, and molecular characteristics are not well d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic gene expression and microRNA profiling signatures and genetic alterations in primary testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood Cancer J · July 17, 2025 Primary testicular (PT) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a rare and aggressive lymphoma with distinct clinical and molecular characteristics. To identify prognostic biomarkers in PT-DLBCL, in this study we analyzed DNA and RNA samples of PT-DLBCL t ... Full text Link to item Cite

CD151 interacts with integrin beta 2 in B cell lymphomas.

Journal Article Cell Mol Life Sci · June 4, 2025 CD151 is a broadly expressed four-transmembrane protein (tetraspanin) that interacts with laminin-binding integrins like integrin alpha 3 (ITGA3). CD151 drives tumor development and expression correlates with poor prognosis in solid cancers, but CD151 has ... Full text Link to item Cite

Polyclonal plasma cell (PolyPC) signature as a key indicator for predicting the progression of MGUS to multiple myeloma.

Journal Article Cancer Biomark · June 2025 BackgroundMultiple myeloma (MM) is virtually always preceded by monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Elevated serum markers are used to classify MGUS patients into clinical risk categories. Previous research has indicated that the abs ... Full text Link to item Cite

Practical microenvironment classification in diffuse large B cell lymphoma using digital pathology.

Journal Article Cell Rep Med · April 15, 2025 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous B cell neoplasm with variable clinical outcomes influenced by both tumor-derived and lymphoma microenvironment (LME) alterations. A recent transcriptomic study identifies four DLBCL subtypes based on ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lasalocid A selectively induces the degradation of MYD88 in lymphomas harboring the MYD88 L265P mutation.

Journal Article Blood · March 6, 2025 Myeloid differentiation primary response protein 88 (MYD88) is a key adaptor molecule in the signaling pathways of toll-like receptor and interleukin-1 receptor. A somatic mutation resulting in a leucine-to-proline change at position 265 of the MYD88 prote ... Full text Link to item Cite

Proceedings of the National Cancer Institute Workshop on combining immunotherapy with radiotherapy: challenges and opportunities for clinical translation.

Journal Article Lancet Oncol · March 2025 Radiotherapy both promotes and antagonises tumour immune recognition. Some clinical studies show improved patient outcomes when immunotherapies are integrated with radiotherapy. Safe, greater than additive, clinical response to the combination is limited t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Minibeam Spatially-Fractionated Radiation Therapy Is Superior to Uniform Dose Radiation Therapy for Abscopal Effect When Combined with PD-L1 Checkpoint Inhibitor Immunotherapy in a Dual Tumor Murine Mammary Carcinoma Model

Journal Article Radiation · March 1, 2025 Spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT) has a long history of treating bulky and hypoxic tumors. Recent evidence suggests that, compared to conventional uniform dose radiation therapy, SFRT may utilize different mechanisms of tumor cell killing, po ... Full text Cite

Lipid nanoparticles deliver DNA-encoded biologics and induce potent protective immunity.

Journal Article Mol Cancer · January 13, 2025 Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for mRNA delivery have advanced significantly, but LNP-mediated DNA delivery still faces clinical challenges. This study compared various LNP formulations for delivering DNA-encoded biologics, assessing their expression efficacy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic gene expression and microRNA profiling signatures and genetic alterations in primary testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Res Sq · January 6, 2025 Primary testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (PT-DLBCL) is a rare and aggressive lymphoma with molecular heterogeneity not well characterize. In this study, we performed next-generation sequencing analysis for a large number of DNA and RNA samples from ... Full text Link to item Cite

CAR T-cell therapy in autoimmune diseases: a promising frontier on the horizon.

Journal Article Front Immunol · 2025 Although current treatments for autoimmune diseases can effectively control symptoms, they rarely lead to cures and often require lifelong use, accompanied by considerable adverse effects. This emphasizes the urgent need for more targeted therapies that of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Targeting RAB7 in human B lymphoma by a small molecule inhibitor arrests tumor cell growth.

Journal Article Front Oncol · 2025 RAB7, encoded by RAB7A in humans and Rab7 in mice, is a small GTPase that catalyzes endosome maturation. It mediates NF-κB activation through the assembly of intracellular membrane signalosomes in stimulated normal B cells and plays a B cell-intrinsic role ... Full text Link to item Cite

Correction: Targeting RAB7 in human B lymphoma by a small molecule inhibitor arrests tumor cell growth.

Journal Article Front Oncol · 2025 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1616519.]. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vaccines targeting p53 mutants elicit anti-tumor immunity.

Journal Article Cancer Lett · December 29, 2024 The p53 tumor suppressor is commonly mutated in cancer; however, there are no effective treatments targeting p53 mutants. A DNA vaccine gWIZ-S237G targeting the p53 S237G mutant, which is highly expressed in A20 murine tumor cells, was developed and admini ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinicopathologic features of primary central nervous system anaplastic large cell lymphoma: a multicenter study identifies age and ALK status as prognostic factors.

Journal Article J Hematop · December 2024 Anaplastic large cell lymphoma with primary presentation in, and disease limited to, the central nervous system (primary CNS ALCL) is a rare and aggressive lymphoma found in a sensitive anatomic site. We report the clinical and pathologic characteristics o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neuronal-Glial and Immune Microenvironment Signatures Show Prognostic Effects in Primary CNS Lymphoma

Conference Blood · November 5, 2024 Introduction: Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the central nervous system (CNS), traditionally referred to as primary CNS lymphoma (PCNSL), is a rare type of primary large ... Full text Cite

Ten-Year Results of a Phase II Clinical Trial Evaluating Ipilimumab Plus Lenalidomide Combination after Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Patients with Lymphoma

Conference Blood · November 5, 2024 Background: We have previously reported a favorable safety profile of combining the checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab (Ipi) with lenalidomide (LEN) given after autologous hematopoietic cell ... Full text Cite

DNA vaccines against GPRC5D synergize with PD-1 blockade to treat multiple myeloma.

Journal Article NPJ Vaccines · October 1, 2024 Multiple myeloma (MM), a hematological malignancy of the bone marrow, remains largely incurable. The orphan G protein-coupled receptor, GPRC5D, which is uniquely expressed in plasma cells and highly expressed in MM, is a compelling candidate for immunother ... Full text Link to item Cite

Remodeling of anti-tumor immunity with antibodies targeting a p53 mutant.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · June 18, 2024 BACKGROUND: p53, the most frequently mutated gene in cancer, lacks effective targeted drugs. METHODS: We developed monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that target a p53 hotspot mutation E285K without cross-reactivity with wild-type p53. They were delivered using ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 6418: Single-cell double expression of MYC and BCL2 proteins by fluorescent multiplex IHC is mainly in lymphoma cells with significant prognostic impact in large B-cell lymphoma while suggesting high cutoffs for routine IHC

Conference Cancer Research · March 22, 2024 AbstractIntroduction: MYC+BCL2+ double expression (DE) is a biomarker for poor prognosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), likely due to the cooperation between MYC and BCL2 oncoproteins in tumor cel ... Full text Cite

Recent advances in genomics and therapeutics in mantle cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Cancer Treat Rev · January 2024 Over the past decades, significant strides have been made in understanding the pathobiology, prognosis, and treatment options for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). The heterogeneity observed in MCL's biology, genomics, and clinical manifestations, including indo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Flow cytometry quantification of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to predict the survival of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Front Immunol · 2024 INTRODUCTION: Our previous studies have demonstrated that tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), including normal B cells, T cells, and natural killer (NK) cells, in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have a significantly favorable impact on the clinica ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Hepatitis B surface antigen positivity is associated with poor short- and long-term outcomes in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who received CHOP or R-CHOP.

Journal Article Front Immunol · 2024 OBJECTIVE: The development of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is closely related to the host infection status. China is a highly endemic area for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. It is not clear whether HBV infection has a consistent effect on the ... Full text Link to item Cite

DNA mismatch repair defect and intratumor heterogeneous deficiency differently impact immune responses in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncoimmunology · 2024 Deficient (d) DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is a biomarker predictive of better response to PD-1 blockade immunotherapy in solid tumors. dMMR can be caused by mutations in MMR genes or by protein inactivation, which can be detected by sequencing and immunohist ... Full text Link to item Cite

Tumor-Infiltrating Normal B Cells Revealed by Immunoglobulin Repertoire Clonotype Analysis Are Highly Prognostic and Crucial for Antitumor Immune Responses in DLBCL.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · December 1, 2023 PURPOSE: Tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes (TIL-B) have demonstrated prognostic and predictive significance in solid cancers. In this study, we aimed to distinguish TIL-Bs from malignant B-cells in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and determine the cli ... Full text Link to item Cite

Data from Tumor-Infiltrating Normal B Cells Revealed by Immunoglobulin Repertoire Clonotype Analysis Are Highly Prognostic and Crucial for Antitumor Immune Responses in DLBCL

Other · December 1, 2023 <div>AbstractPurpose:<p>Tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes (TIL-B) have demonstrated prognostic and predictive significance in solid cancers. In this study, we aimed to distinguish TIL-Bs from malignant B-cells in diffuse large B-cell lym ... Full text Cite

Supplementary Data 2 from Tumor-Infiltrating Normal B Cells Revealed by Immunoglobulin Repertoire Clonotype Analysis Are Highly Prognostic and Crucial for Antitumor Immune Responses in DLBCL

Other · December 1, 2023 <p>List of top 10 sequences in the individual IGH repertoires of 138 DLBCL cases with a diagnostic IGH clonotype identified</p> ... Full text Cite

Supplementary Data 2 from Tumor-Infiltrating Normal B Cells Revealed by Immunoglobulin Repertoire Clonotype Analysis Are Highly Prognostic and Crucial for Antitumor Immune Responses in DLBCL

Other · December 1, 2023 <p>List of top 10 sequences in the individual IGH repertoires of 138 DLBCL cases with a diagnostic IGH clonotype identified</p> ... Full text Cite

Data from Tumor-Infiltrating Normal B Cells Revealed by Immunoglobulin Repertoire Clonotype Analysis Are Highly Prognostic and Crucial for Antitumor Immune Responses in DLBCL

Other · December 1, 2023 <div>AbstractPurpose:<p>Tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes (TIL-B) have demonstrated prognostic and predictive significance in solid cancers. In this study, we aimed to distinguish TIL-Bs from malignant B-cells in diffuse large B-cell lym ... Full text Cite

Mechanisms of ferroptosis and targeted therapeutic approaches in lymphoma.

Journal Article Cell Death Dis · November 25, 2023 Lymphoma is the sixth most common type of cancer worldwide. Under the current treatment standards, patients with lymphoma often fail to respond to treatment or relapse early and require further therapy. Hence, novel therapeutic strategies need to be explor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Has a Low Frequency of dMMR and High Frequencies of DNA Mismatch Repair Protein High Expression Associated with Lower T-Cell Infiltration

Conference Blood · November 2, 2023 Background: DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency (dMMR), which leads to genomic and microsatellite instability, is a biomarker that predicts response to immunotherapies and has variable prognostic effects for chemothera ... Full text Cite

Tumor-Infiltrating Normal B Lymphocytes Have Remarkable Prognostic Effects and Are Crucial for Antitumor Immune Responses in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Conference Blood · November 2, 2023 Introduction: In recent years, increasing evidence suggests an important role of tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes (TIL-Bs) in cancer immunity. In various types of solid tumors, high density of TIL-Bs and presence of mat ... Full text Cite

The synergy of the XPO1 inhibitors combined with the BET inhibitor INCB057643 in high-grade B-cell lymphoma via downregulation of MYC expression.

Journal Article Sci Rep · October 29, 2023 High grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 rearrangements (HGBCL-DH) represents an uncommon B-cell lymphoma (BCL) with aggressive clinical courses and poor prognosis. Despite revolutionary therapeutic advances in BCL, there has been limited treatment pro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exploiting the fibroblast growth factor receptor-1 vulnerability to therapeutically restrict the MYC-EZH2-CDKN1C axis-driven proliferation in Mantle cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leukemia · October 2023 Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a lethal hematological malignancy with a median survival of 4 years. Its lethality is mainly attributed to a limited understanding of clinical tumor progression and resistance to current therapeutic regimes. Intrinsic, prolong ... Full text Link to item Cite

ETS1 phosphorylation at threonine 38 is associated with the cell of origin of diffuse large B cell lymphoma and sustains the growth of tumour cells.

Journal Article Br J Haematol · October 2023 The transcriptional factor ETS1 is upregulated in 25% of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Here, we studied the role of ETS1 phosphorylation at threonine 38, a marker for ETS1 activation, in DLBCL cellular models and clinical specimens. p-ETS1 was det ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical relevance of MYC/BCL2 expression and cell of origin in patients with diffuse large b-cell lymphoma treated with autologous transplant.

Journal Article Bone Marrow Transplant · September 2023 Dual expression of MYC and BCL2 proteins (double-expressor lymphoma [DEL]) as well as cell of origin (COO) are important prognostic factors in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after conventional chemotherapy. We studied the prognostic im ... Full text Link to item Cite

The progress of novel strategies on immune-based therapy in relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Exp Hematol Oncol · August 14, 2023 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) can be cured with standard front-line immunochemotherapy, whereas nearly 30-40% of patients experience refractory or relapse. For several decades, the standard treatment strategy for fit relapsed/refractory (R/R) DLBCL ... Full text Link to item Cite

Blastoid and Pleomorphic Mantle Cell Lymphoma Demonstrate Distinct Clinicopathologic and Genetic Features.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · August 1, 2023 The blastoid (B) and pleomorphic (P) variants of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) are associated with aggressive clinical behavior. In this study, we collected 102 cases of B-MCL and P-MCL from untreated patients. We reviewed clinical data, analyzed morphologic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Metabolic Reprogramming and Potential Therapeutic Targets in Lymphoma.

Journal Article Int J Mol Sci · March 13, 2023 Lymphoma is a heterogeneous group of diseases that often require their metabolism program to fulfill the demand of cell proliferation. Features of metabolism in lymphoma cells include high glucose uptake, deregulated expression of enzymes related to glycol ... Full text Link to item Cite

PD-L1 translocation to the plasma membrane enables tumor immune evasion through MIB2 ubiquitination.

Journal Article J Clin Invest · February 1, 2023 Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), a critical immune checkpoint ligand, is a transmembrane protein synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum of tumor cells and transported to the plasma membrane to interact with programmed death 1 (PD-1) expressed on T cell ... Full text Link to item Cite

HBV-associated DLBCL of poor prognosis: advance in pathogenesis, immunity and therapy.

Journal Article Front Immunol · 2023 Advanced studies have shown a biological correlation between hepatitis B virus (HBV) and B-cell lymphoma, especially diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Patients with DLBCL infected with HBV (HBV-associated DLBCL) are clinically characterized by an adva ... Full text Link to item Cite

Corrigendum: Clinical and immunological effects of p53-targeting vaccines.

Journal Article Front Cell Dev Biol · 2023 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.762796.]. ... Full text Link to item Cite

AI-powered discovery of a novel p53-Y220C reactivator.

Journal Article Front Oncol · 2023 INTRODUCTION: The p53-Y220C mutation is one of the most common mutations that play a major role in cancer progression. METHODS: In this study, we applied artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual screening to identify small-molecule compounds that speci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Exome and targeted sequencing in clinical oncology- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma as a model

Chapter · January 1, 2023 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a highly heterogeneous lymphoid neoplasm with variations in gene expression profiles and genetic alterations, which lead to substantial variations in clinical course and response to treatment. The advent of high-thr ... Full text Cite

Analysis of albumin as a prognostic factor in HHV-8/HIV-negative Castleman disease from a multicenter study.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · December 2022 As a rare lymphoproliferative disorder, many patients with HHV-8/HIV-negative Castleman disease (CD) have hypoalbuminemia. However, data is limited on whether hypoalbuminemia is an independent predictor of CD. We retrospectively collected data from 230 pat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinicopathologic Features and Genomic Signature of De Novo CD5 + Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma : A Multicenter Collaborative Study.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · November 1, 2022 De novo CD5 + diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has poor survival in the era of immunochemotherapy. Accurate gene-based typing and prognostic stratification can enhance the development of effective individualized treatments. Therefore, we conducted a m ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Human herpesvirus 8-negative effusion-based large B-cell lymphoma: a distinct entity with unique clinicopathologic characteristics.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · October 2022 Rare cases of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)-negative effusion-based large B-cell lymphoma (EB-LBCL) occur in body cavities without antecedent or concurrent solid mass formation. In contrast to HHV8 + primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), EB-LBCL has no known assoc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Revealing the evolution of the tumor immune microenvironment in follicular lymphoma patients progressing within 24 months using single-cell imaging mass cytometry.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · August 22, 2022 BACKGROUND: Patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) who experience disease progression within 24 months (POD24) have inferior outcomes. The tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) plays a crucial role in pathogenesis and progression of follicular lymphoma (FL) ... Full text Link to item Cite

HDAC inhibitor chidamide synergizes with venetoclax to inhibit the growth of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma via down-regulation of MYC, BCL2, and TP53 expression.

Journal Article J Zhejiang Univ Sci B · August 15, 2022 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A total of 10%‒15% of DLBCL cases are associated with myelocytomatosis viral oncogene homolog(MYC) and/or B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL2) translocation or amplification. BCL2 i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Efficacy and Safety of a Pegasparaginase-Based Chemotherapy Regimen vs an L-asparaginase-Based Chemotherapy Regimen for Newly Diagnosed Advanced Extranodal Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA Oncol · July 1, 2022 IMPORTANCE: The L-asparaginase-based SMILE (dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide) chemotherapy regimen has shown higher response rates and survival benefit over an anthracycline-containing regimen. However, the safety prof ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Expanding anti-CD38 immunotherapy for lymphoid malignancies.

Journal Article J Exp Clin Cancer Res · June 28, 2022 BACKGROUND: Lymphoid neoplasms, including multiple myeloma (MM), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and NK/T cell neoplasms, are a major cause of blood cancer morbidity and mortality. CD38 (cyclic ADP ribose hydrolase) is a transmembrane glycoprotein expressed on ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The third-generation anti-CD30 CAR T-cells specifically homing to the tumor and mediating powerful antitumor activity.

Journal Article Sci Rep · June 21, 2022 CAR T-cell therapy is well tolerated and effective in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). However, even second- generation anti-CD30 CAR T-cells with CD28 (28z) costimulatory domains failed to achieve the desired ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A novel diagnostic approach for the classification of small B-cell lymphoid neoplasms based on the NanoString platform.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · May 2022 Small B-cell lymphoid neoplasms (SBCLNs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by malignant clonal proliferation of mature B-cells. However, the classification of SBCLNs remains a challenge, especially in cases where histopathological analysi ... Full text Link to item Cite

IRF8 is a transcriptional activator of CD37 expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood Adv · April 12, 2022 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) represents the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that is still incurable in a large fraction of patients. Tetraspanin CD37 is highly expressed on mature B lymphocytes, and multiple CD37-targeting therapies ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetic Subtyping and Phenotypic Characterization of the Immune Microenvironment and MYC/BCL2 Double Expression Reveal Heterogeneity in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · March 1, 2022 PURPOSE: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is molecularly and clinically heterogeneous, and can be subtyped according to genetic alterations, cell-of-origin, or microenvironmental signatures using high-throughput genomic data at the DNA or RNA level. A ... Full text Link to item Cite

RNA-mediated immunotherapy regulating tumor immune microenvironment: next wave of cancer therapeutics.

Journal Article Mol Cancer · February 21, 2022 Accumulating research suggests that the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) plays an essential role in regulation of tumor growth and metastasis. The cellular and molecular nature of the TIME influences cancer progression and metastasis by altering the ra ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

EBV+ high-grade B cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 rearrangements: a multi-institutional study.

Journal Article Histopathology · February 2022 AIMS: It is unknown whether Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection can occur in high-grade B cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 rearrangements, also known as double- or triple-hit lymphoma (DHL/THL). METHODS AND RESULTS: Here we report 16 cases of EBV ... Full text Link to item Cite

Determining clinical course of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using targeted transcriptome and machine learning algorithms.

Journal Article Blood Cancer J · February 1, 2022 Multiple studies have demonstrated that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) can be divided into subgroups based on their biology; however, these biological subgroups overlap clinically. Using machine learning, we developed an approach to stratify patient ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Short-Term Efficacy and Safety of Brentuximab Vedotin Plus Cyclophosphamide, Epirubicin and Prednisone in Untreated PTCL: A Real-World, Retrospective Study.

Journal Article Adv Ther · January 2022 INTRODUCTION: Brentuximab vedotin (BV) showed high overall remission rates in refractory/relapsed classical Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (sALCL). Although the efficacy of BV has been reported in clinical trials, its e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving the prognostic ability of PET/CT SUVmax to identify follicular lymphoma with early treatment failure.

Journal Article Am J Cancer Res · 2022 Follicular lymphoma (FL) has a high degree of heterogeneity both clinically and molecularly. Early treatment failure (ETF), progression or relapse within 24 months of frontline immunochemotherapy is associated with a poor prognosis in FL. However, the clin ... Link to item Cite

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of Castleman disease: a multicenter Consortium study of 428 patients with 15-year follow-up.

Journal Article Am J Cancer Res · 2022 Castleman disease (CD) has been reported as a group of poorly understood lymphoproliferative disorders, including unicentric CD (UCD) and idiopathic multicentric CD (iMCD) which are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative and human herpes virus 8 (HHV- ... Link to item Cite

Targetable vulnerability of deregulated FOXM1/PLK1 signaling axis in diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Am J Cancer Res · 2022 FOXM1 is a transcription factor that controls cell cycle regulation, cell proliferation, and differentiation. Overexpression of FOXM1 has been implicated in various cancer types. However, the activation status and functional significance of FOXM1 in diffus ... Link to item Cite

EZH2 expression is associated with inferior overall survival in mantle cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · December 2021 Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is a catalytic component of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) which reduces gene expression via trimethylation of a lysine residue of histone 3 (H3K27me3). Expression of EZH2 has not been assessed systematically in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Posttranslational Modifications in PD-L1 Turnover and Function: From Cradle to Grave.

Journal Article Biomedicines · November 16, 2021 Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is one of the most classic immune checkpoint molecules. Cancer cells express PD-L1 to inhibit the activity of effector T cells' cytotoxicity through programmed death 1 (PD-1) engagement in exposure to inflammatory cytokine ... Full text Link to item Cite

Determining Clinical Course of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Using Targeted Transcriptome and Machine Learning Algorithms

Conference Blood · November 5, 2021 AbstractIntroduction: Multiple studies have demonstrated that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) can be divided into subgroups based on their biology. However, these biological subgroups overlap clinicall ... Full text Cite

Chidamide Maintenance Therapy after Induction or Salvage Treatment in Patients with Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma Ineligible for Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation

Conference Blood · November 5, 2021 AbstractBackgroundPeripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is a set of rare and heterogeneous clinically aggressive mature T- and natural killer cell neoplasms, all of which are ass ... Full text Cite

The Short-Term Efficacy and Safety of Brentuximab Vedotin Plus Cyclophosphamide, Epirubicin and Prednisone Acetate in Peripheral T Cell Lymphomas: A Real-World, Retrospective Case Series from China

Conference Blood · November 5, 2021 AbstractBackground:Brentuximab vedotin (BV) showed high overall remission rate in refractory/relapsed classical Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) and systemic anaplastic large cell lym ... Full text Cite

Transducin β-like protein 1 controls multiple oncogenic networks in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Haematologica · November 1, 2021 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is characterized by a remarkable heterogeneity with diverse variants that can be identified histologically and molecularly. Large-scale gene expression profiling studies ha ... Full text Link to item Cite

A composite single-nucleotide polymorphism prediction signature for extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood · August 12, 2021 Current prognostic scoring systems based on clinicopathologic variables are inadequate in predicting the survival and treatment response of extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL) patients undergoing nonanthracyline-based treatment. We aimed to c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment-Related Adverse Events of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR T) in Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Journal Article Cancers (Basel) · August 3, 2021 Chimeric antigen receptors T (CAR-T) cell therapy of cancer is a rapidly evolving field. It has been shown to be remarkably effective in cases of hematological malignancies, and its approval by the FDA has significantly increased the enthusiasm for wide cl ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

MYC protein expression does not correlate with MYC abnormalities detected by FISH but predicts an unfavorable prognosis in de novo acute myeloid leukemia.

Journal Article Leuk Res · July 2021 While dysregulation of MYC has been implicated in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the impact of MYC protein expression in AML is less well understood. We investigated the correlation of MYC protein expression by immunohistochemistry (MYC-IHC) with MYC abnorm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm: Progress in Cell Origin, Molecular Biology, Diagnostic Criteria and Therapeutic Approaches.

Journal Article Curr Med Sci · June 2021 Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare hematological malignancy characterized by recurrent skin nodules, an aggressive clinical course with rapid involvement of hematological organs, and a poor prognosis with poor overall survival. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vulvar Primary Cutaneous CD8+ Aggressive Epidermotropic Cytotoxic T-Cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Int J Gynecol Pathol · May 1, 2021 Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas may present with a clinical course that is incongruent with the associated histologic findings. Primary cutaneous CD8+ aggressive epidermotropic cytotoxic T-cell lymphoma classically presents as an abrupt eruption of disseminated ... Full text Link to item Cite

Molecular and genetic biomarkers implemented from next-generation sequencing provide treatment insights in clinical practice for Waldenström macroglobulinemia.

Journal Article Neoplasia · April 2021 Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) is a distinct type of indolent lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) with a high frequency of MYD88L265P mutation. Treatment for WM/LPL is highly variable in clinic and ibrutinib (a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, BTKi) has ... Full text Link to item Cite

MYD88 L265P elicits mutation-specific ubiquitination to drive NF-κB activation and lymphomagenesis.

Journal Article Blood · March 2021 Myeloid differentiation primary response protein 88 (MYD88) is a critical universal adapter that transduces signaling from Toll-like and interleukin receptors to downstream nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB). MYD88L265P (leucine changed to proline at position 265) ... Full text Cite

CD19 CAR-T expressing PD-1/CD28 chimeric switch receptor as a salvage therapy for DLBCL patients treated with different CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapies.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · February 16, 2021 CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell therapy is a promising option to treat relapsed/refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (R/R DLBCL). However, the majority of CAR T-treated patients will eventually progress and require salvage treatm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Aggressive B-cell Lymphoma with MYC/TP53 Dual Alterations Displays Distinct Clinicopathobiological Features and Response to Novel Targeted Agents.

Journal Article Mol Cancer Res · February 2021 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the major type of aggressive B-cell lymphoma. High-grade B-cell lymphoma (HGBCL) with MYC/BCL2 double-hit (DH) represents a distinct entity with dismal prognosis after standard immunochemotherapy in the current WHO ... Full text Link to item Cite

Natural killer cells associated with SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA shedding, antibody response and mortality in COVID-19 patients.

Journal Article Exp Hematol Oncol · January 27, 2021 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infectious viral disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Two consecutively negative SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA test ( interval ≥ 24 hours), improved respiratory symptoms a ... Full text Link to item Cite

CD19-specific CAR T Cells that Express a PD-1/CD28 Chimeric Switch-Receptor are Effective in Patients with PD-L1-positive B-Cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · January 15, 2021 PURPOSE: CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is effective against refractory or relapsed (R/R) B-cell lymphoma, but the efficacy is hindered by the existence of PD-1/PD-L1 pathway. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Here, we generated a novel a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictive Model for Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Supporting Treatment Decisions.

Journal Article Oncologist · January 2021 The International Castleman Disease Consortium recently presented the first idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease prognostic model correlating with clinical outcome. This commentary summarizes the value of this international prognostic index tool and t ... Full text Link to item Cite

CS2164 and Venetoclax Show Synergistic Antitumoral Activities in High Grade B-Cell Lymphomas With MYC and BCL2 Rearrangements.

Journal Article Front Oncol · 2021 High-grade B-cell lymphoma with concurrent MYC and BCL2 rearrangements (HGBL-DHL) is a rare, aggressive mature B-cell malignancy with a high likelihood of treatment failure following front-line immunochemotherapies. Patients with HGBL-DHL who develop a rel ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Genomic complexity is associated with epigenetic regulator mutations and poor prognosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncoimmunology · 2021 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of lymphoma with high mutation burdens but a low response rate to immune checkpoint inhibitors. In this study, we performed targeted next-generation sequencing and fluorescent multiplex immunohi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical and Immunological Effects of p53-Targeting Vaccines.

Journal Article Front Cell Dev Biol · 2021 Immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint blockade and chimeric antigen receptor T cells, is one of the most promising approaches to treat cancer. Vaccines have been effective in preventing cancers like liver cancer and cervical cancer with a viral etiolo ... Full text Link to item Cite

New agents and regimens for diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · December 14, 2020 As a widely recognized standard regimen, R-CHOP (rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) is able to cure two-thirds patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and the remaining patients suffer from refractory or ... Full text Link to item Cite

Therapeutic vaccines for aggressive B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leukemia & lymphoma · December 2020 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common aggressive B-cell lymphoma and highly heterogeneous disease. With the standard immunochemotherapy, anti-CD20 antibody rituximab (R-) plus CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednis ... Full text Cite

Lymphoid enhancer binding factor 1 (LEF1) expression is significantly higher in Hodgkin lymphoma associated with Richter syndrome relative to de novo classic Hodgkin lymphoma.

Journal Article Ann Diagn Pathol · December 2020 Lymphoid enhancer binding factor 1 (LEF1) is consistently upregulated in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and in a subset of large B cell lymphoma. Knowledge of LEF1 expression in Hodgkin lymphoma is limited. In this study, we used immunohistochemistry t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rotational Spectra of Vibrationally Excited AlO and TiO in Oxygen-rich Stars

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · December 1, 2020 Rotational transitions in vibrationally excited AlO and TiO-two possible precursors of dust-were observed in the 300 GHz range (1 mm wavelength) toward the oxygen-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars R Dor and IK Tau with ALMA, and vibrationally excite ... Full text Cite

XPO1 expression worsens the prognosis of unfavorable DLBCL that can be effectively targeted by selinexor in the absence of mutant p53.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · November 4, 2020 The XPO1 inhibitor selinexor was recently approved in relapsed/refractory DLBCL patients but only demonstrated modest anti-DLBCL efficacy, prompting us to investigate the prognostic effect of XPO1 in DLBCL patients and the rational combination therapies in ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Novel Predictive Model for Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease: The International Castleman Disease Consortium Study.

Journal Article Oncologist · November 2020 BACKGROUND: Patients with multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) who are negative for human immunodeficiency virus and human herpesvirus 8 are considered to have idiopathic MCD (iMCD). The clinical presentation of iMCD varies from mild constitutional symptom ... Full text Link to item Cite

Preclinical evaluation of a regimen combining chidamide and ABT-199 in acute myeloid leukemia.

Journal Article Cell Death Dis · September 18, 2020 Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous myeloid neoplasm with poor clinical outcome, despite the great progress in treatment in recent years. The selective Bcl-2 inhibitor venetoclax (ABT-199) in combination therapy has been approved for the treatm ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identification of hepatitis B virus aetiologic antigens, HBx and Pre-S2, in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article J Viral Hepat · September 2020 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has been reported to have a significant association with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. However, there has been no experimental evidence to determine whether the components of the hepatitis B virus are expresse ... Full text Link to item Cite

Targeting PD-L1 in non-small cell lung cancer using CAR T cells.

Journal Article Oncogenesis · August 13, 2020 Antibodies against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1) have dramatically changed the landscape of therapies for non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC); however, the majority of patients do not respond to these agents. In addition, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Novel bioinformatic classification system for genetic signatures identification in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article BMC Cancer · July 31, 2020 BACKGROUND: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a spectrum of disease comprising more than 30% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Although studies have identified several molecular subgroups, the heterogeneous genetic background of DLBCL remains ambiguous. In ... Full text Link to item Cite

A refined cell-of-origin classifier with targeted NGS and artificial intelligence shows robust predictive value in DLBCL.

Journal Article Blood Adv · July 28, 2020 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous entity of B-cell lymphoma. Cell-of-origin (COO) classification of DLBCL is required in routine practice by the World Health Organization classification for biological and therapeutic insights. Geneti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetic and phenotypic characterization of indolent T-cell lymphoproliferative disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.

Journal Article Haematologica · July 2020 Indolent T-cell lymphoproliferative disorders of the gastrointestinal tract are rare clonal T-cell diseases that more commonly occur in the intestines and have a protracted clinical course. Different immunophenotypic subsets have been described, but the mo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mutant p53 as an Antigen in Cancer Immunotherapy.

Journal Article Int J Mol Sci · June 8, 2020 The p53 tumor suppressor plays a pivotal role in cancer and infectious disease. Many oncology treatments are now calling on immunotherapy approaches, and scores of studies have investigated the role of p53 antibodies in cancer diagnosis and therapy. This r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic factors, therapeutic approaches, and distinct immunobiologic features in patients with primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma on long-term follow-up.

Journal Article Blood Cancer J · May 4, 2020 Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) is a rare and distinct subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) without prognostic factors or a single standard of treatment clearly defined. In this study we performed retrospective analysis for cl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ubiquitination of the DNA-damage checkpoint kinase CHK1 by TRAF4 is required for CHK1 activation.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · May 1, 2020 BACKGROUND: Aberrant activation of DNA damage response (DDR) is a major cause of chemoresistance in colorectal cancer (CRC). CHK1 is upregulated in CRC and contributes to therapeutic resistance. We investigated the upstream signaling pathways governing CHK ... Full text Link to item Cite

LAG3: a novel immune checkpoint expressed by multiple lymphocyte subsets in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood Adv · April 14, 2020 Blockade of the PD-1 axis has modest efficacy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), but data regarding LAG3 are sparse. The impact of LAG3 digital gene expression was tested in 309 patients with DLBCL treated with standard chemoimmunotherapy. Cellular ... Full text Link to item Cite

MicroRNAs associated to single drug components of R-CHOP identifies diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with poor outcome and adds prognostic value to the international prognostic index.

Journal Article BMC Cancer · March 20, 2020 BACKGROUND: Treatment resistance is a major clinical challenge of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) where approximately 40% of the patients have refractory disease or relapse. Since DLBCL is characterized by great clinical and molecular heterogeneity, ... Full text Link to item Cite

A proposal for pathologic processing of breast implant capsules in patients with suspected breast implant anaplastic large cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · March 2020 Breast implant anaplastic large cell lymphoma is an entity recently recognized by the World Health Organization. The tumor arises around textured-surface breast implants and is usually confined to the surrounding fibrous capsule. Currently, there are no re ... Full text Link to item Cite

98% IGHV gene identity is the optimal cutoff to dichotomize the prognosis of Chinese patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Journal Article Cancer Med · February 2020 Immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region (IGHV) mutational status has been an important prognostic factor for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) for decades. Patients with unmutated IGHV (≥98% identity to the germline sequence) have inferior prognosis an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Uncovering the Role of RNA-Binding Protein hnRNP K in B-Cell Lymphomas.

Journal Article J Natl Cancer Inst · January 1, 2020 BACKGROUND: Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP K) is an RNA-binding protein that is aberrantly expressed in cancers. We and others have previously shown that reduced hnRNP K expression downmodulates tumor-suppressive programs. However, overex ... Full text Link to item Cite

SARS-CoV-2 induced thrombocytopenia as an important biomarker significantly correlated with abnormal coagulation function, increased intravascular blood clot risk and mortality in COVID-19 patients.

Journal Article Exp Hematol Oncol · 2020 BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infectious viral disease, which lacks well-established diagnostic laboratory parameters that could be used to evaluate disease severity, thromboembolism or cardiovascular events and to predict clin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Relevance of MYC/BCL2 and Cell of Origin in Patients with Relapsed Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Treated with Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation

Conference Blood · November 13, 2019 Purpose: Dual expression of MYC and BCL2 proteins (Double Expressor Lymphoma-[DEL]) and MYC, BCL2 and /or BCL6 translocations (Double Hit Lymphoma-[DHL]) as well as the cell-of-origin (COO) are important prognostic factors in patients (pts) with di ... Full text Cite

Cell of Origin Classification of DLBCL Using Targeted NGS Expression Profiling and Deep Learning

Conference Blood · November 13, 2019 Introduction: Targeted RNA sequencing using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has significant advantages over transcriptome sequencing. In addition to information on mutations, fusion and alternative splicing, RNA quantification using targeted RNA s ... Full text Cite

Higher Stability of Mutant mRNA As Compared to Wild-Type mRNA in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Conference Blood · November 13, 2019 Cellular RNA levels are tightly regulated by very complex nuclear and cytoplasmic processes. The regulation of mutant mRNA in cancer cells is rarely studied. We explored the effects of mutations on mRNA levels in patients with diffuse large B-cell ... Full text Cite

Addition of Drug-Response Specific Micro-RNAs to the International Prognostic Index Improves Prognostic Stratification of GCB-DLBCL Patients Treated with R-CHOP

Conference Blood · November 13, 2019 Background: Patients with Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in approximately 40% of cases suffer from primary refractory disease and treatment induced immuno-chemotherapy resistance demonstrating that standard provided treatment regimens are no ... Full text Cite

Tissue-specific microRNA expression alters cancer susceptibility conferred by a TP53 noncoding variant.

Journal Article Nat Commun · November 7, 2019 A noncoding polymorphism (rs78378222) in TP53, carried by scores of millions of people, was previously associated with moderate risk of brain tumors and other neoplasms. We find a positive association between this variant and soft tissue sarcoma. In sharp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immunoglobulin somatic hypermutation has clinical impact in DLBCL and potential implications for immune checkpoint blockade and neoantigen-based immunotherapies.

Journal Article J Immunother Cancer · October 22, 2019 BACKGROUND: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) harbors somatic hypermutation (SHM) in the immunoglobulin heavy chain and light chain variable region genes, IGHV and IGK/LV. Recent studies have revealed that IGV SHM creates neoantigens that activate T-ce ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetic alterations and their clinical implications in DLBCL.

Journal Article Nat Rev Clin Oncol · October 2019 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a highly heterogeneous lymphoid neoplasm with variations in gene expression profiles and genetic alterations, which lead to substantial variations in clinical course and response to therapy. The advent of high-throu ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Mantle Cell Lymphoma Involving Skin: A Clinicopathologic Study of 37 Cases.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · October 2019 Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) rarely involves the skin and the histologic and immunohistochemical features of this neoplasm at this site are under described. In this study, we report 37 skin specimens involved by MCL, representing 1.4% of total MCL biopsy spe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Recurrent GNAQ mutation encoding T96S in natural killer/T cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Nat Commun · September 16, 2019 Natural killer/T cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is a rare and aggressive malignancy with a higher prevalence in Asia and South America. However, the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying NKTCL remain unclear. Here, we identify somatic mutations of GNAQ (encoding ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cross-talk between Myc and p53 in B-cell lymphomas.

Journal Article Chronic Dis Transl Med · September 2019 Myc and p53 proteins are closely associated with many physiological cellular functions, including immune response and lymphocyte survival, and are expressed in the lymphoid organs, which are sites for the development and activation of B-cell malignancies. ... Full text Link to item Cite

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma in relapse presenting as a cervical mass: A case report and review of literature

Journal Article Gynecologic Oncology Reports · August 1, 2019 The involvement of the cervix as a site of relapse for hematologic malignancies is rare. We herein present a case of relapsed B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma (ALL) mimicking advanced cervical cancer. The patient is a 61-year-old female with hi ... Full text Cite

Glyphosate induces benign monoclonal gammopathy and promotes multiple myeloma progression in mice.

Journal Article Journal of hematology & oncology · July 2019 BackgroundGlyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the USA and worldwide. There has been considerable debate about its carcinogenicity. Epidemiological studies suggest that multiple myeloma (MM) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) have a positiv ... Full text Cite

Current perspectives on the treatment of double hit lymphoma.

Journal Article Expert Rev Hematol · July 2019 Introduction: Double hit lymphoma (DHL) represents a new diagnostic category with genetic, immunohistochemical and clinical characteristics intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma. Patients with DHL usually experience poor s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Allogeneic Transplantation after Myeloablative Rituximab/BEAM ± Bortezomib for Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Lymphoid Malignancies: 5-Year Follow-Up Results.

Journal Article Biol Blood Marrow Transplant · July 2019 Although bortezomib and rituximab have synergistic activity in patients with lymphoma and both can attenuate graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), the drugs have not been used together in patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT). In t ... Full text Link to item Cite

PD-1/PD-L1 expression and interaction by automated quantitative immunofluorescent analysis show adverse prognostic impact in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma having T-cell infiltration: a study from the International DLBCL Consortium Program.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · June 2019 Programmed cell death protein 1/programmed cell death protein ligand1 (PD-1/PD-L1) interaction is an important immune checkpoint targeted by anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapies. However, the observed prognostic significance of PD-1/PD-L1 expression in diffuse ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Reprogrammed marrow adipocytes contribute to myeloma-induced bone disease.

Journal Article Sci Transl Med · May 29, 2019 Osteolytic lesions in multiple myeloma are caused by osteoclast-mediated bone resorption and reduced bone formation. A unique feature of myeloma is a failure of bone healing after successful treatment. We observed adipocytes on trabecular bone near the res ... Full text Link to item Cite

MicroRNA-155 controls vincristine sensitivity and predicts superior clinical outcome in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood Adv · April 9, 2019 A major clinical challenge of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is that up to 40% of patients have refractory disease or relapse after initial response to therapy as a result of drug-specific molecular resistance. The purpose of the present study was t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immune Profiling and Quantitative Analysis Decipher the Clinical Role of Immune-Checkpoint Expression in the Tumor Immune Microenvironment of DLBCL.

Journal Article Cancer Immunol Res · April 2019 PD-1/L1 and CTLA-4 blockade immunotherapies have been approved for 13 types of cancers and are being studied in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most common aggressive B-cell lymphoma. However, whether both PD-1 and CTLA-4 checkpoints are active ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: Molecular Pathogenesis and Advances in Treatment

Journal Article Translational Oncology · March 1, 2019 Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a group of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma that exhibits specific biological characteristics and clinical behavior, with an aggressive disease course and unsatisfactory patient outcomes. It is of great imp ... Full text Cite

Dysregulation of Cell Survival in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.

Journal Article Front Oncol · 2019 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of lymphoma worldwide, representing 30-40% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and is clinically aggressive. Although more than half of patients with DLBCL are cured by using standard first-line immunoche ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Epstein-Barr virus-positive natural killer/T-cell lymphoma

Journal Article Frontiers in Oncology · January 1, 2019 Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKL), is a rare malignancy of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by an aggressive clinical course and poor prognosis. It shows strong association with Epstein-Barr virus infection and occurs more comm ... Full text Cite

B-cell receptor-mediated NFATc1 activation induces IL-10/STAT3/PD-L1 signaling in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood · October 25, 2018 Knowledge of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression and its regulation in B-cell lymphoma cells is limited. Investigating mechanisms that control PD-L1 expression in B-cell lymphoma cells might identify biomarkers that predict the efficacy of immunot ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cancer immunotherapy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Journal Article Frontiers in Oncology · September 10, 2018 Remarkable progress has been made in the field of cancer immunotherapy in the past few years. Immunotherapy has become a standard treatment option for patients with various cancers, including melanoma, lymphoma, and carcinomas of the lungs, kidneys, bladde ... Full text Cite

Submillimeter-wave emission of three Galactic red novae: Cool molecular outflows produced by stellar mergers

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · September 1, 2018 Red novae are optical transients erupting at luminosities typically higher than those of classical novae. Their outbursts are believed to be caused by stellar mergers. We present millimeter/submillimeter-wave observations with the Atacama Large (sub)Millim ... Full text Cite

SMA Spectral Line Survey of the Proto-Planetary Nebula CRL 618

Conference Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union · August 24, 2018 Carbon-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars are major sources of gas and dust in the interstellar medium. During the brief (∼1000 yr) period in the evolution from AGB to the Planetary Nebula (PN) stage, the molecular composition evolves from mainly dia ... Full text Cite

Strategic Therapeutic Targeting to Overcome Venetoclax Resistance in Aggressive B-cell Lymphomas.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · August 15, 2018 Purpose: B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2), an antiapoptotic protein often dysregulated in B-cell lymphomas, promotes cell survival and provides protection from stress. A recent phase I first-in-human study of the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax in non-Hodgkin lymphoma ... Full text Link to item Cite

Circumstellar chemistry of Si-C bearing molecules in the C-rich AGB star IRC+10216

Conference Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union · August 13, 2018 Silicon carbide together with amorphous carbon are the main components of dust grains in the atmospheres of C-rich AGB stars. Small gaseous Si-C bearing molecules (such as SiC, SiCSi, and SiC2) are efficiently formed close to the stellar photosphere. They ... Full text Cite

Targeting the Leukemia Antigen PR1 with Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · July 15, 2018 Purpose: PR1 is a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 nonameric peptide derived from neutrophil elastase (NE) and proteinase 3 (P3). We have previously shown that PR1 is cross-presented by solid tumors, leukemia, and antigen-presenting cells, including B cell ... Full text Link to item Cite

Correction to: miR-153 suppresses IDO1 expression and enhances CAR T cell immunotherapy.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · July 3, 2018 The original article [1] contains a spelling error in the authorship; the authors would like to note the correct spelling of the second author, Jiajia Xi. ... Full text Link to item Cite

EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified: 2018 update on diagnosis, risk-stratification and management.

Journal Article Am J Hematol · July 2018 DISEASE OVERVIEW: Epstein Barr virus-positive (EBV+) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), not otherwise specified (NOS) is an entity included in the 2016 WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms. EBV+ DLBCL, NOS, is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma associat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical Significance of PTEN Deletion, Mutation, and Loss of PTEN Expression in De Novo Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Neoplasia · June 2018 PTEN loss has been associated with poorer prognosis in many solid tumors. However, such investigation in lymphomas is limited. In this study, PTEN cytoplasmic and nuclear expression, PTEN gene deletion, and PTEN mutations were evaluated in two independent ... Full text Link to item Cite

miR-21 depletion in macrophages promotes tumoricidal polarization and enhances PD-1 immunotherapy.

Journal Article Oncogene · June 2018 MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is one of the most abundant microRNAs in mammalian cells. It has been intensively studied for its role in regulating apoptosis and oncogenic transformation. However, the impact of miR-21 on host anti-tumor immunity remains unknown. Tum ... Full text Link to item Cite

Detection of Intrinsic Source Structure at ∼3 Schwarzschild Radii with Millimeter-VLBI Observations of SAGITTARIUS A∗

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · May 20, 2018 We report results from very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) observations of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center, Sgr A∗, at 1.3 mm (230 GHz). The observations were performed in 2013 March using six VLBI stations in Hawaii, California, A ... Full text Cite

MYD88 L265P Mutation in Lymphoid Malignancies.

Journal Article Cancer Res · May 15, 2018 Next-generation sequencing has revealed cancer genomic landscapes, in which over 100 driver genes that, when altered by intragenic mutations, can promote oncogenesis. MYD88 is a driver gene found in hematologic B-cell malignancies. A missense mutation (L26 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Updated Results of Rituximab Pre- and Post-BEAM with or without 90Yttrium Ibritumomab Tiuxetan during Autologous Transplant for Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · May 15, 2018 Purpose: We evaluated the effect on long-term survival of adding rituximab (R) to BEAM (carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan) conditioning with or without yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan (90YIT) in patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell ly ... Full text Link to item Cite

Richter transformation driven by Epstein-Barr virus reactivation during therapy-related immunosuppression in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Journal Article J Pathol · May 2018 The increased risk of Richter transformation (RT) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) due to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation during immunosuppressive therapy with fludarabine other targeted agents remains controversial. Among 31 RT c ... Full text Link to item Cite

miR-153 suppresses IDO1 expression and enhances CAR T cell immunotherapy.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · April 23, 2018 BACKGROUND: Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in converting tryptophan to kynurenine. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are T cells with recombinant receptors targeting tumor-associated antigens. The Food ... Full text Link to item Cite

An open label, single-armed, exploratory study of apatinib (a novel VEGFR-2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor) in patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · March 23, 2018 BACKGROUND: Apatinib, a novel small molecule vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) tyrosine kinase inhibitor, have shown remarkable efficacy in many solid cancers. But evidence of antitumor activity in patients with lymphoma is still limi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Targeting nucleolin for better survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leukemia · March 2018 Anthracyclines have been a cornerstone in the cure of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and other hematological cancers. The ability of anthracyclines to eliminate DLBCL depends on the presence of topoisomerase-II-alpha (TopIIA), a DNA repair enzyme co ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinicopathologic Features and Prognostic Impact of Lymph Node Involvement in Patients With Breast Implant-associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · March 2018 Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BI-ALCL) is a rare T-cell lymphoma that arises around breast implants. Most patients manifest with periprosthetic effusion, whereas a subset of patients develops a tumor mass or lymph node involveme ... Full text Link to item Cite

Critically dysregulated signaling pathways and clinical utility of the pathway biomarkers in lymphoid malignancies

Journal Article Chronic Diseases and Translational Medicine · March 1, 2018 Accumulating evidence confirmed that many dysregulated signaling pathways and aberrant genetic alterations contribute to the oncogenesis and heterogeneity of lymphoid malignancies. Therapeutically targeting dysregulating signaling pathways and their hidden ... Full text Cite

Concordant bone marrow involvement of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma represents a distinct clinical and biological entity in the era of immunotherapy.

Journal Article Leukemia · February 2018 In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the clinical and biological significance of concordant and discordant bone marrow (BM) involvement have not been well investigated. We evaluated 712 de novo DLBCL patients with front-line rituximab-containing treat ... Full text Link to item Cite

CD200 expression in mantle cell lymphoma identifies a unique subgroup of patients with frequent IGHV mutations, absence of SOX11 expression, and an indolent clinical course.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · February 2018 CD200, a marker currently utilized in the diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma, is uniformly positive in chronic lymphocytic leukemia/chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and is usually absent in mantle cell lymphoma. Over a 6 year-period, of 668 mantle cell lymphoma ass ... Full text Link to item Cite

Activity of pembrolizumab in relapsed/refractory NK/T-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · January 31, 2018 Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) is a rare subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that is associated with a poor outcome. Currently, the treatment needs of NKTCL remain unmet, and efforts to further improve treatment are urgently needed. Herein, seven patie ... Full text Link to item Cite

PD-1 expression and clinical PD-1 blockade in B-cell lymphomas.

Journal Article Blood · January 4, 2018 Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) blockade targeting the PD-1 immune checkpoint has demonstrated unprecedented clinical efficacy in the treatment of advanced cancers including hematologic malignancies. This article reviews the landscape of PD-1/progra ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Preclinical efficacy and biological effects of the oral proteasome inhibitor ixazomib in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · January 2, 2018 Despite advances in deciphering the molecular pathogenesis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), patients with relapsed/refractory disease, particularly those with adverse genetic features (e.g., mutated p53 or double hit lymphoma (DHL)) have very poor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Apoptosis signaling and BCL-2 pathways provide opportunities for novel targeted therapeutic strategies in hematologic malignances.

Journal Article Blood Rev · January 2018 Apoptosis is an essential biological process involved in tissue homeostasis and immunity. Aberrations of the two main apoptotic pathways, extrinsic and intrinsic, have been identified in hematological malignancies; many of these aberrations are associated ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Pathology · January 2018 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma worldwide, representing approximately 30-40% of all cases in different geographic regions. Patients most often present with a rapidly growing tumour mass in single or mul ... Full text Link to item Cite

Commissioning status of the Greenland Telescope (GLT)

Conference Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · January 1, 2018 The Greenland Telescope completed its construction, so the commissioning phase has been started since December 2017. Single-dish commissioning has started from the optical pointing which produced the first pointing model, followed by the radio pointing and ... Full text Cite

Radiation therapy improves survival in patients with testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · December 2017 In 120 Stage I-IV testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients treated from 1964 to 2015, we assessed the benefits of prophylactic contralateral testicular radiation (RT) and prophylactic central nervous system (CNS) therapy on overall, progre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hepatitis C virus positive diffuse large B-cell lymphomas have distinct molecular features and lack BCL2 translocations.

Journal Article British journal of cancer · November 2017 BackgroundThe clinical presentation of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is different from their HCV-negative counterparts, but the underlying molecular and pathological characteristics are largel ... Full text Cite

Primary Bone Lymphoma Exhibits a Favorable Prognosis and Distinct Gene Expression Signatures Resembling Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Derived From Centrocytes in the Germinal Center.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · October 2017 Primary bone (PB) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is rare and has a favorable prognosis, but the underlying biological mechanisms remain unknown. In this study we analyzed the clinicopathologic features of 160 patients with PB-DLBCL in comparison wit ... Full text Link to item Cite

The efficacy and safety of gemcitabine, cisplatin, prednisone, thalidomide versus CHOP in patients with newly diagnosed peripheral T-cell lymphoma with analysis of biomarkers.

Journal Article Br J Haematol · September 2017 We compared the efficacy and safety of gemcitabine, cisplatin, prednisone and thalidomide (GDPT) with standard CHOP regimen (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) for patients with newly diagnosed peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) in a pr ... Full text Link to item Cite

AKT Hyperactivation and the Potential of AKT-Targeted Therapy in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Am J Pathol · August 2017 AKT signaling is important for proliferation and survival of tumor cells. The clinical significance of AKT activation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is not well analyzed. Here, we assessed expression of phosphorylated AKT (p-AKT) in 522 DLBCL pat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract 666: CD37 tetraspanin as a novel biomarker for PD-1 blockade in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Conference Cancer Research · July 1, 2017 AbstractPD-1 immune checkpoint blockade reconstituting antitumor immunity has changed the cancer treatment paradigm. PD-1 blockade has been successful in many types of solid tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma, but ... Full text Cite

NF-κB p50 activation associated with immune dysregulation confers poorer survival for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with wild-type p53.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · June 2017 Dysregulated NF-κB signaling is critical for lymphomagenesis, however, the expression and clinical relevance of NF-κB subunit p50 in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma have not been evaluated. In this study, we analyzed the prognostic significance and gene expr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Checkpoint inhibitors in hematological malignancies.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · May 8, 2017 Inhibitory molecules such as PD-1, CTLA-4, LAG-3, or TIM-3 play a role to keep a balance in immune function. However, many cancers exploit such molecules to escape immune surveillance. Accumulating data support that their functions are dysregulated in lymp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immunophenotypic Shifts in Primary Cutaneous γδ T-Cell Lymphoma Suggest Antigenic Modulation: A Study of Sequential Biopsy Specimens.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · April 2017 Primary cutaneous γδ T-cell lymphoma (PCGD TCL), an aggressive type of lymphoma, accounts for approximately 1% of all primary cutaneous lymphomas. We have occasionally observed changes in T-cell antigen expression (immunophenotypic [IP] shift) over time, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical and pathological characteristics of HIV- and HHV-8-negative Castleman disease.

Journal Article Blood · March 23, 2017 Castleman disease (CD) comprises 3 poorly understood lymphoproliferative variants sharing several common histopathological features. Unicentric CD (UCD) is localized to a single region of lymph nodes. Multicentric CD (MCD) manifests with systemic inflammat ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

An Extraordinary Outburst in the Massive Protostellar System NGC 6334I-MM1: Quadrupling of the Millimeter Continuum

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Letters · March 10, 2017 Based on sub-arcsecond Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Submillimeter Array (SMA) 1.3 mm continuum images of the massive protocluster NGC 6334I obtained in 2015 and 2008, we find that the dust emission from MM1 has increased by a fac ... Full text Cite

Loss of PRDM1/BLIMP-1 function contributes to poor prognosis of activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leukemia · March 2017 PRDM1/BLIMP-1, a master regulator of plasma-cell differentiation, is frequently inactivated in activated B-cell-like (ABC) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. Little is known about its genetic aberrations and relevant clinical implications. A l ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Targeting the programmed death-1 pathway in lymphoid neoplasms.

Journal Article Cancer Treat Rev · March 2017 Programmed death-1 (PD-1) is a co-inhibitory molecule and is seen in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. Upon binding to its ligands, programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) and -2 (PD-L2), PD-1 negatively regulates interleukin 2 (IL-2) production and T cell proliferation. A ... Full text Link to item Cite

NF-κB signaling pathway and its potential as a target for therapy in lymphoid neoplasms.

Journal Article Blood Rev · March 2017 The NF-κB pathway, a critical regulator of apoptosis, plays a key role in many normal cellular functions. Genetic alterations and other mechanisms leading to constitutive activation of the NF-κB pathway contribute to cancer development, progression and the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Peripheral T-cell lymphoma with unusual clinical presentation of rhabdomyolysis.

Journal Article Hematol Oncol · March 2017 Primary extranodal lymphoma is known to occur in nose, gastrointestinal tract, skin, bone, and central nervous system. However, it is extremely rare for primary lymphoma to arise in skeletal muscle. We report a case of a 32-year-old man who presented initi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primary Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas Showing Gamma-Delta (γδ) Phenotype and Predominantly Epidermotropic Pattern are Clinicopathologically Distinct From Classic Primary Cutaneous γδ T-Cell Lymphomas.

Conference Am J Surg Pathol · February 2017 Primary cutaneous gamma-delta (γδ) T-cell lymphoma is a rare disease that typically involves the dermis and subcutis. Cases of primary cutaneous T-cell lymphomas showing γδ phenotype and predominantly epidermotropic pattern (EγδTCL) are not well defined. I ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma arising in patients with immunodysregulatory disorders: a study of 7 patients who did not receive tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor therapy and literature review.

Journal Article Ann Diagn Pathol · February 2017 Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL) is a rare and aggressive extranodal T-cell lymphoma that can arise in patients with underlying immune disorders. Others have suggested that tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α inhibitor therapy for immune disorders increases ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mantle Cell Lymphoma With MYC Rearrangement: A Report of 17 Patients.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · February 2017 MYC rearrangement in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is rare, and its clinicopathologic significance is not well defined. We report 17 cases of MCL with 8q24/MYC rearrangement, detected at the time of initial diagnosis of MCL in 10 patients and subsequently dur ... Full text Link to item Cite

PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade: Have We Found the Key to Unleash the Antitumor Immune Response?

Journal Article Front Immunol · 2017 PD-1-PD-L1 interaction is known to drive T cell dysfunction, which can be blocked by anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies. However, studies have also shown that the function of the PD-1-PD-L1 axis is affected by the complex immunologic regulation network, and some C ... Full text Link to item Cite

Oncogenic Signaling Pathways and Pathway-Based Therapeutic Biomarkers in Lymphoid Malignancies.

Journal Article Crit Rev Oncog · 2017 Lymphoma is characterized by heterogeneous biology, pathologic features, and clinical outcome. This has been proven by accumulating pathologic and molecular evidence attributed to underlying aberrant alterations at genetic, epigenetic, transcriptional, pro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distinguishing Between Hepatosplenic T-cell Lymphoma and γδ T-cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Clinicopathologic, Immunophenotypic, and Molecular Analysis.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · January 2017 Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL) is a rare, aggressive T-cell lymphoma that can be challenging to diagnose. In particular, distinguishing HSTCL from T-cell large granular lymphocytic (T-LGL) leukemia of γδ T-cell receptor (TCR) type is difficult witho ... Full text Link to item Cite

Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

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Assessment of CD37 B-cell antigen and cell of origin significantly improves risk prediction in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood · December 29, 2016 CD37 (tetraspanin TSPAN26) is a B-cell surface antigen widely expressed on mature B cells. CD37 is involved in immune regulation and tumor suppression but its function has not been fully elucidated. We assessed CD37 expression in de novo diffuse large B-ce ... Full text Link to item Cite

An oxidative stress-based mechanism of doxorubicin cytotoxicity suggests new therapeutic strategies in ABC-DLBCL.

Journal Article Blood · December 15, 2016 Diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) contain 2 major molecular subtypes; namely, the germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) and the activated B-cell-like (ABC) DLBCLs. It is well documented that ABC-DLBCL cases have a significantly poorer survival response t ... Full text Link to item Cite

RelA NF-κB subunit activation as a therapeutic target in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Aging (Albany NY) · December 8, 2016 It has been well established that nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) activation is important for tumor cell growth and survival. RelA/p65 and p50 are the most common NF-kB subunits and involved in the classical NF-kB pathway. However, the prognostic and biolog ... Full text Link to item Cite

Targeting the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway and O-linked N-acetylglucosamine cycling for therapeutic and imaging capabilities in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · December 6, 2016 The hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP) requires two key nutrients glucose and glutamine for O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) cycling, a post-translational protein modification that adds GlcNAc to nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins. Increased GlcNAc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immunophenotypic and diagnostic characterization of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma by advanced flow cytometric technology.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · December 2016 Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) often shows systemic symptoms related to immune dysregulation and cytokine production. Biopsy usually harbors few malignant cells in an abundant reactive background, which can be diagnostically challenging in cases ... Full text Link to item Cite

SWARM: A 32 GHz Correlator and VLBI Beamformer for the Submillimeter Array

Journal Article Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · December 1, 2016 A 32GHz bandwidth VLBI capable correlator and phased array has been designed and deployed a at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Submillimeter Array (SMA). The SMA Wideband Astronomical ROACH2 Machine (SWARM) integrates two instruments ... Full text Cite

Decipher the 2016 revision of the World Health Organization classification of lymphoid neoplasms

Journal Article National Medical Journal of China · November 15, 2016 Full text Cite

Diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for lymphoma diagnosis and treatment in the era of precision medicine.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · October 2016 Lymphomas are a group of hematological malignancies derived from lymphocytes. Lymphomas are clinically and biologically heterogeneous and have overlapping diagnostic features. With the advance of new technologies and the application of efficient and feasib ... Full text Link to item Cite

Efficacy and safety of cisplatin, dexamethasone, gemcitabine and pegaspargase (DDGP) regimen in newly diagnosed, advanced-stage extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma: interim analysis of a phase 4 study NCT01501149.

Journal Article Oncotarget · August 23, 2016 To explore a more effective treatment for newly diagnosed, advanced-stage extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKTL), we conducted a phase 4 study of the cisplatin, dexamethasone, gemcitabine, pegaspargase (DDGP) regimen. The primary end ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sex chromosome loss after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant in patients with hematologic neoplasms: A diagnostic dilemma for clinical cytogeneticists

Journal Article Molecular Cytogenetics · August 8, 2016 Background: Sex chromosome loss (SCL), including loss of an X chromosome (-X) in females and loss of the Y chromosome (-Y) in males, resulting in a karyotype of 45,X, rarely occurs in patients post an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (alloHSCT ... Full text Cite

Clinical and Biologic Significance of MYC Genetic Mutations in De Novo Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · July 15, 2016 PURPOSE: MYC is a critical driver oncogene in many cancers, and its deregulation in the forms of translocation and overexpression has been implicated in lymphomagenesis and progression of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The MYC mutational profile an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Performance assessment of an adaptive beamformer for the submillimeter array

Conference IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems and Technology · July 2, 2016 The Sub millimeter Array (SMA) was recently upgraded with a new wideband correlator that features a built-in beamforming system. This functionality enables the array to participate in a wider range of astronomical observations, such as Very Long Baseline I ... Full text Cite

Next generation sequencing for DLBCL classification.

Conference Journal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2016 Full text Cite

Clinicopathologic features and outcomes of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma patients with monoclonal IgG or IgA paraprotein expression.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · May 2016 Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma secreting IgG or IgA (non-IgM LPL) is rarely seen. Systematic studies of the clinical features and treatment outcomes are lacking in these patients. This study evaluated 17 patients with non-IgM LPL. The paraprotein secreted by t ... Full text Link to item Cite

EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly: 2016 update on diagnosis, risk-stratification, and management.

Journal Article Am J Hematol · May 2016 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the elderly is a provisional entity included in the 2008 WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms. It is a disease typically seen in the elderly and thought to be associated with ch ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic Factors of Hepatosplenic T-cell Lymphoma: Clinicopathologic Study of 28 Cases.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · May 2016 Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL) is a rare type of lymphoma. Patients have a poor prognosis, and there is no standard of care. We evaluated 28 HSTCL patients to determine factors that may be associated with outcome. There were 19 men and 9 women with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Immune checkpoint blockade: Releasing the brake towards hematological malignancies.

Journal Article Blood Rev · May 2016 Tumor cells utilize co-inhibitory molecules to avoid host immune destruction. Checkpoint blockade has emerged as a promising approach to treat cancer by restoring T cell effector function and breaking a tumor permissive microenvironment. Patients with hema ... Full text Link to item Cite

High LEF1 expression predicts adverse prognosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and may be targeted by ethacrynic acid.

Journal Article Oncotarget · April 19, 2016 Aberrant activation of lymphoid enhancer-binding factor-1 (LEF1) has been identified in several cancers, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). As a key transcription factor of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway, LEF1 helps to regulate important genes involv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Stratifying diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with chemoimmunotherapy: GCB/non-GCB by immunohistochemistry is still a robust and feasible marker.

Journal Article Oncotarget · April 2016 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous group of aggressive lymphomas that can be classified into three molecular subtypes by gene expression profiling (GEP): GCB, ABC and unclassified. Immunohistochemistry-based cell of origin (COO) class ... Full text Cite

Dyspoietic changes associated with hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma are not a manifestation of a myelodysplastic syndrome: analysis of 25 patients.

Journal Article Hum Pathol · April 2016 Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL) is a rare T-cell lymphoma commonly associated with cytopenias. The pathogenesis of cytopenias in patients with HSTCL is not well defined, although the presence of dyspoietic hematopoietic cells and the common associati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Preleukemic phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia: morphologic and immunohistochemical characterization of 7 cases.

Journal Article Ann Diagn Pathol · April 2016 Patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) present typically with an elevated white blood cell count (WBC) and cytogenetic or molecular genetic evidence of t(9;22)/BCR-ABL1 fusion gene. Rarely, CML patients may present with a normal or mildly elevate ... Full text Link to item Cite

PERSISTENT ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURE of SAGITTARIUS A∗ on EVENT HORIZON SCALES

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · April 1, 2016 The Galactic Center black hole SagittariusA∗ (Sgr A∗) is a prime observing target for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which can resolve the 1.3 mm emission from this source on angular scales comparable to that of the general relativistic shadow. Previou ... Full text Cite

Crystal-storing histiocytosis: a clinicopathological study of 13 cases.

Journal Article Histopathology · March 2016 AIMS: Crystal-storing histiocytosis (CSH) is a rare lesion composed of histiocytes with abnormal intralysosomal accumulation of immunoglobulin (Ig) as crystals, reported in patients with plasmacytic/lymphoplasmacytic neoplasms. The aims of this study were ... Full text Link to item Cite

p63 expression confers significantly better survival outcomes in high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and demonstrates p53-like and p53-independent tumor suppressor function.

Journal Article Aging (Albany NY) · February 2016 The role of p53 family member p63 in oncogenesis is the subject of controversy. Limited research has been done on the clinical implications of p63 expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). In this study, we assessed p63 expression in de novo DLB ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primary testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma displays distinct clinical and biological features for treatment failure in rituximab era: a report from the International PTL Consortium.

Journal Article Leukemia · February 2016 Primary testicular diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (PT-DLBCL) is a unique subtype of DLBCL. The impact of rituximab on survival and patterns of treatment failure in PT-DLBCL patient remain controversial. We analyzed the clinical and biological feature of 280 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Tetraspanin CD37 protects against the development of B cell lymphoma.

Journal Article J Clin Invest · February 2016 Worldwide, B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma is the most common hematological malignancy and represents a substantial clinical problem. The molecular events that lead to B cell lymphoma are only partially defined. Here, we have provided evidence that deficiency ... Full text Link to item Cite

Angiomirs expression profiling in diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · January 26, 2016 Despite advances in treatment, 30% of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cases are refractory or relapse after chemoimmunotherapy. Currently, the relationship between angiogenesis and angiomiRs in DLBCL is unknown. We classified 84 DLBCL cases according ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic impact of concurrent MYC and BCL6 rearrangements and expression in de novo diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · January 19, 2016 Double-hit B-cell lymphoma is a common designation for a group of tumors characterized by concurrent translocations of MYC and BCL2, BCL6, or other genes. The prognosis of concurrent MYC and BCL6 translocations is not well known. In this study, we assessed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Complete Surgical Excision Is Essential for the Management of Patients With Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma.

Journal Article J Clin Oncol · January 10, 2016 PURPOSE: Breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BI-ALCL) is a rare type of T-cell lymphoma that arises around breast implants. The optimal management of this disease has not been established. The goal of this study is to evaluate the eff ... Full text Link to item Cite

Simultaneous deletion of 3'ETV6 and 5' EWSR1 genes in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: Case report and literature review

Journal Article Molecular Cytogenetics · January 1, 2016 Background: Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare hematologic malignancy. Based on literature reports of limited cases, over 50 % of BPDCN have chromosomal abnormalities, but no single chromosomal change has been identified as diag ... Full text Cite

hemaClass.org: Online One-By-One Microarray Normalization and Classification of Hematological Cancers for Precision Medicine.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2016 BACKGROUND: Dozens of omics based cancer classification systems have been introduced with prognostic, diagnostic, and predictive capabilities. However, they often employ complex algorithms and are only applicable on whole cohorts of patients, making them d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Signaling pathway and dysregulation of PD1 and its ligands in lymphoid malignancies.

Journal Article Biochim Biophys Acta · January 2016 Tumor cells evade immune destruction, at least partially, by upregulating inhibitory signals to limit effector T cell activation. Programmed death 1 (PD-1) is one of the most critical co-inhibitory molecules limiting the T-cell antitumor response. PD-1 and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ibrutinib in combination with rituximab in relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma: a single-centre, open-label, phase 2 trial.

Journal Article Lancet Oncol · January 2016 BACKGROUND: Ibrutinib is approved in the EU, USA, and other countries for patients with mantle cell lymphoma who received one previous therapy. In a previous phase 2 study with single-agent ibrutinib, the proportion of patients who achieved an objective re ... Full text Link to item Cite

TP53 dysfunction in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Crit Rev Oncol Hematol · January 2016 The aberrations of TP53 gene and dysregulation of the TP53 pathway are important in the pathogenesis of many human cancers, including malignant lymphomas, especially for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). By regulating many downstream target genes or m ... Full text Link to item Cite

Resolved magnetic-field structure and variability near the event horizon of Sagittarius A∗

Journal Article Science · December 4, 2015 Near a black hole, differential rotation of a magnetized accretion disk is thought to produce an instability that amplifies weak magnetic fields, driving accretion and outflow. These magnetic fields would naturally give rise to the observed synchrotron emi ... Full text Cite

Clinical features, tumor biology, and prognosis associated with MYC rearrangement and Myc overexpression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab-CHOP.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · December 2015 MYC dysregulation, including MYC gene rearrangement and Myc protein overexpression, is of increasing clinical importance in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). However, the roles of MYC and the relative importance of rearrangement vs overexpression rema ... Full text Link to item Cite

The PTEN tumor suppressor gene and its role in lymphoma pathogenesis.

Journal Article Aging (Albany NY) · December 2015 The phosphatase and tensin homolog gene PTEN is one of the most frequently mutated tumor suppressor genes in human cancer. Loss of PTEN function occurs in a variety of human cancers via its mutation, deletion, transcriptional silencing, or protein instabil ... Full text Link to item Cite

MYC-driven aggressive B-cell lymphomas: biology, entity, differential diagnosis and clinical management.

Journal Article Oncotarget · November 17, 2015 MYC, a potent oncogene located at chromosome locus 8q24.21, was identified initially by its involvement in Burkitt lymphoma with t(8;14)(q24;q32). MYC encodes a helix-loop-helix transcription factor that accentuates many cellular functions including prolif ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic and biological significance of survivin expression in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with rituximab-CHOP therapy.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · October 2015 Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein family, is overexpressed in a variety of human neoplasms. The prognostic significance of survivin expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, do ... Full text Link to item Cite

Regulation of p53-targeting microRNAs by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Implications in the etiology of multiple myeloma.

Journal Article Mol Carcinog · October 2015 Multiple myeloma (MM) is a common and deadly cancer of blood plasma cells. A unique feature of MM is the extremely low somatic mutation rate of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, in sharp contrast with about half of all human cancers where this gene is frequen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinicopathologic, Immunophenotypic, Cytogenetic, and Molecular Features of γδ T-Cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia: An Analysis of 14 Patients Suggests Biologic Differences With αβ T-Cell Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia. [corrected].

Journal Article Am J Clin Pathol · October 2015 OBJECTIVES: T-cell large granular lymphocytic (T-LGL) leukemia is a rare disorder in which the neoplastic cells usually express the αβ T-cell receptor (TCR). To determine the significance of γδ TCR expression in this leukemia, we compared the clinicopathol ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hepatitis B virus-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: unique clinical features, poor outcome, and hepatitis B surface antigen-driven origin.

Journal Article Oncotarget · September 22, 2015 While the epidemiologic association between hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is established, little is known more than this epidemiologic evidence. We studied a cohort of 587 patients with DLBCL for HBV infection ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prognostic impact of c-Rel nuclear expression and REL amplification and crosstalk between c-Rel and the p53 pathway in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · September 2015 Dysregulated NF-κB signaling is critical for lymphomagenesis. The regulation, function, and clinical relevance of c-Rel/NF-κB activation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have not been well studied. In this study we analyzed the prognostic significa ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of NF-κB subunit expression and signaling pathway activation demonstrates that p52 expression confers better outcome in germinal center B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in association with CD30 and BCL2 functions.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · September 2015 Nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) is a transcription factor with a well-described oncogenic role. Study for each of five NF-κB pathway subunits was only reported on small cohorts in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). In this large cohort (n=533) of patients wi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reduced expression of TRIM21/Ro52 predicts poor prognosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with and without rheumatic disease.

Journal Article J Intern Med · September 2015 OBJECTIVE: TRIM21 (also known as Ro52) is an autoantigen in rheumatic disease and is predominantly expressed in leucocytes. Overexpression is associated with decreased proliferation, and the TRIM21 gene maps to a tumour suppressor locus. We therefore inves ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lymphomatosis Cerebri: A Diagnostic Challenge.

Journal Article JAMA Neurol · September 2015 Full text Link to item Cite

First 230? GHz VLBI fringes on 3C 279 using the APEX Telescope (Research Note)

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · September 1, 2015 Aims. We report about a 230? GHz very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) fringe finder observation of blazar 3C 279 with the APEX telescope in Chile, the phased submillimeter array (SMA), and the SMT of the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO). Methods. We ins ... Full text Cite

Triple-hit B-cell Lymphoma With MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 Translocations/Rearrangements: Clinicopathologic Features of 11 Cases.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · August 2015 Lymphomas with translocations/rearrangements of MYC, BCL2, and BCL6, so-called triple-hit B-cell lymphoma, are rare, and few studies on these tumors are available in the literature. We report 11 cases of triple-hit B-cell lymphoma and characterize their cl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epstein-Barr virus DNA load in chronic lymphocytic leukemia is an independent predictor of clinical course and survival.

Journal Article Oncotarget · July 30, 2015 The relation between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA load and clinical course of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is unknown. We assessed EBV DNA load by quantitative PCR at CLL presentation in mononuclear cells (MNC) of 220 prospective patien ... Full text Link to item Cite

MYC or BCL2 copy number aberration is a strong predictor of outcome in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · July 30, 2015 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Patients with DLBCL harboring MYC aberrations concurrent with BCL2 or/and BCL6 aberrations constitute a specific group with extremely poor outcome. In this study, we retro ... Full text Link to item Cite

230 GHz VLBI OBSERVATIONS OF M87: EVENT-HORIZON-SCALE STRUCTURE DURING AN ENHANCED VERY-HIGH-ENERGY γ-RAY STATE IN 2012

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · July 10, 2015 We report on 230 GHz (1.3 mm) very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope using antennas on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Mt. Graham in Arizona, and Cedar Flat in California. For the first time, we have acquired 230 ... Full text Cite

Age cutoff in lymphoma diagnosis.

Journal Article Aging (Albany NY) · July 2015 Full text Link to item Cite

Waldenström macroglobulinemia with extramedullary involvement at initial diagnosis portends a poorer prognosis.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · June 24, 2015 BACKGROUND: The prognostic importance of extramedullary involvement in patients with Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) at diagnosis and treatment options for these patients has not been well evaluated. In this study, we investigated the clinical manifesta ... Full text Link to item Cite

Age cutoff for Epstein-Barr virus-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma--is it necessary?

Journal Article Oncotarget · June 10, 2015 Epstein-Barr virus-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly (EBV+ DLBCL-e) is a molecularly distinct variant of DLBCL, characterized by a monoclonal B-cell proliferation that occurs in patients >50 years of age without a history or clinicopath ... Full text Link to item Cite

Discovery of SiCSi in IRC+10216: A missing link between gas and dust carriers of Si-C bonds

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Letters · June 10, 2015 We report the discovery in space of a disilicon species, SiCSi, from observations between 80 and 350 GHz with the IRAM 30 m radio telescope. Owing to the close coordination between laboratory experiments and astrophysics, 112 lines have now been detected i ... Full text Cite

CD5-positive follicular lymphoma: clinicopathologic correlations and outcome in 88 cases.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · June 2015 Follicular lymphoma is a low-grade B-cell lymphoma of germinal center B-cell origin that typically lacks CD5 expression. We describe the clinicopathologic features of 88 cases of CD5+ follicular lymphoma (53 men, 35 women; median age, 60 years; range, 31-8 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetic lesions in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas.

Journal Article Ann Oncol · June 2015 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common lymphoma in adults, accounting for 35%-40% of all cases. The combination of the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab with anthracycline-based combination chemotherapy (R-CHOP, rituximab with cyclo ... Full text Link to item Cite

The oncogenic microRNA miR-21 promotes regulated necrosis in mice.

Journal Article Nat Commun · May 20, 2015 MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate apoptosis, yet their role in regulated necrosis remains unknown. miR-21 is overexpressed in nearly all human cancer types and its role as an oncogene is suggested to largely depend on its anti-apoptotic action. Here we show that ... Full text Link to item Cite

TP53 mutation characteristics in therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia is similar to de novo diseases.

Journal Article J Hematol Oncol · May 8, 2015 BACKGROUND: TP53 mutation is more prevalent in therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (t-MN) than their de novo counterparts; however, the pattern of mutations involving TP53 gene in t-MN versus de novo diseases is largely unknown. METHODS: We collected 108 con ... Full text Link to item Cite

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma classification system that associates normal B-cell subset phenotypes with prognosis.

Journal Article J Clin Oncol · April 20, 2015 PURPOSE: Current diagnostic tests for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma use the updated WHO criteria based on biologic, morphologic, and clinical heterogeneity. We propose a refined classification system based on subset-specific B-cell-associated gene signatur ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting response to multidrug regimens in cancer patients using cell line experiments and regularised regression models.

Journal Article BMC Cancer · April 8, 2015 BACKGROUND: Patients suffering from cancer are often treated with a range of chemotherapeutic agents, but the treatment efficacy varies greatly between patients. Based on recent popularisation of regularised regression models the goal of this study was to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical and biological significance of de novo CD5+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in Western countries.

Journal Article Oncotarget · March 20, 2015 CD5 is a pan-T-cell surface marker and is rarely expressed in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Large-scale studies of de novo CD5+ DLBCL are lacking in Western countries. In this study by the DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium, CD5 was expressed in 5.5% ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dysregulated CXCR4 expression promotes lymphoma cell survival and independently predicts disease progression in germinal center B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · March 20, 2015 Abnormal expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 plays an essential role in tumor cell dissemination and disease progression. However, the significance of CXCR4 overexpression in de novo diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is unknown. In 743 patients ... Full text Link to item Cite

The significance of single nucleotide polymorphism rs2070770 in CD20 gene in Chinese patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · March 2015 The purpose of this study was to investigate the significance of polymorphisms in the CD20 gene in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We sequenced exons 3-8 in 160 patients with de novo DLBCL and detected the expression of CD20 via immuno ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mutational profiling of therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia by next generation sequencing, a comparison with de novo diseases.

Journal Article Leuk Res · March 2015 In this study we used a next generation sequencing-based approach to profile gene mutations in therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes (t-MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML); and compared these findings with de novo MDS/AML. Consecutive bone marrow s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vibrationally excited C4H

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · February 1, 2015 Rotational spectra in four new excited vibrational levels of the linear carbon chain radical C4H were observed in the millimeter band between 69 and 364 GHz in a low pressure glow discharge, and two of these were observed in a supersonic molecul ... Full text Cite

Epstein-Barr virus-positive T/NK-cell lymphoproliferative disorders.

Journal Article Exp Mol Med · January 23, 2015 Epstein-Barr virus, a ubiquitous human herpesvirus, can induce both lytic and latent infections that result in a variety of human diseases, including lymphoproliferative disorders. The oncogenic potential of Epstein-Barr virus is related to its ability to ... Full text Link to item Cite

EBV-driven B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders: from biology, classification and differential diagnosis to clinical management.

Journal Article Exp Mol Med · January 23, 2015 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus, affecting >90% of the adult population. EBV targets B-lymphocytes and achieves latent infection in a circular episomal form. Different latency patterns are recognized based on latent gene expression pat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Safety and efficacy of low-dose pre-phase before conventional-dose chemotherapy for ulcerative gastric diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · 2015 Potentially fatal chemotherapy (CT)-related gastrorrhagia and gastric perforation in patients with gastric lymphoma present difficult problems to doctors. We retrospectively analyzed 54 patients with ulcerative gastric diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (G-DLBC ... Full text Link to item Cite

A microRNA signature profile in EBV+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly.

Journal Article Oncotarget · December 15, 2014 Currently, there is no characteristic microRNA (miRNA) expression pattern in Epstein-Barr virus+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly (EBV+DLBCLe). This study aims to characterize a signature profile and identify miRNAs that can be used as biomarke ... Full text Link to item Cite

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

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E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM32 negatively regulates tumor suppressor p53 to promote tumorigenesis.

Journal Article Cell Death Differ · November 2014 Tumor suppressor p53 has a key role in maintaining genomic stability and preventing tumorigenesis through its regulation of cellular stress responses, including apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and senescence. To ensure its proper levels and functions in cells ... Full text Link to item Cite

LIF negatively regulates tumour-suppressor p53 through Stat3/ID1/MDM2 in colorectal cancers.

Journal Article Nat Commun · October 17, 2014 Leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) has been recently identified as a p53 target gene, which mediates the role of p53 in maternal implantation under normal physiological conditions. Here we report that LIF is a negative regulator of p53; LIF downregulates p5 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical implications of phosphorylated STAT3 expression in De Novo diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · October 1, 2014 PURPOSE: Activated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) regulates tumor growth, invasion, cell proliferation, angiogenesis, immune response, and survival. Data regarding expression of phosphorylated (activated) STAT3 in diffuse large ... Full text Link to item Cite

NFκB expression is a feature of both activated B-cell-like and germinal center B-cell-like subtypes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · October 2014 The activation of nuclear factor kappa B (NFκB) transcription factor family is considered to have a key role in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) pathogenesis and is associated with a specific molecular subtype, the activated B-cell-like (ABC) subtype. ... Full text Link to item Cite

New prognostic model for extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type.

Journal Article Ann Hematol · September 2014 Extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKTL) is an aggressive disease with a poor prognosis, requiring risk stratification in affected patients. We designed a new prognostic model specifically for ENKTL to identify high-risk patients who n ... Full text Link to item Cite

Epstein-Barr virus-positive nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma.

Journal Article Ann Diagn Pathol · August 2014 Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is classified into 2 largely distinct subgroups, namely nodular lymphocyte predominant HL (NLPHL) and classic HL (CHL). CHL is further divided into nodular sclerosis, lymphocyte-rich, mixed cellularity (MCCHL) and lymphocyte-depleted ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma: sensitivity, specificity, and findings of imaging studies in 44 patients.

Journal Article Breast Cancer Res Treat · August 2014 UNLABELLED: Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA ALCL) is a newly described clinicopathologic entity. The purpose of this study is to describe the imaging findings of patients with BIA ALCL and determine their sensitivity and speci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rearrangements of MYC gene facilitate risk stratification in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab-CHOP.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · July 2014 In order to address the debatable prognostic role of MYC rearrangements in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, we evaluated MYC rearrangements by fluorescence in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Subarcsecond imaging of the NGC 6334 I(n) protocluster: Two dozen compact sources and a massive disk candidate

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · June 20, 2014 Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, we have imaged the massive protocluster NGC 6334 I(N) at high angular resolution (0.″5 ∼ 650 AU) from 6 cm to 0.87 mm, detecting 18 new compact continuum sources. Three of the new sou ... Full text Cite

Prevalence and clinical implications of cyclin D1 expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with immunochemotherapy: a report from the International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program.

Journal Article Cancer · June 15, 2014 BACKGROUND: Cyclin D1 expression has been reported in a subset of patients with diffuse large B-cell leukemia (DLBCL), but studies have been few and generally small, and they have demonstrated no obvious clinical implications attributable to cyclin D1 expr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Combined MEK and JAK inhibition abrogates murine myeloproliferative neoplasm.

Journal Article J Clin Invest · June 2014 Overactive RAS signaling is prevalent in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and the myeloproliferative variant of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (MP-CMML) in humans, and both are refractory to conventional chemotherapy. Conditional activation of a co ... Full text Link to item Cite

The dichotomy of p53 regulation by noncoding RNAs.

Journal Article J Mol Cell Biol · June 2014 The p53 tumor suppressor gene is the most frequently mutated gene in cancer. Significant progress has been made to discern the importance of p53 in coordinating cellular responses to DNA damage, oncogene activation, and other stresses. Noncoding RNAs are R ... Full text Link to item Cite

Glutaminase 2 negatively regulates the PI3K/AKT signaling and shows tumor suppression activity in human hepatocellular carcinoma.

Journal Article Oncotarget · May 15, 2014 The tumor suppressor p53 and its signaling pathway play a critical role in tumor prevention. As a direct p53 target gene, the role of glutaminase 2 (GLS2) in tumorigenesis is unclear. In this study, we found that GLS2 expression is significantly decreased ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence and clinical implications of epstein-barr virus infection in de novo diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in Western countries.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · May 1, 2014 PURPOSE: Epstein-Barr virus-positive (EBV(+)) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the elderly is a variant of DLBCL with worse outcome that occurs most often in East-Asian countries and is uncommon in the Western hemisphere. We studied the largest coh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Atypical chronic myeloid leukemia is clinically distinct from unclassifiable myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Journal Article Blood · April 24, 2014 Atypical chronic myeloid leukemia (aCML) is a rare subtype of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm (MDS/MPN) largely defined morphologically. It is, unclear, however, whether aCML-associated features are distinctive enough to allow its separation fr ... Full text Link to item Cite

CD30 diagnostics and testing

Journal Article Clinical Advances in Hematology and Oncology · April 1, 2014 Optimal quality assurance control and protocol standardization for CD30 staining will be critical for improving testing accuracy and reproducibility of testing (Table 3). Proper sample handling and antigen retrieval are critical, and the detection method u ... Cite

Clinical roundtable monograph: CD30 in lymphoma: its role in biology, diagnostic testing, and targeted therapy.

Journal Article Clin Adv Hematol Oncol · April 2014 CD30, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, is a transmembrane glycoprotein receptor consisting of an extracellular domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain. CD30 has emerged as an important molecule in the field of ... Link to item Cite

CD30 expression in acute lymphoblastic leukemia as assessed by flow cytometry analysis.

Journal Article Leuk Lymphoma · March 2014 We assessed CD30 expression in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) of either T-cell or B-cell lineage to examine the potential benefit of anti-CD30-targeted therapy in this group of patients. Bone marrow specimens of 34 patients with T- and 44 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Overexpressed BAG3 is a potential therapeutic target in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Journal Article Ann Hematol · March 2014 Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3), a member of BAG family, is shown to sustain cell survival and underlie resistance to chemotherapy in human neoplastic cells. We aimed to determine the exact role and underlying mechanisms of BAG3 in human chronic lymph ... Full text Link to item Cite

CHARACTERIZING the PERFORMANCE of A HIGH-SPEED ADC for the SMA DIGITAL BACKEND

Journal Article Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · March 1, 2014 We report on tests of a 5 Gs/s analog-to-digital converter (ADC) used in the new Submillimeter Array (SMA) Digital Backend (DBE). The ADC is e2v EV8AQ160, with 8-bit resolution and 4 interleaved cores, operated in single-channel mode. We measured the frequ ... Full text Cite

Breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma: long-term follow-up of 60 patients.

Journal Article J Clin Oncol · January 10, 2014 PURPOSE: Breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a recently described clinicopathologic entity that usually presents as an effusion-associated fibrous capsule surrounding an implant. Less frequently, it presents as a mass. The na ... Full text Link to item Cite

Role of programmed death ligands in effective T-cell interactions in extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma

Journal Article Oncology Letters · January 1, 2014 Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKL) is marked by a profound cellular immune deficiency that may influence the capacity of T cells to extract an efficient antitumor immune response. It has been confirmed that the B7-CD28 pathway may promote tum ... Full text Cite

Natural killer/T-cell lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic syndrome: A case report

Journal Article Oncology Letters · January 1, 2014 Natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is a rare and fatal disease with no optimal treatment. The present study reports the clinical features, diagnosis and treatment process of three patients with relapsed NK/T-cell l ... Full text Cite

Haematological cancer: Richter's transformation in CLL-a distinct lymphoma.

Journal Article Nat Rev Clin Oncol · January 2014 A landmark study has delineated and identified the genetic pathways that drive the natural course of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) B cells into Richter’s transformation. CLL-related Richter’s transformation is a distinct lymphoma, and poses various q ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clonally related composite follicular lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma with clinicopathologic features and biological implications.

Journal Article Hum Pathol · December 2013 Composite lymphoma with follicular lymphoma (FL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) components is rare and can pose a substantial diagnostic challenge. We report two cases of composite lymphoma with FL and MCL components occurring in lymph nodes. Both cases sh ... Full text Link to item Cite

An interferometric spectral line and imaging survey of VY Canis Majoris in the 345 GHz band

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · December 1, 2013 A spectral line survey of the oxygen-rich red supergiant VY Canis Majoris was made between 279 and 355 GHz with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). Two hundred twenty-three spectral features from 19 molecules (not counting isotopic species of some of them) were ... Full text Cite

Radiation Therapy Significantly Improves Survival Of Patients With Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Associated With MYC Translocation: A Report From The International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program

Conference Blood · November 15, 2013 AbstractContext and objectiveApproximately 5-10% of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients carry MYC ... Full text Cite

Addition of rituximab to chemotherapy overcomes the negative prognostic impact of cyclin E expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article J Clin Pathol · November 2013 BACKGROUND: High levels of cyclin E (CCNE) are accompanied by shorter survival in cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, oncovin and prednisone (CHOP)-treated diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL), independent of the international prognostic index (IPI). ... Full text Link to item Cite

Po and pn in the wind of the oxygen-rich agb star ik tauri

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · October 25, 2013 Context. Phosphorus-bearing compounds have only been studied in the circumstellar environments of the asymptotic giant branch star IRC +10 216 and the protoplanetary nebula CRL 2688, both carbon-rich objects, and the oxygen-rich red supergiant VY CMa. The ... Full text Cite

MDM2 phenotypic and genotypic profiling, respective to TP53 genetic status, in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab-CHOP immunochemotherapy: a report from the International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program.

Journal Article Blood · October 10, 2013 MDM2 is a key negative regulator of the tumor suppressor p53, however, the prognostic significance of MDM2 overexpression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has not been defined convincingly. In a p53 genetically-defined large cohort of de novo DLBCL ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

PRDM1/BLIMP1 is commonly inactivated in anaplastic large T-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood · October 10, 2013 Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a mature T-cell lymphoma that can present as a systemic or primary cutaneous disease. Systemic ALCL represents 2% to 5% of adult lymphoma but up to 30% of all pediatric cases. Two subtypes of systemic ALCL are curre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Two main genetic pathways lead to the transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukemia to Richter syndrome.

Journal Article Blood · October 10, 2013 Richter syndrome (RS) occurs in up to 15% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Although RS, usually represented by the histologic transformation to a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), is associated with a very poor outcome, especially ... Full text Link to item Cite

Imbalanced matriptase pericellular proteolysis contributes to the pathogenesis of malignant B-cell lymphomas.

Journal Article Am J Pathol · October 2013 Membrane-associated serine protease matriptase is widely expressed by epithelial/carcinoma cells in which its proteolytic activity is tightly controlled by the Kunitz-type protease inhibitor, hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor (HAI-1). We demonst ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dust-forming molecules in VY canis majoris (and Betelgeuse)

Conference Eas Publications Series · September 11, 2013 The formation of inorganic dust in circumstellar environments of evolved stars is poorly understood. Spectra of molecules thought to be most important for the nucleation, i.e. AlO, TiO, and TiO2, have been recently detected in the red supergiant ... Full text Cite

Recent advances in de novo CD5+ diffuse large B cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Am J Hematol · September 2013 Various subsets of DLBCL are distinguished based on molecular and immunohistochemical features. CD5 expressing DLBCL (CD5+ DLBCL) is increasingly recognized as a subtype of DLBCL with an aggressive disease course. Primary CD5+ DLBCL comprises approximately ... Full text Link to item Cite

Oral lenalidomide with rituximab in relapsed or refractory diffuse large cell, follicular and transformed lymphoma: a phase II clinical trial.

Journal Article Leukemia · September 2013 Lenalidomide-rituximab therapy is effective in grade 1-2 follicular and mantle cell lymphoma, but its efficacy in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), transformed large cell lymphoma (TL) and grade 3 follicular lymphoma (FLG3) is unknown. In this phase I ... Full text Link to item Cite

MYC/BCL2 double-hit high-grade B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Adv Anat Pathol · September 2013 Double-hit lymphoma (DHL) has been defined by others as a B-cell lymphoma with MYC/8q24 rearrangement in combination with a translocation involving another gene, such as BCL2, BCL3, or BCL6. The most common form of DHL has translocations involving MYC and ... Full text Link to item Cite

The digital motion control system for the submillimeter array antennas

Journal Article Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · September 1, 2013 We describe the design and performance of the digital servo and motion control system for the 6-meter parabolic antennas of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The system is divided into three nested layers operating at a different, appropr ... Full text Cite

Classical Hodgkin lymphoma arising in the setting of iatrogenic immunodeficiency: a clinicopathologic study of 10 cases.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · August 2013 Iatrogenic immunodeficiency-associated lymphoproliferative disorders are rare. A small subset of these lesions resembles classical Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL), but there are few data in the literature about these lesions. We describe 10 patients with autoimmune ... Full text Link to item Cite

Fine-scale structure of the quasar 3C 279 measured with 1.3 mm very long baseline interferometry

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · July 20, 2013 We report results from five day very long baseline interferometry observations of the well-known quasar 3C 279 at 1.3 mm (230 GHz) in 2011. The measured nonzero closure phases on triangles including stations in Arizona, California, and Hawaii indicate that ... Full text Cite

EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly.

Journal Article Blood · July 18, 2013 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the elderly, initially described in 2003, is a provisional entity in the 2008 World Health Organization classification system and is defined as an EBV-positive monoclonal large B-ce ... Full text Link to item Cite

Single nucleotide variation in the TP53 3' untranslated region in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with rituximab-CHOP: a report from the International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program.

Journal Article Blood · May 30, 2013 We identified multiple single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the TP53 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) in tumor specimens from 244 patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Patients carrying a wild-type TP53 coding sequence (CDS) and 1 or more 3'UT ... Full text Link to item Cite

MYC/BCL2 protein coexpression contributes to the inferior survival of activated B-cell subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and demonstrates high-risk gene expression signatures: a report from The International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program.

Journal Article Blood · May 16, 2013 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is stratified into prognostically favorable germinal center B-cell (GCB)-like and unfavorable activated B-cell (ABC)-like subtypes based on gene expression signatures. In this study, we analyzed 893 de novo DLBCL patie ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

CD30 expression defines a novel subgroup of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with favorable prognosis and distinct gene expression signature: a report from the International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program Study.

Journal Article Blood · April 4, 2013 CD30, originally identified as a cell-surface marker of Reed-Sternberg and Hodgkin cells of classical Hodgkin lymphoma, is also expressed by several types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, including a subset of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). However, the pr ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Pure rotational spectra of TiO and TiO2 in VY Canis Majoris

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · March 11, 2013 We report the first detection of pure rotational transitions of TiO and TiO2 at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths towards the red supergiant VY CMa. A rotational temperature, Trot, of about 250 K was derived for TiO2. Although T ... Full text Cite

Patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of germinal center origin with BCL2 translocations have poor outcome, irrespective of MYC status: a report from an International DLBCL rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program Study.

Journal Article Haematologica · February 2013 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma can be classified by gene expression profiling into germinal center and activated B-cell subtypes with different prognoses after rituximab-CHOP. The importance of previously recognized prognostic markers, such as Bcl-2 protein ... Full text Link to item Cite

Composite mantle cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma: a clinicopathologic and molecular study.

Journal Article Hum Pathol · January 2013 Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) share many features and both arise from CD5+ B-cells; their distinction is critical as MCL is a more aggressive neoplasm. Rarely, cases of composite MCL and CL ... Full text Link to item Cite

Probing the dust formation zone in IRC+10216 with the SMA

Conference Proceedings of Science · January 1, 2013 Submillimeter imaging of high-excitation molecular rotational lines provides a powerful probe of the dust formation and acceleration region (R ≤ 5×1016 cm) in the extreme carbon-rich star IRC+10216. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) observati ... Cite

Observing dust-forming refractory oxides, AlO, TiO, and TiO2, in circumstellar gas around evolved stars

Conference Proceedings of Science · January 1, 2013 The first detection of rotational spectra of titanium and aluminum oxides in circumstellar material is presented for three stars, VY CMa, o Ceti, and IK Tau. The role of the metal oxides in stardust formation is investigated observationally for the first t ... Cite

A MULTI-BASELINE 12 GHz ATMOSPHERIC PHASE INTERFEROMETER with ONE MICRON PATH LENGTH SENSITIVITY

Journal Article Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation · December 1, 2012 We have constructed a five station 12 GHz atmospheric phase interferometer (API) for the Submillimeter Array (SMA) located near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Operating at the base of unoccupied SMA antenna pads, each station employs a commercial low noi ... Full text Cite

Mutational profile and prognostic significance of TP53 in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with R-CHOP: report from an International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program Study.

Journal Article Blood · November 8, 2012 TP53 mutation is an independent marker of poor prognosis in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP) therapy. However, its prognostic value in the rituximab i ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

High-grade B cell lymphoma, unclassifiable, with blastoid features: an unusual morphological subgroup associated frequently with BCL2 and/or MYC gene rearrangements and a poor prognosis.

Journal Article Histopathology · November 2012 AIMS: A subset of B cell lymphomas with blastoid features do not fit either as B lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukaemia or blastoid mantle cell lymphoma. Their classification is challenging, even with complete clinicopathological and genetic information. At a ha ... Full text Link to item Cite

Follicular T-cell lymphoma: a member of an emerging family of follicular helper T-cell derived T-cell lymphomas.

Journal Article Hum Pathol · November 2012 Unlike B-cell lymphomas, where knowledge of normal B-cell origin and differentiation has greatly contributed to their classification, the current classification of peripheral T-cell lymphomas is limited by a lack of understanding of their cellular origin. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Jet-launching structure resolved near the supermassive black hole in M87

Journal Article Science · October 19, 2012 Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes. Although the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic collimation ... Full text Cite

Immunohistochemical double-hit score is a strong predictor of outcome in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone.

Journal Article J Clin Oncol · October 1, 2012 PURPOSE: Approximately 5% of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) are double-hit lymphomas (DHLs) with translocations of both MYC and BCL2. DHLs are characterized by poor outcome. We tested whether DLBCLs with high expression of MYC protein and BCL2 pro ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Resolving the inner JET structure of 1924-292 with the event horizon telescope

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Letters · September 20, 2012 We present the first 1.3mm (230GHz) very long baseline interferometry model image of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) jet using closure phase techniques with a four-element array. The model image of the quasar 1924-292 was obtained with four telescopes at ... Full text Cite

Comprehensive gene expression profiling and immunohistochemical studies support application of immunophenotypic algorithm for molecular subtype classification in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a report from the International DLBCL Rituximab-CHOP Consortium Program Study.

Journal Article Leukemia · September 2012 Gene expression profiling (GEP) has stratified diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) into molecular subgroups that correspond to different stages of lymphocyte development-namely germinal center B-cell like and activated B-cell like. This classification ha ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A statin-regulated microRNA represses human c-Myc expression and function.

Journal Article EMBO Mol Med · September 2012 c-Myc dysregulation is one of the most common abnormalities found in human cancer. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are functionally intertwined with the c-Myc network as multiple miRNAs are regulated by c-Myc, while others directly suppress c-Myc expression. In this wo ... Full text Link to item Cite

EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the elderly is an aggressive post-germinal center B-cell neoplasm characterized by prominent nuclear factor-kB activation.

Journal Article Mod Pathol · July 2012 Here, we report a retrospective series of 47 EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma associated with advanced age. Histopathology allowed to the identification of different histological patterns: cases with polymorphic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (29 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anaplastic large cell lymphoma associated with breast implants: a report of 13 cases.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · July 2012 We report 13 cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) associated with breast implants. Patient age ranged from 39 to 68 years, and the interval from implant to ALCL was 4 to 29 years. All tumors were composed of large, pleomorphic cells that were CD3 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lenalidomide in combination with rituximab for patients with relapsed or refractory mantle-cell lymphoma: a phase 1/2 clinical trial.

Journal Article Lancet Oncol · July 2012 BACKGROUND: The combination of rituximab and lenalidomide has shown promise for the treatment of mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL) in preclinical studies. We aimed to identify the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of lenalidomide when combined with rituximab in a phas ... Full text Link to item Cite

The TP53 tumor suppressor and autophagy in malignant lymphoma.

Journal Article Autophagy · May 1, 2012 The TP53 (p53) protein is a well-known tumor suppressor that plays a crucial role in maintaining genome stability under various cellular stresses. Loss of TP53 causes lymphomagenesis in mouse models and/or promotes tumor progression. However, the prognosti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Dysfunction of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene in lymphoid malignancies.

Journal Article Blood · April 19, 2012 Mutations of the TP53 gene and dysregulation of the TP53 pathway are important in the pathogenesis of many human cancers, including lymphomas. Tumor suppression by p53 occurs via both transcription-dependent activities in the nucleus by which p53 regulates ... Full text Link to item Cite

High levels of nuclear MYC protein predict the presence of MYC rearrangement in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · April 2012 Determining the presence of MYC gene rearrangements is becoming an increasingly important part of the diagnostic workup in aggressive lymphoma. Cytogenetic MYC alterations aid in differentiating diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) from Burkitt lymphoma. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Arcsecond resolution mapping of sulfur dioxide emission in the circumstellar envelope of VY Canis Majoris

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · February 10, 2012 We report Submillimeter Array observations of SO2 emission in the circumstellar envelope (CSE) of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris, with an angular resolution of 1″. SO2 emission appears in three distinct outflow regions surroundin ... Full text Cite

Advances in the molecular pathobiology of B-lymphoblastic leukemia

Journal Article Human Pathology · January 1, 2012 B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, also known as B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is derived from B-cell progenitors. B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia occurs predominantly in children, but can occur at any age. Risk-adapted intensive chemotherapy is effective ... Full text Cite

Mantle cell lymphoma as a component of composite lymphoma: Clinicopathologic parameters and biologic implications

Journal Article Human Pathology · January 1, 2012 Composite lymphoma is a rare circumstance in which 2 or more distinct types of lymphoma occur in a single anatomical location. Although composite lymphoma has been increasingly identified with the advent of molecular genetic techniques, this topic has only ... Full text Cite

Zooming towards the event horizon - mm-VLBI today and tomorrow

Conference Proceedings of Science · January 1, 2012 Global VLBI imaging at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths overcomes the opacity barrier of synchrotron self-absorption in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and opens the direct view into sub-pc scale regions not accessible before. Since AGN variability i ... Cite

VLBI at APEX: First fringes

Conference Proceedings of Science · January 1, 2012 We have equipped the APEX telescope for 1 mm VLBI and obtained first fringes on 3C 279 at 229 GHz in May 2012 with SMA (Hawaii) and SMTO (Arizona). The fringe spacing achieved was 29 microarcseconds, adequate to directly observe strong-field general-relati ... Cite

The rotational spectra of 29SiC2 and 30SiC2

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · October 1, 2011 The rotational spectra of 29SiC2 and 30SiC2, two silicon isotopic species of the abundant astronomical ring 28SiC2, have been characterized in the millimeter band between 140 and 360GHz in a ... Full text Cite

Top-down quantitative proteomics identified phosphorylation of cardiac troponin I as a candidate biomarker for chronic heart failure.

Journal Article J Proteome Res · September 2, 2011 The rapid increase in the prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) worldwide underscores an urgent need to identify biomarkers for the early detection of CHF. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are associated with many critical signaling events durin ... Full text Link to item Cite

miRNA expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with chemoimmunotherapy.

Journal Article Blood · July 28, 2011 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) prognostication requires additional biologic markers. miRNAs may constitute markers for cancer diagnosis, outcome, or therapy response. In the present study, we analyzed the miRNA expression profile in a retrospective ... Full text Link to item Cite

Endogenous oncogenic Nras mutation initiates hematopoietic malignancies in a dose- and cell type-dependent manner.

Journal Article Blood · July 14, 2011 Both monoallelic and biallelic oncogenic NRAS mutations are identified in human leukemias, suggesting a dose-dependent role of oncogenic NRAS in leukemogenesis. Here, we use a hypomorphic oncogenic Nras allele and a normal oncogenic Nras allele (Nras G12D( ... Full text Link to item Cite

The genetics of Richter syndrome reveals disease heterogeneity and predicts survival after transformation.

Journal Article Blood · March 24, 2011 Richter syndrome (RS) represents the development of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the context of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The scarcity of biologic information about RS has hampered the identification of molecular predictors of RS outcome. We addres ... Full text Link to item Cite

An interferometric spectral-line survey of IRC+10216 in the 345GHz band

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · March 1, 2011 We report a spectral-line survey of the extreme carbon star IRC+10216 carried out between 293.9 and 354.8GHz with the Submillimeter Array. A total of 442 lines were detected, more than 200 for the first time; 149 are unassigned. Maps at an angular resoluti ... Full text Cite

Negative regulation of the tumor suppressor p53 gene by microRNAs.

Journal Article Oncogene · February 17, 2011 The tumor suppressor p53, encoded by the TP53 gene, is recognized as the guardian of the human genome because it regulates many downstream genes to exercise its function in cell cycle and cell death. Recent studies have revealed that several microRNAs (miR ... Full text Link to item Cite

A variant of the LRP4 gene affects the risk of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia transformation to Richter syndrome.

Journal Article Br J Haematol · February 2011 Richter syndrome (RS) represents the transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) to aggressive lymphoma. Risk factors of CLL transformation to RS are only partly known. We explored the role of the host genetic background as a risk factor for RS o ... Full text Link to item Cite

1.3 mm wavelength VLBI of sagittarius A*: Detection of time-variable emission on event horizon scales

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Letters · February 1, 2011 Sagittarius A*, the ∼4 × 106 M ⊙ black hole candidate at the Galactic center, can be studied on Schwarzschild radius scales with (sub)millimeter wavelength very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). We report on 1.3 mm wavel ... Full text Cite

Molecular characteristics of mantle cell lymphoma presenting with clonal plasma cell component.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · February 2011 The normal counterparts of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) are naive, quiescent B cells that have not been processed through the germinal center (GC). For this reason, although lymphomas arising from GC or post-GC B cells often exhibit plasmacytic differentiati ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

miR-301a as an NF-κB activator in pancreatic cancer cells.

Journal Article EMBO J · January 5, 2011 NF-κB is constitutively activated in most human pancreatic adenocarcinoma, which is a deadly malignancy with a 5-year survival rate of about 5%. In this work, we investigate whether microRNAs (miRNAs) contribute to NF-κB activation in pancreatic cancer. We ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of tissue microarray and automated quantitative analysis for screening and validation of potential biomarkers in mantle cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol · January 2011 BACKGROUND: Cancer biomarker studies using the combination of tissue microarray and automated quantitative assessment of immunofluorescence (TMA-AQUA) have been successfully performed for various types of human carcinoma, but its performance characteristic ... Full text Link to item Cite

A new model of Epstein-Barr virus infection reveals an important role for early lytic viral protein expression in the development of lymphomas.

Journal Article J Virol · January 2011 Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects cells in latent or lytic forms, but the role of lytic infection in EBV-induced lymphomas is unclear. Here, we have used a new humanized mouse model, in which both human fetal CD34(+) hematopoietic stem cells and thymus/live ... Full text Link to item Cite

Endogenous oncogenic Nras mutation promotes aberrant GM-CSF signaling in granulocytic/monocytic precursors in a murine model of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

Journal Article Blood · December 23, 2010 Oncogenic NRAS mutations are frequently identified in myeloid diseases involving monocyte lineage. However, its role in the genesis of these diseases remains elusive. We report a mouse bone marrow transplantation model harboring an oncogenic G12D mutation ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genomic lesions associated with a different clinical outcome in diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma treated with R-CHOP-21.

Journal Article Br J Haematol · November 2010 Despite recent therapeutic improvements, the clinical course of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) still differs considerably among patients. We conducted this retrospective multi-centre study to evaluate the impact of genomic aberrations detected using ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physiological and Pathological Functions of Mammalian MicroRNAs

Chapter · January 1, 2010 MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are 19- to 26-nucleotide RNAs that regulate gene expression. Over 700 human miRNA genes have been identified, with one report predicting close to 1000. Recent computational methods indicate that up to 92% of human genes may be regulated ... Full text Cite

IRC+10216'S innermost envelope-the eSMA'S view

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · June 20, 2009 We used the Extended Submillimeter Array (eSMA) in its most extended configuration to investigate the innermost (within a radius of ∼290 R∗ from the star) circumstellar envelope (CSE) of IRC+10216 where acceleration of gas and dust due to strong ... Full text Cite

Multiple distinct clones may co-exist in different lineages in myelodysplastic syndromes.

Journal Article Leuk Res · June 2009 Using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarray with unfractionized bone marrow specimens, recent studies have demonstrated that multiple cytogenetically cryptic genomic aberrations, uniparental disomy (UPD) and/or copy number (CN) aberration, are pr ... Full text Link to item Cite

The physical conditions in gomez's hamburger (IRAS18059-3211), a pre-MS rotating disk

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · June 1, 2009 Aims. We aim to study the structure, dynamics, and physical conditions of Gomez's Hamburger (IRAS18059-3211; GoHam), and in particular confirm that GoHam mainly consists of a flaring disk in Keplerian rotation around a young, probably pre-MS star.Methods. ... Full text Cite

Prognostic relevance of 6q deletion in Waldenström's macroglobulinemia: a multicenter study.

Journal Article Clin Lymphoma Myeloma · March 2009 The deletion of the long arm of chromosome 6 is the most common cytogenetic abnormality in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM), but its prognostic significance is unclear. We investigated 77 patients with WM by interphase cytoplasmic immunoglobulin M fluo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Submillimeter narrow emission lines from the inner envelope of IRC+10216

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · February 20, 2009 A spectral-line survey of IRC+10216 in the 345 GHz band has been undertaken with the Submillimeter Array. Although not yet completed, it has already yielded a fairly large sample of narrow molecular emission lines with line widths indicating expansion velo ... Full text Cite

Oncogenic Kras-induced leukemogeneis: hematopoietic stem cells as the initial target and lineage-specific progenitors as the potential targets for final leukemic transformation.

Journal Article Blood · February 5, 2009 KRAS is often mutated in human hematopoietic malignancies, including juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (TLL/L). However, the exact role and function of oncogenic KRAS mutations in the initiation and progress ... Full text Link to item Cite

Detection of vibrationally excited co in IRC+10216

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 2009 Using the Submillimeter Array we have detected the J = 3-2 and 2-1 rotational transitions from within the first vibrationally excited state of CO toward the extreme carbon star IRC+10216 (CW Leo). The emission remains spatially unresolved with an angular r ... Full text Cite

Detection of C i in absorption toward PKS 1830-211 with the eSMA

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 2009 We report the first science observations and results obtained with the "extended" SMA (eSMA), which is composed of the SMA (Submillimeter Array), JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope), and CSO (Caltech Submillimeter Observatory). Redshifted absorptions at z ... Full text Cite

The eSMA: description and first results

Conference Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering · December 1, 2008 The eSMA ("expanded SMA") combines the SMA, JCMT and CSO into a single facility, providing enhanced sensitivityand spatial resolution owing to the increased collecting area at the longest baselines. Until ALMA earlyscience observing (2011), the eSMA will b ... Full text Cite

Clonal evolution in t(14;18)-positive follicular lymphoma, evidence for multiple common pathways, and frequent parallel clonal evolution.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · November 15, 2008 PURPOSE: Follicular lymphoma typically has acquired a t(14;18) translocation, but subsequent additional cytogenetic abnormalities contribute to disease progression. The main aims of the study are to (a) identify the frequency and temporal sequence of cytog ... Full text Link to item Cite

Molecular hallmarks of endogenous chromatin complexes containing master regulators of hematopoiesis.

Journal Article Mol Cell Biol · November 2008 Combinatorial interactions among trans-acting factors establish transcriptional circuits that orchestrate cellular differentiation, survival, and development. Unlike circuits instigated by individual factors, efforts to identify gene ensembles controlled b ... Full text Link to item Cite

Structural profiles of TP53 gene mutations predict clinical outcome in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: an international collaborative study.

Journal Article Blood · October 15, 2008 The purpose of this study is to correlate the presence of TP53 gene mutations with the clinical outcome of a cohort of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) assembled from 12 medical centers. TP53 mutations were identified in 102 of 477 patie ... Full text Link to item Cite

Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre

Journal Article Nature · September 4, 2008 The cores of most galaxies are thought to harbour supermassive black holes, which power galactic nuclei by converting the gravitational energy of accreting matter into radiation. Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the compact source of radio, infrared and X-ray emis ... Full text Cite

Inhibition of the p53 E3 ligase HDM-2 induces apoptosis and DNA damage--independent p53 phosphorylation in mantle cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Clin Cancer Res · September 1, 2008 PURPOSE: The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway has been validated as a target in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma through demonstration of the activity of the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Another potentially attractive target is the human homolog ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gomez's Hamburger (IRAS 18059-3211): A pre main-sequence A-type star

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · June 1, 2008 Aims. We study the nature of Gomez's Hamburger (IRAS 18059-3211; GoHam), a nebula that has been proposed to be a post-AGB object. Such a classification has not been confirmed; instead, we argue that it will be a key object in the study of disks rotating ar ... Full text Cite

Prevalence of bortezomib-resistant constitutive NF-kappaB activity in mantle cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Mol Cancer · May 19, 2008 BACKGROUND: The proteasome inhibitor bortezomib can inhibit activation of the transcription factor NF-kappaB, a mechanism implicated in its anti-neoplastic effects observed in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). However, NF-kappaB can be activated through many dis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Submillimeter array imaging of the maser emission from the H30α radio recombination line in MWC 349A

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · April 20, 2008 We used the Submillimeter Array to map the angular distribution of the H30α recombination line (231.9 GHz) in the circumstellar region of the peculiar star MWC 349A. The resolution was 1.2″, but because of high signal-to-noise ratio we measured the positio ... Full text Cite

Transformation of follicular lymphoma to precursor B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma with c-myc gene rearrangement as a critical event.

Journal Article Am J Clin Pathol · January 2008 Progression of follicular lymphoma (FL) to a higher-grade lymphoma occurs in 25% to 60% of cases and frequently indicates a poor prognosis. The transformation is accompanied by alteration in morphologic features and clinical behaviors. Herein, we report a ... Full text Link to item Cite

A massive, dusty toroid with large grains in the pre-planetary nebula IRAS22036+5306

Journal Article Astrophysics and Space Science · January 1, 2008 Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), we have obtained high angular-resolution (∼1″) interferometric maps of the submillimeter (0.88 mm) continuum and CO J=3-2 line from IRAS∈22036+5306 (I∈22036), a bipolar pre-planetary nebula (PPN) with knotty jets discov ... Full text Cite

Mutations in the DNA-binding codons of TP53, which are associated with decreased expression of TRAILreceptor-2, predict for poor survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Journal Article Blood · December 15, 2007 Mutations of the TP53 tumor suppressor gene have been associated with poor survival in some series of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) but not in other studies. The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency of TP53 alterations (mutations or ... Full text Link to item Cite

The distribution of H13CN in the circumstellar envelope around IRC+10216

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · November 20, 2007 H13CN J = 8 → 7 submillimeter line emission produced in the circumstellar envelope around the extreme carbon star IRC+10216 has been imaged at subarcsecond angular resolution using the SMA. Supplemented by a detailed excitation analysis, the ave ... Full text Cite

Submillimeter array observation of the proto-planetary nebula CRL 618 in the CO J = 6-5 line

Journal Article Astronomical Journal · November 1, 2007 We report on the results of a Submillimeter Array (SMA) interferometric observation of the proto-planetary nebula CRL 618 in the 12CO J = 6-5 line. With the new capability of the SMA enabling us to use two receivers at a time, we also observed s ... Full text Cite

SMA imaging of the masers in MWC349A

Conference Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union · March 1, 2007 In September 2004 and September 2005 we used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) to map the distribution of hydrogen recombination line (HRL) maser spots that originate in the envelope of the peculiar star MWC349A. We measured positions in the line over a 100 km ... Full text Cite

Pediatric primary bone lymphoma-diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: morphologic and immunohistochemical characteristics of 10 cases.

Journal Article Am J Clin Pathol · January 2007 Most primary bone lymphomas (PBLs) are diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs). Pediatric PBL-DLBCL has a favorable prognosis but remains poorly characterized. Herein, 10 such cases are detailed. They involved 11- to 20-year-old males with bone lesions tha ... Full text Link to item Cite

658 GHz vibrationally-excited water masers with the Submillimeter Array

Conference Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union · January 1, 2007 Discovered in 1995 at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), the vibrationally-excited water maser line at 658 GHz (455 micron) is seen in oxygen-rich giant and supergiant stars. Because this maser can be so strong (up to thousands of Janskys), it wa ... Full text Cite

A massive bipolar outflow and a dusty torus with large grains in the preplanetary nebula IRAS 22036+5306

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · December 20, 2006 We report high angular resolution (∼1″) CO J = 3-2 interferometric mapping using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) of IRAS 22036+5306 (122036), a bipolar preplanetary nebula (PPN) with knotty jets discovered in our HST snapshot survey of young PPNs. In additio ... Full text Cite

Mantle cell lymphoma with plasma cell differentiation.

Journal Article Am J Surg Pathol · August 2006 The differentiation of B lymphocytes into plasma cells (PCs) is an antigen-mediated process that largely depends on the interaction between B cells and regulatory factors in their microenvironment. Long-lived PCs are derived from activated B cells in the g ... Full text Link to item Cite

Myeloblast phenotypic changes in myelodysplasia. CD34 and CD117 expression abnormalities are common.

Journal Article Am J Clin Pathol · June 2006 We used a new method of data presentation and analysis, termed antigen mapping, to characterize recurring myeloblast phenotypic abnormalities in a series of 28 cases of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), including refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (R ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interferometric observation of the highly polarized SiO maser emission from the v = 1, J = 5-4 transition associated with VY canis majoris

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · November 20, 2004 We used the Submillimeter Array to image the SiO maser emission in the v = 1, J = 5-4 transition associated with the peculiar red supergiant VY Canis Majoris. We identified seven maser components and measured their relative positions and linear polarizatio ... Full text Cite

High-velocity bipolar outflow and disklike envelope in the carbon star V hydrae

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · November 20, 2004 Using the partially completed Submillimeter Array with five antennas, we have observed the CO J = 2-1 and 3-2 emission from the envelope surrounding the carbon star V Hya. The high angular resolution (2″-4″) maps show that V Hya is powering a bipolar molec ... Full text Cite

Submillimeter array observations of CS J = 14-13 emission from the evolved star IRC +10216

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · November 20, 2004 We present imaging observations of the evolved star IRC +10216 in the CS J = 14-13 line at 685.4 GHz and the associated submillimeter continuum at ∼2″ resolution made with the partially constructed Submillimeter Array. The CS J = 14-13 line emission from t ... Full text Cite

A collimated, high-speed outflow from the dying star V Hydrae

Journal Article Nature · November 20, 2003 Stars with masses in the range 1-8 solar masses (M⊙) live ordinary lives for ∼109-1010 years, but die extraordinary deaths. First, during their death throes as asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars they eject, over 104-10 Full text Cite

Variability of sagittarius A*: Flares at 1 millimeter

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · March 20, 2003 We report the results from recent observations of Sgr A* at short-/submillimeter wavelengths made with the partially finished Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea. A total of 25 epochs of observations were carried out over the past 15 months from 2001 Ma ... Full text Cite

Atomic carbon in the envelopes of carbon-rich post-asymptotic giant branch stars

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · May 1, 2000 Atomic carbon has been detected in the envelopes of three carbon-rich evolved stars: HD 44179 ( = AFGL 915, the "Red Rectangle"), HD 56126, and, tentatively, the carbon star V Hya. This brings to seven the number of evolved star envelopes in which C I has ... Full text Cite

Sodium binding site of factor Xa: role of sodium in the prothrombinase complex.

Journal Article Biochemistry · February 22, 2000 The nature of residue 225 on a consensus loop in serine proteases determines whether a protease can bind Na(+). Serine proteases with a Pro at this position are unable to bind Na(+), but those with a Tyr or Phe can bind Na(+). Factor Xa (FXa), the serine p ... Full text Link to item Cite

The circumstellar envelope of π-1 Gru

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · December 1, 1999 CO(J = 2-1) and SiO(J = 5-4) emission has been observed from the molecular envelope around the nearby S star π1 Gru. The CO line profile differs from the usual parabolic shape seen in uniformly-expanding envelopes; it has a Voigt-like profile an ... Cite

The light curve and evolutionary status of the carbon star V Hya

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · December 1, 1999 V Hya, an evolved carbon star with a complex circumstellar envelope, has two variability periods. 530d and 6000d ( 17 years). We analyze recent light curve data and show that both variations have been present for at least 100 years an ... Cite

The molecular envelope of the Helix Nebula

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · September 1, 1999 We present a fully sampled map of the Helix Nebula in the 1.3 mm CO J = 2-1 line, made using the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The angular resolution is 31″, and the velocity resolution is 1.5 km s-1. The CO emission is found to extend over ... Full text Cite

Identification and characterization of the sodium-binding site of activated protein C.

Journal Article J Biol Chem · February 19, 1999 Activated protein C (APC) requires both Ca2+ and Na+ for its optimal catalytic function. In contrast to the Ca2+-binding sites, the Na+-binding site(s) of APC has not been identified. Based on a recent study with thrombin, the 221-225 loop is predicted to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Amino acid residues in thrombin-sensitive region and first epidermal growth factor domain of vitamin K-dependent protein S determining specificity of the activated protein C cofactor function.

Journal Article J Biol Chem · October 16, 1998 Human protein S (PS) potentiates the anticoagulant activity of human but not bovine activated protein C (APC), whereas bovine PS is a cofactor to APC from both species. The structural requirements for the specificity of the APC cofactor function of human P ... Full text Link to item Cite

Deuterated Water in Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and Its Implications for the Origin of Comets

Journal Article Icarus · May 1, 1998 The close approach to the Earth of Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) in March 1996 allowed searches for minor volatile species outgassed from the nucleus. We report the detection of deuterated water (HDO) through its 101-000rotational trans ... Full text Cite

Thrombomodulin increases the rate of thrombin inhibition by BPTI.

Journal Article Biochemistry · January 13, 1998 Thrombin undergoes allosteric modulation by thrombomodulin (TM) that results in a shift in macromolecular specificity, blocking fibrinogen clotting while enhancing protein C activation. The TM enhancement of protein C activation involves both an 8-fold dec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Infrared imaging and spectroscopy of the helix with ISOCAM

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 1998 We report infrared images of the Helix Nebula centered at 6.9 μm (LW2 filter) and 15 νm (LW3 filter) obtained with ISOCAM on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). Three fields were also measured using the ISOCAM circular variable filter (CVF). The CV ... Full text Cite

Stimulation with cholecystokinin leads to increased ratio between mRNA levels for anionic and cationic trypsinogen in rat pancreas.

Journal Article J Gastroenterol · December 1997 An increased ratio between serum levels of immunoreactive anionic and cationic trypsin is a common finding in many forms of pancreatic disease. Experimental studies have shown that increased stimulation with cholecystokinin (CCK) leads to an increase in th ... Full text Link to item Cite

A 200 km s -1 molecular wind in the peculiar carbon star V Hya

Journal Article Astronomy and Astrophysics · December 1, 1997 A molecular wind with an outflow speed in excess of 200km s -1 has been found in the AGB carbon star V Hya. Observations of several molecular lines show that the circumstellar envelope is expanding at 15 km s -1 and is flattened and i ... Cite

Spectroscopic observations of comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) with the caltech submillimeter observatory

Journal Article Icarus · December 1, 1997 The apparition of Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) offered an unexpected and rare opportunity to probe the inner atmosphere of a comet with high spatial resolution and to investigate with unprecedented sensitivity its chemical composition. We present observatio ... Full text Cite

Synergistic cofactor function of factor V and protein S to activated protein C in the inactivation of the factor VIIIa - factor IXa complex -- species specific interactions of components of the protein C anticoagulant system.

Journal Article Thromb Haemost · September 1997 Human factor V has been shown not only to be a precursor to procoagulant factor Va but also to express anticoagulant properties. Thus, factor V was recently found to potentiate the effect of protein S as cofactor to activated protein C (APC) in the inactiv ... Link to item Cite

Influence of Arginines 93, 97, and 101 of thrombin to its functional specificity.

Journal Article Biochemistry · July 22, 1997 Mutation of three Arg residues, 93, 97, and 101, to Ala in thrombin (thrombin R93,97,101A) has previously been shown to eliminate most heparin acceleration of thrombin inhibition by antithrombin and most of the ability of chondroitin sulfate (CS) on thromb ... Full text Link to item Cite

Stimulation of Sky tyrosine phosphorylation by bovine protein S--domains involved in the receptor-ligand interaction.

Journal Article Eur J Biochem · May 15, 1997 Protein S is an anticoagulant vitamin-K-dependent plasma glycoprotein, which acts as a cofactor to activated protein C in the degradation of coagulation factors Va and VIIIa. It has been proposed that protein S has an additional function as a growth factor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Binding site for C4b-binding protein in vitamin K-dependent protein S fully contained in carboxy-terminal laminin-G-type repeats. A study using recombinant factor IX-protein S chimeras and surface plasmon resonance.

Journal Article Biochemistry · March 25, 1997 The interaction between vitamin K-dependent protein S and the C4b-binding protein (C4BP) was studied using surface plasmon resonance and genetic engineering. The affinity, as well as association and dissociation rates of the complex, was measured for human ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neutral carbon in the protoplanetary nebulae CRL 618 and CRL 2688

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 1997 The 609 μm 3P1 → 3P0 line of neutral atomic carbon has been detected in the protoplanetary nebulae CRL 618 and CRL 2688. C I appears to be about 7% as abundant as CO in CRL 2688 and 70% as abundant as CO in CRL 6 ... Full text Cite

Radiative transfer in a turbulent expanding molecular envelope: Application to Mira

Journal Article Astrophysics and Space Science · January 1, 1997 Full text Cite

Neutral atomic carbon in the globules of the helix

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 1997 We report detection of the 609 μm 3P1 → 3P0 line of neutral atomic carbon in globules of the Helix Nebula. The measurements were made toward the position of peak CO emission. At the same position, we obtained hig ... Full text Cite

Redshifted molecular absorption systems toward PKS 1830-211 and B0218+357: Submillimeter CO, C I, and H2O data

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 1997 We have detected the J = 4 ← 3 rotational transition of 12CO in absorption at z = 0.89 toward the quasar PKS 1830-211, but not the 12CO (5 ← 4) or the 3/1 ← 3/P0 fine-structure line of neutr ... Full text Cite

Spectroscopic evidence for interstellar ices in comet Hyakutake.

Journal Article Nature · October 3, 1996 Volatile compounds in comets are the most pristine materials surviving from the time of formation of the Solar System, and thus potentially provide information about conditions that prevailed in the primitive solar nebula. Moreover, comets may have supplie ... Full text Link to item Cite

The endothelial cell protein C receptor. Cell surface expression and direct ligand binding by the soluble receptor.

Journal Article J Biol Chem · July 19, 1996 Expression of the endothelial cell protein C receptor (EPCR) gene in mammalian cells imparts the capacity to bind activated protein C (APC) or protein C. Immunochemical analysis of CCD41, apparently the murine homologue of EPCR, suggested centrosomal local ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radio-frequency continuum emission from evolved stars

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · December 10, 1995 The evolution of stars between the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) and planetary nebula phases was investigated by sensitive radio continuum observations of a sample of 21 evolved stars with high mass-loss rates and extended circumstellar envelopes, in a sea ... Full text Cite

Discovery of strong vibrationally excited water masers at 658 ghz toward evolved stars

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · September 10, 1995 We report the astronomical discovery of the 110 3 101 rotational transition within the h = 1 vibrationally excited state of water vapor (H2O). Using the 10.4 m telescope of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, we detect strong maser emission in this line ... Full text Cite

The gene encoding vitamin K-dependent anticoagulant protein C is expressed in human male reproductive tissues.

Journal Article J Histochem Cytochem · June 1995 Protein C is a vitamin K-dependent protein circulating in plasma as a zymogen to an anticoagulant serine protease. After its activation, protein C cleaves and inactivates coagulation factors Va and VIIIa. Human protein C is synthesized in liver and undergo ... Full text Link to item Cite

A CO(3-2) survey of nearby Mira variables

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · June 1, 1995 A survey of CO(3-2) emission from optically visible oxygen-rich Mira variable stars within 500 pc of the Sun was conducted. A molecular envelope was detected surrounding 36 of the 66 stars examined. Some of these stars have lower outflow velocities than an ... Full text Cite

Homozygous APC-resistance combined with inherited type I protein S deficiency in a young boy with severe thrombotic disease.

Journal Article Thromb Haemost · May 1995 Inherited resistance to activated protein C (APC) is a frequent cause of familial thrombosis. It is associated with a factor V gene point mutation replacing arginine506 in the APC-cleavage site with a glutamine. Thrombotic events are rare during childhood ... Link to item Cite

Expression and functional characterization of chimeras between human and bovine vitamin-K-dependent protein-S-defining modules important for the species specificity of the activated protein C cofactor activity.

Journal Article Eur J Biochem · January 15, 1995 Vitamin-K-dependent protein S is an anticoagulant plasma protein functioning as a cofactor to activated protein C (APC) in the degradation of factors Va and VIIIa. The APC-cofactor function of protein S is species specific, as human protein S potentiates t ... Full text Link to item Cite

The gene encoding vitamin K-dependent anticoagulant protein S is expressed in multiple rabbit organs as demonstrated by northern blotting, in situ hybridization, and immunohistochemistry.

Journal Article J Histochem Cytochem · January 1995 Vitamin K-dependent protein S is an anticoagulant plasma protein that functions as a co-factor to activated protein C in the degradation of coagulation factors Va and VIIIa. We investigated the tissue/cellular distribution of protein S synthesis by Norther ... Full text Link to item Cite

Maps of the molecular emission around 18 evolved stars

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · January 1, 1995 We present maps at 20″ resolution of the molecular emission around 18 evolved stars (14 asymptotic giant branch stars, one supergiant, two proto-planetary nebulae, and one planetary nebula), mostly in the 12CO(3-2) line. Almost all molecular env ... Full text Cite

Identification of the same factor V gene mutation in 47 out of 50 thrombosis-prone families with inherited resistance to activated protein C.

Journal Article J Clin Invest · December 1994 Resistance to activated protein C (APC) is the most prevalent inherited cause of venous thrombosis. The APC resistance phenotype is associated with a single point mutation in the factor V gene, changing Arg506 in the APC cleavage site to a Gln. We have inv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vitamin K-dependent protein S in Leydig cells of human testis.

Journal Article Biochem J · September 15, 1994 Protein S is an anticoagulant plasma protein, functioning as a cofactor to activated protein C in the regulation of blood coagulation. In addition, protein S forms a complex with the complement regulatory protein, C4b-binding protein. Protein S is unique a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rabbit plasma, unlike its human counterpart, contains no complex between protein S and C4b-binding protein.

Journal Article Thromb Haemost · April 1994 In human plasma, the anticoagulant vitamin K-dependent protein S exists in two molecular forms, as free protein and complexed to C4b-binding protein (C4BP), a complement regulatory protein. It has been suggested that rabbit plasma also contains two forms o ... Link to item Cite

Molecular cloning, expression and functional characterization of rabbit anticoagulant vitamin-K-dependent protein S.

Journal Article Eur J Biochem · November 1, 1993 Vitamin-K-dependent protein S is an anticoagulant plasma protein which functions as cofactor to activated protein C (APC) in the degradation of coagulation factors Va and VIIIa. In addition, it interacts with C4b-binding protein (C4BP), a regulator of the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Atomic carbon in the envelope of IRC + 10216

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · October 1, 1993 We report observations of the 3P1 → 3P0 transition of atomic carbon at 492 GHz in IRC + 10216, made at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The C I emission from the central position of IRC + 10216 was found to ... Full text Cite

First measurements of extragalactic CO(4-3)

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 10, 1993 We report the first measurements of extragalactic CO(4-3) toward a sample of prominent nearby galactic nuclei (NGC 253, IC 342, M82, and NGC 6946). With the J = 4 level 55 K above ground, and critical densities for excitation of order ∼104-10 Full text Cite

The H I structure of nine intrinsically faint dwarf galaxies

Journal Article Astronomical Journal · January 1, 1993 The neutral atomic hydrogen (H I) in nine dwarf irregular galaxies, with absolute magnitude fainter than MB= - 14m: LGS-3, UGC 4483, DDO 69 (Leo A), C Vn dwA, DDO 155 (GR 8), DDO 187, Sag DIG, DDO 210, DDO 216 (Pegasus), was mapped wi ... Full text Cite

Circumstellar shells resolved in the IRAS survey data. I. Data processing procedure, results, and confidence tests

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · January 1, 1993 We have examined the IRAS 60 and 100 μm survey data covering 512 evolved stars and young planetary nebulae for evidence of spatially resolved structure. A simple model, consisting of a central unresolved source surrounded by a resolved isothermal shell, wa ... Full text Cite

Circumstellar shells resolved in iras survey data. II. Analysis

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 1, 1993 The IRAS survey data for 512 red giant stars and young planetary nebulae, most of which have been detected in rotational transitions of CO, were examined. The data for those objects which were not located in highly confused regions of the sky were processe ... Full text Cite

The multiple molecular winds of CRL 2688

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · January 20, 1992 Three rotational transitions of 12C16O, two of 13C16O, and one of 1H12C14N were observed toward the proto-planetary nebula CRL 2688. The spectra reveal a previously undetected win ... Full text Cite

Abundances in red giant stars: Nitrogen isotopes in carbon-rich molecular envelopes

Journal Article Astrophysical Journal · October 20, 1991 Millimeter- and submillimeter-wave observations of HCN and HCCCN have been made of the circumstellar envelopes of eight carbon stars, including the two protoplanetary nebulae: CRL 618 and CRL 2688. The observations yield a measure of the double ratio: Full text Cite