acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) is a hematological malignancy, which accounts for about 15-25% of childhood's leukemia. genetic factor is one of the most important predisposing elements in childhood acute leukemia, especially aml. in this case report, a rare presentation of familial aml is presented in three monozygotic triplets. two were 10 months old, and the other one was 16 months old at p...

FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 is a receptor tyrosine kinase expressed by immature hematopoietic cells and is important for the normal development of stem cells and the immune system. Mutations of FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 have been detected in about 30% of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia and a small number of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 muta...

nitric oxide (no) is a molecule required for many physiological functions, produced from l-arginine by no synthases (nos). it is a free radical, producing many reactive intermediates that account for its bioactivity. sustained induction of the inducible form of nos (inos) in chronic inflammation may be mutagenic, through no-mediated dna damage or hindrance to dna repair, and thus potentially ca...

The significance of immunophenotyping is growing day by day. Itprovides basic information in regard to classification and prognosisof acute leukemia which helps the management of patients. Thisstudy was conducted to Identify CD markers in leukemic patientsadmitted to Tabriz, in northwestern Iran. Immunophenotyping of 60patients with acute leukemia was determined. Patients with acutemyelogenous ...

two igm monoclonal antibodies (mab) with strong reactivity for granulocytes and to a lesser extent for lurkat cell lines were established by immunizing balbi c mice with a histiocytic cell line (uy37). these two mabs (designated as 6c9 and 4c4) reacted with blast cells of t-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (t-all) and acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) patients as well as leukemic cells from patients...

Background: Environment of Basrah is seriously contaminated with chemical leukomogens as a result of recent military conflicts. Many studies in the past few years have reported an increase in the incidence of leukemia in Basrah. This study was designed to study the risk and pattern of childhood leukemia in Basrah, Iraq, from 2003 to 2007.Materials and Methods: This hospital-based cancer registr...