The aim of this study was to determine hematological profile of sickle cell disease (SCD) from Surat, South Gujarat, India. This prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics and Sickle Cell Anemia Laboratory, Faculty of Pathology, Government Medical College, Surat, India, between July 2009 and December 2010. Patients included in this study were in their steady...

HARIGAE, H. GATA Transcription Factors and Hematological Diseases. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2006, 210 (1), 1-9 ── The development of mature blood cells from hematopoietic stem cells is regulated by transcription factors that control and coordinate the expression of lineage-specific genes. The GATA family consists of six transcription factors that function in hematopoietic and endodermal development...

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a non-specific immune system stimulation that has different sources. An infection is a common etiology of SIRS forming sepsis. Sepsis and septic shock are major healthcare problems affecting millions of people around the world each year, killing one in four (and often more) and increasing in incidence. However, severe SIRS can occur in other rar...

The Division of Cancer Biology of the National Cancer Institute hosted a workshop on hematological malignancies and the marrow microenvironment in Rockville, Maryland in the fall of 2002. There were 22 invited participants from the United States, Canada, and Europe, and the workshop was organized into disease-specific sessions. The sessions were designed to explore the basic science and therape...

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation(HSCT), has been accepted as a feasible treatment option that prolongs survival in hematological malignancies. Stem cell choice during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can differ according to the experience of physicians, mostly treated hematological diseases in the centers or ongoing clinical trials. In this chapter we will discuss the advantages a...

pisciculture has benefited human being during last decades. among different species oncorhynchus mykiss is of great important. its increasing mortality due to infectious diseases and also infectivity of synthetic drugs motivated us to evaluate the effect of alcoholic extract of plantago ovata on some hematological parameters of this species. hematological parameters could act as symptoms of hea...