the human leukocyte antigen g (hla-g) molecule exhibits limited tissue distribution, low polymorphism and alternative splicings that generate seven hla-g isoforms. hla-g exerts multiple immunoregulatory functions. recent studies indicate an ectopic up-regulation in tumor cells that may favor their escape from anti-tumor immune responses. this study it is an effort to clarify the presence of hla...

background: patients with b-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (b-cll) have hetero-geneous clinical courses, thus several biological parameters need to be added to the cur-rent clinical staging systems to predict disease outcome. recent immunophenotypic stud-ies performed mainly in western populations have demonstrated the prognostic value of cd38 and zap-70 expression in b-cll. objectives: to i...

The human leukocyte antigen G (HLA-G) molecule exhibits limited tissue distribution, low polymorphism and alternative splicings that generate seven HLA-G isoforms. HLA-G exerts multiple immunoregulatory functions. Recent studies indicate an ectopic up-regulation in tumor cells that may favor their escape from anti-tumor immune responses. This study it is an effort to clarify the presence of HLA...

Background: Patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) have hetero-geneous clinical courses, thus several biological parameters need to be added to the cur-rent clinical staging systems to predict disease outcome. Recent immunophenotypic stud-ies performed mainly in Western populations have demonstrated the prognostic value of CD38 and ZAP-70 expression in B-CLL. Objectives: To i...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a malignancy of B CD5+cells and is the most common type of leukemia in adults. The disease is more common in men over 50 years in western countries. CLL is associated with defective apoptosis in B cells. CLL was traditionally regarded as a disease that occurs before naïve B cells meet the antigen in the lymph nodes. Laboratory diagnosis requires white blood...

abstract: chronic lymphocyte leukemia (cll) is the most common leukemia in elderly individuals that is accompanied by the presence of cd5/cd19/cd20/cd23 positive, fmc7 negative and reduced levels of surface membrane immunoglobuline (igm & igd), cd79b on b lymphocytes in the blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes. remarkably, based on the mutational igvh status, b-cll cases can be subdivided into tw...

conclusions it was demonstrated that the presence of del6q21 in b-cll patients indicates poor prognosis and on the contrary, presence of del17p13 points at the good prognostic value of the disease. results deletion of 17p13 was found in 11 (16.6%) and deletion 6q21 was present in 5 (7.5%). statistical analyses were performed to investigate the correlation of these molecular-cytogenetic findings...

We show that lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell precursors derived from patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) and cultured in the presence of recombinant interleukin-2 and normal human serum (NHS), develop into primarily NK cell-like (CD 57+) LAK cells, whereas identically prepared LAK cell precursors from normal subjects develop into mainly T cell-like (CD 3+, CD 8+) LA...