Modern Trends in Human Leukemia II: Biological, Immunological, Therapeutical and Virological Aspects: Haematology and Blood Transfusion Hämatologie und Bluttransfusion, cartea 19

Cell Biology of Leukemia.- Notions about the hemopoietic stem cell.- Productivity in normal and leukemic granulopoiesis.- Cytology and cytochemistry of colony cells in soft agar gel culture from normal and leukemic bone marrow.- Cellular subclasses in human leukemic hemopoiesis.- Characterisation and pathological growth of human bone marrow cells by means of a new stem cell assay.- The phenotypic abnormality in leukemia: a defective cell-factor interaction?.- In vitro colöny growth of acute myelogenous leukemia.- Clinical utility of bone marrow culture.- Proliferative behavior of hemopoietic cells in preleukemia and overt leukemia observed in one patient.- Leukemic anaplasias reflecting physiologic cytogenesis of myeloid system.- Membrane remodeling during phagocytosis in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells.- Erythroid cell differentiation.- Molecular mechanisms in erythroid differentiation.- Analysis by computer controlled cell sorter of Friend virus-transformed cells in different stages of differentiation.- Hormone independent in vitro erythroid colony formation by mouse bone marrow cells.- In vitro and preliminary in vivo studies of compounds which induce the differentiation of Friend leukemia cells.- Target cells for leukemic transformation by chicken C-type viruses.- Fusion experiments with human tumour cells.- Effect of cytochalasin B on malignant cells.- Growth regulation and suppression of metastasis in the congenitally athymic nude mouse.- Immunology of Leukemia.- Cell-mediated immunity to leukemia associated antigens in experimental models and in man.- Surface features of cells in human lymphoproliferative disorders. An immunoelectron microscopy study.- Immunological characterization of blast cells in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemias. Evaluation ofits clinical significance.- Immunological membrane markers of Hodgkin’s cells.- Human leukemia-lymphoma associated antigen detected by heteroantisera.- Analysis of human leukaemic cells using cell surface binding probes and the fluorescence activated cell sorter.- Use of immunological reagents prepared in animals to characterise the surface of leukaemic cells.- Therapy of Leukemia.- Trends in the treatment of childhood leukemia.- The therapy of acute leukemia in the adult. A progress report.- Aids in the management of leukemia (cell removal by continuos flow leukapheresis and impulse cytophotometry).- The place of immunological methods of treatment in the management of acute leukaemia.- Perspectives and prospectives in the management of acute leukemia.- Oncogenic Viruses in Leukemia.- Restricted addition of proviral DNA in target tissues of chickens infected with avian myeloblastosis virus.- Sequences and functions of Rous sarcoma virus RNA.- Infection of developing mouse embryos with murine leukemia virus: tissue specificity and genetic transmission of the virus.- Type C virogenes: modes of transmission and evolutionary aspects.- Bovine leukemia virus: an exogenous RNA oncogenic virus?.- Molecular evidence for the association of RNA tumor viruses with human mesenchymal malignancies.- RNA tumor viruses and leukemia: evaluation of present results supporting their presence in human leukemias.- Murine and simian C-type viruses: sequences detected in the RNA of human leukemic cells by the c-DNA probes.- Prevention of herpes-associated malignancies in primates: problems and prospects.- New properties of mammalian cells transformed by herpes simplex and cytomegalo-viruses.- Failure to immortalize human ‘null’ cells by Epstein Barr virus (EBV) ‘in vitro’.- The roleof viruses in human leukemia: a summary.- RNA Synthesis and Translation in Leukemic Cells.- IS-element in bacteria.- Circadian variation of «-amanitine sensitive RNA-synthesis in normal human lymphocytes.- Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase as a biological marker for human leukemia.- Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase in normal and neoplastic hematopoietic cells.- A new, not virus related reverse transcriptase in the chicken system.- Translation level control in normal and leukemic cells.- Control of peptide chain initiation in uninfected and virus infected cells by membrane mediated events.- List of Participants.