February 2008 - Posts

• Status of donor-recipient HLA class I ligands and not the KIR genotype is predictive for the outcome of unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in beta-thalassemia patients.

  Authors: La Nasa G , Littera R , Locatelli F , Giardini C , Ventrella A , Mulargia M , Vacca A , Orrù N , Orrù S , Piras E , Giustolisi G , Lisini D , Nesci S , Caocci G , Carcassi C . Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007 Nov;13(11):1358-68. Epub 2007 Sep Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:54 PM by Chiara | 0 Comments

• The human leucocyte antigen-G 14-basepair polymorphism correlates with graft-versus-host disease in unrelated bone marrow transplantation for thalassaemia.

  Authors: La Nasa G , Littera R , Locatelli F , Lai S , Alba F , Caocci G , Lisini D , Nesci S , Vacca A , Piras E , Bernardo ME , Di Cesare-Merlone A , Orrù S , Carcassi C . Br J Haematol. 2007 Oct;139(2):284-8. The presence of the 14-bp insertion polymorphism Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:51 PM by Chiara | 0 Comments

• Therapeutic options for patients with severe beta-thalassemia: the need for globin gene therapy.

  Authors: Sadelain M , Boulad F , Galanello R , Giardina P , Locatelli F , Maggio A , Rivella S , Riviere I , Tisdale J . Review on Hum Gene Ther. 2007 Jan;18(1):1-9 Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:46 PM by Chiara | 0 Comments Filed under: publication