Multiple myloma

Neuroblastoma is a malignant tumor of neuroblasts, immature nerve cells found in several areas of the body. It usually affects children under age of 5. As usual, the tumor has ability to grow rapidly and to expand vastly which ultimately leads to death. Mostly, management decisions can be drawn by the prediction of the stage of the disease as well as age at the time of its diagnosis. There are four main stages of neuroblastoma, and treatment is according to the low and high risk of the disease. Several cytotoxic agents along with other therapies (antibody therapy, gene therapy, and even immunological therapies, antiangiogenic therapy, etc...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the correlation between serum free light chain (sFLC) and blood routine parameters in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). METHODS: 347 patients with multiple myeloma diagnosed in Sichuan people's Hospital from April 2019 to July 2021 were selected. sFLC, serum total light chain (sTLC), peripheral blood routine, coagulation and biochemical parameters were analyzed retrospectively. The correlation analysis between sFLC and blood routine parameters were calculated by Pearson or Spearman correlation coefficients...

Deubiquitylases (DUBs) are therapeutically amenable components of the ubiquitin machinery that stabilize substrate proteins. Their inhibition can destabilize oncoproteins that may otherwise be undruggable. Here, we screened for DUB vulnerabilities in multiple myeloma, an incurable malignancy with dependency on the ubiquitin proteasome system and identified OTUD6B as an oncogene that drives the G1/S-transition. LIN28B, a suppressor of microRNA biogenesis, is specified as a bona fide cell cycle-specific substrate of OTUD6B...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the morphological characteristics of bone marrow cells of multiple myeloma with non-bone-related extramedullary disease and thier clinical significance. METHODS: Bone marrow smears, peripheral blood smears and bone marrow biopsy sections as well as thier examination results of 20 cases of multiple myloma with non-bone-related extramedullary disease were collected at initial diagnosis in First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University from March 2013 to March 2016, and morphological characterisistes of bone marrow cells were analysed in combination with clinical data...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the value of bone marrow smear and biopsy simultaneously applied to diagnosis of multiple myloma (MM). METHODS: Clinical data of 30 cases of multiple myloma were collected from our hospital in the year 2014 and analyzed retrospectively, and the results of the bone marrow smear and the simultaneous bone marrow biopsy were compared. RESULTS: Hyperplasia levels in bone marrow biopsy was significantly higher than that in bone marrow smears, and the active and highly active hyperplasia of nucleated cells were observed in all the bone marrow biopsies; the myeloma cells showed a focal or diffuse distribution, the binuclear or polynuclear myeloma cells were observed in 22 patients (73%), but the detection rate of abnormal myeloma cells was 40% in bone marrow smear (P < 0...

The mortality caused by blood neoplasms in Argentina shows great irregularity. This was found to be caused in certain ways by (a) differences in the sexes and ages of the populations studied; (b) differences in available health services; and (c) environmental factors. Thus high rates and clusters of lymphomas and multiple mylomas were observed in zones with arsenical water, for example.In rural districts, the rates are lower, especially among old-aged people.Lower rates of leukemias were also observed among Spaniards compared to Italians (p=0...

Disorders of iron utilization caused by abnormal elevation of hepcidin levels are the main mechanism of anemia of chronic disease. Hepcidin is mainly produced by the liver. Recently it has been found that monocytes are another source of hepcidin. The increased hepcidin in serum and urine of multiple myeloma patients may be one cause of anemia of chronic disease (ACD). However it is unclear whether the peripheral blood monocyte hepcidin is involved in the pathogenesis of anemia of chronic disease. This study was purposed to investigate the role of monocyte hepcidin in multiple myeloma patients with anemia of chronic disease...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal B-cell malignancy charactered by the aberrant proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow. MM is still an incurable malignancy. In this regard, novel treatments are urgently required. MUC1 (mucin 1), a type І transmembrane protein, is overexpressed and aberrantly glycosylated in many carcinomas particularly in MM resulting in an antigenically distinct molecule and may be a potential target for specific immunotherapy. In this study, we first designed a unique DNA vaccine, termed MUC1-2-VNTR (various number tandem repeats) to investigate whether the vaccine could specifically suppress tumor growth in a murine multiple myloma model...

This study was aimed to investigate the effect of T cells activated by DCs loaded with whole antigens of U266 cells on the U266 cells survival in vitro. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from healthy donor, and adherented on culture plate. Adherent cells were cultured in AIM-V serum-free medium or in RPMI 1640 medium contained 20% fetal bovine serum (FBS), supplemented with granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-4 (IL-4). Methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay was used to evaluate killing rate of U266 cells by T cells activated by DCs loaded with whole antigen of U266 cells...

Monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance (MGUS) and smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) are plasma cell disorders with a risk of progression of approximately 1% and 10% per year, respectively. We have previously shown that the proportion of bone marrow (BM) aberrant plasma cells (aPCs) within the BMPC compartment (aPC/BMPC) as assessed by flow cytometry (FC) contributes to differential diagnosis between MGUS and multiple myloma (MM). The goal of the present study was to investigate this parameter as a marker for risk of progression in MGUS (n = 407) and SMM (n = 93)...

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A 52 year old man was admitted to hospital for persistent back pain, fixed proteinuria of 6g/24 h that lead to the nephrotic syndrome (proteids 40 g/l, albumin 21,2 g/l). Two possible etiologies were envisaged: 1) Myeloma with K light chains as evidenced by biological findings (absence of normal Ig, presence of K light chains both in blood and urine, malignant medullary plasmocytosis) as well as x-rays (small punched out lesions). 2. Diabetes mellitus (blood glucose 2,4 g/l) with retinal and neurological involvement...