Herpesvirus 8 inclusions in primary effusion lymphoma: Report of a unique...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...* We describe a case of primary effusion lymphoma with T-cell phenotype...polymerase chain reaction. Primary effusion lymphoma cells with T-cell...Clinical features were typical of primary effusion lymphoma. Cytologic, molecular...

Human herpesvirus 8 reactivation and human immunodeficiency virus Type 1...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......HIV-1-infected T cells with HHV-- 8-infected primary effusion lymphoma cell lines results in HHV...HHV-8 replication in latently infected primary effusion lymphoma cell lines. Main Outcome...reactivation of the virus in infected primary effusion lymphoma cell lines. Conclusions...

Association of primary pleural effusion lymphoma of T-cell origin and...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  September 1, 2001 ;     578 words ......HHV-8-related body cavity-based lymphoma/primary effusion lymphoma previously reported in HIV-seronegati...may be included or not within the primary effusion lymphoma entity, the association of...RG, Cesarman E, Chadburn A, et al. Primary effusion lymphoma: a distinct ...

KAPOSI'S SARCOMA-ASSOCIATED HERPESVIRUS: Clinical, Diagnostic, and...

Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......also involved in the pathogenesis of primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and a subset of multicentric...multicentric Castleman's disease, primary effusion lymphoma. Abbreviations AIDS, Acquired...PCR, Polymerase chain reaction; PEL, Primary effusion lymphoma; PKC, Protein kinase C; RRV...

Chemokine Therapeutics supplies NCI with CTCE-9908 to research primary...

PR Newswire;  February 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Therapeutics' CTCE-9908. Under this MTA, NCI will investigate the role of CTCE-9908 in the pathology of primary effusion lymphoma. Primary Effusion Lymphoma (PEL) is a rare form of non- Hodgkin lymphoma that is usually associated with human immunodeficiency...

Virology, pathogenetic mechanisms, and associated diseases of Kaposi...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......as with several lymphoproliferative disorders (notably primary effusion lymphoma and multicentric Castleman disease) is reviewed...open reading frame; PCR = polymerase chain reaction; PEL = primary effusion lymphoma In 1994, Chang et al1 identified the presence...

Valganciclovir cut oral shedding of herpesvirus 8.(Infectious Diseases)

Internal Medicine News;  February 1, 2006 ;     336 words ......valganciclovir, Dr. Corey Casper reported. Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) causes Kaposi's sarcoma, multicentric Castleman disease, and primary effusion lymphoma. The virus must actively replicate to cause and maintain Kaposi's sarcoma and multicentric Castleman disease...

Early peripheral lymph node involvement of human herpesvirus 8-associated,...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......body cavity-based B-cell lymphoma, which has been named primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and occurs primarily in HIV positive patients...Israeli patient. (Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2000;124:753-755) primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) has recently been identified as a distinct...

Valganciclovir reduced oral shedding of herpesvirus 8 by 79% in crossover...

Skin & Allergy News;  March 1, 2006 ;     445 words ......valgancidovir, Dr. Corey Casper reported. Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) causes Kaposi's sarcoma, multicentric Castleman disease, and primary effusion lymphoma. The virus must actively replicate to cause and maintain Kaposi's sarcoma and multicentric Castleman disease...

Finnish scientists discover new approach to treat virus-induced lymphomas

Xinhua News Agency;  March 16, 2007 ;     153 words ......turn cells against tumors. This is a new treatment for lymphomas induced by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) such as primary effusion lymphomas (PELs), which have a reported median survival time shorter than six months after diagnosis. The TP53 gene is...

HHV-8 research reagents. (New Products).

Bioscience Technology;  June 1, 2003 ;     317 words ......diseases: (a) Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) of all types-endemic, classic, and AIDS-related; (b) body cavity-based lymphoma (BCBL), or Primary Effusion Lymphoma (PEL); and (c) some plasma cell forms of Multicentric Castleman's Disease (MCD). Infection with HHV-8 is consistently...

AIDS-Related Virus Tricks Cells to Become Tumors, New Penn Study Finds;...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  November 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......suppressed such as organ transplant patients are at high risk for developing Kaposi's sarcoma and another cancer called primary effusion lymphoma. The study describes how a KSHV-encoded protein, called latency-associated nuclear antigen, or LANA, tricks the...

Primary Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Negative Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......mainly Burkitt lymphoma or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which frequently occur in the central nervous system (CNS).1 Primary effusion lymphoma and plasmablastic lymphoma of the oral cavity are considerably less frequent B-cell neoplasms that occur virtually...

Aids-related plasmablastic lymphomas of the oral cavity and jaws: A...

The Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......related nonHodgkin's lymphomas (AIDS-NHLs) includes systemic NHL, primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL), and primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). Systemic AIDS-NHLs are heterogeneous and include 2 major pathologic categories, ie, small noncleaved cell...

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA CANCER RESEARCHERS WIN MILLIONS IN STATE SUPPORT

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 15, 2007 ;     689 words ......microbiology, was awarded $200,000 to continue studies of a herpesvirus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma and other diseases such as primary effusion lymphomas, looking at a new class of gene expression regulators called microRNAs that appear to contribute to the development...