Compromised activity of natural killer cells in diffuse large b-cell lymphoma is related to lymphoma-induced modification of their surface receptor expression.

While natural killer (NK) cells are essential players in detection and elimination of malignant cells, these surveillance properties can be compromised by cancer cells. Since NK cell education primarily occurs in the bone marrow and lymphoid tissue, this process might be particularly affected by their infiltration with lymphoma cells. This study aimed to explore functional properties of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patient NK cells, which could potentially promote tumour immune evasion and disease propagation.

Protein C global assay evaluation in naturally conceived vs. assisted reproduction-achieved twin pregnancies: a prospective longitudinal study.

Purpose: Protein C global assay tests the global function of the protein C pathway, the most clinically significant anticoagulant pathway in humans. The objective of this study is to assess the difference in protein C global assay levels, throughout twin gestation, in naturally conceiving and ART-treated women.

Methods: This is a prospective cohort longitudinal study of pregnant women with twin gestation.

Pregnancy and non-pregnancy related immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in women of reproductive age.

Pregnancy is a precipitating factor for immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP). We compared the clinical course and outcomes of iTTP in women of reproductive age, between those with pregnancy- and non-pregnancy-related iTTP. A review of all reproductive-aged women diagnosed with iTTP during 2010-2019 in seven university hospitals in Israel.

[EXPERIENCE IN DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS FOR HEPARIN-INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA - EXPERIENCE OF A TERTIARY HOSPITAL IN ISRAEL].

Aims: To analyze the experience of a tertiary medical center in clinical and laboratory diagnosis of suspected HIT.

Background: The diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) requires clinical data and laboratory detection of platelet activating factor 4/heparin (PF4/H) antibodies by immunological or functional assays. Although antigen screening assays are widely used, the functional assays are performed only by several expert labs.

Effects of Acute Stress on Thrombosis.

Stress, the nonspecific response to any demand for change, is an adaptive response of the human body to various stimulants. As such, stress-induced hypercoagulation may represent an adaptive response to bleeding. Numerous epidemiological studies have revealed that a correlation exists between stress and thrombotic risk and biochemically, links of the relationship between psychological stress and coagulation pathways have been made.