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- Abrahamsson, Jonas, 1954, et al.
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Associations between neutrophil recovery time, infections and relapse in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia
- 2018
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Ingår i: Pediatric Blood & Cancer. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1545-5009 .- 1545-5017. ; 65:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundChildren with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treated similarly show different toxicity and leukemic responses. We investigated associations between neutrophil recovery time after the first induction course, infection and relapse in children treated according to NOPHO-AML 2004 and DB AML-01. ProcedureNewly diagnosed patients with AML with bone marrow blast<5% between day 15 after the start of the treatment and the start of second induction course, and in complete remission after the second induction course were included (n=279). Neutrophil recovery time was defined as the time from the start of the course to the last day with absolute neutrophil count<0.5x10(9)/l. Linear and Cox regressions were used to investigate associations. ResultsNeutrophil recovery time after the first induction course was positively associated with neutrophil recovery time after the remaining courses, and longer neutrophil recovery time (25 days) was associated with increased risk of grade 3-4 infections (hazard ratio 1.4, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1-1.8). Longer neutrophil recovery time after the first induction (>30 days) was associated with the increased risk of relapse (5-year cumulative incidence: 48% vs. 42%, hazard ratio 1.7, 95% CI, 1.1-2.6) for cases not treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in first complete remission. ConclusionLonger neutrophil recovery time after the first induction course was associated with grade 3-4 infections and relapse. If confirmed, this knowledge could be incorporated into risk stratification strategies in pediatric AML.
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- Abrahamsson, Jonas, 1954, et al.
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Cholesteryl sulphate and phosphate in the solid state and in aqueous systems.
- 1977
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Ingår i: Chemistry and physics of lipids. - 0009-3084. ; 19:3, s. 213-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cholesteryl sodium sulphate (CS) crystallizes as the dihydrate, the crystal structure of which is known. On heating the dihydrate, solid state phase transitions are observed at 65 degrees C and 95 degrees C and melting occurs at 165 degrees C. The structure of the high temperature phase has not been determined. Cholesteryl dihydrogen phosphate (CP) is not isostructural with any phases of CS. It undergoes a phase transition at 50 degrees C and melts at 190 degrees C. In systems with water CS is unstable whereas it was possible to determine the phase diagram of CP. In most of the composition range a crystalline hydrate is in equilibrium with a gel-phase. The latter has remarkable properties in that lamellar order exists with the 46 A lipid bilayer interleaved with water layers up to 1000 A. The monofilm behaviour of CS and CP at different pH levels is also reported.
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- Abrahamsson, Sten, 1953-, et al.
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Integrated Management Systems : testing a model for integration
- 2011
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Ingår i: 14th Toulon-Verona Conference. - Alicante : University of Alicante. - 9788890432712 ; , s. 22-35
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Management systems are widely used for creating order, minimising risks and for assuring performance. Management systems are in many occasions integrated since this has been found to be beneficial. In this paper a model for a fully integrated management system (IMS) based on the three axes of level, extent and scope of integration is tested for relevance. The studied system permits the integration of all relevant process dimensions. The research is only in a pilot stage, but the initial results are promising and indicate that there are advantages in using the process view as a base for identifying critical aspects to be managed. A review of the current situation for system integration is studied and the model is subjected to some tests using Sweden as a case. The background study shows that system integration still is limited, especially when comparing with a fully integrated IMS. The feedback from the organisations interviewed is positive and supports continued work with development of the model.
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- Blind, Per-Jonas, et al.
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Microdialysis in early detection of temporary pancreatic ischemia in a porcine model
- 2012
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Ingår i: European Surgical Research. - : S. Karger AG. - 0014-312X .- 1421-9921. ; 49:3-4, s. 113-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Ischemic injury to the pancreas occurs in various clinical conditions. A method for online monitoring of pathophysiological events in pancreatic parenchyma is missing. Aims: To assess the timing of microdialysis (MD) technique response on temporary changes in pancreatic perfusion, and to evaluate the relationship between MD data and systemic markers of anaerobic metabolism and inflammation. Methods: In anaesthetized normoventilated pigs, MD probes were placed in right (control) and left (ischemic) pancreatic lobes, respectively. Following the clamping of the vessels, ischemia was verified by tissue oxygen tension (PtiO2) measurements. Results: PtiO2 decreased within 20 min after the clamping of the vessels, already returning to baseline levels at the first sampling point after the removal of the clamp. MD lactate levels increased, whereas pyruvate and glucose levels decreased at 20 min after the induction of ischemia. These trends continued until the end of ischemia and returned to baseline following reperfusion. Serum lactate, amylase and tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels decreased throughout the protocol time. Conclusion: MD data were in concordance with changes in PtiO2, which is indicative of local anaerobic metabolism. MD allowed the detection of pathophysiological processes within the ischemic pancreas at a stage when no elevations of systemic markers of ischemia or inflammation were observed.
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- Eliasson, Charlotte, 1973, et al.
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Multivariate evaluation of doxorubicin surface-enhanced Raman spectra.
- 2001
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Ingår i: Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy. - 1386-1425. ; 57:9, s. 1907-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Multivariate evaluation of surface-enhanced Raman spectra of doxorubicin in plasma was performed. In a principal component analysis (PCA) all spectral features were modelled into three principal components. The major variation of the data was shown to be the variation of doxorubicin Raman signal together with the doxorubicin fluorescence, whereas the variation due to plasma was of minor importance. It was also shown that the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) measurements were independent on such factors as measurement occasion and silver colloids. The presented results show that with some improvements, quantification of doxorubicin directly in plasma could be possible.
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- Eliasson, Charlotte, 1973, et al.
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Multivariate methodology for surface enhanced Raman chemical imaging of lymphocytes
- 2006
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Ingår i: Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-7439 .- 1873-3239. ; 81:1, s. 13-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used to study the uptake of rhodamine 6G in human lymphocytes. In total four Raman images of lymphocytes were used. The aim was to find a multivariate methodology capable of separating spectra with chemical information from those that mainly contained the surface enhanced background, in order to create chemical images. The standard PCA procedure was compared with PCA of standard normal variate (SNV) corrected spectra, spectra baseline corrected in the wavelet domain, and variable trimming before PCA, to isolate unique spectra. It was not straightforward to perform a standard PCA for overview, since the small background variation in many variables dominated over the Raman band variation that only occur in few variables. It was shown that wavelet filtering could remove background variations and that variable trimming followed by PCA modelling left the unique Raman spectra as outliers, which facilitated interpretation of the Raman score images.
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- Eliasson, Charlotte, 1973, et al.
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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering imaging of single living lymphocytes with multivariate evaluation
- 2005
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Ingår i: Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. - : Elsevier BV. - 1386-1425. ; 61:4, s. 755-760
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is aimed to show the possibility to determine individual organic compounds introduced into single living cells with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Surface enhancement was achieved with gold colloids that were allowed to diffuse into lymphocytes. An introduced analyte, rhodamine 6G, could be imaged together with for example nucleotides and amino acids of the cell. Multivariate evaluation of surface-enhanced Raman images proved to be a powerful tool for the separation of spectral information of various intracellular components. The principal component analysis (PCA) enabled identification of spectra containing different chemical information and separation of the spectral contribution of rhodamine 6G from the complex cellular matrix.
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- Lindqvist, C. Mårten, et al.
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Deep targeted sequencing in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia unveils distinct mutational patterns between genetic subtypes and novel relapse-associated genes
- 2016
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Ingår i: Oncotarget. - : Impact Journals, LLC. - 1949-2553. ; 7:39, s. 64071-64088
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To characterize the mutational patterns of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) we performed deep next generation sequencing of 872 cancer genes in 172 diagnostic and 24 relapse samples from 172 pediatric ALL patients. We found an overall greater mutational burden and more driver mutations in T-cell ALL (T-ALL) patients compared to B-cell precursor ALL (BCP-ALL) patients. In addition, the majority of the mutations in T-ALL had occurred in the original leukemic clone, while most of the mutations in BCP-ALL were subclonal. BCP-ALL patients carrying any of the recurrent translocations ETV6-RUNX1, BCR-ABL or TCF3-PBX1 harbored few mutations in driver genes compared to other BCP-ALL patients. Specifically in BCP-ALL, we identified ATRX as a novel putative driver gene and uncovered an association between somatic mutations in the Notch signaling pathway at ALL diagnosis and increased risk of relapse. Furthermore, we identified EP300, ARID1A and SH2B3 as relapse-associated genes. The genes highlighted in our study were frequently involved in epigenetic regulation, associated with germline susceptibility to ALL, and present in minor subclones at diagnosis that became dominant at relapse. We observed a high degree of clonal heterogeneity and evolution between diagnosis and relapse in both BCP-ALL and T-ALL, which could have implications for the treatment efficiency.
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- Lorén, Anders, 1974, et al.
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Feasibility of quantitative determination of doxorubicin with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. - : Wiley. - 0377-0486 .- 1097-4555. ; 32:11, s. 971-974
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was performed using excitation at 488 nm in a blood plasma-doxorubicin-silver colloid system. With a blood plasma content of 1%, a partial least-squares calibration of the doxorubicin was made in the 10-750 nM range. Predictions for a test set generated a root mean square error of prediction of 70 nM. The use of SERS and chemometrics in complex systems made it possible to use the highly informative Raman signals even at low concentrations without the need for sample pretreatment such as extraction. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Lorén, Anders, 1974, et al.
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Internal standard in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- 2004
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Ingår i: Analytical Chemistry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0003-2700 .- 1520-6882. ; 76:24, s. 7391-7395
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A method is presented for the use of SAM layers as internal standards for calibration in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Three cyano-containing compounds were attached to gold colloids via a metal-sulfur bond and evaluated for spectral stability and normalization capacity. The results show that the analyte, rhodamine 6G, and the internal standard signal enhancement covaried, and it was possible to quantify the analyte with PLS. The fact that the enhancing substrate was chaotic assemblies with large variation in signal enhancement shows the versatility of this method.
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