Modern Trends in Human Leukemia IX : New Results in Clinical and Biological Research Including Pediatric Oncology; Organized on Behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Hamatologie und Onkologie, Wilsede, June 17-21, 1990

Clinical Aspects.- Bone Marrow Transplantation in Children with Acute Leukemia: A 1990 View.- Proliferation-Including Effects of Recombinant Human Interleukin-7 and Interleukin-3 in B-Lineage Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.- Effects of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor in Children with Severe Congenital Neutropenia.- Interleukin-1 Production in Patients with Nonlymphocytic Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes.- The Results of Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Relapses in the Polish Children's Leukemia/Lymphoma Study Group.- Long-Term Follow-up Study in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias.- Monoclonal Blast Cell Proliferation in Transient Myeloproliferative Disorder.- The Comparison of the Expression of Activation Antigens on Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and in Hairy Cell Leukemia.- Multiple Myeloma: Immunodeficient, Osteolytic, Renal, and Amyloid Syndromes.- Prognostic Factors in Patients with Multiple Myeloma.- Cytogenetic Disorders During Tumor Progression in Leukemia.- New Cytogenetic Aspects of Myelodysplasia and Acute Leukemia.- Detection of Minimal Residual Leukemia by Polymerase Chain Reactions.- Structural Changes in Blast Cell Chromatin and DNA in Patients with Acute Leukemia After Cytosar and Irradiation Treatment.- Cell Biology.- Animal Models of Normal and Leukemic Human Hematopoiesis.- Colony Stimulating Factors: Regulation of Production.- Adhesive Interactions in the Regulation of Haemopoiesis.- In Vitro Effect of GM-CSF and IFN-? on the Establishment of Stromal Layer and Hemopoiesis in Human Dexter Culture.- The Effect of Bone Marrow Fibroblast and Stromal Cell-Conditioned Media on Hemopoietic Cells in Culture.- Hemopoietic Stem Cells in Embryogenesis of the Mouse.- Induction of Differentiation of the Human Promyelocytic Cell Line (HL-60) by Conditioned Medium of Ceathea letifera-Stimulated Mononuclear Cells.- Molecular Mechanisms in Myeloid Lineage Development.- Proteoglycans in Cellular Recognition and Secretory Functions in the Haemopoietic System.- Modification of the In Vitro Replication of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV-1 by TPSg, a Polysaccharide Fraction Isolated from the Cupressaceae Thuja occidentalis L. (Arborvitae).- Molecular Genetics.- Molecular Cloning and Expression of CD 34: A Haemopoietic Progenitor-Associated Cell Surface Glycoprotein.- Molecular Genetics of the Human GM-CSF Receptor.- Structural Organization of the Cytokine Gene Cluster on Human Chromosome 5.- Genes Encoding Tumor Necrosis Factors: Genome Organization, Polymorphism, and Expression.- Molecular Characterization of the Mouse Interleukin-3 Receptor.- Signal Transduction Through Foreign Growth Factor Receptors and Oncogenes Transfected into Interleukin-3-Dependent Hematopoietic Cells.- Genetic Analysis of Ion Transport.- Virology.- The Molecular Biology of the Myeloproliferative Leukemia Virus.- Raf Function is Required for Proliferation of NIH/3T3 Cells and Transformation by Nonnuclear Oncogenes.- erbB*a: an "Ignition Spark" for the Xiphorus Melanoma Machinery?.- Analysis of Human Retroviral Regulatory Proteins Tax and Tat.- Human Neuroblastoma: Paradigm for a Tumor with Oncogene Amplification and Loss of a Putative Tumor Suppressor Gene.- Activation of Gene Expression by Human Herpes Virus 6.- Expression of S71-Related Sequences in Human Cells.- Selective Integration of Rous Sarcoma Virus Genome in High- and Low-Metastatic Transformed Cell Lines.- Molecular Mechanism of Alteration of H-ras I Oncogene in Human Breast Carcinomas: G to T Transversion in 12th Codon of the Undeleted Allele in the Case of the Loss of the Other Gene Allele.- Immunology.- Natural Killer Cell Mediated Defence Directed Selectively Against Target Cells Lacking MHC Class I Gene Products.- Tumor Rejection Antigens and Immune Surveillance.- Glycophosphatidylinositol-Anchored Membrane Proteins as Coreceptors in T-Cell Activation.- The Molecular Mechanism of Muramyl Peptides' Biological Activity.- A Novel Nuclear Factor Binds to the NF-KB Motif in the Interleukin-2 Enhancer.- Soluble Cytokine Receptors as Immunomodulators.- Early Life and Evolution.- Immunological Self-Nonself Discrimination and Numerous Peptide Fragments Shared by Unrelated Proteins.- Multigene Families: The Problem of Molecular Recapitulation.- Repeated Intragenome "Parasites" as a Factor in Molecular Coevolution.- Frozen Temporal Pattern in Growing Systems.- On Some Concepts in Modeling Nonlinear Phenomena.