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Bevezetés: A szerzők egy ritka entitásnak számító, a prosztatát érintő lymphomás megbetegedés esetét mutatják be. Esetismertetés: A 78 éves férfi betegünk anamnézisében egyéb betegségei mellett thalassemia és B-sejtes krónikus lymphocytás leukémia szerepel, ami miatt hematológián aktív surveillance alatt állt évek óta. LUTS-os (lower urinary tract symptoms) panaszok miatt indult kivizsgálás során alsó húgyúti obstrukció igazolódott. A prosztata transurethralis reszekcióját végeztük el. A szövettani vizsgálat krónikus prostatitist igazolt. Műtétet követően 12 hónappal a prosztataspecifikus-antigén (PSA) értéke 6,42 ng/ml volt. 3 hónap múlva a PSA 14,55 ng/ml-re növekedett. Rektális digitális vizsgálat kórosat nem jelzett. Kismedence mágnesesrezonancia- (MR) vizsgálat történt, amely mindkét prosztata lebenyében perifériásan malignitásra utaló terüle- teket véleményezett. A kép alapján mieloproliferatív kórkép lehetősége merült fel. Tekintettel az emelkedő PSA-értékre és az MR-vizsgálat eredményére, ultrahang-vezérelt prosztatabiopsziát végeztünk. A szövettani és immunhisztokémiai vizsgálat indolens B-sejtes lymphomát igazolt a prosztatában. Tekintettel a vérképben, a státuszában és képalkotókban együttesen jelentkező progresszióra, a hematológián aktív kezelésre váltottak. Kezelést követően teljes remissziót értek el. A kontroll PSA 2020-ban 7,94 ng/ml, 2021-ben 7,54 ng/ml, 2022-ben 7,05 ng/ml volt. A beteget mai napig rendszeresen gondozza urológiai és hematológiai szakrendelés.

Treating relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is still challenging for clinicians, but the available CAR-T and bispecific antibodies have revolutionized therapy. Autologous stem cell transplantation was the most effective treatment modality previously. The authors reported data from a single center over ten years. The retrospective study included 116 patients, with 53 relapsed cases, 39 primary refractory cases, 19 who had CNS involvement, and 5 who had received primary consolidation transplants. The median duration of follow-up was 46 months. The median event-free survival was 75 months, and the median overall survival was 105 months for all cases. Five-year overall survival was 59%, and event-free survival was 54%. Pretreatment prognostic factors at diagnosis had no effect on the outcome of transplantation. The authors found no difference between survival in relapsed or refractory cases, and the number of salvage lines or the germinal center/activated B-cell type also did not influence the results. Complete metabolic response before transplantation confirmed by 18FDG PET/CT strongly affected survival. The pre-transplant creatinine and CRP levels significantly influenced the long-term outcome. The number of stem cells infused did not affect survival, but engraftment within nine days did result in a longer survival. These data support the finding that the response to salvage therapy did facilitate the identification of a better prognostic group who may still benefit from autologous transplantation.

Treating relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is still challenging for clinicians, but the available CAR-T and bispecific antibodies revolutionized therapy. Autologous stem cell transplantation was the most effective treatment modality previously. The authors report data from a single center over ten years. The retrospective study included 116 patients. There were 53 relapsed, 39 primary refractory cases, 19 had CNS involvement, and 5 received primary consolidation transplants. The median duration of follow-up was 46 months. The median event-free survival was 75 months, and the median overall survival was 105 months for all cases. Five-year overall survival was 59%, and event-free survival was 54%. Pretreatment prognostic factors at diagnosis had no effect on the outcome of transplantation. The authors found no difference between survival in relapsed or refractory cases, and the number of salvage lines or the germinal center / activated B-cell type also did not influence the results. Complete metabolic response before transplant confirmed by 18FDG PET/CT strongly affected survival. The pretransplant creatinine and CRP levels significantly influenced the long-term outcome. The number of stem cells infused did not affect survival, but engraftment within nine days did result in better survival. These data support the finding that the response to salvage therapy did select a better prognostic group who may still benefit from autologous transplantation.

Mintegy 30 évvel ezelőtt, Kuvait 1990-es iraki megszállásának idején – dacára a második világháború óta megvívott csaták tapasztalatai alapján kiadott irányelveknek – az amerikai fegyveres erők különböző szintű vezetői és szakértői még mindig azon vitáztak, hogy mi is a légierő szerepe egy összhaderőnemi műveletben. A „szárazföld” berkeiben népszerű elmélet alapján – amit szerintük az 1980-as években kiadott AirLand Battle doktrína is alátámasztott – a légierő kizárólagosan a szárazföldi erők támogatására hivatott. A problémát mélyítette, hogy a légierő egyes vezetői – köztük a Harcászati Légi Parancsnokság (Tactical Air Command, ma Air Combat Command) akkori parancsnoka, Robert D. Russ tábornok – szintén támogatták ezt a nézetet. A légierő doktrínákkal foglalkozó szakértői szerint azonban az AirLand Battle doktrína csak a szárazföldi repülőerőkre (Army Aviation) vonatkozik, és nem a légierőre. A másik oldal egyik jeles képviselője John A. Warden III ezredes – a Pentagon akkori egyik hírhedt/híres elemzője – volt, aki szerint a légierő a többi haderőnem támogatásával akár fő szerepet is játszhat egy összhaderőnemi műveletben. Az elméleticsatározások természetesen nem sok hatással lehettek volna a kuvaiti válságra, ha az annak megoldásával megbízott Központi Parancsnokság (CENTCOM2) parancsnoka, H. Norman Schwarzkopf tábornok mint főparancsnok (JFC3) és Charles A. Horner tábornok, a CENTCOM légierő komponensének parancsnoka (JFACC4) nem jutnak arra a következtetésre, hogy ezt a háborút csak a légierő újszerű alkalmazásával tudják hatékonyan megvívni. A tanulmány szerzője a több mint három évtizeddel ezelőtti események felidézésén és elemzésén túlmenően igyekszik levonni azok máig ható tanulságait is.

Összefoglaló. A Bruton-féle tirozin-kinázt gátló ibrutinib és a B-sejtes lymphoma-2-t gátló venetoklax a krónikus lymphoid leukaemia (CLL) kezelésének egyre korábbi vonalában alkalmazható, és ezek mellett a progressziómentes túlélés növekedése figyelhető meg. A célzott kismolekulákkal végzett kezelés nemcsak a CLL lefolyását, de a betegek gondozását is alapvetően megváltoztatta. A tartósan adagolt orális szerek mellett a betegek nagyobb valószínűséggel jelennek meg a panaszaiknak megfelelő szakrendeléseken. Az új típusú szerek hatásai és mellékhatásai mellett az alapvető gyógyszer-interakciókra is fel kell hívni a figyelmet. Kiemelt fontosságú az ibrutinib hypertoniát provokáló hatása, illetve a 6–16%-ban megjelenő pitvarfibrilláció. Ez utóbbi ellátását a gyógyszer-interakciókon túl az ibrutinib vérzékenységet okozó hatása is nehezíti. A CLL-lel, illetve annak kezelésével kapcsolatos ismeretek a másodlagos daganatok, néhány gastrointestinalis és bőrgyógyászati betegség megközelítése szempontjából is fontosak. A venetoklax mellett potenciálisan kialakuló tumorlízis-szindróma alkalmanként a nefrológusok bevonását igényli. A betegek gondozása, megfelelő szakszerű ellátása és a betegutak optimalizálása érdekében a háziorvosok, a sürgősségi ellátók és az egyéb szakellátó helyek szoros együttműködése szükséges szakorvosi konzultáció keretei között. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(9): 336–343. Summary. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is ubiquitously treated with novel agents. The Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib and the B-cell lymphoma 2 inhibitor venetoclax can be used increasingly in earlier lines of treatment with improved progression-free survival. Treatment with targeted small molecules fundamentally changed not only the course of CLL but also the care of patients. With the administration of long-term oral medications, patients are more likely to show up at specialist clinics that match their complaints. In addition to the effects and side effects of the new drugs, attention should also be drawn to basic drug interactions. The effect of ibrutinib on blood pressure and the ability to provoke atrial fibrillation in 6–16% of cases are of paramount importance. In addition to drug interactions, the treatment of the latter is also complicated by the hemorrhagic effect of ibrutinib. Knowledge on CLL and its treatment is also important in the approach to secondary tumors, some gastrointestinal and dermatological diseases. The potential for tumor lysis syndrome of venetoclax requires close collaboration with nephrologists. In order to provide appropriate professional care and optimize patient pathways, close co-operation between GPs, emergency care providers and other specialist care facilities is required within the framework of professional consultation. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(9): 336–343.

The introduction of Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib has made a significant progress in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other B-cell malignancies. Due to the reduction of cytokine release, it is effective in chronic graft-versus-host disease, and its use has also been suggested in autoimmune diseases and in prevention of COVID-19-associated lung damage. Despite this effect on the immune response, we report a severe hypersensitivity reaction in a 76-year-old male patient diagnosed with prolymphocytic leukemia. Four weeks after the ibrutinib start, non-oliguric acute kidney injury with proteinuria and microscopic hematuria developed and that was accompanied by lower limb purpuras and paresthesia. Renal biopsy revealed acute interstitial nephritis. Employing 1 mg/kg methylprednisolone administration, serum creatinine decreased from 365 μmol/L to 125 μmol/L at 11 days and the proteinuria-hematuria as well as the purpura, paresthesia resolved. Three months later at stabile eGFR of 56 ml/min/1.73 m2 methylprednisolone was withdrawn and a rituximab-venetoclax treatment was initiated without side effects. We conclude that despite the beneficial effect on cytokines response in Th1 direction, ibrutinib can cause acute interstitial nephritis. Early detection, discontinuation of ibrutinib, glucocorticoid administration may help to better preserve renal function, thereby lowering the risk of potential subsequent kidney injury.

The lectin pathway (LP) of the complement system is an important antimicrobial defense mechanism, but it also contributes significantly to ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) associated with myocardial infarct, stroke, and several other clinical conditions. Mannan-binding lectin–associated serine proteinase 2 (MASP-2) is essential for LP activation, and therefore, it is a potential drug target. We have previously developed the first two generations of MASP-2 inhibitors by in vitro evolution of two unrelated canonical serine proteinase inhibitors. These inhibitors were selective LP inhibitors, but their nonhuman origin rendered them suboptimal lead molecules for drug development. Here, we present our third-generation MASP-2 inhibitors that were developed based on a human inhibitor scaffold. We subjected the second Kunitz domain of human tissue factor pathway inhibitor 1 (TFPI1 D2) to directed evolution using phage display to yield inhibitors against human and rat MASP-2. These novel TFPI1-based MASP-2 inhibitor (TFMI-2) variants are potent and selective LP inhibitors in both human and rat serum. Directed evolution of the first Kunitz domain of TFPI1 had already yielded the potent kallikrein inhibitor, Kalbitor® (ecallantide), which is an FDA-approved drug to treat acute attacks of hereditary angioedema. Like hereditary angioedema, acute IRI is also related to the uncontrolled activation of a specific plasma serine proteinase. Therefore, TFMI-2 variants are promising lead molecules for drug development against IRI.

The Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib has revolutionised the therapeutic landscape of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Acquired mutations emerging at position C481 in the BTK tyrosine kinase domain are the predominant genetic alterations associated with secondary ibrutinib resistance. To assess the correlation between disease progression, and the emergence and temporal dynamics of the most common resistance mutation BTK

The widespread application of fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab combination is limited due to its toxicity, particularly the prolonged cytopenias. The study aimed to compare the prolonged cytopenias depending on fitness and report real-life data on dose reduction measures and efficacy. According to our database, 120 and 14 patients were treated with FCR between 2011 and 2015 and between 2016 and 2019. Out of the first cohort, 34 patients were treated in subsequent lines. The complete and partial remission rate after first-line treatment was 79%, 16% in the first cohort and 86%, 14% in the second cohort, respectively; and 47%, 35% after non first-line treatment. Based on today’s standards, only 37.5% of the patients were fit for FCR. The frequency of persistent cytopenia was 14%, and it was significantly associated with fitness (χ 2 (1) = 6.001, p = 0.014 for all patients). The small number of FCR treated patients after 2016 shows how the availability of targeted therapies, mostly ibrutinib, in later lines changed the first-line choice. Recently, it is recommended first-line for fit patients with mutated IGHV and no TP53 aberrations. With this narrow indication, a decrease in the frequency of persistent cytopenias is predicted.

The Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib has revolutionised the therapeutic landscape of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Acquired mutations emerging at position C481 in the BTK tyrosine kinase domain are the predominant genetic alterations associated with secondary ibrutinib resistance. To assess the correlation between disease progression, and the emergence and temporal dynamics of the most common resistance mutation BTKC481S , sensitive (10-4 ) time-resolved screening was performed in 83 relapsed/refractory CLL patients during single-agent ibrutinib treatment. With a median follow-up time of 40 months, BTKC481S was detected in 48·2% (40/83) of the patients, with 80·0% (32/40) of them showing disease progression during the examined period. In these 32 cases, representing 72·7% (32/44) of all patients experiencing relapse, emergence of the BTKC481S mutation preceded the symptoms of clinical relapse with a median of nine months. Subsequent Bcl-2 inhibition therapy applied in 28/32 patients harbouring BTKC481S and progressing on ibrutinib conferred clinical and molecular remission across the patients. Our study demonstrates the clinical value of sensitive BTKC481S monitoring with the largest longitudinally analysed real-world patient cohort reported to date and validates the feasibility of an early prediction of relapse in the majority of ibrutinib-treated relapsed/refractory CLL patients experiencing disease progression.

Összefoglaló. A Bruton-féle tirozin-kinázt gátló ibrutinib és a B-sejtes lymphoma-2-t gátló venetoklax a krónikus lymphoid leukaemia (CLL) kezelésének egyre korábbi vonalában alkalmazható, és ezek mellett a progressziómentes túlélés növekedése figyelhető meg. A célzott kismolekulákkal végzett kezelés nemcsak a CLL lefolyását, de a betegek gondozását is alapvetően megváltoztatta. A tartósan adagolt orális szerek mellett a betegek nagyobb valószínűséggel jelennek meg a panaszaiknak megfelelő szakrendeléseken. Az új típusú szerek hatásai és mellékhatásai mellett az alapvető gyógyszer-interakciókra is fel kell hívni a figyelmet. Kiemelt fontosságú az ibrutinib hypertoniát provokáló hatása, illetve a 6-16%-ban megjelenő pitvarfibrilláció. Ez utóbbi ellátását a gyógyszer-interakciókon túl az ibrutinib vérzékenységet okozó hatása is nehezíti. A CLL-lel, illetve annak kezelésével kapcsolatos ismeretek a másodlagos daganatok, néhány gastrointestinalis és bőrgyógyászati betegség megközelítése szempontjából is fontosak. A venetoklax mellett potenciálisan kialakuló tumorlízis-szindróma alkalmanként a nefrológusok bevonását igényli. A betegek gondozása, megfelelő szakszerű ellátása és a betegutak optimalizálása érdekében a háziorvosok, a sürgősségi ellátók és az egyéb szakellátó helyek szoros együttműködése szükséges szakorvosi konzultáció keretei között. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(9): 336-343. Summary. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is ubiquitously treated with novel agents. The Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor ibrutinib and the B-cell lymphoma 2 inhibitor venetoclax can be used increasingly in earlier lines of treatment with improved progression-free survival. Treatment with targeted small molecules fundamentally changed not only the course of CLL but also the care of patients. With the administration of long-term oral medications, patients are more likely to show up at specialist clinics that match their complaints. In addition to the effects and side effects of the new drugs, attention should also be drawn to basic drug interactions. The effect of ibrutinib on blood pressure and the ability to provoke atrial fibrillation in 6-16% of cases are of paramount importance. In addition to drug interactions, the treatment of the latter is also complicated by the hemorrhagic effect of ibrutinib. Knowledge on CLL and its treatment is also important in the approach to secondary tumors, some gastrointestinal and dermatological diseases. The potential for tumor lysis syndrome of venetoclax requires close collaboration with nephrologists. In order to provide appropriate professional care and optimize patient pathways, close co-operation between GPs, emergency care providers and other specialist care facilities is required within the framework of professional consultation. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(9): 336-343.

We prove the Brannan conjecture for particular values of the parameter. The basic tool of the study is an integral representation published in a recent work (Barnard et al., in Proc Am Math Soc 143(5):2117–2128, 2015).

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in frontline therapy for elderly/physically unfit patients with CLL. The combination of obinutuzumab and chlorambucil (O-Clb) has been shown to prolong progression free survival (PFS, median PFS-31.5 months) and overall survival (OS) compared to chlorambucil alone. More recently, obinutuzumab given in combination with either ibrutinib or venetoclax improved PFS but not OS when compared to O-Clb. In this retrospective multinational, multicenter co-operative study, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of frontline treatment with O ± Clb in unfit patients with CLL, in a “real-world” setting. Patients with documented del (17p13.1)/TP53 mutation were excluded. A total of 437 patients (median age, 75.9 years; median CIRS score, 8; median creatinine clearance, 61.1 mL/min) were included. The clinical overall response rate was 80.3% (clinical complete and partial responses in 38.7% and 41.6% of patients, respectively). Median observation time was 14.1 months and estimated median PFS was 27.6 months (95% CI, 24.2-31.0). In a multivariate analysis, high-risk disease [del (11q22.3) and/or IGHV-unmutated], lymph nodes of diameter > 5 cm, obinutuzumab monotherapy and reduced cumulative dose of obinutuzumab, were all independently associated with shorter PFS. The median OS has not yet been reached and estimated 2-year OS is 88%. In conclusion, in a “real-world” setting, frontline treatment with O-Clb achieves PFS comparable to that reported in clinical trials. Inferior outcomes were noted in patients with del (11q22.3) and/or unmutated IGHV and those treated with obinutuzumab-monotherapy. Thus, O-Clb can be still considered as legitimate frontline therapy for unfit CLL patients with low-risk disease.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is one of the most common haematological malignancies exhibiting remarkable heterogeneity in clinical course. Rituximab added to standard chemotherapy has been proven to increase response rate and eventually survival among previously untreated CLL patients. CILI was an open-label, non-randomized, single arm, multicentric, observational study aimed to collect real-life effectiveness data for rituximab used according to the current label in combination with standard chemotherapy in previously untreated CLL patients. Overall response rates (ORR) in the entire study population as well as in various subgroups were estimated. Adverse events were recorded during the entire course of the study. A total number of 150 patients were enrolled by 15 Hungarian study sites. Out of these, 82 patients received 6 cycles of rituximab containing treatment. Overall response rates of 88.24% (CI95%: 81.6–93.12%) and 94.59% (CI95%: 86.73–98.51%) were recorded in the intent-to-treat (ITT) and per-protocol (PP) populations, respectively. In both study populations, somewhat higher ORR was observed in patients aged ≥65 years. Subgroups defined according to either chromosomal aberrations (presence of 11q and 17p deletions) showed apparently high ORRs, though these rates were most probably biased by low patient numbers. 144 adverse events were reported during the study, of which 15 AEs were considered to be related to the administration of rituximab. Analyses of the efficacy variables have revealed comparable results to those previously reported by controlled clinical trials.

Fungal infections represent a worrisome complication in hematologic cancer patients and in the absence of disease specific symptoms, it is important to establish new biological indicators, which can be used during mould-active prophylaxis. Recently, miRNAs have appeared as candidate diagnostic and prognostic markers of several diseases. A pilot clinical study was performed to evaluate the diagnostic utility of 14 microRNAs which can be related to invasive fungal infections. Based on our data miR-142-3p, miR-142-5p, miR-26b-5p and miR-21-5p showed significant overexpression (p

In this paper we analyze the monotony of the function ln Γ ( x ) ln ( x 2 + τ ) - ln ( x + τ ) ${{{\rm{ln}}\,\Gamma ({\rm{x}})} \over {{\rm{ln}}\,({\rm{x}}^2 + \tau) - {\rm{ln}}\,({\rm{x}} + \tau)}}$ , for τ > 0. Such functions have been used from different authors to obtain inequalities concerning the gamma function.

In this paper our aim is to determine the radii of $$\alpha -$$ convexity of the normalized Bessel functions for two different kinds of normalization in the case when the order is between $$-2$$ and $$-1$$ . The key tools in the proof of our main results are the Mittag-Leffler expansion for Bessel functions, properties of zeros of the Bessel functions and their derivatives and some inequalities for complex and real numbers.

In this paper, we determine the radius of starlikeness of \(\Gamma _q\) and \(1/\Gamma _q\) and the radius of convexity of the function \(1/\Gamma _q\) for \(q\in [{1}/{\sqrt{e}},1)\). The basic tools of our work are the developments of the functions in function series.

Acute myelogenous leukemia is a heterogeneous disease. Recent molecular mutational analysis techniques have shed more light on different, genetically well characterised types of the disease. Treatment approach is uniform except for acute promyelocytic leukemia. Application of the “3 + 7” induction treatment has been the gold standard in the past 40 years. While the dose of cytarabine has not been changed, escalating daunorubicine dose in younger (2 had a positive impact on overall survival. High dose chemotherapy is tolerated poorly in patients older than 60 years of age and, as treatment is not curative in the elderly, improvement of overall survival and quality of life remains the main goal of management in these patients. Low intensity treatment is beneficial and can provide additional advantage over supportive care. Innovative and targeted therapy approaches might give promise to better management of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(22), 843–848.

In this paper, we provide the final step in the verification of an important case ( β = 1 ) of the long-standing conjecture of Brannan. The complete proof of the conjecture also relies on the main result from U. Jayatilake's paper [6] “Brannan's conjecture for the initial coefficients,” as well as the main results from the paper [9] by R. Szasz.

Since the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors, the overall survival of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia has markedly improved. However long term use of these drugs results in various adverse events. Treatment with second generation dasatinib is often complicated by hemorrhagic events. Previous lumi-aggregometry studies have shown impaired platelet function in patients on dasatinib therapy. Dual agonist activated platelets (coated-platelets) are also sensitive indicators of platelet function. We hypothesized that dual activation with convulxin and thrombin of platelets in a flow cytometric assay could be a more sensitive method for detecting platelet dysfunction as compared to single agonist studies used in lumi-aggregometer. Platelets of healthy volunteers incubated with dasatinib as well as platelets from patients on dasatinib therapy were investigated. Low therapeutic plasma level dasatinib concentrations at which a considerable reduction in coated-platelet generation was observed in vitro, did not cause detectable change in platelet aggregation response. Coated-platelet assay and lumi-aggregometry were also investigated at 0, 1 and 4 hours after drug administration in dasatinib treated CML patients. Significant decrease was observed at 1 hour in maximal aggregation by collagen. Although the aggregation curves became normalized by 4 hours, coated-platelet generation was still inhibited in dasatinib treated patients. Nilotinib, another second generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor, had no effect on aggregation and on coated-platelet formation neither in vitro nor in ex vivo samples. At therapeutic plasma levels coated-platelet assay is more sensitive than lumi-aggregometry studies for the demonstration of the inhibitory effect of dasatinib on platelet function.

Adhesion receptors have important role in cellular invasiveness and L-selectin is a primary determinant in the binding of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells to several glycated proteins on endothelial cells. We investigated L-selectin expression on CLL cells and explored the mechanisms that lead to their shedding.Surface and soluble L-selectin expression levels were studied by flow cytometry and immunoassay, respectively. Magnetically isolated B-cells from patients and controls were investigated for total and protein phosphatase-2A activities. Flow cytometry of permeabilized cells was utilized for the determination of phosphorylated mitogen-activated protein kinase (pp38MAPK) and surface tumor necrosis factor alpha-converting enzyme expression (TACE).In CLL patients elevated absolute lymphocyte cell counts, high soluble and low surface L-selectin expression were observed. Similarly, TACE surface expression was significantly lower on B-CLL cells compared to normal B-cells. Both total phosphatase and protein phosphatase-2A activities were also significantly lower in B-CLL cells compared to normal B-cells and we found a consequently higher level of pp38 MAPK in B-CLL cells. Based on in vitro experiments a MAPK inhibitor could attenuate the phosphatase inhibitor's effect on L-selectin shedding.The lower phosphatase activity detectable in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, results in a downstream signaling cascade with subsequent reduction of surface L-selectin expression and this effect is mediated by enhanced phosphorylation of p38MAPK and an altered TACE expression. © 2019 The Authors. Cytometry Part B: Clinical Cytometry published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Clinical Cytometry Society.

The reality of the zeros of the product and cross-product of Bessel and modified Bessel functions of the first kind is studied. As a consequence the reality of the zeros of two hypergeometric polynomials is obtained together with the number of the Fourier critical points of the normalized forms of the product and cross-product of Bessel functions. As an application some geometric properties of the normalized forms of the cross-product and product of Bessel and modified Bessel functions of the first kind are studied. For the cross-product and the product three different kind of normalization are considered and for each of the six functions tight lower and upper bounds are given for the radii of starlikeness and convexity, via Euler–Rayleigh inequalities. Necessary and sufficient conditions are also given for the parameters such that four from the six normalized functions are convex in the open unit disk.

The radii of \(\alpha \)-convexity are deduced for three different kinds of normalized Bessel functions of the first kind and it is shown that these radii are between the radii of starlikeness and convexity, when \(\alpha \in [0,1]\), and they are decreasing with respect to the parameter \(\alpha \). The results presented in this paper unify some recent results on the radii of starlikeness and convexity for normalized Bessel functions of the first kind. The key tools in the proofs are some interlacing properties of the zeros of some Dini functions and the zeros of Bessel functions of the first kind.

Let $$J_\nu $$ denote the Bessel function of the first kind. Brown (Univalence of Bessel functions, pp 278–283, 1960) determined the radius of starlikeness for two kind of normalized Bessel functions in the case $$\nu >0$$ . We extended these results for $$\nu \in (-1,0)$$ in Baricz et al. (The radius of starlikeness of normalized Bessel functions of the first kind, pp 2019–2025, 2014). Now we deal with the case $$\nu \in (-2,-1).$$ The basic idea of the study is the same as in Baricz et al. (The radius of starlikeness of normalized Bessel functions of the first kind, pp 2019–2025, 2014) and Szasz (On starlikeness of Bessel functions of the first kind, pp 63–70, 2011), but in this case we have a different situation and a different approach is needed.

In this paper we determine the radius of convexity and the radius of starlikeness of the functions Γ and 1/Γ. The basic tools of our work are the developments of the functions in function series.

The sharp version of an inequality is deduced. This inequality has been applied in several papers for the study of Bessel functions. The basic tool of this work is the development of functions in function series.

In a recent paper the following inequality has been deduced Γ(x+1)

In this paper monotonicity results concerning the gamma function are deduced. These results lead to inequalities which improve some known bounds for the Γ function. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 33B15.

An inequality concerning the Γ function is improved, and the best possible version is determined. The technique of developments in function series is used.

A result concerning the starlikeness of the image of the Alexander operator is improved in this paper. The techniques of differential subordinations are used.

A result concerning starlikeness is improved. The technique of the differential subordination is used.