Do low serum lipids suggest severe bone marrow failure in children with aplastic anemia?
These results indicate that the pretreatment serum lipid level may reflect hematopoietic activity within the BM and can help to predict the therapeutic response of each case of AA to treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, corticosteroids and anabolic steroids. These results also indicate that M-CSF may be one of the contributing causes of the hypocholesterolemia that occurs in both AA and IDA.
The increase in IFNT as a result of heat shock suggests that a proportion of the variation in IFNT expression observed in blastocyst-stage embryos is a response to stress.