Dr. Markus Y Mapara M.D.
Hematologist-Oncologist | Hematology & Oncology
161 FT WASHINGTN AVE NEW YORK NY, 10032About
Dr. Markus Mapara is a hematologist oncologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Mapara specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases such as anemia, hemophilia, sickle-cell disease, leukemia and lymphoma. Hematologist Oncologists are also trained in the study of cancer and its attack on other organs.
Education and Training
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany MD
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Successful peripheral blood stem cell mobilization with etoposide (VP-16) in patients with relapsed or resistant lymphoma who failed cyclophosphamide mobilization.
- Anti-CD20- and B-cell receptor-mediated apoptosis: evidence for shared intracellular signaling pathways.
- Infectious complications after high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell
- Induction of stable long-term mixed hematopoietic chimerism following nonmyeloablative conditioning with T cell-depleting antibodies, cyclophosphamide, and thymic irradiation leads to donor-specific in vitro and in vivo tolerance.
- Macrophage inflammatory protein 1-alpha (MIP-1 alpha ) triggers migration and signaling cascades mediating survival and proliferation in multiple myeloma (MM) cells.
- Donor lymphocyte infusion-mediated graft-versus-leukemia effects in mixed chimeras established with a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen: extinction of graft-versus-leukemia effects after conversion to full donor chimerism.
- Graft-versus-host-reactive donor CD4 cells can induce T cell-mediated rejection of the donor marrow in mixed allogeneic chimeras prepared with nonmyeloablative conditioning.
- Tolerance and cancer: mechanisms of tumor evasion and strategies for breaking tolerance.
- Nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: delayed graft-versus-tumor effect is associated with chimerism conversion but transplantation has high toxicity.
- Immunomodulatory derivative of thalidomide (IMiD CC-4047) induces a shift in lineage commitment by suppressing erythropoiesis and promoting myelopoiesis.
- Induction of mixed vs full chimerism to potentiate GVL effects after bone-marrow transplantation.
- Effective use of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue for relapsed adult Wilms' tumor and a novel alteration in intron 1 of the WT1 gene.
- Thalidomide derivative CC-4047 inhibits osteoclast formation by down-regulation of PU.1.
- 9th Annual Meeting of the Regional Cancer Consortium for the Biological Therapy of Cancer. 16-18 February 2006, UPMC Herberman Conference Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Reduction of graft-versus-host disease by histone deacetylase inhibitor suberonylanilide hydroxamic acid is associated with modulation of inflammatory cytokine milieu and involves inhibition of STAT1.
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