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Analysis of sickle hemoglobin

open access: yesJournal of Pathology of Nepal, 2013
Background: Sickle Hemoglobin is the most common pathological hemoglobin mutation worldwide which forms sickle shape or elongated forms on deoxygenation.
A Shrestha, S Karki
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Sickle Hemoglobin: A Specific Radioimmunoassay [PDF]

open access: yesBlood, 1974
Abstract For the quantitation of hemoglobin S, a radioimmunoassay has been developed which is specific and highly sensitive. Hemoglobin S was purified by column chromatography and injected with complete Freund’s adjuvant into goats.
P T, Rowley   +3 more
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Novel use Of Hydroxyurea in an African Region with Malaria (NOHARM): a trial for children with sickle cell anemia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Hydroxyurea treatment is recommended for children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) living in high-resource malaria-free regions, but its safety and efficacy in malaria-endemic sub-Saharan Africa, where the greatest sickle-cell burden exists, remain unknown.
Hodges, James S.   +8 more
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Sickle Cell Anemia, the First Molecular Disease: Overview of Molecular Etiology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutic Approaches

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2008
The root cause of sickle cell disease is a single β-globin gene mutation coding for the sickle β-hemoglobin chain. Sickle hemoglobin tetramers polymerize when deoxygenated, damaging the sickle erythrocyte.
Martin H. Steinberg
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Hemorheological risk factors of acute chest syndrome and painful vaso-occlusive crisis in children with sickle cell disease

open access: yesHaematologica, 2012
Background Little is known about the effects of blood rheology on the occurrence of acute chest syndrome and painful vaso-occlusive crises in children with sickle cell anemia and hemoglobin SC disease.Design and Methods To address this issue, steady ...
Yann Lamarre   +13 more
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Prevalence of Haemoglobine s in Araraquara-SP Population.

open access: yesRevista Brasileira Multidisciplinar - ReBraM /Brazilian Multidisciplinay Journal, 2015
The Sickle Cell Anemia is a genetic hemoglobionopathy, characterized by an alteration in the hemoglobin molecule struture (HbA1), called hemoglobin S (HbS), which causes a distortion in the erythocytes structure, changing from spherical shape to sickle ...
Bruno Rocha de Jesus   +4 more
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Feasibility Study of the “HemoTypeSC” Test for the Rapid Screening of Sickle Cell Disease in Côte D’Ivoire

open access: yesAdvances in Hematology, 2021
Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disease that predominantly affects black people. It is very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly at the Lehmann “sickle belt” level, where the prevalence of the hemoglobin S involves at least 10% of the ...
Jeannette Bassimbié Kakou Danho   +4 more
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Drugs for preventing red blood cell dehydration in people with sickle cell disease. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder of hemoglobin, resulting in abnormal red blood cells. These are rigid and may block blood vessels leading to acute painful crises and other complications.
Ballas, Samir K., Nagalla, Srikanth
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Sickle cell disease retinopathy: characterization among pediatric and teenage patients from northeastern Brazil

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2014
Objective: The aim of the present study was to characterize sickle cell disease retinopathy in children and teenagers from Bahia, the state in northeastern Brazil with the highest incidence and prevalence of sickle cell disease.
Dayse Cury de Almeida Oliveira   +5 more
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