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Glucocorticoid treatment skews human monocyte differentiation into a hemoglobin-clearance phenotype with enhanced heme-iron recycling and antioxidant capacity.
Blood - 9 Dec 2010
Vallelian Florence, Schaer Christian A, Kaempfer Theresa, Gehrig Peter, Duerst Elena, Schoedon Gabriele, Schaer Dominik J
Abstract excerpt
Glucocorticoids are used extensively to treat autoimmune hemolytic anemias. Some beneficial effects of glucocorticoid pulse therapy have also been reported in sickle cell disease and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Based on established concepts of hemoglobin (Hb) toxicity and physiologic Hb...
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