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Sickle Cell Disease: Role of Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Therapy
2020-12-21
Abstract excerpt
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common hereditary disorder of hemoglobin (Hb) that affects approximately a millions people worldwide. It is characterized by a single nucleotide substitution on the β-globin gene, leading to the production of abnormal sickle hemoglobin with multi-system consequences. Mutated Hb leads to profound changes in: i) red blood cell metabolism and physiology; ii) endothelial sign...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 26c0fbab-8749-5827-a83f-6a70b23452dd
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202012.0522.v1
