Therapeutic strategies for sickle cell disease: towards a multi-agent approach

MJ Telen, P Malik, GM Vercellotti - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
For over 100 years, clinicians and scientists have been unravelling the consequences of the
A to T substitution in the β-globin gene that produces haemoglobin S, which leads to the …

Advances in the treatment of sickle cell disease

S Kapoor, JA Little, LH Pecker - Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2018 - Elsevier
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a monogenic disorder that afflicts approximately 100,000
Americans and millions of people worldwide. It is characterized by hemolytic anemia, vaso …

Hydroxyurea treatment and neurocognitive functioning in sickle cell disease from school age to young adulthood

AM Heitzer, J Longoria, V Okhomina… - British Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurocognitive impairment is common in sickle cell disease (SCD) and is associated with
significant functional limitations. In a cross‐sectional analysis, we examined the association …

Robust clinical and laboratory response to hydroxyurea using pharmacokinetically guided dosing for young children with sickle cell anemia

PT McGann, O Niss, M Dong… - American journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroxyurea is FDA‐approved and now increasingly used for children with sickle cell
anemia (SCA), but dosing strategies, pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles, and treatment …

Progress and challenges towards CRISPR/Cas clinical translation

D Rosenblum, A Gutkin, N Dammes, D Peer - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas systems (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) have
emerged as powerful tools to manipulate the genome for both research and therapeutic …

Clinical applications of CRISPR‐based genome editing and diagnostics

DV Foss, ML Hochstrasser, RC Wilson - Transfusion, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)‐driven genome editing
has rapidly transformed preclinical biomedical research by eliminating the underlying …

Targeting genetic modifiers of HBG gene expression in sickle cell disease: the miRNA option

A Starlard-Davenport, Q Gu, BS Pace - Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy, 2022 - Springer
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most common inherited hemoglobinopathy disorders
that affects millions of people worldwide. Reactivation of HBG (HBG1, HBG2) gene …

Fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell anemia

MH Steinberg - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) can blunt the pathophysiology, temper the clinical course, and offer
prospects for curative therapy of sickle cell disease. This review focuses on (1) HbF …

[HTML][HTML] Drug therapies for the management of sickle cell disease

P Rai, KI Ataga - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sickle cell disease (SCD) afflicts millions of people worldwide but is referred to as an orphan
disease in the United States. Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing …

Healthcare utilization and hydroxyurea adherence in youth with sickle cell disease

SM Badawy, AA Thompson, JL Holl… - Pediatric Hematology …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) complications lead to poor health-related quality of
life (HRQOL) and increased healthcare utilization in this population, which could be …