Examples of sickle

• The reason is that as with sickle-cell anaemia the condition confers some resistance to malaria.

• No-one can save those who suffer from sickle cell anaemia.

• Is it really true that sickle-cell anaemia (p. 7) is lethal earlier than thallassaemia (sic)?

• The bestknown example is probably that of the sickle cell gene.

• This figure illustrates the complexity of the pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia.

• Hemoglobinopathies such as the sickle cell disorders and thalassemias tend to affect mainly people from certain ethnic minority groups.

• The receptor critical for sickle cell adhesion to laminin.

• However, careful studies are warranted in sickle cell patients given the side effect profile of sulfasalzine, which includes serious gastrointestinal bleeding and nephrotoxicity.