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SUBMITTER: Kaddam L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5356407 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaddam Lamis L Fadl-Elmula Imad I Eisawi Omer Ali OA Abdelrazig Haydar Awad HA Salih Mohammed Abdelraman MA Lang Florian F Saeed Amal M AM
BMC hematology 20170316
<h4>Background</h4>Sickle cell anemia patients suffer from oxidative stress due to chronic inflammation and self-oxidation of sickle hemoglobin (Hb S). Chronic oxidative stress contributes to endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and multiple organ damage in sickle cell disease (SCD). Thus, antioxidant medication may favorably influence the disease. Gum Arabic (GA), edible, dried, gummy exudates from Acacia Senegal tree, has been claimed to act as an anti-oxidant and cytoprotective agent, protec ...[more]