Functional foods: promising therapeutics for Nigerian Children with sickle cell diseases
Sickle cell disease (SCD), also known as sickle cell anemia (SCA) is one of the structural hemoglobinopathies that occurs due to a single nucleotide mutation from GAG to GTG, which changes the amino acid of a β-globin chain of hemoglobin (Hb) from glutamate to valine. This singular mutation results...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-06-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022009185 |