Data di Pubblicazione:
2017
Citazione:
Total antioxidant capacity in Mediterranean β-thalassemic patients / Tsamesidis, Ioannis; Fozza, Claudio; Vagdatli, Eleni; Kalpaka, Anastasia; Cirotto, Carla; Pau, Maria Carmina; Pantaleo, Antonella; Turrini, Francesco; Grigoriou, Elisavet; Lymperaki, Eugenia. - In: ADVANCES IN CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE. - ISSN 1899-5276. - 26:5(2017), p. 789-793. [10.17219/acem/63746]
Abstract:
Beta thalassemia major (BT) is an inherited blood disorder caused by reduced or absent synthesis of the hemoglobin beta chains, associated with profound anemia, jaundice, splenomegaly, expanded bone marrow volume, siderosis and cardiomegaly. Because of repeated blood transfusions, BT patients are subjected to peroxidative tissue injury due to secondary iron overload.
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1.1 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Mediterranean countries; chelation therapies; oxidative stress; total antioxidant capacity; β-thalassemia major
Elenco autori:
Tsamesidis, Ioannis; Fozza, Claudio; Vagdatli, Eleni; Kalpaka, Anastasia; Cirotto, Carla; Pau, Maria Carmina; Pantaleo, Antonella; Turrini, Francesco; Grigoriou, Elisavet; Lymperaki, Eugenia
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