Hydroxyurea and hemin affect both the transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms of some globin genes in human adult ery throid cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 850, Issue , 1998, Pages 449-451

  Kollia, Panagoula ^a   Fibach, Eitan ^b   Politou, Marianna ^a   Noguchi, Constance T ^b   Schechter, Alan N ^b   Loukopoulos, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMIN; HEMOGLOBIN F; HYDROXYUREA; NUCLEAR RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROID CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOBIN GENE; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0031873071     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10517.x     Document Type: Article

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