Hemoglobin and its diseases
By: edited by David Weatherall, Alan N. Schechter, David G. Nathan
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9781936113453
Subjects: Collected Works; Hemoglobins; Hematologic Diseases
Other titles: Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine.
Notes: "A subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine".

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Erythopoiesis : development and differentiation / Elaine Dzierzak and Sjaak Philipsen; title: Hemoglobin and 150 years of study / David Weatherall, David Nathan, and Alan N. Schechter; title: Erythropoietin / H. Franklin Bunn; title: Evolution of hemoglobin and its genes / Ross C. Hardison; title: The switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin / Vijay G. Sankaran and Stuart H. Orkin; title: Hemoglobin function / Alan N. Schechter; title: Iron metabolism : Interactions with normal and disordered erythropoiesis / Tomas Ganz and Elizabeta Nemeth; title: Erythroid heme biosynthesis and Its disorders / Harry A. Dailey and Peter N. Meissner; title: Classification of the disorders of hemoglobin / Bernard G. Forget and H. Franklin Bunn; title: World distribution, population genetics, and health burden of the hemoglobinopathies / Thomas N. Williams and David J. Weatherall; title: The molecular basis of beta thalassemia / S.L. Thein; title: The molecular basis of alpha thalassemia / Douglas R. Higgs; title: Pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of the  thalassemias / Arthur W. Nienhuis and David G. Nathan; title: Thalassemia intermedia : a clinical perspective / Khaled M. Musallam, Ali T. Taher, and Eliezer A. Rachmilewitz; title: The hemoglobin E thalassemias / Suthat Fucharoen and David J. Weatherall; title: Clinical manifestations of alpha thalassemia / Elliott P. Vichinsky; title: Alpha thalassemia, mental retardation, and myelodysplastic syndrome / Richard J. Gibbons; title: Management of the thalassemias / G. Brittenham and N. Olivieri; title: The prevention of thalassemia / Antonio Cao and Yuet Wai Kan; title: Natural history of sickle cell disease / G. Serjeant and G. Rodgers; title: Patholphysiology of sickle cell disease / Alan N. Schechter and J. Elion; title: The search for genetic modifiers of disease severity in the hemglobinopathies / Guillaume Lettre; title: Current management of sickle cell anemia / Patrick T. McGann, Alecia Nero, and Russell E. Ware; title: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in thalassemia and sickle cell anemia / Guido Lucarelli ... [et al.]; title: Development of gene therapy for thalassemia / Arthur W. Nienhuis and Derek A. Persons; title: Pluripotent stem cells in research and treatment of hemoblobinopathies / Natasha Arora and George Q. Daley; title: Hemoglobin variants : biochemical properties and clinical correlates / Christopher S. Thom ... [et al.]; title: Toxic hemoglobin and its scavengers/new disease models leading the way to targeted therapies / Dominik J. Schaer and Paul W. Buehler; title: Iron deficiency anemia : A common and curable disease / Jeffery L. Miller.