| 1. | This is because the sickling happens only at low oxygen concentrations.
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| 2. | This is the first treatment to prevent sickling.
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| 3. | Daily doses of a medication called hydroxyurea can reduce the frequency of sickling and its related complications.
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| 4. | A sickling collapse comes on slowly, following cramps, weakness, general body aches and fatigue.
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| 5. | Laboratory tests also suggest that the treatment reduces red cell sickling and improves blood flow, he added.
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| 6. | They examined the DNA through gel electrophoresis, checking for bands that display an allele that causes sickling.
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| 7. | Additionally, clotrimazole may be used to treat the sickling of cells ( related to sickle cell anemia ).
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| 8. | Studies have traced the roots of the disease to Africa, where the sickling of blood cells helped fight malaria.
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| 9. | Sickling of the red blood cells, on a blood film, can be induced by the addition of sodium metabisulfite.
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| 10. | The drug reduces the sickling crises in many patients, they said, apparently by triggering production of a different type of hemoglobin.
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