Jeremie Estepp, MD, said the papers» findings underscore the need to improve and expand access to
hydroxyurea in the U.S. and internationally.
Not exact matches
In an accompanying editorial, Debra L. Weiner and Carlo Brugnara of Harvard Medical School call for increased use of
hydroxyurea.
«This is because while both cell types show
hydroxyurea - induced gene expression, collision with replication occurs differentially because replication forks have progressed to different extent
in these cells,» said Feng.
«Using the anti-cancer drug and a replication inhibitor,
hydroxyurea,
in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we observed that double strand breaks preferentially occurred at
hydroxyurea - induced genes,» said Feng.
St. Jude pioneered the use of
hydroxyurea to treat sickle cells
in children.
Rather than calculating a standard dose of
hydroxyurea based on patients» weight, researchers used a dose - escalation approach to determine the maximum tolerated dose for each of the 230 St. Jude patients enrolled
in the study.
Alpha - synuclein functions
in the nucleus to protect against
hydroxyurea - induced replication stress
in yeast.