Researchers at Whitehead Institute have identified a key target protein of glucocorticoids, the drugs that are used to increase red blood cell production in patients
with certain types of anemia, including those resulting from trauma, sepsis, malaria, kidney dialysis, and chemotherapy.
Not exact matches
Sometimes doctors prescribe anabolic steroids to help patients
with HIV gain weight and to treat
certain types of severe
anemia (low red blood cells) or other health problems.
Abnormal values can be associated
with bacterial or viral infection,
anemias, clotting diseases, and
certain types of cancers.
In doing so, cats and dogs
with certain types of heart disease or endocrine disease, which may predispose to clot formation (i.e. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, immune - mediated hemolytic
anemia, Cushing's disease, renal disease, or chronic inflammatory bowel disease) are protected from the adverse effects associated
with obstruction to blood flow from clot formation.