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ReviewCanadian journal of physiology and pharmacology2026

Endothelin receptor antagonism in sickle cell disease: Is the time now?

Bryant J Kane, Vimal K Derebail, Malgorzata Kasztan

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Review in Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bryant J KaneDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Vimal K DerebailDepartment of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Malgorzata KasztanDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3345-1580

Funding

TRIO NRSA Training CoreTL1DK139567 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Graca Duarte Almeida-Porada, Steven D Crowley · 2023 to 2026
$3.3M
Predicting Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease in Sickle Cell Anemia Using Machine Learning Models (PREMIER)R01HL159376 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI ATAGA, KENNETH I, SARAF, SANTOSH · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
Endothelin 1 in iron handling in sickle cell diseaseR01HL173038 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Malgorzata Kasztan · 2025 to 2026
$1.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL159376NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL173038NIDDK NIH HHS TL1 DK139567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe heritable hemoglobinopathy characterized by chronic hemolysis, episodic vaso-occlusion, and progressive multi-organ damage. Although hydroxyurea remains the most established disease-modifying therapy and that newer approaches such as L-glutamine, voxelotor, crizanlizumab, and gene therapy have expanded the therapeutic landscape, important limitations remain. These include incomplete efficacy, recent clinical or regulatory setbacks, as well as high cost and access barriers. Thus, safe, accessible, and mechanistically targeted treatments remain urgently needed, particularly for patients with progressive end-organ injury. Mounting evidence implicates the peptide endothelin-1 (ET-1) as a mediator of SCD pathology, and blockade of one of its primary receptors, endothelin receptor A (ET

Indexed as

Anemia, Sickle CellEndothelin Receptor AntagonistsAnimalsHumansVaso-Occlusive CrisesEndothelin Receptor Antagonistsendothelin systemkidney diseasepainsickle cell diseasevasculopathy

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PMID42721489
PMCPMC13671089

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