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A renaissance for antisense oligonucleotide drugs in neurology: exon skipping breaks new ground.
Archives of neurology - 1 Jan 2009
Yokota Toshifumi, Takeda Shin'ichi, Lu Qi-Long, Partridge Terence A, Nakamura Akinori, Hoffman Eric P
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Antisense oligonucleotides are short nucleic acid sequences designed for use as small-molecule drugs. They recognize and bind to specific messenger RNA (mRNA) or pre-mRNA sequences to create small double-stranded regions of the target mRNA that alter mRNA splicing patterns or inhibit protein translation. Antisense approaches have been actively pursued as a form of molecular medicine for more than 20 years, but...
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