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Antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics in clinical trials for the treatment of inherited retinal diseases.
Expert opinion on investigational drugs - 1 Oct 2020
Xue Kanmin, MacLaren Robert E
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INTRODUCTION: Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) represent a class of drugs which can be rationally designed to complement the coding or non-coding regions of target RNA transcripts. They could modulate pre-messenger RNA splicing, induce mRNA knockdown, or block translation of disease-causing genes, thereby slowing disease progression. The pharmacokinetics of intravitreal delivery may enable ASOs to be effective...
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