| Literature DB >> 24506781 |
Kavitha Siva1, Giuseppina Covello, Michela A Denti.
Abstract
Alternative splicing is an important regulator of the transcriptome. However, mutations may cause alteration of splicing patterns, which in turn leads to disease. During the past 10 years, exon skipping has been looked upon as a powerful tool for correction of missplicing in disease and progress has been made towards clinical trials. In this review, we discuss the use of antisense oligonucleotides to correct splicing defects through exon skipping, with a special focus on diseases affecting the nervous system, and the latest stage achieved in its progress.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24506781 PMCID: PMC3922311 DOI: 10.1089/nat.2013.0461
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acid Ther ISSN: 2159-3337 Impact factor: 5.486