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Abstract
Synthetic, complementary DNA single strands and short interfering RNA double strands have been found to inhibit the expression of animal, plant, and viral genes in cells, animals, and patients, in a dose dependent and sequence specific manner. DNAs and RNAs, however, are readily digested in biological systems. Hence, chemists are obliged to design and synthesize nuclease-resistant analogs of normal DNA (Fig. 1).Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25912659 PMCID: PMC4504810 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2015.04.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Drug Deliv Rev ISSN: 0169-409X Impact factor: 15.470