A Sense Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotide Directed to the Initiation Codon of Transcription Factor NF-κ-B Causes Sequence-Specific Immune Stimulation

Antisense Research and Development

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 309-322

  Mcintyre, Kim W ^a   Lombard Gillooly, Kathleen ^a   Perez, Jose R ^a   Kunsch, Charles ^b   Sarmiento, Ulla M ^c   Larigan, J Douglas ^a   Landreth, Kenneth T ^d   Narayanan, Ramaswamy ^a  

^a HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c Hoffmann La Roche Department of Toxicology and Pathology   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPLEEN CELL; SPLENOMEGALY;

ANIMAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NF-KAPPA B; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; THIONUCLEOTIDES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0027762537     PISSN: 10505261     EISSN: 15578526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ard.1993.3.309     Document Type: Article

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