Antisense and siRNA as agonists of Toll-like receptors

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1533-1537

  Agrawal, Sudhir ^a   Kandimalla, Ekambar R ^a  

^a HYBRIDON INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VIRUSES;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; IMMUNE STIMULATION; SARCOMA VIRUS; VIRAL RNA;

RNA;

AEG 35156; ATL 1102; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENE EXPRESSION MODULATOR 231; GENE EXPRESSION MODULATOR 92; ISIS 104838; ISIS 113715; ISIS 301012; MB 1121; MBI 1121; MG 98; OGX 011; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ENZYME BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA TRANSLATION; ROUS SARCOMA ONCOVIRUS; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ONCOVIRINAE; ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 11144282529     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1042     Document Type: Review

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