Antisense treatment for myasthenia gravis: Experience with Monarsen

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1132, Issue , 2008, Pages 283-290

  Sussman, Jon D ^a   Argov, Zohar ^b   McKee, David ^a   Hazum, Eli ^c   Brawer, Solli ^c   Soreq, Hermona ^b  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Ester Neuroscience Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Antisense; Monarsen; Myasthenia; Readthrough transcript

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; AZATHIOPRINE; MONARSEN; NEOSTIGMINE; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTISENSE THERAPY; APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEVER; GENE TARGETING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LOW BACK PAIN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SPLICING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPSE; THYMOCYTE; VITAL CAPACITY; WEAKNESS; XEROPHTHALMIA; XEROSTOMIA;

RATTUS;

EID: 45249084126     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1405.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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