Coupling aptamers to short interfering RNAs as therapeutics

Pharmaceuticals

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1434-1449

  Cerchia, Laura ^a   Esposito, Carla Lucia ^a   Camorani, Simona ^a,b   Catuogno, Silvia ^a,b   de Franciscis, Vittorio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Intracellular delivery; MicroRNA; Small interfering RNA

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; AGN 211745; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APTAMER; ARC 1905; AS 1411; ATU 027; CALAA 01; DOXORUBICIN; E 10030; EGAPTIVON PEGOL; MICRORNA; MIRAVIRSEN; NOX A 12; NOX E 36; NU 172; PEGAPTANIB; QUANTUM DOT; RB 006; RB 007; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; SPC 2996; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADVANCED CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL SURFACE; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNALIZATION; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; RECURRENT CANCER; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

EID: 80455174398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14248247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ph4111434     Document Type: Review

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