Manufacturing and analytical processes for 2′-o-(2-methoxyethyl)-modified oligonucleotides

Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies, and Applications, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 401-434

  Capaldi, Daniel C ^a   Scozzari, Anthony N ^a  

^a ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

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