Locked nucleic acid: High-affinity targeting of complementary RNA for RNomics

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 173, Issue , 2006, Pages 405-422

  Kauppinen, S ^a   Vester, B ^b   Wengel, J ^b  

^a Department of Functional Genomics ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

LNA; LNA antisense; Locked nucleic acid; MicroRNA targeting; RNA targeting

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099486627     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: 18650325     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27262-3_21     Document Type: Article

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