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Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies and Applications

Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies and Applications
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Offering contributions from over 60 experts, this volume provides comprehensive coverage of the development of antisense oligonucleotides and showcases the benefits of antisense drugs-including reduced toxicity and earlier disease detection-useful for treating cancer, as well as infectious, inflammatory, and immune-mediated diseases. It presents previously unpublished data on the use of antisense technology to dissect pharmacological processes and confirm the roles of various genes, and highlights advances in chemistry, RNA biochemistry, and molecular and cellular biology leading to new therapeutic compounds. The text is augmented with numerous tables, illustrations, and a wealth references.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1861581 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-09-14
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 929 pages

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This state-of-the-art reference provides comprehensive coverage of the development of antisense oligonucleotides to inhibit cancer cells as well as those involved in infectious, inflammatory, and immune-mediated diseases-highlighting new tools and technologies in medicinal chemistry, RNA biochemistry, and molecular and cellular biology to produce new therapeutic compounds.
Presents previously unpublished data on the use of antisense technology to dissect pharmacological processes and confirm the roles of various genes!

Showcasing the benefits of antisense drug use, including reduced toxicity and earlier disease detection, Antisense Drug Technology discusses

  • novel formulations of antisense drugs
  • practical methods to design effective isotype selective inhibitors
  • molecular mechanisms of antisense drugs
  • mRNA as a current biological template
  • modern postreceptor binding mechanisms
  • and more!
    With contributions by over 60 seasoned experts in the field and containing more than 3000 helpful references, tables, drawings, and photographs, Antisense Drug Technology is an illuminating source for organic, medicinal, and pharmaceutical chemists; biochemists; geneticists; hematologists; oncologists; molecular and cell biologists; virologists; immunologists; and medical school and graduate students in these disciplines.