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What does antisense nucleotides do?
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they hybridize to the disease producing mRNAs thus interfere w/ translation and pathology of disease
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Advantage of antisense therapy?
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highly specific, and complementary due to hydrogen bonding
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Problems associated w/ antisense therapy?
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delivery of oligo to the infected cell and identification of the specific replication or growth of cancer cells
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What antisense drug is used to inhibbit CMV?
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Formivirsen 21 mer phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide
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