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ReviewDrug discovery today2008

Antisense, RNAi, and gene silencing strategies for therapy: mission possible or impossible?

Elizabeth R Rayburn, Ruiwen Zhang

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 170 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth R RayburnDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States.
Ruiwen Zhang
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Dietary Chemopreventive Components/Oncogene Interaction and CancerR01CA121211 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ZHANG, RUIWEN · 2007 to 2011
$1.4M
MDM2 AS A NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF P21 WAF1/CIP1R01CA112029 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ZHANG, RUIWEN · 2005 to 2009
$1.3M
CANCER GENE THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAMT32CA075930 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI CURIEL, DAVID TERRY · 1998 to 2008
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA112029NCI NIH HHS R01 CA121211NCI NIH HHS T32 CA075930NCI NIH HHS T32 (CA075930)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antisense oligonucleotides can regulate gene expression in living cells. As such, they regulate cell function and division, and can modulate cellular responses to internal and external stresses and stimuli. Although encouraging results from preclinical and clinical studies have been obtained and significant progress has been made in developing these agents as drugs, they are not yet recognized as effective therapeutics. Several major hurdles remain to be overcome, including problems with efficacy, off-target effects, delivery and side effects. The lessons learned from antisense drug development can help in the development of other oligonucleotide-based therapeutics such as CpG oligonucleotides, RNAi and miRNA.

Indexed as

Gene SilencingRNA InterferenceClinical Trials as TopicDrug DesignGene Expression RegulationGenetic TherapyHumansOligonucleotides, AntisenseOligonucleotides, Antisense

Identifiers

PMID18549978
PMCPMC2497463
OpenAlexW2015878656

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.