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ArticlePostdoc journal : a journal of postdoctoral research and postdoctoral affairs2016

RNA therapeutics: RNAi and antisense mechanisms and clinical applications.

Jessica Chery

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Article in Postdoc journal : a journal of postdoctoral research and postdoctoral affairs, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 118 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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118citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
8.2field-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

118 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 236 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jessica CheryHarvard Medical School, Department of Cell Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Boston, MA 02129.
Massachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Regulation of cholesterol/lipid homeostasis by microRNA-33a/bR01DK094184 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI NAAR, ANDERS M · 2011 to 2015
$2.5M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK094184
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA therapeutics refers to the use of oligonucleotides to target primarily ribonucleic acids (RNA) for therapeutic efforts or in research studies to elucidate functions of genes. Oligonucleotides are distinct from other pharmacological modalities, such as small molecules and antibodies that target mainly proteins, due to their mechanisms of action and chemical properties. Nucleic acids come in two forms: deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA) and ribonucleic acids (RNA). Although DNA is more stable, RNA offers more structural variety ranging from messenger RNA (mRNA) that codes for protein to non-coding RNAs, microRNA (miRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). As our understanding of the wide variety of RNAs deepens, researchers have sought to target RNA since >80% of the genome is estimated to be transcribed. These transcripts include non-coding RNAs such as miRNAs and siRNAs that function in gene regulation by playing key roles in the transfer of genetic information from DNA to protein, the final product of the central dogma in biology

Indexed as

Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs)Locked Nucleic Acids (LNAs)RNA therapeuticssiRNAs

Identifiers

PMID27570789
PMCPMC4995773
OpenAlexW2479157102

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