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ReviewJournal of Cancer2020

Application and development of aptamer in cancer: from clinical diagnosis to cancer therapy.

Jing Han, Liang Gao, Jinsheng Wang, Jia Wang

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Review in Journal of Cancer, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jing HanDepartment of Reproductive Medicine, Heping Hospital Affiliated to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, 046000 China.
Liang GaoDepartment of Dermatology, Heji Hospital Affiliated to Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, 046000 China.
Jinsheng WangDepartment of Pathology, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, 046000 China.
Jia WangDepartment of Immunology, Changzhi Medical College, Changzhi, Shanxi, 046000 China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional anticancer therapies can cause serious side effects in clinical treatment due to their nonspecific of tumor cells. Aptamers, also termed as 'chemical antibodies', are short DNA or RNA oligonucleotides selected from the synthetic large random single-strand oligonucleotide library by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) to bind to lots of different targets, such as proteins or nucleic acid structures. Aptamers have good affinities and high specificity with target molecules, thus may be able to act as drugs themselves to directly inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells, or own great potentialities in the targeted drug delivery systems which can be used in tumor diagnosis and target specific tumor cells, thereby minimizing the toxicity to normal cells. Here we review the unique properties of aptamer represents a great opportunity when applied to the rapidly developing fields of biotechnology and discuss the recent developments in the use of aptamers as powerful tools for analytic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications for cancer.

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aptamerscancercancer diagnosisdrug deliverytargeted therapy

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PMID33123281
PMCPMC7592013

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