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ReviewPharmacological research2021

GalNAc-siRNA conjugates: Prospective tools on the frontier of anti-viral therapeutics.

Lokesh Thangamani, Balamuralikrishnan Balasubramanian, Murugesh Easwaran, Jeyakumar Natarajan, Karthika Pushparaj, Arun Meyyazhagan, Shanmughavel Piramanayagam

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Review in Pharmacological research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. [Clinical research advances for small-molecule nucleic acid drugs in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2025
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  11. Nucleic acid drugs: recent progress and future perspectives.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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  19. Targeting ANGPTL3 by GalNAc-conjugated siRNAMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2023
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  20. Emerging Progress of RNA-Based Antitumor Therapeutics.International journal of biological sciences · 2023
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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

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Lokesh ThangamaniComputational Biology Lab, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641046, Tamil Nadu, India.
Balamuralikrishnan BalasubramanianDepartment of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, South Korea.
Murugesh EaswaranInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi 110067, India.
Jeyakumar NatarajanData Mining and Text Mining Laboratory, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641046, Tamil Nadu, India.
Karthika PushparajDepartment of Zoology, School of Biosciences, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore 641043, Tamil Nadu, India.
Arun MeyyazhaganDepartment of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru 560029, Karnataka, India. Electronic address: arun.meyyazhagan@res.christuniversity.in.
Shanmughavel PiramanayagamComputational Biology Lab, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 641046, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: shanmughavel@buc.edu.in.
Bharathiar University · INAvinashilingam University · INChrist University · INInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology · INSejong University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing use of short-interfering RNA (siRNA)-based therapeutics for viral diseases reflects the most recent innovations in anti-viral vaccines and drugs. These drugs play crucial roles in the fight against many hitherto incurable diseases, the causes, pathophysiologies, and molecular processes of which remain unknown. Targeted liver drug delivery systems are in clinical trials. The receptor-mediated endocytosis approach involving the abundant asialoglycoprotein receptors (ASGPRs) on the surfaces of liver cells show great promise. We here review N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc)-siRNA conjugates that treat viral diseases such as hepatitis B infection, but we also mention that novel, native conjugate-based, targeted siRNA anti-viral drugs may also cure several life-threatening diseases such as hemorrhagic cystitis, multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronaviruses and human herpes virus.

Indexed as

AcetylgalactosamineAnimalsHumansRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingVirus DiseasesVirusesAcetylgalactosamineRNA, Small InterferingGalNac conjugateHepatitis BHepatocytesSiRNAVirus

Identifiers

PMID34474100
PMCPMC8405237
OpenAlexW3198634082

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