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ReviewJournal of nucleic acids2021

DNAzymes, Novel Therapeutic Agents in Cancer Therapy: A Review of Concepts to Applications.

I B K Thomas, K A P Gaminda, C D Jayasinghe, D T Abeysinghe, R Senthilnithy

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Review in Journal of nucleic acids, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Designing nucleic acid-based therapeutics for cancer treatment: Updates on the state of the art.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  4. Therapeutic Applications of Aptamers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

I B K ThomasDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3114-0546
K A P GamindaDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1997-4721
C D JayasingheDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-8967
D T AbeysingheDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2454-5104
R SenthilnithyDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9557-8750
Open University of Sri Lanka · LKSouth Eastern University of Sri Lanka · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The past few decades have witnessed a rapid evolution in cancer drug research which is aimed at developing active biological interventions to regulate cancer-specific molecular targets. Nucleic acid-based therapeutics, including ribozymes, antisense oligonucleotides, small interference RNA (siRNA), aptamer, and DNAzymes, have emerged as promising candidates regulating cancer-specific genes at either the transcriptional or posttranscriptional level. Gene-specific catalytic DNA molecules, or DNAzymes, have shown promise as a therapeutic intervention against cancer in various

Identifiers

PMID34760318
PMCPMC8575636
OpenAlexW3209190869

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