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ReviewMolecular biotechnology1997

Anti-HIV ribozymes.

L Q Sun, J A Ely, W Gerlach, G Symonds

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Review in Molecular biotechnology, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Dose-response resistance to HIV-1/MuLV pseudotype virus ex vivo in a hairpin ribozyme transgenic mouse model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1999
    Article
  4. Effective inhibition of influenza virus production in cultured cells by external guide sequences and ribonuclease P.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1998
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

L Q SunJohnson & Johnson Research Laboratories, Sydney NSW, Australia.
J A Ely
W Gerlach
G Symonds

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HIV is an RNA virus that replicates intracellularly through various RNA intermediates. Several of these can be targeted by ribozymes (catalytic RNA molecules), and a number of investigators, including this group, have demonstrated the ability of ribozymes to suppress HIV replication in this way. It is argued that this gene therapy approach may be viewed as an adjunct to chemotherapeutic drugs, which may allow not just viral suppression, but also immune restoration. This can only finally be tested in clinical trials, and several are planned. The basic ribozyme unit, the potential of which was described less than 10 years ago, is about to be tested in an amunable disease state.

Indexed as

Anti-HIV AgentsRNA, CatalyticAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDrug Delivery SystemsGenetic TherapyHIVHumansMiceNucleic Acid ConformationRNA, ViralVirus ReplicationAnti-HIV AgentsRNA, CatalyticRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID9219238

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