MaxEidswick
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- Joined
- Sep 1, 2013
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- PALS
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- 08/2013
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- Texas
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- Pinehurst
From my daughter Jenny ...
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Antisense drugs are being researched to treat a variety of diseases[2][3] such as cancers (including lung cancer, colorectal carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma, malignant glioma and malignant melanoma), diabetes, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Duchenne muscular dystrophy and diseases such as asthma, arthritis and pouchitis with an inflammatory component. As of 2014 two antisense drugs have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), fomivirsen (marketed as Vitravene) as a treatment for cytomegalovirus retinitis and mipomersen (marketed as Kynamro) for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21740381 and
http://www.nature.com/drugdisc/res_high/articles/nrn1656.html
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Antisense drugs are being researched to treat a variety of diseases[2][3] such as cancers (including lung cancer, colorectal carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma, malignant glioma and malignant melanoma), diabetes, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Duchenne muscular dystrophy and diseases such as asthma, arthritis and pouchitis with an inflammatory component. As of 2014 two antisense drugs have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), fomivirsen (marketed as Vitravene) as a treatment for cytomegalovirus retinitis and mipomersen (marketed as Kynamro) for homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21740381 and
http://www.nature.com/drugdisc/res_high/articles/nrn1656.html