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1Centre for Thrombosis and Vascular Research, School of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia.
Journal of Molecular Medicine (Berlin, Germany)
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
The capacity of DNA to bind RNA via Watson-Crick base-pairing is fundamental to antisense oligonucleotide strategies to inhibit gene expression, and is a property that has been exploited by bioengineers in the generation of catalytic molecules such as ribozymes, ribozyme subtypes, and more recently DNAzymes. This review describes the evolution of these gene-specific agents and summarizes recent efforts to inhibit smooth muscle cell growth with these molecules as candidate therapeutic tools in restenosis.