A Locked Nucleic Acid Antisense Oligonucleotide (LNA) Silences PCSK9 and Enhances LDLR Expression In Vitro and In Vivo

BACKGROUND: The proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) is an important factor in the etiology of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and is also an attractive therapeutic target to reduce low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. PCSK9 accelerates the degradation of hepatic low densit...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Nidhi, Fisker, Niels, Asselin, Marie-Claude, Lindholm, Marie, Rosenbohm, Christoph, Ørum, Henrik, Elmén, Joacim, Seidah, Nabil G., Straarup, Ellen Marie
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20498851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010682

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20498851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010682

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