Title: The Antisense Oligonucleotides Decrease Expression of the Cellular Prion
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Author(s):Vitalii V. Stadnyk, Lyudmyla A. Izyumova, Yuriy A. Rzhepetskiy, Chrystyna Ya Mayor and Vasyl V. Vlizlo
Affiliation:Scientific Center for Prion Infections Study, Institute of Animal Biology UAAS 38 V. Stusa str., 79034, Lviv, Ukraine.
Keywords:Cellular prion, Antisense oligodesoxyribonucleotides, Immunoliposomes
Abstract: The subject of this work was an inhibition of cellular prion expression in vitro and in vivo by antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotides, incorporated into cationic immunoliposomes. It was shown that asODNs are able to reduce the level of PrPc expression in vitro and in vivo.