antisense therapy

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|medicine|genetics}} A [[treatment]] [[approach]] that [[use]]s [[synthetic]] [[short]] [[strand]]s of [[DNA]] or [[RNA]] known as [[antisense oligonucleotide]]s to [[specifically]] [[bind]] to the [[messenger RNA]] ([[mRNA]]) [[produce]]d by a [[target]] [[gene]].

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