Search Results - "SACHS, Alan"
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Biodistribution of Small Interfering RNA at the Organ and Cellular Levels after Lipid Nanoparticle-mediated Delivery
Published in The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry (01-08-2011)“…Chemically stabilized small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be delivered systemically by intravenous injection of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) in rodents and…”
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Evaluation of Efficacy, Biodistribution, and Inflammation for a Potent siRNA Nanoparticle: Effect of Dexamethasone Co-treatment
Published in Molecular therapy (01-01-2010)“…Despite recent progress, systemic delivery remains the major hurdle for development of safe and effective small inhibitory RNA (siRNA)–based therapeutics…”
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High Resolution Discovery Proteomics Reveals Candidate Disease Progression Markers of Alzheimer's Disease in Human Cerebrospinal Fluid
Published in PloS one (13-08-2015)“…Disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) constitute a major goal in medicine. Current trends suggest that biomarkers reflective of AD…”
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An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease
Published in Nature genetics (01-07-2005)“…A key goal of biomedical research is to elucidate the complex network of gene interactions underlying complex traits such as common human diseases. Here we…”
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Mechanistically Probing Lipid-siRNA Nanoparticle-associated Toxicities Identifies Jak Inhibitors Effective in Mitigating Multifaceted Toxic Responses
Published in Molecular therapy (01-03-2011)“…A major hurdle for harnessing small interfering RNA (siRNA) for therapeutic application is an effective and safe delivery of siRNA to target tissues and cells…”
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Ribosome Loading onto the mRNA Cap Is Driven by Conformational Coupling between eIF4G and eIF4E
Published in Cell (12-12-2003)“…The eukaryotic initiation factor 4G (eIF4G) is the core of a multicomponent switch controlling gene expression at the level of translation initiation. It…”
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siRNA-induced liver ApoB knockdown lowers serum LDL-cholesterol in a mouse model with human-like serum lipids[S]
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-06-2011)“…Increased serum apolipoprotein (apo)B and associated LDL levels are well-correlated with an increased risk of coronary disease. ApoE–/– and low density…”
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MicroRNA-like off-target transcript regulation by siRNAs is species specific
Published in RNA (Cambridge) (01-02-2009)“…siRNAs mediate sequence-specific gene silencing in cultured mammalian cells but also silence unintended transcripts. Many siRNA off-target transcripts match…”
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Quantitative evaluation of siRNA delivery in vivo
Published in RNA (Cambridge) (01-12-2010)“…Effective small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated therapeutics require the siRNA to be delivered into the cellular RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC)…”
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Starting at the Beginning, Middle, and End: Translation Initiation in Eukaryotes
Published in Cell (13-06-1997)“…In both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, ribosomes are recruited to mRNAs in a sequential, multistep process. In eukaryotes, following the recruitment of the small…”
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A cell proliferation signature is a marker of extremely poor outcome in a subpopulation of breast cancer patients
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (15-05-2005)“…Breast cancer comprises a group of distinct subtypes that despite having similar histologic appearances, have very different metastatic potentials. Being able…”
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Analysis of acyclic nucleoside modifications in siRNAs finds sensitivity at position 1 that is restored by 5'-terminal phosphorylation both in vitro and in vivo
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-01-2010)“…Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are short, double-stranded RNAs that use the endogenous RNAi pathway to mediate gene silencing. Phosphorylation facilitates…”
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RNA-induced silencing complex-bound small interfering RNA is a determinant of RNA interference-mediated gene silencing in mice
Published in Molecular pharmacology (01-06-2011)“…Deeper knowledge of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) concepts for RNA therapeutics is important to streamline the drug development process and for…”
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Glucose depletion rapidly inhibits translation initiation in yeast
Published in Molecular biology of the cell (01-03-2000)“…Glucose performs key functions as a signaling molecule in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Glucose depletion is known to regulate gene expression via…”
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Improved efficacy for ezetimibe and rosuvastatin by attenuating the induction of PCSK9[S]
Published in Journal of lipid research (01-04-2011)“…Reducing circulating LDL-cholesterol (LDL-c) reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with hypercholesterolemia. Current approaches to reduce…”
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LRRTM3 Promotes Processing of Amyloid-Precursor Protein by BACE1 and Is a Positional Candidate Gene for Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-11-2006)“…Rare familial forms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are thought to be caused by elevated proteolytic production of the Aβ42 peptide from the β-amyloid-precursor…”
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ApoB siRNA-induced Liver Steatosis is Resistant to Clearance by the Loss of Fatty Acid Transport Protein 5 (Fatp5)
Published in Lipids (01-11-2011)“…The association between hypercholesterolemia and elevated serum apolipoprotein B (APOB) has generated interest in APOB as a therapeutic target for patients at…”
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Integrating QTL and high-density SNP analyses in mice to identify Insig2 as a susceptibility gene for plasma cholesterol levels
Published in Genomics (San Diego, Calif.) (01-11-2005)“…The use of inbred strains of mice to dissect the genetic complexity of common diseases offers a viable alternative to human studies, given the control over…”
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Sequence variation in NPC1L1 and association with improved LDL-cholesterol lowering in response to ezetimibe treatment
Published in Genomics (San Diego, Calif.) (01-12-2005)“…Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) is an intestinal cholesterol transporter and the molecular target of ezetimibe, a cholesterol absorption inhibitor demonstrated…”
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Application of an End-to-End Biomarker Discovery Platform to Identify Target Engagement Markers in Cerebrospinal Fluid by High Resolution Differential Mass Spectrometry
Published in Journal of proteome research (05-03-2010)“…The rapid identification of protein biomarkers in biofluids is important to drug discovery and development. Here, we describe a general proteomic approach for…”
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