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DNA, Antisense

"DNA, Antisense" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

DNA that is complementary to the sense strand. (The sense strand has the same sequence as the mRNA transcript. The antisense strand is the template for mRNA synthesis.) Synthetic antisense DNAs are used to hybridize to complementary sequences in target RNAs or DNAs to effect the functioning of specific genes for investigative or therapeutic purposes.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "DNA, Antisense" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "DNA, Antisense" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 40 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1995 and 2000 and 2004
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.