RNA Interference
Measles virus and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis virus inhibited by RNA interference
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, August 17th, 2006
"Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare, but fatal outcome of MeV infection. SSPE develops after prolonged persistence of mutated MeV called SSPE virus.
"Although a combination therapy using interferon and inosiplex or ribavirin appears to prolong survival time to some extent, there is currently no effective treatment to completely cure SSPE and a new treatment strategy is greatly needed," wrote M. Otaki and colleagues, Kobe University.
"In this study, we adopted RNAi...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2006-08-17)
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