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Scientists at University of Newcastle publish research in pharmacokinetics

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, June 25th, 2009

In this recent report published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers in the United Kingdom conducted a study "To assess the safety and tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and early evidence of antitumor activity of escalating doses of MG98, an antisense oligonucleotide to DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1), which has been shown to reduce CpG island methylation and allow reexpression of tumor suppressor genes in vitro. In this phase 1, open-label study, patients with advanced solid malignancies were treated with escalating doses of MG98 administered as a continuous i.v. infusion over 7 days repeated every 14 days."

"Cohorts of three patients, which could...

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