Targeting sphingosine kinase 1 with LNA oligonucleotides in gastric cancer
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Background Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide. Despite advances in diagnosis of gastric cancer, the prognosis at advanced stage of disease with the current chemotherapeutic treatment strategies remains poor. Hence, new agents and molecular targets for gastric cancer therapy are desperately needed. Sphingosine kinase 1 represents a promising novel target for anti-cancer therapy. However, the most common used small molecule inhibitors of SphK are unspecific inhibitors of SphK1. Here we investigated the effect of targeted downregulation of SphK1 by locked nucleic acid antisense oligonucleotides (LNA-ASO) in gastric cancer cell lines.
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دوره 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008