Published May 1998 | Version v1
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Imagery: the ways of antisense oligonucleotide

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The positrons emission tomography (PET) is a medical imagery technology used in fundamental research and in pharmacology. This technology allows to follow the ''progress'' in all (or in part of) the human body, of molecules which are labelled by a radioisotope. A team of CEA and INSERM researchers has just developed a universal labelling method with fluorine 18 which works for all the genetic sequences. These molecules (antisense oligonucleotides) are formed by a succession of twenty complementary bases of RNA. It is an important technical advance which could play a key role in the promotion of antisense oligonucleotide as of medicine. (O.M.)

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Original title (French)
Imagerie: les chemins de l'antisens

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Journal Title
Defis du CEA
Journal Issue
no.67
Journal Page Range
p. 6
ISSN
1163-619X