Aptamers as a promising approach for the control of parasitic diseases

Aptamers are short single-stranded RNA or DNA oligonucleotides that are capable of binding various biological targets with high affinity and specificity. Their identification initially relies on a molecular process named SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) that has been...

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Main Authors: Juan David Ospina-Villa, Absalom Zamorano-Carrillo, Carlos A. Castañón-Sánchez, Esther Ramírez-Moreno, Laurence A. Marchat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-11-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867016303373