Long-acting protein drugs for the treatment of ocular diseases

Retinal vascular disease treatments involve frequent pharmacological intraocular administrations. Here the authors present a method to increase the half-life of injected drugs by fusing these to a hyaluronan-binding peptide, which might lead to less frequent retinal disease treatments.

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Main Authors: Joy G. Ghosh, Andrew A. Nguyen, Chad E. Bigelow, Stephen Poor, Yubin Qiu, Nalini Rangaswamy, Richard Ornberg, Brittany Jackson, Howard Mak, Tucker Ezell, Vania Kenanova, Elisa de la Cruz, Ana Carrion, Bijan Etemad-Gilbertson, Roxana Garcia Caro, Kan Zhu, Vinney George, Jirong Bai, Radhika Sharma-Nahar, Siyuan Shen, Yiqin Wang, Kulandayan K. Subramanian, Elizabeth Fassbender, Michael Maker, Shawn Hanks, Joanna Vrouvlianis, Barrett Leehy, Debby Long, Melissa Prentiss, Viral Kansara, Bruce Jaffee, Thaddeus P. Dryja, Michael Roguska
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Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14837
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author Joy G. Ghosh
Andrew A. Nguyen
Chad E. Bigelow
Stephen Poor
Yubin Qiu
Nalini Rangaswamy
Richard Ornberg
Brittany Jackson
Howard Mak
Tucker Ezell
Vania Kenanova
Elisa de la Cruz
Ana Carrion
Bijan Etemad-Gilbertson
Roxana Garcia Caro
Kan Zhu
Vinney George
Jirong Bai
Radhika Sharma-Nahar
Siyuan Shen
Yiqin Wang
Kulandayan K. Subramanian
Elizabeth Fassbender
Michael Maker
Shawn Hanks
Joanna Vrouvlianis
Barrett Leehy
Debby Long
Melissa Prentiss
Viral Kansara
Bruce Jaffee
Thaddeus P. Dryja
Michael Roguska
spellingShingle Joy G. Ghosh
Andrew A. Nguyen
Chad E. Bigelow
Stephen Poor
Yubin Qiu
Nalini Rangaswamy
Richard Ornberg
Brittany Jackson
Howard Mak
Tucker Ezell
Vania Kenanova
Elisa de la Cruz
Ana Carrion
Bijan Etemad-Gilbertson
Roxana Garcia Caro
Kan Zhu
Vinney George
Jirong Bai
Radhika Sharma-Nahar
Siyuan Shen
Yiqin Wang
Kulandayan K. Subramanian
Elizabeth Fassbender
Michael Maker
Shawn Hanks
Joanna Vrouvlianis
Barrett Leehy
Debby Long
Melissa Prentiss
Viral Kansara
Bruce Jaffee
Thaddeus P. Dryja
Michael Roguska
Long-acting protein drugs for the treatment of ocular diseases
Nature Communications
author_facet Joy G. Ghosh
Andrew A. Nguyen
Chad E. Bigelow
Stephen Poor
Yubin Qiu
Nalini Rangaswamy
Richard Ornberg
Brittany Jackson
Howard Mak
Tucker Ezell
Vania Kenanova
Elisa de la Cruz
Ana Carrion
Bijan Etemad-Gilbertson
Roxana Garcia Caro
Kan Zhu
Vinney George
Jirong Bai
Radhika Sharma-Nahar
Siyuan Shen
Yiqin Wang
Kulandayan K. Subramanian
Elizabeth Fassbender
Michael Maker
Shawn Hanks
Joanna Vrouvlianis
Barrett Leehy
Debby Long
Melissa Prentiss
Viral Kansara
Bruce Jaffee
Thaddeus P. Dryja
Michael Roguska
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title Long-acting protein drugs for the treatment of ocular diseases
title_short Long-acting protein drugs for the treatment of ocular diseases
title_full Long-acting protein drugs for the treatment of ocular diseases
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publisher Nature Publishing Group
series Nature Communications
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publishDate 2017-03-01
description Retinal vascular disease treatments involve frequent pharmacological intraocular administrations. Here the authors present a method to increase the half-life of injected drugs by fusing these to a hyaluronan-binding peptide, which might lead to less frequent retinal disease treatments.
url https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14837
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