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T Cell-Specific siRNA Delivery Suppresses HIV-1 Infection in Humanized Mice

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SiRNA therapy for HIV infection appears to be feasible in a preclinical animal model and could deliver antiviral siRNAs to naive T cells in Hu-HSC mice and effectively suppress viremia in infected mice.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2008-08-22 and is currently open access. It has received 555 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: T cell & Small interfering RNA.

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Nonviral Vectors for Gene Delivery

TL;DR: Two nonviral gene delivery systems using either biodegradable poly(D,Llactide-co-glycolide) (PLG) nanoparticles or cell penetrating peptide (CPP) complexes have been designed and studied using A549 human lung epithelial cells.
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Therapeutic targeting of microRNAs: current status and future challenges

TL;DR: Current knowledge of the design and performance of chemically modified miRNA-targeting antisense oligonucleotides is summarized, various in vivo delivery strategies are discussed and ongoing challenges to ensure the specificity and efficacy of therapeutic oligon nucleotides in vivo are analysed.
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Advances in oligonucleotide drug delivery

TL;DR: An overview of oligonucleotide-based drug platforms is provided, focusing on key approaches — including chemical modification, bioconjugation and the use of nanocarriers — which aim to address the delivery challenge.
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Humanized mice for immune system investigation: progress, promise and challenges.

TL;DR: This Review discusses recent advances in the development and utilization of humanized mice, the lessons learnt, the remaining challenges and the promise of using humanization mice for the in vivo study of human immunology.
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The current state and future directions of RNAi-based therapeutics.

TL;DR: This Review discusses key advances in the design and development of RNAi drugs leading up to this landmark achievement, the state of the current clinical pipeline and prospects for future advances, including novel RNAi pathway agents utilizing mechanisms beyond post-translational RNAi silencing.
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Presence of an inducible HIV-1 latent reservoir during highly active antiretroviral therapy

TL;DR: Highly purified CD4+ T cells from patients receiving HAART with an average treatment time of 10 months and with undetectable plasma viremia carried integrated proviral DNA and were capable of producing infectious virus upon cellular activation in vitro, suggesting persistent active virus replication in vivo.
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Fatality in mice due to oversaturation of cellular microRNA/short hairpin RNA pathways.

TL;DR: The risk of oversaturating endogenous small RNA pathways can be minimized by optimizing shRNA dose and sequence, as exemplified here by the report of persistent and therapeutic RNAi against human hepatitis B virus in vivo.
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RNA interference targeting Fas protects mice from fulminant hepatitis

TL;DR: In a more fulminant hepatitis induced by injecting agonistic Fas-specific antibody, 82% of mice treated with siRNA that effectively silenced Fas survived for 10 days of observation, whereas all control mice died within 3 days.
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Transvascular delivery of small interfering RNA to the central nervous system

TL;DR: RVG-9R provides a safe and noninvasive approach for the delivery of siRNA and potentially other therapeutic molecules across the blood–brain barrier and afforded robust protection against fatal viral encephalitis in mice.
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