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- Title
Applications in Which Aptamers Are Needed or Wanted in Diagnostics and Therapeutics.
- Authors
Bruno, John G.
- Abstract
One strategy for bringing aptamers more into the mainstream of biomedical diagnostics and therapeutics is to exploit niche applications where aptamers are truly needed or wanted for their innate differences versus antibodies. This brief review article highlights some of those relatively rare applications in which aptamers are necessary or better suited to the user requirements than antibodies with explanations for why the aptamer is a necessary or superior choice. These situations include when no commercial antibody exists, when antibodies are excessively difficult to develop against a particular target because the target is highly toxic to host animals, when antibodies fail to discriminate closely related targets, when a smaller size is preferable to penetrate a tissue, when humanized monoclonal antibodies are too expensive and when the target is rapidly evolving or mutating. Examples of each are provided to illustrate these points.
- Subjects
APTAMERS; MONOCLONAL antibodies; THERAPEUTICS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LIVER flukes
- Publication
Pharmaceuticals (14248247), 2022, Vol 15, Issue 6, p693
- ISSN
1424-8247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ph15060693