摘要 |
The present invention relates to an isolated double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of bcl-2, where the antisense strand comprises a sequence that comprises a region of complementarity which is substantially complementary to at least a part of an mRNA encoding bcl-2. The dsRNA, upon contact with a cell expressing the bcl-2, inhibits expression of the bcl-2 gene by at least 20%. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention further relates to a vector for inhibiting expression of bcl-2 in a cell, where the vector comprises a regulatory sequence operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes at least one strand of the dsRNA.
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