Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 419539, 18 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/419539
Review Article

Silencing Viral MicroRNA as a Novel Antiviral Therapy?

Ugo Moens

Department of Microbiology and Virology, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway

Received 28 December 2008; Accepted 20 March 2009

Academic Editor: Bibekanand Mallick

Copyright © 2009 Ugo Moens. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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