Oligonucleotides

"Oligonucleotides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Polymers made up of a few (2-20) nucleotides. In molecular genetics, they refer to a short sequence synthesized to match a region where a mutation is known to occur, and then used as a probe (OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES). (Dorland, 28th ed)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Oligonucleotides" by people in this website by year, and whether "Oligonucleotides" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 137 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2005
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