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Final research-target dose 2.4 mg + 2.4 mg weekly Titration length ~16 weeks Trial duration 68 weeks (REDEFINE 1 / REDEFINE 2) Route Subcutaneous, once weekly Compound Delivery: 2.4 mg / 2.4 mg Maintenance Pre-blended vials simplify weekly administration to a single injection but lock the ratio at 1:1
297,298 A major benefit of developing recruitable enzymes is that the engineering effort is somewhat minimized, as the enzyme of interest is left intact, although it often still requires substantial trial and error to obtain a functional construct, i.e., optimization of the identities and fusion positions of the targeting tags, whether to introduce a fluorescent protein to track its localization, and linker length
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Collagen synthesis (types I and III) increased significantly, along with improvements in elastin and glycosaminoglycan production (Pickart et al., 2018)
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