Thermotropic phase behavior of cationic lipid-DNA complexes compared to binary lipid mixtures

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 103, Issue 46, 1999, Pages 10300-10310

  Zantl, Roman ^a   Baicu, Laura ^b   Artzner, Franck ^a   Sprenger, Irene ^c   Rapp, Gert ^d   Radier, Joachim O ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c Technische Universität München ^*

^d CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0000153330     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp991596j     Document Type: Article

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