Chapter 3 Insights from Computer Simulations into the Interaction of Small Molecules with Lipid Bilayers

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Volumn 48, Issue C, 1999, Pages 49-76

  Pohorille, Andrew ^a   New, Michael H ^a   Schweighofer, Karl ^b   Wilson, Michael A ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0002179936     PISSN: 00702161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2161(08)61041-2     Document Type: Article

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