Formation of supramolecular structures by negatively charged liposomes in the presence of nucleic acids and divalent cations

Drug Delivery: Journal of Delivery and Targeting of Therapeutic Agents

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-141

  Mozafari, Mohammad R ^a   Zareie, Mohammad H ^b   Piskin, Erhan ^b   Hasirci, Vasif ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anionic Liposome; Fluorescence Microscopy; Multilamellar Vesicles (MLV); Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM); Small Unilamellar Vesicles (SUV)

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM ION; CHOLESTEROL; DICETYL PHOSPHATE; DIVALENT CATION; DNA; DRUG VEHICLE; LIPOSOME; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSFECTION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; MEMBRANE FUSION; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031839678     PISSN: 10717544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10717549809031389     Document Type: Article

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