The Effect of Liposome Size on the Final Lipid/DNA Ratio of Cationic Lipoplexes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1554-1563

  Gonçalves, Elisabete ^a,c   Debs, Robert J ^b   Heath, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b California Pacific Medical Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 [2 (OLEOYLOXY)ETHYL] 2 OLEYL 3 (2 HYDROXYETHYL)IMIDAZOLINIUM CHLORIDE; CATION; DIOLEOYLPHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; DNA LIPID COMPLEX; LIPOPLEX; LIPOSOME; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; DNA BINDING; DNA CONTENT; LARGE UNILAMELLAR VESICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEMBRANE VESICLE; PLASMID; SMALL UNILAMELLAR VESICLE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 1542345619     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74223-X     Document Type: Article

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