Adiabatic differential scanning calorimetric study of divalent cation induced DNA - DPPC liposome formulation compacted for gene delivery

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 881-885

  Süleymanoglu, Erhan ^a,b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Divalent cation induced complex formation; Microcalorimetry; Nucleic acid phospholipid interactions; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944381253     PISSN: 15168913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-89132004000600007     Document Type: Article

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