Determination of micro amounts of nucleic acids based on shifting the aggregate-monomer equilibrium of fluorescent dye

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-84

  Gao, Feng ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Bian, Gui Rong ^a   Wang, Lun ^a  

^a ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Absorption spectra; Anionic surfactant; Fluorescence spectra; Nucleic acids; Phenosafranine

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544439171     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010500434412     Document Type: Article

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