Chapter 5: Cationic Liposomes as Transmembrane Carriers of Nucleic Acids

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 135-190

  Cao, An ^a   Briane, Dominique ^a   Coudert, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b EA 2098   (France)

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EID: 47249150078     PISSN: 15544516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1554-4516(06)04005-1     Document Type: Review

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