Polymer-Based gene delivery systems

Pharmaceutical Gene Delivery Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 109-135

  Wightman, Lionel ^a   Kircheis, Ralf ^b   Wagner, Ernst ^c  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

^b Ingeneon AG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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