Chitosan nanoparticle-mediated gene transfer

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 433, Issue , 2008, Pages 127-140

  Lee, Dongwon ^a   Mohapatra, Shyam S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Flow cytometry; Gene expression; Liposomes; Plasmid DNA; Transfection; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934439291     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-237-3_8     Document Type: Article

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