Chitosan-based nonviral vectors for gene delivery

Handbook of Carbohydrate Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 817-836

  Liu, Wen Guang ^a   Lu, William W ^b   De Yao, Kang ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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