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Inorganic delivery vector for intravenous injection

Seo-Young Kwak1, Waltraud M Kriven, Matthew A Wallig

  • 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 W Green St, 61801, USA.

Biomaterials
|June 9, 2004
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