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Cytosolic soluble proteins induce DNA release from DNA--gene carrier complexes

Tatsuya Okuda1, Takuro Niidome, Haruhiko Aoyagi

  • 1Department of Marine Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.

Journal of Controlled Release : Official Journal of the Controlled Release Society
|July 21, 2004
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