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Non-Viral Delivery and Therapeutic Application of Small Interfering RNAs

N A Nikitenko1, V S Prassolov

  • 1Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova Str., 32, Moscow, Russia, 119991.

Acta Naturae
|December 5, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
RNA interferencenon-viral deliverysmall interfering RNA

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