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Kang Chen1, Lingling Guo2, Jiulong Zhang1

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, No. 103, Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016, PR China.

Acta Biomaterialia
|November 7, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Degradable gene delivery systemNucleus importNucleus location signalRanGAP1Transfection

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