From venoms to BBB-shuttles. MiniCTX3: a molecular vector derived from scorpion venom

Cristina Díaz-Perlas1, Monica Varese, Salvador Guardiola

  • 1Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Baldiri Reixac 10, Barcelona 08028, Spain. ernest.giralt@irbbarcelona.org meritxell.teixido@irbbarcelona.org.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 26, 2018
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