Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 12 , Pages 1457-1465 , December 2009

A Novel Ultrasound Microbubble Carrying Gene and Tat Peptide: Preparation and Characterization

Received 26 March 2009 ,Accepted 15 June 2009.

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 Supported by Hi-Tech Research and Development program of China (2006AA02Z4FO), key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30430230), and general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30800271).

PII: S1076-6332(09)00402-4

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.06.018

Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 12 , Pages 1457-1465 , December 2009

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